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Cate Blanchett to Receive San Sebastian’s 2024 Donostia Career Achievement Award


In addition to receiving the festival's highest honorific, Blanchett features on this year's official poster.

Directors who have benefited from her performances include Kapur, Scorsese and Allen, as well as Terrence Malick, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Sally Potter, Wes Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Woody Allen, Gillian Armstrong, Taika Waititi, Peter Jackson, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Jim Jarmusch, Guillermo del Toro, Adam McKay and Todd Field, to name a few. In addition to her authorial fare, Blanchett has also appeared in many big-budget commercial films, including “Thor: Ragnarok,” the “Lord of the Rings” series and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” She is an accomplished voice actor, having appeared in films from the “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise, the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo” and a particularly fun turn as a violent monkey in “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.” In August, Blanchett will star in Eli Roth’s action-packed adaptation of the “Borderlands” video game franchise, and yesterday, it was revealed that she joined the Zellner Brothers’ upcoming alien invasion comedy, “Alpha Gang.”

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