AACTA Awards: Best and worst dressed as stars hit red carpet in Sydney
The rain pelted down on the celebrity minders at yesterday’s AACTA Awards red carpet parade, but it didn’t stop the stars shining in the style stakes. Here is the best and worst dressed.
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The rain pelted down on the celebrity minders at yesterday’s AACTA Awards red carpet parade, but it didn’t stop the stars shining in the style stakes.
The heavens let loose at exactly the moment the event was due to start at The Star’s Event Centre, meaning many stars delayed their red carpet walk to save getting their hair wet.
But when they did, red was the clear colour trend with Edwina Bartholemew and a Ginger and Smart-wearing Danielle Cormack among those donning the hue.
Keeping it in the family, Jess McNamee returned home to be there with her sister, Home and Away star Penny McNamee.
Jess was cheering for Ali’s Wedding to take home the best picture gong, saying: “I’m so tired of seeing drab, depressing Australian films and this was
so great.”
Rising stars in Hollywood Angourie Rice and Nicholas Hamilton
also made their AACTA debuts.
Noticeably absent from the event was Sophie Monk’s beau Stu Laundy, who was at home sick. “I told him now people are going to think we’ve broken up,” Monk said.
Russell Crowe, Paul Hogan and Sam Neill also avoided the press.
Inside, it was all sunny for the cast and crew of Lion, who dominated the awards.
After beginning the year with six Oscar and four Golden Globe nominations and two BAFTA wins, homegrown movie hit Lion swept the awards again, winning 12 awards, including Best Film, Best Lead actor to young Sunny Pawar and Best Supporting to Nicole Kidman.
Pawar, who wasn’t at the event, now becomes the youngest winner in the category, outdoing Simon Burke who was 15 when he won the AFI in 1976 for The Devil’s Playground.
Kidman also picked up a Best Supporting AACTA in the TV Drama category for her near-unrecognisable turn in Foxtel miniseries Top Of The Lake: China Girl.
International stars Harrison Ford, Liev Schreiber and Michael Caine appeared in a tribute to director Phillip Noyce, who was presented with Australia’s highest screen honour, the Longford Lyell Award for lifetime achievement.
Simon Baker headed home to accept the AACTA Trailblazer Award, while Emma Booth took Best Lead Actress for Hounds Of Love. In the TV categories, Foxtel’s Top Of The Lake: China Girland ABC drama Seven Types Of Ambiguity were the big winners, taking four and five AACTAs respectively, including for Best Drama Series and Lead Actress.
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