Talk to Me Dominates 2023 AACTA Awards

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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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.