She is perhaps a winner, however Cate Blanchett isn’t all that massive on awards season.
At final night time’s Critics Choice Awards, Cate was topped Best Actress for her portrayal of Lydia Tár within the film, Tár.
Collecting the award onstage, Cate started her speech by expressing how shocked she was to have gained, quipping: “I’ve got gum in my mouth. I really didn’t expect to be standing here.”
Honoring the “extraordinary” performances by her fellow nominees — Viola Davis, Danielle Deadwyler, Margot Robbie, Michelle Williams, and Michelle Yeoh — Cate declared her win “arbitrary,” earlier than happening to criticize the idea of awards exhibits basically.
“I would love it if we would just change this whole fucking structure,” she started. “It’s like, what is this patriarchal pyramid where someone stands up here?”
Trophy in hand, the two-time Oscar winner went on to recommend that televised awards exhibits must be scrapped all collectively, and that we must always cease pitting actors towards one another for leisure.
“Why don’t we just say there was a whole raft of female performances that are in concert and in dialogue with one another?” she stated to cheers from the viewers. “And stop the televised horse race of it all.”
She closed the speech by celebrating the work of her friends as soon as extra. “Every single woman with a television, film, advertising, tampon commercials — whatever — you’re all out there doing amazing work that is inspiring me continually,” she stated.
And whereas the message of Cate’s speech was that she and her fellow nominees have been equally deserving of the win, she clarified her level in a later interview, suggesting that it is perhaps time to revise the strategy to awards season.
“No one stands up there with one of these without a whole army of people making the film… and I think there’s a different way of celebrating performances,” she stated backstage. “We’re all part of the industry; we all influence one another. [All the] actresses were challenged and pushed to their limit as well.”
Of course, Cate’s feedback echo longstanding questions about the way forward for Hollywood awards ceremonies, notably within the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Awards exhibits just like the Oscars and Golden Globes have additionally confronted intense scrutiny lately, with the Globes even opting to not air the ceremony in 2022 after an investigation discovered that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had no Black members.
But, regardless of taking a 12 months off, the Golden Globes ceremony made a comeback to NBC final week — albeit, to its second-lowest viewer whole in its 28-year historical past with the community.
Meanwhile, the ninety fifth Academy Awards — the place Cate is among the high contenders to take house her third Oscar — will air on March 12 on ABC, with nominations because of be introduced subsequent week.