Best Actress

3 March 2014, 6:47 am

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Cate Blanchett in "Blue Jasmine." (courtesy: Sony Pictures Classics.) — Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine.” (courtesy: Sony Pictures Classics.)

Anglo-Jewish actor and milkshake drinker Daniel Day-Lewis presented the winner of the Best Actress award.

It went to Cate Blanchett as the boozy, soon-to-be-schizophrenic woman in “Blue Jasmine.” Her speech was elegant and upbeat, and she reminded the world that movies with women in the lead do, indeed, make money. “The world is round, people!”

She beat out Amy Adams as the con artist in “American Hustle,” Sandra Bullock as the born again space visitor in “Gravity,” Judi Dench as the mother searching for her lost child in “Philomena” and Meryl Streep as a drag queen version of an angry, Southern Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County.”