The 2024 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award nominees have been revealed. Here is a look at the nominees as well as the films and television shows that this year’s audiences will never forget.
AACTA Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
It’s award season, and the esteemed Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, or AACTA Awards, are the most recent to receive nominations. The AACTA Awards are eagerly anticipated by billions of people worldwide as one of the biggest award shows in the world.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards has released its 2024 nominee list on its website and social media platforms, as it does each year. We examine the nominees and the films and television shows that have made a lasting impression on audiences this year. When it comes to nominations this year, “The Newsreader,” which features Anna Torv in the lead role, has taken the top spot.
Without further ado, the full list of nominees for the AACTA Awards’ film and television categories is as follows:
FILM
AACTA Award for Outstanding Age-Based Picture
Shayda
Lovely as You Talk to Me
The New Lad
The Best Film Direction
AACTA Award, presented by The Royal Hotel
Goran Stolevski: A Geriatric
Shayda Noora Niasari
Talk to Me, Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, Jub Clerc: Sweet As
Thornton Warwick: The New Boy
Green Kitty: The Royal Hotel
AACTA’s Best Independent Film Award
A Brutal Holiday Limbo
Monolithic Coloured Streets
The Rooster
The Will to Live in Kindness
AACTA Award for Best Female Lead Actor/Director
Zar Ebrahimi Amir (Shayda)
Shantae (Sweet As) Barnes-Cowan
The New Boy’s Cate Blanchett
Julia Garner from “The Hotel Royal”
Run Rabbit Run’s Sarah Snook
Speak with Me, Sophie Wilde
AACTA Award: “Of An Age” for Best Lead Actor in a Motion Picture
Limbo’s Simon Baker Thom Green (Age-Wise)
Raei Pheonix (The Rooster)
Reid Aswan (The New Boy)
Shayda Osamah Sami
AACTA Award for Outstanding Film Supporting Actress
Talk to Me, Alex Jensen
Mailman, Deborah (The New Boy)
Wasikowska, Mia (Blueback).
Tasma Walton (I Love You)
Yovich Ursula (The Royal Hotel)
Shayda, or Selina Zahednia
AACTA Award for Outstanding Film Supporting Actor
Aria Mojean (Shayda)
Bana Eric (Blueback)
Bruce Blair, aka “The New Boy”
Limbo’s Rob Collins
Zoe Terakes: Let’s Talk
The Rooster by Hugo Weaving
AACTA Award for Outstanding Screenplay in an Age-Origin Film
Shayda
Speak with Me
The New Lad
The Hotel RoyalTV Bay of Fires (ABC) wins
AACTA Award for Best Dramatic Series.
Stan’s Black Snow
Stan’s Erotic Stories (SBS) Bump
Adore Me (Horror)
The ABC Newsreader
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AACTA’s Best Miniseries Award
Unbehaved Conduct (Stan)
Within Our Blood (ABC)
Secure House (SBS)
Disney+’s The Clearing
Alice Hart’s Lost Flowers (Amazon Prime Video)
Best Lead Actress in a Drama: AACTA Award
Kate Box (Sexual Tales)
Dee Aisha (Safe Home)
Love Me, Bojana Novakovic
Palmer, Teresa (The Clearing)
The Newsreader, Anna Torv
Sigourney Weaver, author of Alice Hart’s The Lost Flowers
Best Lead Actor in a Dramatic AACTA Award
In Our Blood, by Tim Draxl
Fimmel Travis (Black Snow)
Joel Lago (Sexual Tales)
(The Newsreader) Sam Reid
Roxburgh, Richard (Bali 2002)
Love Me, Hugo Weaving
Best Acting in a Comedy AACTA Award
Celeste Barber from the Wellman
Deadloch’s Kate Box Colonel Patrick Brammall (Accounts)
Colin from Accounts, aka Harriet Dyer
The Flanagan (Fisk) Kitty
Deadloch’s Nina Oyama
Helen Thomson, the Accounts Manager Colin
Zemiro Julia (Fisk)
Best Entertainment Programme AACTA Award
Season 7 of Dancing With the Stars
Grand Final of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest (SBS)
Mastermind (SBS) and Lego Masters: Grand Masters (Nine Network)
The Seven Network’s 1% Club
Network 10’s The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition
Best Factual Entertainment Programme:
AACTA Award for Alone Australia (SBS)
Foxtel’s Gogglebox Australia (Network 10)
ABC Kitchen Cabinet
Teenage Home for the Elderly (ABC)
Take Five with ABC’s Zan Rowe
Are We These People? (SBS)
AACTA’s Best Children’s Programme Award
Barrumbi Children (SBS, NITV)
ABC’s Beep and Mort
ABC’s Bluey
ABC’s Crazy Fun Park
The Daughter of the PM (ABC)
Boost the volume to (ABC).
The Best Stand-Up Special AACTA Award
Aaron Chen: No One Would Believe (YouTube Premium) if We Weren’t Filmed
Celeste Barber (Netflix): Alright, thanks.
Netflix’s Hannah Gadsby: Something Special
Netflix’s Jim Jefferies: High & Dry
Hoo Hoo, Lizzy: Who Cares? (Video on Amazon Prime)
The Big Queer Comedy Concert with Rhys Nicholson (Amazon Prime Video)
Tom Gleeson won the AACTA Award for Best Comedy Performer (Hard Quiz).
The 1% Club’s Jim Jefferies
Luke McGregor, an Australian Taskmaster
Down Under, star of RuPaul’s Drag Race Rhys Nicholson
From Taskmaster Australia, Nina Oyama
Charlie Pickering (Charlie Pickering’s The Weekly)
The Great Australian Bake Off’s Natalie Tran
The Great Australian Bake Off’s Cal Wilson
AACTA Award Best Supporting Actress in a Drama
Alycia Debnam-Carey (Alice Hart’s Lost Flowers)
Downey, Marg (The Newsreader)
Davidson Michelle Lim (The Newsreader)
Love Me, Heather Mitchell
Leah Purcell, author of Alice Hart’s The Lost Flowers
Satchwell Brooke (Black Snow)
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama: AACTA Award
Tim Draxl (Sexual Tales)
Black Snow by Alexander England
McInnes, William (The Newsreader)
Love Me by Bob Morley
Page-Lochard, Hunter (The Newsreader)
Guy Pearce (Transcript)
AACTA Award for Comedy or Dramatic Best Direction
Trent O’Donnell as Colin from Accounts (Episode 3)
Colin from Episode 6 of Accounts — Matt Moore (Episode 1) Deadloch — Ben Chessell
Glendyn Ivin, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart” (Episode 1)
Emma Freeman as The Newsreader (Episode 4)
Lucas Taylor won the AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television for Black Snow (Episode 1).
Colin from Harriet Dyer’s Accounts (Episode 3)
Patrick Brammall as Colin from Accounts (Episode 6) and Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan as Deadloch (Episode 1)
Adrian Russell Wills won the AACTA Award for Best Direction in Nonfiction Television for The Newsreader (Episode 4).
Aaron Chen: Henry Stone Wouldn’t Believe It If It Weren’t Filmed
Great Australian Bites with Adam and Poh (Episode 1) – Katie Bender Wynn Australia (Episode 1) – Josh Martin Matildas: The World at Our Feet (Episode 2) – Stamatia Maroupas
Tov Belling, Dylan River, and Rachel Perkins in The Australian Wars (Episode 1)
AACTA’s Best Short Film Award
I think I believe what an ostrich told me—that the world is fake (Lachlan Pendragon)
Ashes (Dean Francis, Charmaine Kuhn, Daisy Betts-Miller, Georgina Haig)
(Jess Milne, Nick Bolton, Francisca Braithwaite) Tracking Addison
Jia (Taysha McFarland, Vee Shi, and Nickelson Ren)
Adam Daniel, Adam Finney, and David Robinson-Smith as Mud Crab
Not Too Dark Yet (Bonnie Moir, Nicholas Denton, and Michael Jones
Best Documentary Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story won the AACTA Award.
Katya and Harley
John Farnham: How to Find Your Voice
The Tale of the Dark Emu
The Giants
The Final Daughter
There will be much to remember about this.
