News of the week: Cate Blanchett calls for end of televised Hollywood award show

Accepting the award at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday. The Australian actress won Best Actress for her performance as a conductor in The Wire, The Woman King’s Viola Davis, Till’s Danielle Deadweiler, Babylon’s Margot Robbie, The Fableman’s Michelle Williams and Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh overtook. But during her speech, Kate took the opportunity to criticize the glitzy award-giving, claiming that too many great performances go unchecked. Noting that the award was “arbitrary, given how many exceptional performances had been delivered by women the previous year” …

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