Australia's Oscar hopes were dealt a blow at this year's BAFTA Awards as 'Poor Things' scribe Tony McNamara and 'Barbie' star and producer Margot Robbie lost out.
'Oppenheimer' leads the film race for February's AACTA International Awards, while 'Succession' has earned the most nominations in television.
The AACTA Audience Award for Best Film will this year be a duke between local titles and Hollywood blockbusters that recently called Australia home: 'Thirteen Lives', 'Thor: Love and Thunder', 'Ticket to Paradise', 'Elvis', 'The Drover's Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson' and 'Wog Boys Forever'.
Margot Robbie is well positioned to add an AACTA Audience Choice Award to her Trailblazer prize at this Saturday's ceremony, getting a nod for Favourite Actress, while two of the films she produced — 'Barbie' and 'Saltburn' — are up for Favourite Film.
Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge, Heather Mitchell, Thomas Weatherall, Show Kasamatsu, Simon Baker and Charles An will join Jacob Elordi in Curio Pictures' 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', now in production for Prime Video.
While 'Barbie' may have been snubbed by BAFTA voters for Best Film, Margot Robbie will still carry Australian hopes at the UK awards, alongside Jacob Elordi and Tony McNamara.
Amazon has revealed further casting details of Curio Pictures’ 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' as filming on the five-part drama wraps in NSW, with Essie Davis, William Lodder, Eduard Geyl, and Christian Byers to feature alongside Jacob Elordi and Odessa Young.
'Euphoria' star Jacob Elordi will return to Australia to lead the cast of 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', director Justin Kurzel and writer Shaun Grant's series adaptation of Richard Flanagan's 2014 Man Booker Prize winning novel.