Kitty Green’s thriller The Royal Hotel leads the Australian Film Critics Association 2023 Awards with eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. Closely following with seven nominations each is Ivan Sen’s Limbo and Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou’s Talk to Me. Noora Niasari’s Shayda and Goran Stolevski’s Of an Age both received six nominations, while Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy received five nominations, and Jub Clerc’s Sweet As receiving one nomination.
The ceremony was held on 23 March 2024 at The Backlot Melbourne.
WRITING AWARDS
Judges: Kate Separovich, Gus Berger, Fiona Villella, Simon Miraudo, and Richard Sowada
THE IVAN HUTCHINSON AWARD FOR BEST LONG-FORM WRITING
Winner: Gabrielle O’Brien
BEST REVIEW OF AN INDIVIDUAL NON-AUSTRALIAN FILM (SHORT-FORM)
Winner: Stephen Russell
BEST REVIEW OF AN INDIVIDUAL AUSTRALIAN FILM (SHORT-FORM)
Winner: Stephen Russell
THE JIM MURPHY BROADCAST AWARD (ELECTRONIC MEDIA)
Winner: Tansy Gardam
FILM AWARDS
BEST FILM
Limbo – Rachel Higgins, David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin
Of an Age – Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings
Shayda – Vincent Sheehan, Noora Niasari
The Royal Hotel – Liz Watts, Emile Sherman, Kath Shelper
Talk To Me – Samantha Jennings, Kristina Ceyton
Winner: Of an Age – Kristina Ceyton, Samantha Jennings
BEST DIRECTOR
Ivan Sen – Limbo
Goran Stolevski – Of an Age
Kitty Green – The Royal Hotel
Noora Niasari – Shayda
Danny and Michael Philippou – Talk to Me
Winner: Goran Stolevski – Of an Age
BEST ACTOR
Simon Baker – Limbo
Aswan Reid – The New Boy
Elias Anton – Of an Age
Thom Green – Of an Age
Osamah Sami – Shayda
Winner: Simon Baker – Limbo
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – The New Boy
Julia Garner – The Royal Hotel
Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Shayda
Shantae Barnes-Cowan – Sweet As
Sophie Wilde – Talk to Me
Winner: Sophie Wilde – Talk to Me
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Rob Collins – Limbo
Wayne Blair – The New Boy
Toby Wallace – The Royal Hotel
Hugo Weaving – The Royal Hotel
Joe Bird – Talk to Me
Winner: Rob Collins – Limbo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Natasha Wanganeen – Limbo
Deborah Mailman – The New Boy
Ursula Yovich – The Royal Hotel
Selina Zahednia – Shayda
Miranda Otto – Talk to Me
Winner: Deborah Mailman – The New Boy
BEST SCREENPLAY
Ivan Sen – Limbo
Goran Stolevski – Of an Age
Noora Niasari – Shayda
Kitty Green & Oscar Redding –The Royal Hotel
Danny Philippou & Bill Hinzman –Talk to Me
Winner: Goran Stolevski – Of an Age
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ivan Sen – Limbo
Warwick Thornton – The New Boy
Matthew Chuang –Of an Age
Michael Lethem –The Royal Hotel
Aaron McLisky –Talk to Me
Winner: Warwick Thornton – The New Boy
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Dark Emu Story
Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
The Giants
John Farnham: Finding the Voice
The Last Daughter
memory film
This is Going to Be Big
Winner: The Giants
BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Still: The Michael J. Fox Story
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
A Storm Foretold
Winner: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
INTERNATIONAL CATEGORIES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Aftersun
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Tár
Winner: Oppenheimer
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Blue Caftan
The Boy and the Heron
Godland
Godzilla Minus One
Past Lives
Winner: Past Lives