Cate Blanchett’s hilarious awards show acceptance speech

The Aussie actress gave a truly deranged performance as she accepted the ‘Cate Blanchett Award for Good Acting’ on the weekend.

Cate Blanchett's hilarious acceptance speech.

Australian Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett responded in the only appropriate way when she was given the Cate Blanchett Award for Good Acting over the weekend.

US comedians Bowen Yang and Mat Rogers co-host the popular podcast Las Culturistas, and recently announced their annual ‘Culture Awards’ – filled with hilariously specific categories like ‘Melanie Lynskey Award for Most Sweetest Person,’ ‘Best Gay Guy – Famous’ and ‘Bridget Jones Award for Best Fake British Accent.’

Blanchett was nominated for the ‘Cate Blanchett Award for Good Acting’ for her acclaimed role as problematic composer Lydia Tar in the movie Tar.

Las Culturistas hosts Matt Rogers (left) and Bowen Yang with fellow nominee Meghann Fahy.

Other nominees in the category included fellow Aussie Sarah Snook for Succession, Meghann Fahy for The White Lotus and Stephanie Hsu for Everything Everywhere All At Once.

But, surprise, surprise Blanchett won the award – and had pre-taped her own acceptance speech, which played to a rapturous reception when the awards were held at New York’s Lincoln Centre on Saturday.

The face of a winner.

More award winners should BYO confetti.

Only snippets of the full clip have so far surfaced online, but Blanchett can first be seen in close-up with an expression of demented glee, before she falls to her knees and sobs in gratitude as confetti falls around her:

🚨 cate blanchett’s acceptance video for winning the “cate blanchett award for good acting” at the las culturitas culture awards! 😅

📸 nolan boggess pic.twitter.com/8V3nFBBtJc

— Rina (@bbblanchett) June 18, 2023

Her performance in the acceptance speech surely makes her a shoo-in for a nomination in the Cate Blanchett Award for Good Acting category next year.

Other winners at the event included Ariana Grande, taking out the ‘Allison Williams Cool Girl’ award, who also submitted a video acceptance speech – which showed her recreating a scene from the camp cinema classic Mommie Dearest.

Blanchett raised eyebrows with another awards show speech back in January, using her win at the Critic’s Choice Awards to argue that we should “stop the televised horse race of [award ceremonies]”.

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