Was Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal lead or supporting?

[deaetee Joined: Sep 19th, 2018 Topics: 5 Posts: 150 View Predictions]

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I just saw Notes on a Scandal last night. I thought Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench were excellent in it, but then I thought Cate Blanchett also had a decent amount of screentime and the story pretty much was about her character.

What do you guys think? Was she a lead or supporting performance?

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[jez89 Joined: Aug 14th, 2018 Topics: 1 Posts: 252 View Predictions]

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Great movie. From memory they were essentially co-leads and Cate dropped down. I don’t remember there being much outrage about it at the time though.

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[Wanda Joined: Feb 16th, 2019 Topics: 41 Posts: 3480 View Predictions]

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She is lead but it looks like Dench was thirsty for that lead Oscar so they relegated Blanchett to supporting.

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[RobertPius Joined: Nov 22nd, 2012 Topics: 262 Posts: 1837 View Predictions]

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Blanchett supposedly had a lot or her work left on the cutting room floor so she was even more of a lead initially. I think it was ok putting her in supporting.

She seems rather ambivalent about the film and the nomination from things I’ve read. She didn’t feel like her character’s story was told as completely as she wanted.

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[CateNicole Joined: Jun 20th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 1743 View Predictions]

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Yeah, it’s probably my least favorite performance of hers, and part of it seems off, almost dare I say anti-gay lmao.. and I’m assuming that’s not her fault…

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[Aunt Peg Joined: Dec 27th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 705 View Predictions]

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Co-lead with Judi Dench.

Bill Nighy for example is supporting.

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[Ron Loyola Joined: Dec 22nd, 2016 Topics: 6 Posts: 296 View Predictions]

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Definitely a co-lead.

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[KAZ-2.5 Joined: Jan 16th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 596 View Predictions]

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She was co-lead.

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[DCurrie Joined: Sep 18th, 2011 Topics: 27 Posts: 1727 View Predictions]

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I’d say co-lead.

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[Jasmine is French Joined: Sep 22nd, 2011 Topics: 44 Posts: 1663 View Predictions]

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RobertPius wrote:

Blanchett supposedly had a lot or her work left on the cutting room floor so she was even more of a lead initially. I think it was ok putting her in supporting.

She seems rather ambivalent about the film and the nomination from things I’ve read. She didn’t feel like her character’s story was told as completely as she wanted.

Please send me a link about this. I have only seen her press conference at the Berlin Film Festival from 2007 with Judi Dench and others. Blanchett praised the film, director and most of all, working with Dench and the script from Patrick Marber

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[gabspss Joined: Sep 10th, 2018 Topics: 95 Posts: 1367 View Predictions]

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She did have lead acting screentime, but I mostly always thought we saw her character by the lenses of Judi’s character, so I’m fine with her going supporting. She was supporting Judi’s story.

It's about the chaotic editing in Moulin Rouge!

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[estrelas Joined: Jul 25th, 2018 Topics: 2 Posts: 3257 View Predictions]

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She’s a co-lead but this is one of those situations where I’m actually fine with her supporting placement. She did have a lot of screentime but we saw the movie mostly through Judi’s character and she narrated the movie as well.

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[SDoesNotKnow504 Joined: Feb 16th, 2015 Topics: 1 Posts: 248 View Predictions]

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Like most people, I think she was the co-lead but I’m fine with her being put in supporting because of the way the story was told and from who’s perspective it was told from. Also, I think most people didn’t care because neither she nor Dench were winning their awards that year. With the way that season was turning out for Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls in Supporting and Helen Mirren in The Queen in Lead, the Oscars were just a coronation for those two. I also think this was two of their best performances, and it’s a shame Best Actress was such a foregone conclusion. The group of actresses nominated that year was much stronger than how predictable the race turned out that award season would indicate.

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[Justmimusicmon Joined: Oct 1st, 2014 Topics: 3 Posts: 853 View Predictions]

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Could’ve gone either way. But I’d say she and Judi were co-leads!

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