Cate Blanchett on Adelaide Film Festival red carpet

Oscar-winning actor Cate Blanchett will be walking the red carpet in Adelaide on Friday night as a special guest of the Adelaide Film Festival.

Adelaide is rolling the red carpet out for Oscar-winning Australian actor Cate Blanchett.

Regarded as one of the finest thespians of her generation, she is attending The Adelaide Film Festival, which runs Wednesday, October 19 to Sunday, October 30.

Blanchett will be the guest of honour a special event screening of TÁR, the psychological drama for which she received the Best Actress award at the recent Venice Film Festival.

Cate Blanchett attending the world premiere of Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio at the 66th BFI London Film Festival at The Royal Festival Hall earlier this month. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for BFI

Blanchett, who was also the TÁR’s executive producer, will walk the red carpet and take part in a Q&A following its screening on Friday, October 21 at Adelaide’s Capri Theatre.

“AFF is honoured to host this special event screening of TÁR and to welcome Ms Blanchett as our guest. Her incredible body of work marks her as one of the greatest actors of her generation and she is much loved by Adelaide Film Festival audiences. We can’t wait to show them her remarkable performance in TÁR,” Adelaide Film Festival CEO and creative director Mat Kesting said.

TÁR was directed, written and produced by Todd Field, whose most recent work was the Oscar-nominated 2006 film Little Children.

It is understood Blanchett is in South Australia to film her latest project, titled The New Boy.

Pre-pandemic, Blanchett shot the ABC produced mini series, Stateless, in SA.

The television drama, which also starred fellow Aussie actress, Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale), was a fictionalised depiction of Australia’s onshore immigration detention regime.

Her latest project also examines race and class.

The New Boy is scheduled to start filming in SA this month with production expected to wrap by the end of 2022.

The Oscar-winner last filmed in Australia back in 2019.

It follows the announcement that New Zealand superstar Lorde will give her first Adelaide concert since 2014 as part of next year’s Adelaide Festival.