TUESDAY 04/09/2007 14:25:25 Blanchett tipped for Oscar for Dylan role Cate Blanchett is being tipped for Oscar glory with her extraordinary performance as singer Bob Dylan in new film I'm Not There. She is one of six actors who portray different aspects of Dylan in director Todd Haynes` unconventional film. The singer has given his blessing to the project. Click here Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, British talents Christian Bale and Ben Whishaw, and black child actor Marcus Carl Franklin also play the legendary singer. Blanchett plays "Jude", a representation of Dylan in the mid-Sixties when he was becoming an international star. The film is in competition at the Venice Film Festival and critics were astonished by Blanchett`s performance. Haynes said: "Jude was always meant to be played by a woman. I felt it was the only way to resurrect the true strangeness of Dylan`s physical being in 1966, which I felt had lost its historical shock value over the years. "But of course it would take an actor of Cate`s supreme intelligence and ability to bring to the role the kind of depth and subtlety she delivers so stunningly on screen." He added: "Cate was scared, she told me many times that this was a very scary challenge for her. It took her a long time to commit to it, she`s a very busy actress and had to balance it with her schedule but mostly I think it was due to fear, which is completely understandable. "I told her it`s good to be terrified, that you`re taking a risk and sometimes that`s really when the surprises happen. I guess it at least convinced her to give it a shot." http://www.awardsdaily.com/2007/09/blanchetts_year_buzz_builds_fo.html#more Woman. Warrior. Queen. There isn't an actress that can touch her this year. Take a look at the trailer, which is apparently not new but is so gorgeous it puts the costumes, cinematography and art direction in frontrunner status as well. With her oddly convincing turn as Bob Dylan in I'm Not There on the one hand and her incomparable Elizabeth on the other, Blanchett reigns supreme. In an LA Times story also profiling Toronto, Jason chow writes: Although the festival hasn't started, the most hyped star has been Blanchett, who is starring in two films at this year's event. She plays Queen Elizabeth in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and is one of the seven actors depicting Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There." EW's Dave Karger on movies that will/should get Oscar boost at Toronto: ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE Shekhar Kapur's 1998 drama about the monarch racked up seven nominations, including Best Picture. Sequels can be a tough sell with Oscar voters, but with Cate Blanchett back in the title role that made her a star, this could buck the trend — unless the Academy, having just honored Helen Mirren, is all queened out. Karger brings up the possible sticking point being that another Elizabeth was just honored last year. I don't think it's about Elizabeth, though, rather about Cate. This is just my intuition talking so don't take it to the bank yet. Karger is holding out on Blanchett for now but tapping Viggo Mortensen and George Clooney for possible best actor noms. 美國的綜藝日報評論也出來了 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934602.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 Still, Blanchett's casting and performance rep a daring coup, and she can now rightly claim to be the only thesp on Earth ever to have been asked to channel both Bob Dylan and Katharine Hepburn, and to have done so successfully. 凱特的評價極高 而且這次的評審團中有與阿姐合作過Babel的Iñárritu 威尼斯影后！威尼斯影后！！快點祈禱！ -- 【2007】凱特布蘭琪【要拿女主角】 ～ＣＡＴＥ ＢＬＡＮＣＨＥＴＴ～ The Golden Age‧I'm Not There --

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