Cate Blanchett stole the present at this 12 months’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards on the Gold Coast.
The actress got here out on stage wearing a shiny pink robe and enormous Sia-style bow on her head, claiming to be “Middle-Aged Barbie” as she handed out the Trailblazer Award to Margot Robbie.
Giggling within the crowd on the ensemble, Robbie then took to the stage after a star-studded congratulatory video message performed out for her.
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“If you asked me growing up who my favourite actor was, my answer was always, and will always be, Cate Blanchett,” Robbie mentioned after accepting the gold statuette.
“I have been adoring you from afar for as long as I can remember. To be adoring you now at such close proximity is truly overwhelming.”
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Blanchett fastened her bow and pouted on the star to extra laughs from the viewers inside HOTA (Home of the Arts) in Surfers Paradise.
Robbie, who grew up on the Gold Coast, mentioned receiving the award on the identical stage the place she carried out “a vaguely inappropriate dance routine in our interschool dance eisteddfod” 20 years in the past was “a very full circle moment”.
Her mum and husband, Tom Ackerley, seemed on proudly from the viewers as she gave a heart-warming speech concerning the worth of dreaming huge.
”I did have big, big dreams as a kid and big dreams can carry you pretty far but the love and support of your family and friends will carry you much further,” she mentioned.
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While Robbie did not give a person shout out to Ackerley whereas accepting her Trailblazer Award, she touched on their huge 12 months as producers – with hits like Barbie and Saltburn – as their Lucky Chap manufacturing firm marks it is tenth 12 months.
“It is fair to say that we’ve just had the most surreal year of our lives,” she mentioned.
Later, when returning to the stage to gather the trophy for International Award for Best Lead Actress in Film for Barbie, she gave a uncommon and candy shout out to her husband.
“I’d like to thank the biggest Ken of them all – and I know Ryan [Gosling] wouldn’t mind me saying this – Tom Ackerley,” Robbie mentioned.
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“Aside from producing this film and running two successful companies with me, he happens to be my husband and he’s good at that as well.”
The notoriously personal couple even posed for images collectively backstage.
While Robbie has been parading actual Barbie appears to be like alongside the purple carpets since earlier than the film got here out, this time it appears to be like like she opted for pure ‘Movie Star Margot’ – carrying the swarovski crystal-covered Vivienne Westwood ‘pirate bride’ robe from the late British designer’s 1998 assortment.
Barbie additionally took dwelling International Award for Best Film and International Award for Best Supporting Actor in Film for Ryan Gosling’s portrayal of Ken.
The largest winner of the night time, through the ceremony hosted by Rebel Wilson, was Aussie horror film Talk to Me, which took out three gongs on the night time together with Best Film and Best Lead Actress in Film for Sophie Wilde.
The manufacturing additionally took out 5 technical awards earlier within the week, giving them a complete of eight AACTA Awards.
In the TV stakes, The Newsreader received Best Drama Series and Best Lead Actress in a Drama for Anna Torv, whereas Best Children’s Program went to native manufacturing Bluey.
Real life couple, actors Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, took to the stage to settle for Best Narrative Comedy Series for his or her manufacturing Colin From Accounts.
While in touching moments on stage, Cal Wilson’s husband and Jock Zonfrillo’s spouse accepted awards on their late spouses’ behalf.
You can see the entire night time’s largest winners right here.
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