The British Film Institute and the BFI London Film Festival have announced that Cate Blanchett is to receive its highest honour, the BFI Fellowship, at this year’s BFI London Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 17th.
“Cate Blanchett is a compelling and brave actress whose mesmerising screen presence has captivated audiences since her earliest roles,” said Greg Dyke, Chairman of the BFI. “We are absolutely delighted to honour her extraordinary talents with a BFI Fellowship at this year’s LFF awards.”
The BFI Fellowship is awarded to individuals in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film or television and Cate Blanchett’s mesmerising screen presence has captivated audiences since her earliest roles. A fearless and subtle actress, she has the rare gift of seeming utterly to inhabit the characters she plays and has an amazing ability to convey complex layers of emotion to stunning effect. The diversity of her talent shines through in TRUTH where she gives another virtuosic performance as the fiercely bright Mary Mapes, a woman whose professional commitment to exposing ‘the truth’ is so great that she is prepared to risk her career and personal safety.
Blanchett is magnificent in Todd Haynes’ Carol as an alluring woman trapped in a loveless marriage who falls for a young woman (Rooney Mara) working as a department store cleark in 50s Manhattan. Her performance in Carol, which has already been announced as the American Express Gala screening in this year’s LFF on Wednesday 14 October, is entirely representative of a career in which she has made bold choices and excelled in vastly different parts, also typified by her Golden Globe-winning performance with the same director in I’m Not There in which she plays an incarnation of Bob Dylan.
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Originally published August 27, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
