Cate Blanchett's turn in Blue Jasmine is the first Oscars acting lock of the season – and there's still plenty more to come
"It's beginning to look like fall in July," proclaimed Deadline Hollywood's Mike Fleming amid the critical hurrahs for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, which injected an early spike of awards season adrenaline into the post-blockbuster late-summer slump. The film stars Cate Blanchett as a New York socialite in meltdown after losing everything in a Madoff-like financial scandal perpetrated by her husband.
"Blanchett tackles the equivalent to a Beverly Hills life – an absurd veneration of wealth and class that many Oscar voters share," pointed out Gold Derby's Tom O'Neill, counting the awards season catnip – pills, vino, Blanche-like delusions of grandeur – that make Blanchett a likely best actress Oscar nominee, after winning for supporting actress for The Aviator in 2004.
There you have it: our first lock of the season,...
"It's beginning to look like fall in July," proclaimed Deadline Hollywood's Mike Fleming amid the critical hurrahs for Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, which injected an early spike of awards season adrenaline into the post-blockbuster late-summer slump. The film stars Cate Blanchett as a New York socialite in meltdown after losing everything in a Madoff-like financial scandal perpetrated by her husband.
"Blanchett tackles the equivalent to a Beverly Hills life – an absurd veneration of wealth and class that many Oscar voters share," pointed out Gold Derby's Tom O'Neill, counting the awards season catnip – pills, vino, Blanche-like delusions of grandeur – that make Blanchett a likely best actress Oscar nominee, after winning for supporting actress for The Aviator in 2004.
There you have it: our first lock of the season,...
- 8/9/2013
- by Tom Shone
- The Guardian - Film News
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