Cate Blanchett stole the present at this yr’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Tv Arts (AACTA) Awards on the Gold Coast.
The actress got here out on stage wearing a brilliant pink robe and enormous Sia-style bow on her head, claiming to be “Center-Aged Barbie” as she handed out the Trailblazer Award to Margot Robbie.
Guffawing 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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“When you requested me rising up who my favorite actor was, my reply was all the time, and can all the time be, Cate Blanchett,” Robbie mentioned after accepting the gold statuette.
“I’ve been adoring you from afar for so long as I can keep in mind. To be adoring you now at such shut proximity is really overwhelming.”
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Blanchett mounted her bow and pouted on the star to extra laughs from the viewers inside HOTA (Dwelling 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 really full circle second”.
Her mum and husband, Tom Ackerley, appeared on proudly from the viewers as she gave a heart-warming speech concerning the worth of dreaming huge.
”I did have huge, huge desires as a child and massive desires can carry you fairly far however the love and help of your loved ones and mates will carry you a lot additional,” she mentioned.
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Whereas Robbie did not give a person shout out to Ackerley whereas accepting her Trailblazer Award, she touched on their huge yr as producers – with hits like Barbie and Saltburn – as their Fortunate Chap manufacturing firm marks it is tenth yr.
“It’s truthful to say that we have simply had essentially the most surreal yr of our lives,” she mentioned.
Later, when returning to the stage to gather the trophy for Worldwide Award for Finest Lead Actress in Movie for Barbie, she gave a uncommon and candy shout out to her husband.
“I would wish to thank the most important Ken of all of them – and I do know Ryan [Gosling] would not thoughts me saying this – Tom Ackerley,” Robbie mentioned.
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“Except for producing this movie and operating two profitable firms with me, he occurs to be my husband and he is good at that as effectively.”
The notoriously personal couple even posed for photographs collectively backstage.
Whereas Robbie has been parading actual Barbie seems alongside the crimson carpets since earlier than the film got here out, this time it seems like she opted for pure ‘Film Star Margot’ – carrying the swarovski crystal-covered Vivienne Westwood ‘pirate bride’ robe from the late British designer’s 1998 assortment.
Barbie additionally took dwelling Worldwide Award for Finest Movie and Worldwide Award for Finest Supporting Actor in Movie for Ryan Gosling’s portrayal of Ken.
The largest winner of the evening, through the ceremony hosted by Insurgent Wilson, was Aussie horror film Discuss to Me, which took out three gongs on the evening together with Finest Movie and Finest Lead Actress in Movie for Sophie Wilde.
The manufacturing additionally took out 5 technical awards earlier within the week, giving them a complete of eight AACTA Awards.
Within the TV stakes, The Newsreader received Finest Drama Collection and Finest Lead Actress in a Drama for Anna Torv, whereas Finest Youngsters’s Program went to native manufacturing Bluey.
Actual life couple, actors Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, took to the stage to just accept Finest Narrative Comedy Collection for his or her manufacturing Colin From Accounts.
Whereas in touching moments on stage, Cal Wilson’s husband and Jock Zonfrillo’s spouse accepted awards on their late spouses’ behalf.
You possibly can see all the evening’s greatest winners right here.
