Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis leads 2022 Aacta award nominations | Aacta awards 2022

Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis and ABC tv sequence Thriller Highway: Origin have swept this 12 months’s Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts (Aacta) awards, main the way in which with 15 nominations every.

Luhrmann’s musical biopic is nominated for finest movie, in opposition to Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife and George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing – which each have 13 nominations – in addition to Thomas M Wright’s The Stranger, anthology movie Right here Out West and horror comedy Sissy.

Luhrmann can be nominated for finest director, whereas actors Austin Butler, Tom Hanks and Olivia DeJonge are up for performing gongs. Different nominations embrace costuming, cinematography, manufacturing design, enhancing, rating, screenplay and sound.

In the most effective actor in movie class, Butler is up in opposition to Rob Collins for his efficiency The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Joel Edgerton in The Stranger, Idris Elba in Three Thousand Years of Longing and Damon Herriman in the comedy Nude Tuesday.

In addition to course, Purcell is nominated for finest actress in a movie for her efficiency in The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson, in opposition to Aisha Dee in Sissy, 15-year-old Julia Savage in Blaze, Tilda Swinton in Three Thousand Years of Longing and Jackie van Beek in Nude Tuesday.

Within the tv classes, Mystery Road: Origin, the ABC’s prequel sequence to the hit outback detective present, has been nominated for finest drama sequence and 5 nominations throughout the 4 performing classes, with Mark Coles Smith, Tuuli Narkle, Daniel Henshall, Steve Bisley and Hayley McElhinney all within the operating.

Foxtel drama sequence Love Me and The Twelve have 10 nominations every, whereas Netflix hit Heartbreak Excessive has seven nominations, together with finest actor for James Majoos, simply after the present was renewed for a second season.

In the most effective actuality program class are Wonderful Race Australia, Australian Survivor: Blood v Water, Luxe Listings Sydney, MasterChef Australia, I’m A Movie star … Get Me Out Of Right here! and The Bridge within the race for the 2022 Aacta award for finest actuality program.

And in finest leisure program, common nominees Lego Masters Australia, The Voice Australia and Mastermind are up in opposition to The Canine Home Australia, RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Underneath and Eurovision: Australia Decides.

The Aactas span movie and tv, leisure and factual programming. Held yearly in Sydney, the principle ceremony will probably be broadcast on Community 10 on 7 December.

Previously often called the AFI awards, the Aactas had been first held in 1958.

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Greatest movie
Elvis
Right here Out West
Sissy
The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Stranger
Three Thousand Years of Longing

Greatest course
Elvis – Baz Luhrmann
Sissy – Hannah Barlow, Kane Senes
The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson – Leah Purcell
The Stranger – Thomas M Wright
Three Thousand Years of Longing – George Miller

Greatest indie movie
A Sew In Time
Akoni
Darklands
Lonesome
Items
Smoke Between Bushes

Greatest lead actor
Austin Butler – Elvis
Rob Collins – The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Joel Edgerton – The Stranger
Idris Elba – Three Thousand Years of Longing
Damon Herriman – Nude Tuesday

Greatest lead actress
Aisha Dee – Sissy
Leah Purcell – The Drover’s Spouse The Legend of Molly Johnson
Julia Savage – Blaze
Tilda Swinton – Three Thousand Years of Longing
Jackie van Beek – Nude Tuesday

Greatest supporting actor
Simon Baker – Blaze
Jemaine Clement – Nude Tuesday
Malachi Dower-Roberts – The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Tom Hanks – Elvis
Sean Harris – The Stranger

Greatest supporting actress
Jada Alberts – The Stranger
Jessica De Gouw – The Drover’s Spouse: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Olivia DeJonge – Elvis
Joanna Lumley – Falling For Figaro
Yael Stone – Blaze

Greatest documentary or factual program
Books That Made Us
Burning
Fearless: The Inside Story Of The AFLW
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
Folks’s Republic of Mallacoota
The Household Courtroom Murders

Greatest drama sequence
Bump
Heartbreak Excessive
Love Me
Thriller Highway: Origin
The Vacationer
Wolf Like Me

Greatest lead actor in a drama
Mark Coles Smith – Thriller Highway: Origin
Jamie Dornan – The Vacationer
James Majoos – Heartbreak Excessive
Sam Neill – The Twelve
Hugo Weaving – Love Me

Greatest lead actress in a drama
Isla Fisher – Wolf Like Me
Claudia Karvan – Bump
Kate Mulvany – The Twelve
Tuuli Narkle – Thriller Highway: Origin
Bojana Novakovic – Love Me

Greatest miniseries
Barons
Savage River
The Twelve
True Colors
Underbelly: Vanishing Act

Greatest youngsters’s program
Bluey
First Day
Little J & Large Cuz
MaveriX
Rock Island Mysteries
The PM’s Daughter

Greatest comedy program
Aftertaste
5 Bedrooms
Exhausting Quiz
Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell
Spicks and Specks
Summer season Love

Greatest actuality program
Wonderful Race Australia
Australian Survivor: Blood v Water
I’m A Movie star … Get Me Out Of Right here!
Luxe Listings Sydney
MasterChef Australia
The Bridge