Elizabeth

…I in the 1998 film Elizabeth, which earned her an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for best actress. Blanchett was praised for capturing the emotional complexity of the queen’s development from a lovestruck adolescent to an indomitable political force who represses her emotional vulnerability.

…both French and English, including Elizabeth (1998), a drama that starred Cate Blanchett, and Looking for Eric (2009), which tells the story of a Manchester United fan who gets life lessons from an insightful Cantona, who appears as a hallucination. Cantona’s personal philosophy was expressed in the book Cantona on…

…the queen in the lavish Elizabeth (1998) and the criminal lover of the painter Francis Bacon in Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998).

…to direct the English feature Elizabeth (1998), about the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and starring Cate Blanchett in her breakthrough role. That film earned immense critical acclaim and Oscar nominations in several categories, such as best picture, best actress in a leading role,…

…master Sir Francis Walsingham in Elizabeth (1998); he reprised the latter role in the 2007 sequel. As theatre manager Philip Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and as a supervillain in the spoof Mystery Men (1999), Rush demonstrated his comedic skills, which were on more subtle display in his impish…