Cate Blanchett believes the Oscars shouldn't be televised.

The 55-year-old actress has won a host of accolades during her career, including two Academy Awards - but Cate has now suggested that award shows would actually be better, and more enjoyable, if they weren't televised at all.

During an appearance on the 'Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang' podcast, Cate said: "I mean, I say, I know it's blasphemy, go back to the day when it wasn't televised. Bring that back and just have a great party where people can just let go."

The movie star previously won the Best Supporting Actress gong for 'The Aviator', and the Best Actress Oscar for 'Blue Jasmine'.

But Cate believes that the performers would actually have much more fun at the Oscars if their actions weren't being scrutinised so closely.

She explained: "I mean, the industry is so scattered and at such a point … which I think potentially could be exciting or could really be depressing, but it's at a pivot point, and so we need to gather together and celebrate what it is that we do, without it having to have any public-facing."

Cate acknowledged that her proposed changes would make for a "very different evening".

The Hollywood star said: "I mean, the fashion is great, and all of that stuff. We'll find out in the end who won or who didn't win. But it would be so nice that that happened behind closed doors. [It would be] absolutely a very different evening."

Meanwhile, Gwyneth Paltrow recently suggested that her own Oscars success was "almost not a good thing".

The 52-year-old star won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in 'Shakespeare in Love', the 1998 romantic comedy film, but Gwyneth suggested that her early success actually blunted some of her ambition.

She told Vanity Fair magazine: "I had the validation so early that it was almost not a good thing."

Gwyneth also suggested that the importance of awards is often overblown.

She said: "It's just not as glamorous as it looks."

Despite this, the film star admitted that she craved validation during her younger years.

Gwyneth - who has Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, with musician Chris Martin - explained: "There's a healthy level of ambition, like, 'I know who I am' and 'I want the world'. And then there's another aspect that comes from damage ... 'I want that so that a hole will be filled, so that other people will find me worthy, so that I'll be lovable'. I think I was very much dancing between those things."