Rose Byrne, Jacob Elordi lead Aussie Oscar hopes
Actors Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi are leading an Aussie assault on Hollywood, with both receiving their first Oscar nominations.
The duo were nominated for best actress, best supporting actor and were joined by a third Australian to take home the top prize, with Nick Cave taking a surprise shot at best original song.
Byrne’s performance in the independent film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You earned her best actress awards at four major pre-Oscar events, including the Golden Globes.
He received the news of his Oscar nomination at midnight in Australia.
“I was falling asleep and then (her husband, Bobby Cannavale) started FaceTiming me (from New York) because I wanted to try to stay awake, but it was too late,” she said.
“Then he started screaming, ‘They said your name!’ It was like. and then my parents came into the room, they were like, ‘Oh my God,’ and then we all started screaming, and that’s it. “Now I’ve had a shot of adrenaline and I’m wide awake.”
Byrne faces Jessie Buckley in Hamnet, Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value and Emma Stone in Bugonia.
Elordi was nominated for his role in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, one of nine films nominated for the Netflix film.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the Brisbane-born actor said he “lost it” after receiving the news.
“I am very excited. I mean, I am 28 years old. There is wind in the sails,” he said.
Cave was nominated for the title song of Clint Bentley’s film Train Dreams, starring Australian actor Joel Edgerton.
Train Dreams mainstay Joel Edgerton was not nominated, but the film earned four nominations, including best picture.
Australian costume and production designer Fiona Crombie was also nominated for an Oscar this year in the best production design category for her work on Hamnet..
Sinners, the Breakup-era vampire thriller starring Michael B Jordan, entered the awards race with the most Academy Award nominations of all films this year, breaking a record with 16 categories.
The massive success puts Sinners ahead of the curve heading into the March 15 Oscars, where it will face off against contenders for the coveted best picture award, including One Battle After Another, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme and others.
The record for most nominations in a year was broken by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land with 14.
Bugonia, F1, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams were also nominated for this year’s best film award.
Winners of the Golden Oscar statuettes will be chosen by the approximately 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film veterans who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Comedian Conan O’Brien will host for the second year.
Warner Bros. Discovery, the studio that was the subject of a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount Skydance, led all studios with 30 nominations.
via Reuters and Associated Press
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