Bob Dylan is an amazing singer, but Cate Blanchett seems to be even more astonishing as an actress. Playing Bob Dylan was probably Blanchett’s both most interesting and most difficult role. She is a woman, but had to play a guy, who was not even an ordinary man… It was Bob Dylan, one of the most popular and controversial singers of all times.

But Cate Blanchett proved once again that she is a great actress. Her strange roles such as the one from Notes on a Scandal, for example, now seem to have been just simple tests, which Blanchett brilliantly passed so that she could eventually play this astonishing role. The role of a talented and furious man called Bob Dylan!

I’m not There, as the Bob Dylan biopic was entitled, is a great movie and even film critics agreed on this. Recently, it picked up no less than five nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards and thus became the competition’s favourite.

The movie earned nominations for Best Film, Best Director (Todd Haynes), Best Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett) and Best Supporting Actor (Marcus Carl Franklin, who is only 14 years old). I’m not There also claimed the first Robert Altman Award, named after the influential director of MASH who long-championed independent movies before dying in 2006.

I’m not There was rivaled only by Julian Schnabel’s drama, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and by Jason Reitman’s comedy, Juno, both these films earning also four nominations.