Talk to Me has dominated the 2023 AACTA Awards with eight wins including Best Film, Best Director for Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, and Best Lead Actress for Sophie Wilde. Elsewhere, The New Boy picked up three awards for Best Lead Actor for Aswan Reid, Best Supporting Actress for Deborah Mailman, and Best Cinematography.
The winners of the 13th AACTA International Awards were also announced with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie taking home Best Film, Best Actress for Margot Robbie, and Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling. Robbie was also bestowed the AACTA Trailblazer Award. Elsewhere, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer picked up Best Director and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.
Presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts whose membership contains professionals from a cross-section of the screen industry, the awards are considered the highest honour in Australian film.
Winners in bold below.
BEST FILM
Of an Age
Shayda
Sweet As
Talk to Me
The New Boy
The Royal Hotel
BEST INDIE FILM
A Savage Christmas
Limbo
Monolith
Streets of Colour
The Rooster
The Survival of Kindness
BEST DIRECTION
Jub Clerc, Sweet As
Kitty Green, The Royal Hotel
Noora Niasari, Shayda,
Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, Talk to Me
Goran Stolevski, Of an Age
Warwick Thornton, The New Boy
BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Shayda
Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Sweet As
Cate Blanchett, The New Boy
Julia Garner, The Royal Hotel
Sarah Snook, Run Rabbit Run
Sophie Wilde, Talk to Me
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Elias Anton, Of an Age
Simon Baker, Limbo
Thom Green, Of an Age
Phoenix Raei, The Rooster
Aswan Reid, The New Boy
Osamah Sami, Shayda
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alex Jensen, Talk to Me
Deborah Mailman, The New Boy
Tasma Walton, Sweet As
Mia Wasikowska, Blueback
Ursula Yovich, The Royal Hotel
Selina Zahednia, Shayda
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mojean Aria, Shayda
Eric Bana, Blueback
Wayne Blair, The New Boy
Rob Collins, Limbo
Zoe Terakes, Talk to Me
Hugo Weaving, The Rooster
BEST SCREENPLAY
Kitty Green and Oscar Redding, The Royal Hotel
Noora Niasari, Shayda
Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman, Talk to Me
Goran Stolevski, Of an Age
Warwick Thornton, The New Boy
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Harley & Katya
John Farnham: Finding the Voice
The Dark Emu Story
The Giants
The Last Daughter
This Is Going to Be Big
To Never Forget
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Carl Allison, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
Sherwin Akbarzadeh, Shayda
Aaron McLisky, Talk to Me
Katie Milwright, Sweet As
Warwick Thornton, The New Boy
BEST EDITING
Dany Cooper, Carmen
Katie Flaxman, Sweet As
Geoff Lamb, Talk to Me
Michelle McGilvray, Matt Villa, Courtney Teixera, Scarygirl
Nick Meyers, The New Boy
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Nigel Westlake, Blueback
Dmitri Golovko, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
Me-Lee Hay, Suka
Cornel Wilczek, Talk to Me
Sam Weiss, The Big Dog
BEST SOUND
Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
Scarygirl
Seriously Red
Talk to Me
Three Chords and the Truth
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Jennifer Lamphee, Last King of the Cross
Rebecca Buratto, Paul Katte, and Nick Nicolaou, Talk to Me
Lara Jade Birch and Georgia Lockhart-Adams, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Jennifer Lamphee, The Portable Door
Sheldon Wade, Adam Johansen, and Damian Martin, Wolf Like Me
BEST SHORT FILM
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Ashes
Finding Addison
Jia
Mud Crab
Not Dark Yet
INTERNATIONAL AACTA AWARDS
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
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