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Cate Blanchett Receives Message From George Clooney in San Sebastian

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September 22, 2024

Cate Blanchett accepts Donostia Award at 2024's San Sebastian Film Festival.

Cate Blanchett — so beloved by this yr’s San Sebastian Movie Pageant that she was featured on the occasion’s official poster — was despatched a sentimental video message by fellow actor George Clooney as she accepted her Donostia Award Saturday night time.

The Australian star, recognized for her roles in movies corresponding to The Aviator, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and extra just lately, the Oscar-nominated Tár, was acknowledged on the Spanish coast for her achievements in movie.

“Fucking George!” Blanchett remarked as she wiped away mascara following her standing ovation at San Sebastian’s Kursaal Theater. Clooney had stated within the video: “I wish to say that there’s performing as a occupation, after which there’s performing as an artwork, and we acknowledge that artwork… I’ve been fortunate sufficient to direct you and to behave with you, and also you all the time make everybody round you are feeling fortunate that we get an opportunity to work with somebody who’s so gifted and type, and I’m proud to name you a good friend.”

“I want I used to be there,” the Wolfs star continued. “I can’t be there as a result of I’m in Venice proper now. I wasn’t requested. And I can’t be there as a result of I’m in Venice, and I’ve been ingesting. And I’ve no pants on,” he added, prompting theater-wide laughter.

Blanchett spoke to the group after accepting the award from her Disclaimer director Alfonso Cuarón: “As an Australian working overseas, I’ve had the nice privilege of transcending many our bodies. And my work has taken me to central Asia, to Europe, the Americas, to China, it has taken me all around the world and right here now in Basque nation, at this terribly vibrant competition… I’m so very honored to obtain this award. Thanks San Sebastian. Thanks.”

She went on, declaring what she thinks is a “fear” for the time being: “It’s bewildering to me that there appears to be a variety of certainty, a variety of righteousness and a scarcity of doubt on this planet, when, actually, the world is a deeply unsure place and to artistic life, it’s fuelled with uncertainty and doubt. It’s the DNA of how you start any challenge. It’s important to humble your self… I fear that we’re strive discovering solutions too shortly, and it’s this uncertainty, I believe, that drives me on.”

Blanchett has racked up greater than 200 acknowledgments and accolades throughout her long-spanning profession, together with two Academy Awards from six nominations. She has gained 4 BAFTAs and 4 Golden Globes.

It’s her first go to to the occasion in San Sebastian, Spain, going down Sept. 20-28, although the competition has screened various her movies earlier than, together with Babel (2007) and Veronica Guerin (2003). They’ve competed for the highest prize, the Golden Shell.

Her honor Saturday night time marks the second time an Australian actor has been given the competition’s highest honorary award after Hugh Jackman in 2013. This yr, Spaniards Javier Bardem and Pedro Almodovar, whose movie The Room Subsequent Door scored an enormous 17-minute standing ovation in Venice earlier this month, additionally collected Donostia Awards on the fest.