In 2006, Blanchett starred opposite Brad Pitt as one half of a grieving couple who get caught up in an international incident in Morocco in the multi-lingual, multi-narrative ensemble drama "Babel", directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. "Babel" received seven Academy Award nominations. She also co-starred in the Steven Soderbergh-directed World War II set drama "The Good German" with George Clooney, and the acclaimed psychological thriller "Notes on a Scandal" opposite Dame Judi Dench. Blanchett received a third Academy Award nomination for her performance in the latter film. In "Notes on a Scandal", Blanchett portrays Sheba Hart, a lonely art teacher who embarks on an affair with a 15-year-old student and becomes the object of obsession for an older woman played by Dench. Both Blanchett's and Dench's performances were highly acclaimed, with Peter Bradshaw writing in "The Guardian", "Director Richard Eyre, with unshowy authority, gets the best out of Dench and Blanchett and, with great shrewdness, elicits from these two actors all the little tensions and exasperations - as well as the genuine tenderness - in their tragically fraught relationship."