Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett will be awarded the French cinema’s renowned honour, the Cesar D’honneur. The French Film Academy on Friday announced this on their official website. Blanchett will receive the lifetime achievement Cesar award in Paris on February 25, 2022, in the 47th Cesar ceremony. Cesar D’honneur is France’s equivalent to the Academy Awards. The César Awards are the national film award of France.
The ceremony’s name facilitated the ceremony and was first awarded in 1976. Blanchett made her debut with the Australian war film in 1997, called ‘Paradise’ but came into the global limelight with her period film ‘Elizabeth’ directed by filmmaker Shekhar Kapur in 1998, for which she was awarded the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Awards for best actress.
The actor was conferred with her first Oscar for her role in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’, in which she portrayed the iconic late actress, Katherine Hepburn. Blanchett won her second Oscar award by starring in Woody Allen’s film ‘Blue Jasmine’ in 2013.
Already established as a critically acclaimed actor, she garnered many new fans in The Lord of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson, an Academy Award-winning movie. She played the role of elf leader Galadriel in the trilogy. All three films were a huge critical and financial success, grossing about $2.981 billion at the global box office.
Blanchett has appeared in around 70 films and numerous theatre productions. Blanchett currently stars in the movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ alongside actors Leonardo Di Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence. The film is directed by filmmaker Adam McKay’ and is set to make its debut on Netflix. The Cesar D’honneur has been previously awarded to actors Robert Redford, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, George Clooney, Kate Winslet for their respective contributions to cinema.
Blanchett is among the most renowned and critically acclaimed actors of her time. She has garnered various accolades throughout her film career, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden global awards.
Renowned Hollywood actor Cate Blanchett awarded French cinema’s honour – Cesar D’honneur.
She has been a promoter of individual and collective action regarding climate change and environmental concerns. In 2007, Blanchett was made the ambassador of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
Also, she was granted the honorary life membership of the Australian Conservation Foundation in 2012 to recognise her work on environmental issues. In 2011, she began supporting the concept of the carbon tax. Her support resulted in some criticism, particularly from the conservatives.
She is a patron of SolarAid, the international development charity which works towards creating a sustainable market for allocating solar lights in Africa. Blanchett has been actively working with the United Nations High Commissioner for (UNHCR).
Cate Blanchett awarded the French cinema’s highest honour.
In May 2016, the UNHCR appointment Blanchett, along with various celebrities, also featured in a video from the UNHCR to help raise the much-needed awareness of the worldwide refugee crisis.
The video was labelled “What They Took with Them”, and many actors were seen reading a poem penned by Blanchett married screenwriter Andrew Upton. They met sometime in the 1990s, later in 1996,during the making of Thank God He Met Lizzie. They married each other on December 29, 1997. They have three sons and one daughter.
