She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

In 2005, Little Fish marked a return to Australian film for actress Cate Blanchett and won five Australian Film Institute Awards including Best Actor for Hugo Weaving, Best Actress for Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress for screen veteran Noni Hazlehurst.

In 1998, Fiennes appeared in two films that were nominated at the Academy Awards: he played Robert Dudley opposite Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and he portrayed William Shakespeare opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Blanchett was nominated for her first Australian Film Institute Award as Best Leading Actress for this role, and lost out to Pamela Rabe in The Well.

Blanchett lost out to Gwyneth Paltrow for her role in Shakespeare in Love, but won a British Academy Award ( BAFTA ) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.

The following year, Blanchett was nominated for another BAFTA Award, for her supporting role in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

This made Blanchett the first person to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor / actress.

That same year, Blanchett won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress for her role as Tracy Heart, a recovering heroin addict in the Australian film Little Fish.

Blanchett received her third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the film.

At the 80th Academy Awards Blanchett received two Academy Award nominations ; Best Actress for Elizabeth: the Golden Age and Best Supporting Actress for I'm Not There, becoming the eleventh actor to receive two acting nominations in the same year and the first female actor to receive another nomination for the reprisal of a role.

As of 2011, Blanchett has been featured in seven films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Elizabeth ( 1998 ), The Lord of the Rings trilogy ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ), The Aviator ( 2004 ), Babel ( 2006 ), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ( 2008 ).

By 2007, Gere was co-starring with Jesse Eisenberg and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party ( a comic thriller in which he played a journalist in Bosnia ) as well as with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Cate Blanchett in Todd Haynes ' semi-biographical film about Bob Dylan, I'm Not There.

Organisations such as the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art have fostered students of theatre, film, and television several of whom have continued to international success, with actors like Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush having been associated with both institutions.

Blanchett made her international film debut with a supporting role as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's 1997 film Paradise Road, which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.

He starred as a heroin-addicted ex-rugby league player in the 2005 Australian indie film Little Fish, opposite Cate Blanchett.

In June 2001, actress Cate Blanchett entered talks to join the film, which Aronofsky, wanting the title to remain secret, had given the working title of The Last Man.

In 2011, Bana appeared as Erik Heller in the action thriller film Hanna, starring alongside Saoirse Ronan & Cate Blanchett.

Following his retirement from football, he took up a career in cinema and had a role in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, and the 2009 film Looking for Eric.

An altered and fictionalised version of the Ridolfi Plot was featured in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth.

The film brought actress Cate Blanchett to international attention.

A film version released in 1997 was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, and Tom Wilkinson.

Paul Hogan went from painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to local TV star, then global film star with his hugely successful Crocodile Dundee in 1986 ( a film which begins with scenes of Sydney ) while theatre institutions like the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art nurtured the budding careers of actors Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and elsewhere actors Nicole Kidman and Russel Crowe forged their early careers in the city.

In another radical shift in direction, Haynes ' next film I'm Not There ( 2007 ) returned to the mythology of pop music, portraying the life and legends of Bob Dylan through seven fictional characters played by six actors: Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw and Christian Bale.

In 2001 the Taraf appeared in Sally Potter's film The Man Who Cried alongside friend and fan Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro.

" The film then cuts to Phillipa ( Blanchett ), who is preparing to plant a bomb in the downtown office of a high-ranking businessman.

She was also the first choice to play Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's film Elizabeth, the role that won Cate Blanchett an Academy Award nomination.

Collins ' film credits include City of Joy ( 1992, co-starring Patrick Swayze ), My Mother's Courage ( 1995 in Germany as Mutters Courage, released in the USA in 1997 ), Paradise Road ( 1997, with Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett ), and Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War ( 2001 ), another appearance with Alderton.

The film won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and Blanchett received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Blanchett appeared as the elf lady Galadriel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001 to 2003.

Blanchett appeared in the TV miniseries Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo, the miniseries Bordertown, with Hugo Weaving, and in an episode of Police Rescue entitled " The Loaded Boy ".

Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings.

In addition, 42-year old Cate Blanchett also appeared on the cover of " Intelligent Life ’ s 2012 March / April " issue ; makeup free and without digital retouching for the first time.

It also appeared in the 2004 movie The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, which depicts the early years ( late 1920s to the mid-1940s ) of legendary film director and aviator Howard Hughes ; the film starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, and Cate Blanchett.

Also in 2005 she narrated a second season of Forensic Investigators and appeared in the Australian film Little Fish starring alongside Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill in the early stages of her third pregnancy.

Roxburgh played Vanya opposite Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and John Bell in Sydney Theatre Company's 2010 production of Anton Chekov's Uncle Vanya.

A supporting role opposite Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones in Ron Howard's The Missing, in which she played the kidnapped daughter, Lilly Gilkeson, in a Searchers-style western, followed the same year.

In 2005, he starred opposite Indian actress Aishwarya Rai in the romantic film Bride & Prejudice, and in the award-winning Little Fish starring Cate Blanchett.

Scott directed a revisionist adaptation of Robin Hood, which starred Russell Crowe as Robin Hood and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian.

Australian trained actors of renown include Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger and Chris Hemsworth.

During the 1990s, a new crop of Australian stars were successful in Hollywood, including Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger who all rose to international prominence and critical acclaim.

Other Aussie ambassadors include Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Phillip Noyce, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana, Anthony LaPaglia, Gillian Armstrong, Simon Baker, Toni Collette, Deborra Lee Furness, Melissa George, Scott Hicks, Barry Humphries, Julian McMahon, Jacqueline McKenzie, Kylie Minogue, Radha Mitchell, Poppy Montgomery, Olivia Newton-John, Frances O ' Connor, Miranda Otto, Guy Pearce, Fred Schepisi, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham and Sarah Wynter.

Past judges have included Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, Toni Collette, Rose Byrne, Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe, John Woo, Samuel L Jackson, Baz Luhrmann, Keanu Reeves, Sam Neill, Ewan McGregor, Jane Campion, Salma Hayek, George Miller and Gabriel Byrne.

Meanwhile, Nick's wife, Connie ( Cate Blanchett ), seems to become more and more intrigued by Russell, and Nick becomes increasingly paranoid that Russell will eventually seek revenge by having sex with her.

* Alan Doyle of the band Great Big Sea is cast as Alan-a-Dale in the Ridley Scott production of Robin Hood starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett released in 2010.