Want to know the best Cate Blanchett movies?  How about the worst Cate Blanchett movies?  Curious about Cate Blanchett’s box office grosses or which Cate Blanchett movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Cate Blanchett movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Recently my wife was at work talking to her co-worker, Michael, about our new website Ultimate Movie Rankings.  It was during this discussion that the weak link on our website was exposed yet again…not enough actresses on the website.  Michael wanted to know if we had a Kathy Bates page? a Gwyneth Paltrow page? a Julianne Moore page? a Cate Blanchett page?  The answer was no to every actress he named and a quick look at the site index showed almost 250 actor pages and only 43 actress pages.  So fearing possible litigation we here at Ultimate Movie Rankings have decided to get rid of our Confederate flags and publish more actress pages….so here is our latest actress page….2 time Oscar® winner Cate Blanchett.

Her IMDb page shows over 80 acting credits since1993. This page will rank Cate Blanchett movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  We have separated her 6 Peter Jackson/J.R.R. Tolkien movies into a separate table.  But why?  Well, we will tell you…. her roles in those 6 movies are pretty much cameo roles…. but we acknowledge many many people only know her as Galadriel…so it was either a separate table or not include those 6 movies at all.

Cate Blanchett Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) AA Best Picture Win
2001	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) AA Best Picture Nom
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) AA Best Picture Nom
2004	The Aviator (2004) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Supp Actress Win
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) AA Best Picture Nom
2014	How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) Voice Only
2017	Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
2013	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
2015	Cinderella (2015)
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
2012	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
2019	How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) Voice Only
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
2014	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
1998	Elizabeth (1998) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actress Nom
2018	Ocean's Eight (2018)
2006	Babel (2006) AA Best Picture Nom
2010	Robin Hood (2010)
2013	Blue Jasmine (2013) AA Best Actress Win
2008	Ponyo (2008)
2015	Carol (2015) AA Best Actress Nom
2022	Tár (2022) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Actress Nom
2006	Notes on a Scandal (2006) AA Best Supp Actress Nom
2011	Hanna (2011)
2001	Bandits (2001)
1999	An Ideal Husband (1999)
2021	Nightmare Alley (2021) AA Best Picture Nom
2022	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Netflix Voice Only
2014	The Monuments Men (2014)
2018	The House With A Clock In Its Walls (2018)
2004	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
2007	I'm Not There. (2007) AA Best Supp Actress Nom
2003	The Missing (2003)
2015	Manifesto (2015)
2002	Heaven (2002)
2005	Little Fish (2005)
1997	Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
2003	Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
2015	Truth (2015)
2019	Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
2001	The Shipping News (2001)
2018	Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
2007	Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) AA Best Actress Nom
2003	Veronica Guerin (2003)
1999	Pushing Tin (1999)
1997	Paradise Road (1997)
2017	Song to Song (2017)
2000	The Gift (2000)
2015	Knight of Cups (2015)
2022	The School For Good And Evil (2022) Netflix Voice Only
2006	The Good German (2006)
2001	Charlotte Gray (2001)
2000	The Man Who Cried (2000)
2024	Borderlands (2024)

Cate Blanchett Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

• Sort Cate Blanchett movies by co-stars of her movies
• Sort Cate Blanchett movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Cate Blanchett movies by adjusted worldwide box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Cate Blanchett movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Cate Blanchett movie received.
• Sort Cate Blanchett movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
• Use the sort and search buttons to make this table very very interactive.

Possibly Interesting Facts About Cate Blanchett

1.  Catherine Élise “Cate” Blanchett was born in Australia in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe.

2.  Cate Blanchett’s rise to stardom….Cliff Notes Style. In 1992 David Mamet she appeared in three major stage performances for the Sydney Theatre Company. Oleanna, Electra and Kafka Dances.  She would win the Sydney Theatre’s Best Newcomer for Kafka Dances and Best Actress for Oleanna.  After her success there she started appearing in movies.  In 1998 she got the lead role playing Elizabeth the I in Elizabeth.  The film catapulted her to stardom and her performance garnered wide recognition, earning her a Golden Globe® Award and British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress.  Since then it has been one critically acclaimed performance after another.

3.  Cate Blanchett has been nominated for 6 Oscars® in her career. She won Best Supporting Actress for 2004’s The Aviator and Best Actress in 2013’s Blue Jasmine.  Her other nominations were for 1998’s Elizabeth, 2006’s Notes on a Scandal, 2007’s I’m Not There, and 2007’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

4.  When Cate Blanchett won the Oscar® for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn, she became the first person to give an Oscar®-winning portrayal of a previous Oscar® winner.  She is the only actress to be nominated for an Oscar® twice for playing the same role in two separate films……that would be for her two turns as Elizabeth the I.

5.  Cate Blanchett is only the sixth actress to win both leading and supporting actress Oscars®. The other five are Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Helen Hayes and Ingrid Bergman.  The only actor to be nominated and win Oscars® for both of the iconoclast New York directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.

6. Cate Blanchett has been nominated for 8 Golden Globes® in her career.  She has won 3 times…1998’s Elizabeth, 2007’s I’m Not There and 2013’s Blue Jasmine.  Her other nominations were for 2001’s Bandits, 2003’s Veronica Guerin,  2004’s The Aviator 2006’s Notes on a Scandal, and 2007’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

7.  Cate Blanchett has been married one time.  She married playwright Andrew Upton in 1997….they have 4 children.

8.  Roles Cate Blanchett turned down or was seriously considered for:  Julia Roberts part in Closer, Nicole Kidman role in Cold Mountain,  Julianne Moore part in Hannibal, Robin Wright role in Unbreakable, Angelina Jolie roles in Taking Lives and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Kate Beckinsale role in Pearl Harbor.

9.  Along with Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett is one of only two actors to appear in all six of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth films: It only took her 8 days to film her part for all three Hobbit movies.

10.  Check out Cate Blanchett‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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