The 2025 Australia’s film and TV awards- AACTA, held last night Friday 7th February at the Surfer’s Paradise on the Gold Coast.
The biggest local names in film and TV attended the 2025 AACTA Awards red carpet.
The Award night was host by Australian movie icon, Russell Crow with a performance from Robbie Williams.
Other notable stars in attendance include Henry Cavill, power couple Emma McKeon and Cody Simpson, Robbie Williams, Guy Pearce etc.
Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man won four awards, including Best Direction in Film for Gracey and Best Lead Actor in Film for Jonno Davis. The film had already five awards at the Industry Gala earlier in the week, taking their total 2025 AACTA Awards to nine.
In the television categories, Netflix series Boy Swallows Universe dominated, picking up six awards in addition to the six they had already won at the Industry Gala — bringing their total to 12.
Here are the winners from the 2025 AACTA Awards.
AACTA Award for Best Film
Better Man — WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
How To Make Gravy
Late Night with the Devil
Memoir Of A Snail
Runt
AACTA Award for Best Drama Series
Fake
Heartbreak High — WINNER
The Artful Dodger
The Twelve
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Total Control
AACTA Award for Best Narrative Comedy Series
Austin
Bump
Colin From Accounts
Fisk — WINNER
Strife
The Office
AACTA Award for Best Miniseries
Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
Exposure
Four Years Later
House of Gods
Human Error
Last Days of the Space Age
AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in Film
Laura Gordon — Late Night with the Devil
Sarah Snook — Memoir Of A Snail — WINNER
Jackie van Beek — Audrey
Anya Taylor-Joy — Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Anna Torv — Force Of Nature: The Dry 2
Phoebe Tonkin — Kid Snow
AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in Film
Eric Bana — Force Of Nature: The Dry 2
David Dastmalchian — Late Night with the Devil
Jonno Davies — Better Man — WINNER
Daniel Henshall — How To Make Gravy
Guy Pearce — The Convert
Kodi Smit-McPhee — Memoir Of A Snail
AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama
Asher Keddie — Fake
Deborah Mailman — Total Control
Leah Purcell — High Country
Anna Torv — Territory
Phoebe Tonkin — Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
Sherry-Lee Watson — Thou Shalt Not Steal
AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama
Zac Burgess — Boy Swallows Universe
Felix Cameron — Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
Rob Collins — Total Control
Brendan Cowell — Plum
Sam Neill — The Twelve
Noah Taylor — Thou Shalt Not Steal
AACTA Award for Best Acting in a Comedy
Patrick Brammall — Colin From Accounts
Aaron Chen — Fisk
Harriet Dyer — Colin From Accounts
Kitty Flanagan — Fisk — WINNER
Genevieve Hegney — Colin From Accounts
Asher Keddie — Strife
Michael Theo — Austin
Felicity Ward — The Office
AACTA Award for Best Original Song
Dream On (Meg Washington, Electric Fields & The Prison Choir) — How To Make Gravy — WINNER
Forbidden Road (Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, Sacha Skarbek) — Better Man
Fine (Meg Washington, Brendan Maclean & The Prison Choir) — How To Make Gravy
Side By Side (Paul Kelly) — Runt
Streetlights (Jacob Harvey) — Under Streetlights
AACTA Award for Best Documentary
A Horse Named Winx
Every Little Thing
Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line
Otto by Otto — WINNER
Porcelain War
The Musical Mind: A Portrait In Process
AACTA Award for Best Indie Film
Before Dawn
Birdeater — WINNER
Christmess
Just A Farmer
The Emu War
You’ll Never Find Me
AACTA Award for Best Comedy Performer
Wil Anderson — Taskmaster Australia
Aaron Chen — Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee
Anne Edmonds — Taskmaster Australia
Tom Gleeson — Hard Quiz — WINNER
Guy Montgomery — Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee
Charlie Pickering — The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film
Alyla Browne — Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Hannah Diviney — Audrey
Kate Mulvany — Better Man
Kate Mulvany — How To Make Gravy
Ingrid Torelli — Late Night with the Devil
Jacki Weaver — Memoir Of A Snail — WINNER
AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in Film
Fayssal Bazzi — Late Night with the Devil
Chris Hemsworth — Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Damon Herriman — Better Man — WINNER
Damon Herriman — How To Make Gravy
Richard Roxburgh — Force Of Nature: The Dry 2
Hugo Weaving — How To Make Gravy
AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama
Essie Davis — Exposure
Rachel Griffiths — Total Control
Heather Mitchell — Fake
Deborah Mailman — Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
Sophie Wilde — Boy Swallows Universe
Asher Yasbincek — Heartbreak High
AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama
Simon Baker — Boy Swallows Universe
Wayne Blair — Total Control
Bryan Brown — Boy Swallows Universe
Travis Fimmel — Boy Swallows Universe
Lee Tiger Halley — Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
Ewen Leslie — Prosper
AACTA Award for Best Direction in Film
Better Man — Michael Gracey — WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — George Miller
How To Make Gravy — Nick Waterman
Late Night with the Devil — Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes
Memoir Of A Snail — Adam Elliot
AACTA Award for Best Entertainment Program
Dancing With The Stars
LEGO Masters Australia vs The World
Mastermind
Spicks and Specks — WINNER
The 1% Club
Tipping Point Australia
AACTA Award for Best Direction in Drama or Comedy
Boy Swallows Universe — Episode 1 — Bharat Nalluri — WINNER
Colin From Accounts — Episode 3 — Trent O’Donnell
Colin From Accounts — Episode 6 — Madeline Dyer
Fake — Episode 5 — Emma Freeman
Thou Shalt Not Steal — Episode 2 — Dylan River
AACTA Award for Best Children’s Program
Bluey — WINNER
Eddie’s Lil Homies
Hard Quiz Kids
Little J & Big Cuz
Play School: Big Ted’s Time Machine
Spooky Files
AACTA Award for Best Stand-Up Special
Anne Edmonds: Why Is My Bag All Wet? — WINNER
Lloyd Langford: Current Mood
Mel Buttle: Let Me Know Either Way?
Melbourne International Comedy Festival — The Allstars Supershow
Melbourne International Comedy Festival — The Gala
Rove McManus: Loosey Goosey
AACTA Award for Best Comedy Entertainment Program
Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee
Hard Quiz — WINNER
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Thank God You’re Here
The Cheap Seats
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
AACTA Award for Best Factual Entertainment Program
Alone Australia
Gogglebox Australia
Muster Dogs — WINNER
Stuff The British Stole
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
The Assembly
AACTA Award for Best Documentary or Factual Program
Australia’s Sleep Revolution with Dr Michael Mosley
I Was Actually There
Maggie Beer’s Big Mission
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian — WINNER
Ray Martin: The Last Goodbye
Who Do You Think You Are?
AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Film
Better Man — Michael Gracey, Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole — WINNER
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — George Miller, Nico Lathouris
How To Make Gravy — Nick Waterman, Meg Washington
Late Night with the Devil — Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes
Memoir Of A Snail — Adam Elliot
AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television
Boy Swallows Universe — Episode 4 — John Collee — WINNER
Colin From Accounts — Episode 6 — Patrick Brammall, Harriet Dyer
Fake — Episode 1 — Anya Beyersdorf
Fisk — Episode 3 — Kitty Flanagan, Penny Flanagan
Thou Shalt Not Steal — Episode 2 — Dylan River, Tanith Glynn-Maloney, Sophie Miller
AACTA Award for Best Short Film
And The Ocean Agreed
Before We Sleep
Die Bully Die
Favourites
Gorgo — WINNER
Why We Fight
AACTA Award for Best Online Drama or Comedy
Bad Ancestors
Buried — WINNER
Descent
Girl Crush
Urvi Went to an All Girls School
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