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Pity Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts

Some Australian actors have slightly better luck playing non-Australians

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

The Oscars, awarded in February each year, bring out the patriotism in many Australian movie buffs and sections of the media. While few people seriously assume that an Australian film will be named the best picture in the near future — none has been nominated since Moulin Rouge! in 2001) — we hold out hope that our actors, probably Australian cinema’s most successful exports (or at least the most revered), will win a few statuettes.

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