'%20x='0'%20y='0'%20height='100%25'%20width='100%25'%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20xlink%3Ahref='data:image/jpg;base64,/9j/2wBDAAYEBQYFBAYGBQYHBwYIChAKCgkJChQODwwQFxQYGBcUFhYaHSUfGhsjHBYWICwgIyYnKSopGR8tMC0oMCUoKSj/2wBDAQcHBwoIChMKChMoGhYaKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCgoKCj/wAARCAAHAAoDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAFgABAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYH/8QAIRAAAQQBAwUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQIDBBEABRNhBgcSIVH/xAAVAQEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADBP/EAB0RAAECBwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAgMEESFBccH/2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA/AMiXA0uP23mz3orD0mYrajuAKStjwIs/DY9VzkxqfVkmZqMqUhvZS+6t0NhdhAUSavi8YwoLjfarnGAFtMjpX//Z'%3E%3C/image%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Veteran actress Cate Blanchett thinks award shows shouldn't be aired on television anymore.
The Oscar-winning actress sat down for an interview on the Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang podcast, where she claimed that the Oscars should “go back to the day when it wasn’t televised.” Her comments came after she noted that there are “so few spaces that you can go now, where you are private,” without the high chances of someone recognizing and recording you.
Cate Blanchett boasts two Oscar awards as of 2025. Back in 2005, she bagged the Academy Award for her role in The Aviator, and in 2014, she did it again for Best Actress for her role in Blue Jasmine. She also boasts 6 more nominations for her work on Elizabeth, Carol, and Notes on a Scandal, among others.
Here's why Cate Blanchett thinks award shows shouldn't be aired on television anymore:
Iterating on why she feels the Oscars shouldn't be televised anymore, Cate Blanchett noted:
“That’s what I loved about the late ’80s [was] going to all of the dance parties in Sydney for Mardi Gras. People were just there,” she recalled. “They were so present, you know, they were just together, collectively, having a great time. It was non-aggressive. No one was being recorded. No one cared what anyone did.”
Hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang chimed in to concur with her, noting that privacy is far more difficult in the era of TikTok, with the latter even pointing out that lip readers are now trending on the platform:
“But now it feels like that chasm between that kind of event, that ideal, is widening from the thing that’s very common now at, like, an awards show where you’ve got lip readers, you’re being photographed,” Yang said before a confused Blanchett asked, “Lip readers?”
The co-host then explained that these lip-reading TikTokers make guesses at what celebrities are saying to each other at televised events. “And it looks like it could be exactly what they’re saying, in a way that’s a little bit odd,” Rogers said. Yang claimed this trend makes all Hollywood events feel “treacherous,” prompting Cate Blanchett to agree:
“I mean, I say, I know it’s blasphemy, go back to the day when it wasn’t televised,” Blanchett suggested. “Bring that back and just have a great party where people can just let go. I mean the industry is so scattered and at such a point… which I think potentially could be exciting or could really be depressing, but it’s at a pivot point, and so we need to gather together and celebrate what it is that we do, without it having to have any public-facing.”
She went on:
“I mean, the fashion is great, and all of that stuff. We’ll find out in the end who won or who didn’t win. But it would be so nice that that happened behind closed doors. [It would be] absolutely a very different evening.”
Trending
The first time the Oscars ceremony was televised was back in 1953, for its 25th ceremony.
Love movies? Try our Box Office Game and Movie Grid Game to test your film knowledge and have some fun!
Your perspective matters!
Start the conversation
