Writer/directors have dominated the feature film categories for this year's AWGIE Awards, which will be presented in Sydney next month.
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.
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.
Explorations of evil and entrapment took top honours at Thursday's AWGIE Awards, with Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes' 'Late Night with the Devil' and Kitty Green's 'The Royal Hotel' winning the original and adapted feature prizes, respectively.
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' may have battled it out with 'Barbie' at the box office but 'Poor Things' proved its nearest rival at the Oscars.
Warwick Thornton's screenplay for The New Boy and Colin and Cameron Cairnes' screenplay for Late Night with the Devil have both been nominated for the $30,000 Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting through the 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Award.