BlackTree TV covers The 80th Annual Academy Awards

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992 and, in a little over a year, had won both critical and popular acclaim. On graduating from NIDA, she joined the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls", then played Felice Bauer, the bride, in Tim Daly's "Kafka Dances", winning the 1993 Newcomer Award from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle for her performance. From there, Blanchett moved to the role of Carol in David Mamet's searing polemic "Oleanna", also for the Sydney Theatre Company, and won the Rosemont Best Actress Award, her second award that year. She then co-starred in the ABC Television's prime time drama "Heartland" (1994) (mini), again winning critical acclaim.

Julie Christie

Marion Cotillard

Laura Linney

Ellen Page

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

In late sixteenth-century England, Queen Elizabeth I, now a monarch at the height of her power, finds herself drawn to the dashing Sir Walter Raleigh, recently returned from his voyage to the New World. Closer to home, Elizabeth also faces challenges to her reign from King Philip II of Spain and Catholic plotters who hope to place her cousin, Mary Stuart, on the throne.

Cast

Cate Blanchett
Geoffrey Rush
Clive Owen
Jordi Mollà
John Shrapnel
Aimee King
Susan Lynch
Elise McCave
Samantha Morton
Abbie Cornish
Penelope McGhie
Rhys Ifans
Eddie Redmayne
Stuart McLoughlin
Adrian Scarborough

Production Team

Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst