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| AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role | |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) |
| First awarded | 1971 |
| Currently held by | Sophie Wilde, Talk to Me (2023) |
| Website | http://www.aacta.org |
The AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role is an award presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television".[1]
The award is presented annually at the AACTA Awards, which hands out accolades for achievements in feature films, television, documentaries, and short films.[2] From 1971 to 2010, the category was presented by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), the academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).[3] When the AFI launched the AACTA in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[3]
From 1971 to 1975, it was presented as a special award, and was accompanied with a cash prize, before it became a competitive award from 1976 onward.[4][5] Judy Davis is the most nominated and winning actress in this category, with nine nominations, including six wins, most recently for her role in Nitram (2021).
Candidates for this award must be female, and cannot be nominated for the same role in the supporting actress category.[6]
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- ^ "IMDb Australian Film Institute Awards". IMDb. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- ^ "Part2: Rule 5.6 – Special Conditions for Feature Film; Special Rules for Acting Awards" (PDF). 2013 AACTA Awards Rule Book. Australian Film Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2012.