She had been up against Australian actress Cate Blanchett for Big and Small, Dame Eileen Atkins for All That Fall and Laurie Metcalf for Long Day's Journey Into Night.

BBC: Boyle's Olympic ceremony honoured

The echoes in the dialogue aren't evocative, they're dissonant and tinny (except for Cate Blanchett's marvelously husky channeling of Marlene Dietrich).

WSJ: Film Review

He falls for Cate Blanchett's Katharine Hepburn!

WSJ: A Flashy, Flawed 'Aviator'

For the uninitiated, Cate Blanchett, Australia's most luminous actress, has made a brief appearance in a television advertisement urging her compatriots to "Say Yes" to a carbon tax.

BBC: The great 'Cate Debate'

Like Cate Blanchett, she has a penchant for fashions that are elegant and conceptual at the same time.

FORBES: Is Fan Bingbing the Cate Blanchett or Lady Gaga of China

Cate Blanchett, who won in 2004 for The Aviator, had the biggest slide.

FORBES: Will Anne Hathaway Fall Prey To The Best Supporting Actress Curse?

Cate Edwards, 25, who is campaigning for her father John Edwards, says candidates' kids can play a key role in conveying their parents' message to younger voters.

NPR: Candidates' Kids Find Ways to Reach Out

The director discusses why he chose the actors he did for his six Dylans, including Cate Blanchett as the "electric" Dylan who alienated so many fans and Marcus Carl Franklin, an African-American actor who plays a younger Dylan.

NPR: Film Provides Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Bob Dylan

And for best supporting actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Adriana Barraza (Babel), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), whose lovable turn must have Dakota Fanning seething with jealousy.

BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Oscars panel: Scott Williams

Matthew Cate, California's prison boss, says that the state has met the court's first target for lowering prisoner numbers and might have to ask for only a short extension to satisfy the final count.

ECONOMIST: California��s overcrowded prisons