Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett will be honored at the San Sebastian Festival’s 72nd edition with a Donostia Award and will also be featured on the festival’s official poster. The image of the poster is the work of graphic designer José Luis Lanzagorta based on a photograph by Gustavo Papaleo.
Cate Blanchett is the second Australian actor to receive the Festival’s highest honorary award after Hugh Jackman (2013).
While this will be Blanchett’s first visit to San Sebastian, the Festival has screened a number of her films: Babel (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Perlak, 2007) and Veronica Guerin (Joel Schumacher, Official Selection, 2003), competing for the Golden Shell.
In 2018 the Festival revamped its posters to feature a figure from contemporary cinema. Isabelle Huppert, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Sigourney Weaver, Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem precede Blanchett as the official image, this year created by the graphic designer from San Sebastian, José Luis Lanzagorta, based on a portrait by the photographer Gustavo Papaleo.
Blanchett’s acting credits include: Tár, Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up, Ocean’s 8, Thor: Ragnorok, Carol, Blue Jasmine, I’m Not There, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Notes on a Scandal, The Life Aquatic, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, The Good German, The Aviator, The Talented Mr Ripley and Elizabeth. She has won countless awards including four BAFTAs, two Academy Awards, three Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild awards.
She is the co-Founder and Principal of film and television production company Dirty Films, and her producing credits include Todd Haynes’ Carol and Todd Field’s Tár, Christos Nikou’s Apples, the 10-time EMMY nominated Mrs America for FX and producing and co-creating the 13-time AACTA-winning series Stateless for Netflix. She also created and produced the award-winning Audible Original podcast Climate of Change, and produced Evolver, a VR interactive experience which premiered at Tribeca and has been selected for the first ever Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.