Cate Blanchett Oscar Hopeful ‘Tár’ To Debut On Peacock This Month

Renowned actress Cate Blanchett already has two Academy Awards and a total of seven nominations. Now, after her performance in Tár, she will undoubtedly get her eighth nomination on Tuesday when they are announced.

Blanchett is also currently the front-runner to take home her third Oscar on March 12 for her role in the film, which is now set to debut on Peacock on Friday, January 27.

In the film, Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a world-famous composer-conductor and the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. The film opens with Lydia at the peak of her career, preparing to release a memoir and a highly anticipated live album of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

Over the course of a few weeks, however, her ego and destructive behavior begin to squander the success that she has built. What results is difficult an honest examination of what it means to have power in today’s society.

The film has been well-received by critics, currently holding a 90% Fresh Rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Blanchett won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Tár, which also became only the seventh film in history to sweep the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics Best Picture awards.

Directed by Todd Fields, the film also stars Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner as Sebastian Brix, and more.

Tár is distributed by Focus Features, which is a subsidiary of Universal, therefore, it was always destined to land on Peacock. It first premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 1 and was initially released in the United States on October 7. When it lands on Peacock, it will be 112 days since its debut.

While Violent Night came to the NBCUniversal streaming service just 49 days after it debuted in theaters, other recent prestige Universal releases, including Jordan Peele’s latest thriller Nope, remained in theaters for 120 days before heading to streaming.