Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's Academy Award-winning blockbuster trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings", playing the role of elf leader Galadriel in all three films. The trilogy was a major critical and financial success, earning $2.981 billion at the box office worldwide, and all three films were later ranked within the top 10 greatest fantasy movies of all time in a poll conducted by American magazine "Wired" in 2012. In addition to "The Lord of the Rings", 2001 also saw Blanchett diversify her portfolio with a range of roles in the dramas "Charlotte Gray" and "The Shipping News" and the American crime-comedy "Bandits", for which she earned a second Golden Globe and SAG Award nomination. "Bandits" marked Blanchett's first notable foray into the comedy genre, with Ben Falk of the BBC declaring her and co-star Billy Bob Thornton "a real find as comedians" and calling her performance as an unsatisfied housewife caught between two escaped convicts, "unhinged, though undeniably sexy".