Don't forget to catch Cate and Brad Pitt on Oprah tomorrow! More info about tomorrow's show can be found here!

It's Cate's birthday today!! Me, Nora, and the cate-forums staff and members would like to wish Andrew, Cate, Dashiell, Roman and Iggy a great day today, and many more years to come!

This is old news, but amidst all the hoo-hah it slipped my mind to post it. Scandalous, I know. But in any case, Cate brought 6-day-old Iggy with her to the 2020 summit.

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We would like to send the warmest congratulations to Andrew, Cate, Dashiell and Roman, with the birth of their son and brother, Ignatius Martin Upton!!

A new poster for Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has surfaced.

Just added a nice article that was featured in the U.S. Elle this month, Fairest of Them All. It contains lots of info on Cate's 'beauty regime', her favourite products to use and it's just an entertaining article to read. Enjoy.

Don't forget that the Oscars will be held this Sunday! Cate's nominated in two categories - if you didn't catch the news, she's nominated in Best Supporting Actress for 'I'm Not There', and Best Actress for 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'. Aside from winning or not winning, Cate will present an award. Here's some Oscar retro to get in the spirit! Don't forget to tune in on Sunday, if you can!

Me and the members of cate-forums.com were very sad and shocked to learn of Heath Ledger's death. He was Cate's co-star in I'm Not There and only recently accepted an award on her behalf at the Venice Film Festival. He was just 28 years old and leaves a little daughter, Matilda, 2. We would like to wish his family and friends strength during this tough time.

Here's a statement from Cate about the incident.

Cate Blanchett shocked, saddened at Heath Ledger's death

Cate says she is in shock at the death of fellow Australian actor Heath Ledger in New York.

“I am shocked and very saddened by the news,” Blanchett said in a statement to NEWS.com.au. “I deeply respect Heath’s work and always admired his continuing development as an artist. “My thoughts are with his family and close friends.”

Congrats to Cate for receiving a double nomination for the Academy Awards! She was nominated as best actress for 'The Golden Age' and Best Supporting Actress for 'I'm Not There'.

Hooray!

Blanchett chases history with possible Oscar double
Source: The West Australian

A place in Oscar history could await Cate Blanchett at this year’s film industry night of nights. In the late hours of Tuesday night the elegant Australian mother-to-be is likely to be nominated for two Oscars and join a small, elite group of Hollywood actresses to have received such a double honour.

Blanchett could also go one step further and stand alone in Oscar history. If, as expected, Blanchett does pick up nominations for best actress for Elizabeth: The Golden Age and best supporting actress for I’m Not There, she is a shot to capture acting’s Holy Grail - two acting Oscars at the one ceremony.

It’s an achievement that has not been done before.

The Academy has had a love affair with Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster, awarding them multiple times, but never granted a clean sweep of the two actress categories on the one night. Julianne Moore (2003), Holly Hunter (1994) and Emma Thompson (1994) hold the distinction of being nominated in the best actress and supporting roles the same year, but they failed to win both.

With few Oscar nomination opportunities expected for Australians this year, Blanchett’s shot at history is the most tantalising prospect for Australian film fans at the 80th Annual Academy Awards, set to take place at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre on February 24. The Academy reveals its nominees in Beverly Hills at approximately 10.38am Tuesday WA time. Blanchett’s name will likely be the only Australian called.

Nicole Kidman’s performance in Margot at the Wedding, Naomi Watts’ role in Eastern Promises and Russell Crowe’s two films, American Gangster and 3:10 to Yuma, have all failed to muster much support. Blanchett’s Australian co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Abbie Cornish in Elizabeth: The Golden Age also appear to have no chance for supporting nominations.

The same goes for the less glamorous, technical categories where the odd Aussie always seems to pick up a nomination. Elizabeth: The Golden Age’s Australian editor Jill Billcock, no stranger to Oscar voters after her nomination in 2001 for Moulin Rouge, is considered a long shot. A better prospect is US-based visual effects supremo Nathan McGuiness, who could snag two nominations.

McGuiness’ visual effects house, Asylum, worked on two of Hollywood’s special effects heavy blockbusters, Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Both films have made the seven-film short list for the visual effects Oscar. Members of the Academy’s visual effects branch viewed 15 minute excerpts from the seven short-listed films last week and the top three will receive nominations. The five other films in the running for the visual effects Oscar are: The Bourne Ultimatum; Evan Almighty; The Golden Compass; I Am Legend; and 300.

If McGuiness’ movies are nominated, his name may not make it as the Academy only announces four people per film on the nomination ballot. Transformers and Pirates both had large teams of special effects wizards so McGuiness’ name could be dropped off. Australia’s fine record in the cinematography category - six nominees the past six years - could hit a pothole this year with no outstanding prospect.

If Blanchett were to win an Oscar for her performance as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, she would earn a place in the record books. The last actress to win a supporting actress Oscar for playing a man was American Linda Hunt in 1984 when she played a man in the Peter Weir directed drama The Year of Living Dangerously, which also starred Mel Gibson. With or without a limousine full of Australian nominees, next month’s Oscar ceremony is shaping up as an interesting affair.

The threat of striking screenwriters targeting the Academy Awards still remains serious, although a recent deal involving the Directors Guild of America and the Hollywood film studios and TV networks has given some hope the screenwriters will achieve a similar deal. If the nominees are allowed to walk the Oscar red carpet, it promises to be glamorous, with Blanchett, Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart), Keira Knightley (Atonement) and French actress Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) expected to be nominated for best actress.

The frontrunner, however, is British veteran and past Oscar winner Julie Christie for Away From Her. The best actor nominations should keep female fans happy, with Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), George Clooney (Michael Clayton) and Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) expected to be bracketed with the favourite, Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood).

Leading the best picture race is No Country For Old Men, followed by Atonement, There Will Be Blood, Sweeney Todd and Into the Wild.