Cate Blanchett criticized the “patriarchal pyramid” of Hollywood awards reveals as she accepted the very best actress gong from the Critics Choice Association in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The Australian actor and Oscars frontrunner, whose efficiency as an formidable, morally doubtful conductor in classical music drama “TAR” is sweeping awards, advised a packed ballroom that she wished the entire “structure” of awards reveals may very well be modified.
“It’s like, what is this patriarchal pyramid where someone stands up here?” she stated, gathering her prize from North America’s largest critics group.
“Why don’t we just say there’s a whole raft of female performances that are in concert and in dialogue with one another, and stop the televised horse race of it at all?”
“Because can I inform you, each single lady — whether or not it is tv, movie, promoting, tampon commercials, no matter — you are all on the market doing superb work that’s inspiring me frequently.
“So thank you. I share this with you all.”
Blanchett has beforehand accepted two Oscars for her work in “Blue Jasmine” and “The Aviator.”
She received a Golden Globe for her efficiency as a fictional lesbian conductor in “TAR” final week, however didn’t attend that ceremony.
Several different awards reveals, together with the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the MTV Movie and TV Awards, and music’s Grammy Awards, have switched to gender-neutral performing prizes.
The Critics Choice Awards, just like the Oscars and most different Hollywood reveals, nonetheless divides its performing prizes between female and male classes.
Blanchett’s feedback got here moments after Brendan Fraser gave a extremely emotional, choking speech wherein he thanked voters for his finest actor prize for “The Whale.”
Fraser, a significant Hollywood star within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s with hits akin to “The Mummy,” had endured an extended fallow interval earlier than his efficiency as a morbidly overweight trainer in his new drama drew widespread acclaim.
“I was in the wilderness. And I probably should have left a trail of breadcrumbs. But you found me,” Fraser advised director Darren Aronofsky.
“If you — like a guy like Charlie who I played in this movie — in any way struggle with obesity, or you just feel like you’re in a dark sea, I want you to know that if you too can have the strength to just get to your feet and go to the light, good things will happen,” Fraser stated to a standing ovation.
The Critics Choice Awards are one among a raft of main award reveals within the construct as much as the Oscars, which occur this yr on March 12.
Surreal sci-fi “Everything Everywhere All at Once” received finest image at Sunday’s high-profile critics awards, boosting its hopes for the highest Academy Award prize.
The movie completed the night time with essentially the most movie wins on 5, together with finest director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, finest unique screenplay, finest modifying, and finest supporting actor for Oscar favourite Ke Huy Quan.
Among the night time’s tv prizes, the sixth and final season of “Breaking Bad” spinoff “Better Call Saul” lastly claimed its first finest drama sequence win, in addition to finest actor for Bob Odenkirk and finest supporting actor for Giancarlo Esposito.
