Cate Blanchett Graces Vanity Fair

Cate Blanchett graces the February 2009 cover of Vanity Fair.Cate Blanchett lends her hottness to the latest cover of Vanity Fair. In the article, she talks about how she tries to distance herself from Hollywood. She says that she doesn’t exist in that world, she merely observes it, and she feels this is made possible by husband Andrew Upton, who is “not with me because of that; I’m not a trophy. He likes the vessel, but he also wants to make sure the vessel is full.”

Speaking of husband Andrew, Cate recounts a story where, after just a few days he looked at her and said “Cate…” and she was sure he was going to propose:“I thought, ‘Oh, god, he’s going to ask me to marry him – and I’m going to have to say yes!’ He didn’t, in fact; he asked me what I wanted for dinner or something like that. But I’d never had that thought before. I thought, This is extraordinary! I’ve never felt this before. What an adventure!”Of their relationship, Andrew, who ended up popping the question after just a few weeks of dating, says they just “clicked,” which he described as both “a relief and a pleasure.”

Helping to distance herself from Hollywood, Cate Blanchett recently signed a three year deal with Australia’s leading theatre company. She said the opportunity to work with husband Andrew presented itself, and she had to take it, explaining that she trains as an actor to be in it for the “long haul.”

The 39 year old mom of three also isn’t ruling out any future babies.“Who knows? Don’t close those doors. The world is very overpopulated, but we do make nice ones. They all look like [my husband Andrew Upton]. To say he has dominant genes would be an understatement.”And, in one of my favorite moments from the article, Cate says that she hasn’t had any plastic surgery, despite still working and having several kids: “Andrew said he’d divorce me if I did anything. When you’ve had children, your body changes; there’s history to it. I like the evolution of that history; I’m fortunate to be with somebody who likes the evolution of that history.”

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Cate Blanchett Welcomes A Baby Boy

Cate Blanchett welcomes a baby boy into the world! It is the third son for Cate, pictured below at the Oscars just two months ago, and husband Andrew Upton.Initial reports are both Cate, 38, and the baby, Ignatius Martin, are doing the well. Ignatius was born Sunday night, weighing in at just under 8 lbs. He joins brothers Dashiell John, 6, and Roman Robert who turns four on April 23.Blanchett confirmed her pregnancy back in November, dismissing reports she knew the sex of the baby. “You know more than me. It’s early days yet. It’s due in April.”

Cate has recently settled in her native Australia where her and her husband are co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. She also feels that gives more stability to her children with two of them getting a little older. The Oscar winner can be seen in the States, however, when ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Cyrstal Skull releases May 22.

The actress is also scheduled to chair a session titled ‘Towards a creative Australia’ this weekend at the Australia 2020 Summit. The summit was organized by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, for Australia’s future. Rudd confirmed Blanchett would attend this weekend with the help of an co-chair.

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Lindsay Lohan Film Earns 8 Razzie Awards

As the big stars gear up for the Sunday night Oscars showdown, many of the industry's less-touted films are having their moment in the sun a day early, when both the independent Spirit Awards and the notorious Golden Raspberry Awards (a.k.a. "The Razzies") hit California stages.As one of the sassiest award shows, the Razzies announced Hollywood's worst for the 28th consecutive year at 10 a.m. Pacific time on Saturday.

The day's big "winner" was "I Know Who Killed Me," a suspense film starring Lindsay Lohan that's been pummelled by reviewers since its July 2007 release.Earning the worst picture award, it also won Razzies for worst actress, worst screen couple, worst remake or rip-off, worst director, worst screenplay, and the awards' newest category, worst excuse for a horror movie."Nominated individually for each of her characters (in "I Know Who Killed Me"), Lindsay 'won' a pair of Worst Actress statuettes when she received the same number of votes for both roles," said the Razzies' website.

"For a scene in which she appears opposite herself at the film's finale, Lohan was also Razzed as the year's Worst Screen Couple."The event was held at Santa Monica's Magicopolis, a magic show venue that bills itself as the best birthday party location in Los Angeles.Topping this year's list of "berry bad movies":

"I Know Who Killed Me"
Eddie Murphy's "Norbit," won worst actor, worst supporting actor and worst supporting actress, all for roles played by Murphy
"Daddy Day Camp," winning the award for worst prequel or sequel

Meanwhile The quirky coming-of-age comedy "Juno" cleaned up at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon as it continues its Cinderella season going into Sunday night's Academy Awards."Juno" won for best feature film, best actress honors for Page and best first screenplay for Cody at the awards show held Saturday afternoon under a tent alongside the sand in Santa Monica. Page and Cody are also nominated for Oscars, along with director Jason Reitman.Earlier, actress Cate Blanchett dedicated her best supporting actress award to the late performer. The very-pregnant Blanchett, who won for playing a man in the film, said in accepting the award that Ledger "was probably one of the most beautiful independent spirits of all."

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Golden Globe Winners Announced

The winners for the 2008 Golden Globes were announced tonight at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California in rather quiet fashion. No stars, no Hollywood power players... No, with the Writer's Guild strike still going strong, tonight's ceremony was a very business-like affair. Winners will receive this year's Globe awards by mail.In Lieu of celebs, this year's awards were presented by hosts of various entertainment news/gossip shows such as Mary Heart from E.T., Brooke Anderson from CNN and Laura Spencer from The Insider.

The only real surprise was that clips were actually shown from a few categories, such as Best Animated Feature, Best Musical or Comedy and Best Drama. Word is the Hollywood Foreign Press had to pay to license these brief clips for the show.Actors and filmmakers skipped the Golden Globes because of the two-month-old strike by the guild, which had planned pickets outside the show if organizers had tried to do their usual televised ceremony. Globe planners and NBC canceled the three-hour bash in favor of the news conference, attended by about 600 politely clapping journalists, TV crews, HFPA members, guests and publicists in business attire.

Here's the full list of winners:

Best Actress, Drama - Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Best Song - "Guaranteed," Into the Wild
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy - Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Best Original Screenplay - Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Best Actress, Drama - Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Original Score - Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Best Director Motion Picture - Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy - Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Foreign Picture - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor, Drama - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Picture, Drama - Atonement

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