While media attention will focus on the actors, including Jacki Weaver’s back-to-back nominations, New Zealanders have also picked up a swag of nominations for technical achievement.
Hugh Jackman picks up a best actor nomination as Victor Hugo’s tragic hero Jean Valjean in Les Miserables; Naomi Watts in nominated for best actress as a mother caught up in a devastating tsunami in The Impossible; and Jacki Weaver gets a best supporting actress nod as an unstable man’s doting mum in Silver Linings Playbook. Weaver was nominated last year for her role as the not-so-doting mum of criminals in Animal Kingdom.
