AACTA International Awards 2025: See the nominees
From a CGI chimpanzee playing Robbie Williams, to Toni Collette and Nicole Kidman battling it out for Best Actress, this year’s AACTA Awards nominations celebrate the bold, the bizarre, and the brilliant in film and television | FULL LIST
A musical biopic that imagines British pop star Robbie Williams as a monkey has swept the nominations for the 14th International AACTA Awards.
Better Man, directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), received nods for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, along with acting nominations for its lead cast — Jonno Davies, Damon Herriman, and Alison Steadman.
The film features all the hallmarks of a classic biopic, charting Williams’ rise from humble beginnings to boy band stardom in Take That, his record-breaking solo career, and struggles with fame, alcoholism, and drug addiction. The twist? Williams is portrayed not by a flesh-and-blood actor but as a CGI chimpanzee.
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour epic starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish Hungarian architect rebuilding his life in post-Holocaust America and Guy Pearce as a villainous industrialist, follows closely behind with five nominations. These include Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and acting nods for Brody, Pearce, and Felicity Jones.
Rounding out the Best Film nominees are Sean Baker’s screwball tragicomedy Anora (which won the Palme d’Or), Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Perez, and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.
While Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, failed to capture the box office, it earned Australian screen legend George Miller a best director nomination.
Toni Collette and Nicole Kidman are both up for Best Actress awards — for Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 and Halina Reijn’s erotic drama Babygirl, respectively.
No, you’re not going mad, they’re still giving out awards for The Crown — with Elizabeth Debicki picking up a nomination for her portrayal of Princess Diana. Meanwhile, Emmy-sweeper Shōgun dominated with three drama nominations, matched by FX’s The Bear, which also received recognition for Best Comedy Series. With Succession out of the running, perhaps The Bear will finally graduate to the drama category.
Boy Swallows Universe, adapted from Trent Dalton’s best-selling novel, received a Best Drama Series nomination after breaking records last month with 22 domestic AACTA nods. Meanwhile, Colin From Accounts is competing for Best Comedy against Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hacks, Only Murders in the Building, and The Bear.
The 2025 AACTA Awards Ceremony will air on Channel 10 on Friday, February 7.
2025 AACTA International Awards nominees
Best Film
Anora
Better Man
Dune: Part two
Emilia Pérez
The Brutalist
Best Lead Actor in Film
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist – as László Tóth
Daniel Craig – Queer – as Lee
Jonno Davies – Better Man – as Robbie Williams
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing – as John “Divine G.” Whitfield
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave – as Thomas Lawrence
Best Lead Actress in Film
Kirsten Dunst – Civil War – as Lee Smith
Karla Sofia Gascón – Emilia Pérez – as Emilia Pérez
Nicole Kidman – Babygirl – as Romy
Mikey Madison – Anora – as Mikheeva
Kate Winslet – Lee – as Lee Miller
Best Supporting Actor in Film
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain – as Benji Kaplan
Damon Herriman – Better Man – as Nigel
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist – as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.
Stanley Tucci – Conclave – as Cardinal Bellini
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II – as Macrinus
Best Supporting Actress in Film
Toni Collette – Juror #2 – as Faith Killebrew
Ariana Grande – Wicked – as Glinda
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist – as Erzsébet Tóth
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez – as Rita Mora Castro
Alison Steadman – Better Man – as Betty
Best Direction in Film
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Michael Gracey – Better Man
George Miller – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
Best Screenplay in Film
Anora - Sean Baker
Better Man - Michael Gracey, Oliver Cole, Simon Gleeson
Conclave - Peter Straughan
The Brutalist - Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg
Best Drama Series
After the Party
Boy Swallows Universe
Shōgun
Slow Horses
The Diplomat
Best Comedy Series
Colin from Accounts
Curb your Enthusiasm
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
The Bear
Best Actor in a Series
Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm – (as Larry David)
Idris Elba - Hijack – (as Sam Nelson)
Gary Oldman - Slow Horses – (as Jackson Lamb)
Hiroyuki Sanada - Shōgun – (as Yoshii Toranaga)
Jeremy Allen White - The Bear – (as Carmy)
Best Actress in a Series
Elizabeth Debicki - The Crown – (as Princess Diana)
Ayo Edebiri - The Bear – (as Sydney Adamu)
Jessica Gunning - Baby Reindeer – (as Martha Scott)
Anna Sawai - Shōgun – (as Toda Mariko)
Jean Smart - Hacks – (as Deborah Vance)