Cate Blanchett is the female actor version of Daniel Day-Lewis. Daniel Day-Lewis is the male actor version of Cate Blanchett. Tomato Tomahto. While Day-Lewis may be a little more selective in his roles than Blanchett, resulting in fewer Oscar nominations (six – all in leading roles) than Blanchett’s seven (four in a leading role, three in a supporting role). Day-Lewis has won three Oscars, while Blanchett has won two (The Aviator and Blue Jasmine). Day-Lewis (65 years old at the time of this post) has said he is retired, finishing his career in 2016, carrying an Oscar nomination for Phantom Thread with him. However, Blanchett is anything but finished. In the discussion for the best in her craft, Blanchett is a sure-fire lock for her eighth Oscar nomination and the early leader for her role as Lydia Tar in Todd Field’s (Little Children, In the Bedroom) meticulously crafted and timely TÁR.
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Little Children (2006)
Little Children is a somewhat misleading title for a movie that has little to do with children or anyone physically small. While a couple of kids appear in this movie, they are nondescript and serve more as props than anything else. The leads are all middle-aged adults, though their undisciplined, erratic behavior suggests otherwise. The protagonists act as entitled brats, while the antagonists are fundamentally flawed. It becomes clear we are on a collision course between everyone involved in a film set in present-day New England, but it could just as well be any town in America.