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Rachel Griffiths is a Best Actress nominee

by Terri

rachel.jpgRachel Griffiths didn’t get an Emmy award for Brothers & Sisters this year, just the honor of being nominated. But she’s got another chance to take home a trophy for her portrayal of Sarah now with the Australian Film Institute Awards … excuse me, that would be the L’Oreal Paris Australian Film Awards. A little strange to have a product that mentions the capital of another country naming your country’s awards, but hey, sponsorship money is sponsorship money.

That’s not the only odd thing about these awards, actually. The “International Award for Best Actor” and “International Award for Best Actress” group together performances in both movies and TV shows, with the apparent only criteria being that the product is not native to Australia but the performer is.

So, in the Best Actor category, the nominees are Eric Bana in the movie Lucky You; Julian McMahon in the TV series Nip/Tuck; Hugh Jackman in the movie The Prestige; and Dominic Purcell in the TV series Prison Break. And Griffiths, nominated in the Best Actress category for Brothers & Sisters, competes against Rose Byrne in the TV series Damages; Jacinda Barrett in the movie The Last Kiss; and Toni Collette in the movie Little Miss Sunshine.

Those International awards seem largely intended to garner a little international press, because the rest of the nominees for AFI awards are for movies and TV shows, and performances therein, that you’ve probably never heard of if you don’t life Down Under. But hey, an award’s an award, and an award from your home country sweeter still. Best of luck to Griffiths in bringing this one home.

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Posted in Awards, Sarah on October 27th, 2007

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2 Responses to “Rachel Griffiths is a Best Actress nominee”

  1. Emma Says:
    October 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pm

    Yay for Rachel! She deserves to win something for B&S!

  2. Gillian Says:
    October 28th, 2007 at 2:32 am

    “Those International awards seem largely intended to garner a little international press” - That’s not how they were intended. Australia used to have the world’s biggest cultural cringe and actors who made it in the US were given much more recognition than equally fine actors who never left the country. That’s changing, but there’s still an element of extra praise for anyone who has made it in the US.

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