The Australian Academy of Cinema
and Television Arts (AACTA) have announced the winners of the 2nd AACTA International Awards
in Los Angeles, with actor Russell Crowe leading
fellow Australians presenters Jacki
Weaver and Scott Hicks.
Silver
Linings Playbook won Best Film along with Best
Direction for David O. Russell; and Best
Lead Actress for Jennifer Lawrence.
Best Lead Actor
went to Daniel Day-Lewis for his performance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's
historical drama Lincoln. Best Screenplay was won by writer and director Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained while the two discretionary AACTA International Awards went to Robert De Niro for his role as an obsessive compulsive football-crazed father in Silver Linings Playbook, and to Jacki Weaver, for her role as De Niro's tolerant and forgiving wife in the film.
(But why no award yet for Samuel L.Jackson (left) whose acting in Django Unchained is superb and worthy of an Oscar?)
On Wednesday the Social Shuttle will attend the local ACCTA Awards which will be hosted by Russell Crowe at Sydney's Star Casino.
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Nicole Kidman will fly into town on Monday to attend Wednesday's ACCTA Awards. Kidman and Keith Urban holidayed in Sydney and the NSW South Coast where they have a holiday home over the Christmas holidays, returning to the US on the 10th January. You can do these things when you have your own jet !
The Shuttle recalls speaking to Kidman's publicist Wendy Day at a luncheon is Sydney many years ago when Nicole was divorcing Tom Cruise.
Day was seriously worried that Nicole's career would slump, such was the power then of Cruise and the tendency for Hollywood bigwigs to line up in support of whoever they perceived as Hollywood royalty.
Nicole of course has proved them all wrong and is the acknowledged most famous and powerful actress in the world today.
Featured on the cover of the latest Hollywood Reporter Nicole speaks about life with Tom and standing up to the Studios, Scientology and sex.
