Oppenheimer Leads AACTA International Awards Nominations

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leads the nominations for the 13th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards with six nods including Best Film and Best Director. Elsewhere, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon both scored five nominations. Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction landed three nominations including Best Film, which is ironic to note, given the film does not currently have a release date in Australia.

The AACTA International Awards honour achievements in screen excellence, regardless of geography, across eleven categories. The Awards add a uniquely Australian voice to the international awards season. The winners will be announced on February 8.

Full list of nominations below.

Best Film

American Fiction
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Director

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, The New Boy
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon, Oppenheimer
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Jacob Elordi, Saltburn
Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Best Supporting Actress

Penélope Cruz, Ferrari
Vanessa Kirby, Napoleon
Julianne Moore, May December
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Screenplay

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.