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AACTA Awards 2018 Winners & Nominees

The 8th AACTA Awards (2018) took place on December 3, 2018. Sweet Country won Best Film and 5 more awards. Every winner and nominee in all 18 categories is below.

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64
films nominated
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winners
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Best Film
Sweet Country
Headline winners

AACTA Awards 2018: The Winners

Sweet Country won Best Film against 4 other nominees. Warwick Thornton (Best Director), Hamilton Morris (Best Lead Actor) and Angourie Rice (Best Lead Actress) took the main individual prizes.

Sweet Country (2018) movie poster Best Film

Best Film

Sweet Country

2018 · Adventure, Drama, History · Echo Score 82 · $1.81M worldwide

6 wins from 10 nominations at the 8th AACTA Awards (2018)

  • Best Director
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Lead Actor
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Editing

In the remote Australian outback, a respected Aboriginal man finds himself accused of murder, triggering a relentless manhunt led by a disillusioned war veteran. The ensuing chase exposes deep-seated racial tensions within a small, isolated community. As they traverse the unforgiving desert landscape, the pursuit reveals uncomfortable truths about justice, morality, and the brutal realities of frontier life, forcing everyone involved to confront their own prejudices and loyalties.

About Sweet Country
Scoreboard

AACTA Awards 2018: Which Films Won the Most

Sweet Country won 6 awards from 10 nominations. 6 films won at least once, while Upgrade went home empty-handed from 7 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Sweet Country (2018) movie poster
    Sweet Country 6 / 10
    2018 · Adventure, Drama · 6 wins from 10 nominations
  2. Ladies in Black (2019) movie poster
    Ladies in Black 4 / 11
    2019 · Drama, Comedy · 4 wins from 11 nominations
  3. Breath (2018) movie poster
    Breath 2 / 9
    2018 · Drama, Sport · 2 wins from 9 nominations
  4. Boy Erased (2018) movie poster
    Boy Erased 2 / 7
    2018 · Biography, Drama · 2 wins from 7 nominations
  5. Peter Rabbit (2018) movie poster
    Peter Rabbit 2 / 3
    2018 · Adventure, Fantasy · 2 wins from 3 nominations
  6. Jirga (2019) movie poster
    Jirga 1 / 1
    2019 · Drama, War · 1 win from 1 nomination
  7. Upgrade (2018) movie poster
    Upgrade 0 / 7
    2018 · Action, Sci-Fi · 0 wins from 7 nominations
  8. Cargo (2018) movie poster
    Cargo 0 / 5
    2018 · Drama, Thriller · 0 wins from 5 nominations
  9. West of Sunshine (2019) movie poster
    West of Sunshine 0 / 3
    2019 · Drama, Crime · 0 wins from 3 nominations
  10. Mary Magdalene (2019) movie poster
    Mary Magdalene 0 / 3
    2019 · Drama · 0 wins from 3 nominations
Full results

All 18 AACTA Awards 2018 Categories: Winners & Nominees

18 categories and 64 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

18 categories · 64 nominations

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AACTA Awards 2018 Best Casting

2 nominees

No winner is recorded for this category.

Movie marathon

The AACTA Awards 2018 Best Film Marathon

All 5 Best Film nominees at the 8th AACTA Awards (2018), back to back: 9 hours 17 minutes.

Total running time 9h 17m 9 hours 17 minutes All 5 films
Longest
Boy Erased 1h 55m
Shortest
Cargo 1h 45m
By genre

The Genres Behind the AACTA Awards 2018 Winners

Drama led with 50 nominations across 9 films and won 15. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 15 wins · 50 nominations · 30%
  2. Thriller 6 wins · 25 nominations · 24%
  3. Comedy 6 wins · 22 nominations · 27%
  4. Adventure 8 wins · 15 nominations · 53%
  5. Crime 6 wins · 13 nominations · 46%
  6. History 6 wins · 10 nominations · 60%
  7. Western 6 wins · 10 nominations · 60%
  8. Biography 2 wins · 10 nominations · 20%
  9. Horror 0 wins · 10 nominations · 0%
  10. Sport 2 wins · 9 nominations · 22%
2018 season

How the Rest of the 2018 Awards Season Voted

The other 14 ceremonies of 2018, with the winner of each top prize. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Shape of Water won the most of them, 3 each.

All 2018 awards
Earlier years

Previous AACTA Awards Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The AACTA Awards page has every year back to 2012.

Every AACTA Awards ceremony

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AACTA Awards 2018: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 8th AACTA Awards (2018), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Film at the 8th AACTA Awards (2018)?

Sweet Country (2018) won Best Film. The other nominees were Boy Erased, Breath, Cargo and Ladies in Black.

About Sweet Country

Which film won the most awards at the 8th AACTA Awards (2018)?

Sweet Country (2018) won the most: 6 awards from 10 nominations. Ladies in Black was next with 4 wins.

Which film had the most nominations at the 8th AACTA Awards (2018)?

Ladies in Black (2019) led with 11 nominations and won 4 of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 8th AACTA Awards (2018)?

Best Director: Warwick Thornton for Sweet Country. Best Lead Actor: Hamilton Morris for Sweet Country. Best Lead Actress: Angourie Rice for Ladies in Black. Best Supporting Actor: Simon Baker for Breath. Best Supporting Actress: Nicole Kidman for Boy Erased.

When was the 8th AACTA Awards (2018)?

The 8th AACTA Awards (2018) took place on December 3, 2018. The database has 18 categories and 64 nominations for it.