Australia’s powerhouse actors – Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts and Guy Pearce – have been nominated in the 2025 Golden Globes.

Kidman has been nominated for the 17th time, this time for best female actor, drama, in Babygirl.

“To be still relevant in this world and this industry, working on the films that I love, feels wonderful,” Kidman told The Hollywood Reporter after nominations were announced.

“To be in such an unusual film that still hasn’t been released, we needed these things, and we’re grateful for it.”

Babygirl is due for release in the US on December 25, and in Australia not until January 30.

Musical thriller Emilia Perez and historical epic The Brutalist have led the roster of films nominated as the awards season kicks off.

Emilia Perez, released by Netflix, scored 10 nods and The Brutalist, from independent distributor A24, earned seven.

Both movies will compete for the top Globes honour – best film drama – with papal selection story Conclave, Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two, historical drama Nickel Boys and September 5, the story of sports journalists who covered a hostage crisis at the Olympics.

Box office smash Wicked, adapted from a long-running Broadway play about the witches in The Wizard of Oz, landed four nominations.

It faces dark romantic comedy Anora and others in the best movie musical or comedy category.

Pamela Anderson landed her first Golden Globe nomination.

In The Last Showgirl, Anderson plays an ageing Las Vegas showgirl, a performance that has led to the best reviews of her career.

She was nominated for best female actor, drama, alongside Kidman (Babygirl), Angelina Jolie in Maria, Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here and – in a surprise – Kate Winslet in Lee.

Blanchett is nominated for best performance by a female actor in a limited series for Apple’s Disclaimer.

Naomi Watts has been nominated in the same category for Feud: Capote vs. The Swans on Binge.

Pearce is nominated for best supporting male actor in a film for The Brutalist.

Taking home a Globe can help movies in the race to the Academy Awards in March.

The nominations for the 82nd Golden Globes were announced on Monday morning (US time) by Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut.

Last year’s Hollywood strikes scrambled this year’s release schedule, and awards pundits say there is no clear frontrunner for best picture at the Oscars.

The Globe winners will be chosen by 334 entertainment journalists from 85 countries and will be announced on January 5 at a ceremony broadcast live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.

Emilia Perez stars Zoe Saldana as a lawyer who helps a drug cartel leader – Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón – fake his death and transition from a man to a woman.

Selena Gomez co-stars as the cartel leader’s wife.

The Brutalist stars Adrien Brody in an epic tale of a Hungarian immigrant who flees the horrors of World War II to rebuild his life in the US.

-with AP