Female-led stories across film and television dominated the AACTA International Awards, with 'Promising Young Woman', 'Nomadland', and 'The Queen's Gambit' leading the winners.
Margot Robbie will follow in the footsteps of Simon Baker, Isla Fisher Rose Byrne, and Chris Hemsworth in receiving the AACTA Trailblazer Award.
After making his feature directing debut on 'I Am Mother' Grant Sputore has no qualms about making the significant leap to directing the scieince-fiction thriller Augmented for Warner Bros.
Screenwriter Tony McNamara is Australia's lone individual nominee for this year's Oscars, with Margot Robbie missing out in the lead actress category and instead recognised as a producer on 'Barbie', which is up for Best Motion Picture.
Margot Robbie's performance as Kayla Pospisil, an associate producer at Fox News, in 'Bombshell' has been nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actress - her second nod after 'I,Tonya' last year.
The law of diminishing returns applies to the Fifty Shades franchise as the final edition of the trilogy opened much lower than the predecessor but commanded the top spots in Australia, the US and more than 50 other markets.
Matt Everitt, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Sloan, and Brian Cox have earned a nod for their work on 'Love and Monsters', while the UK-based Andrew Jackson is nominated as part of the VFX team on 'Tenet'.
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.