Breaking Baz: Critics Choice Awards Chief Joey Berlin On Why Cate Blanchett Lost The Oscar; Hayley Atwell’s Rare Moment In ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: That jibe Cate Blanchett made about awards shows being akin to a “horse race” “lost” her the Best Actress Oscar.
So says Joey Berlin, CEO of the Critics Choice Awards. None of us knows that for sure, but Berlin’s adamant. Blanchett uttered a stream of vitriol during her acceptance speech when she collected the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress back in January for her performance in Focus Features’ Tár. “I would love it if we would just change this whole f*cking structure,” she told the audience on January 15. “It’s like what is this patriarchal pyramid where someone stands up here.
Why don’t we just say there was a whole raft of female performances that are in concert and in dialogue with one another?” “And stop the televised horse race of it all,” she continued. “Because, can I tell you, every single woman with a television, film, advertising, tampon commercials — whatever — you’re all out there doing amazing work that is inspiring me continually.
So thank you. I share this with you all.” Blanchett was slammed in some quarters for being hypocritical. “That’s how she lost the Oscar,” Berlin asserted as he sipped a cup of posho loose leaf Earl Grey on a recent sunny morning at the Dean Street Townhouse in Soho, London.
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