Image: Cate Blanchett in all her splendour. That is pretty well how she looked last night, though Oscar and Lucinda started her career, and now she is truly in her prime, nearly twenty years later.
The eager interrogators on the red carpet did a straw poll in between spruiking Presto and the streaming movie of Home and Away about who would walk away with glory. Cate Blanchett mentioned The Dressmaker but not in this context and everyone else betted on Fury Road.