Today was Cate Blanchett day at the San Sebastian Film Festival as the two-time Oscar winner cruised into town to receive the Spanish festival’s Donostia Award for career achievement.
The excitement in San Sebastian was strong. The festival even sent an email updating delegates that Blanchett’s arrival at her hotel — one of the main photo ops at this fest — had been pushed back a couple of hours.
Luckily for the gang of fans waiting outside the festival’s main Kursaal Auditorium — a beautiful, brutalist structure — Blanchett didn’t disappoint.
The Aussie actor arrived at this evening’s award ceremony with her Disclaimer writer-director Alfonso Cuarón, who opened the ceremony and later handed Blanchett her gong.
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