Academy Awards:
* Best Actress in a Leading Role Moulin Rouge! (2002)
Golden Globe Awards:
* Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Birth (2005)
* Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Cold Mountain (2004)
* Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama The Others (2002)
* Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Billy Bathgate (1992)
BAFTA:
* Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role The Others (2002)
* Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role To Die For (1996)
Goya Awards:
* Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role The Others (2002)
Screen Actors Guild:
* Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role The Hours (2003)
* Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The Hours (2003)
* Best Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Moulin Rouge! (2002)
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Awards
Government honours In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia's highest civilian honour, in recognition of her contribution to the arts and her charity work. The award was presented by Governor-General of Australia, Major General Michael Jeffery in a ceremony at Government House, Canberra on 13 April 2007.
Academy Awards
* 2003 - Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours
Berlin International Film Festival
* 2003 - Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress for The Hours
Boston Society of Film Critics
* 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
British Academy of Film and Television Arts:
* 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours
Broadcast Film Critics Association
* 1996 - Best Actress for To Die For
Golden Globe Awards:
* 1996 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for To Die For
* 2002 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Moulin Rouge!
* 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Hours
Kansas City Film Critics Circle
* 2002 - Best Actress for The Others
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
* 2003 - Best Actress for The Hours
MTV Movie Awards:
* 2002 - Best Female Performance for Moulin Rouge!
* 2002 - Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge!
Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures
* 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
* 2001 - Best Actress for Moulin Rouge!
* 2001 - Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge!
* 2002 - Best Actress for The Hours
* 2003 - Best Ensemble Cast Performance for Cold Mountain *(shared with the rest of the cast)
* 2003 - Distinguished Decade in Film
* 2004 - Best Ensemble Cast Performance for Dogville *(shared with the rest of the cast)
Seattle International Film Festival
* 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
ShoWest Convention
* 1992 - Female Star of Tomorrow
* 2002 - Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film
In 2003, Kidman received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. In addition to those accolades, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the following critics' groups or award giving organizations: Australian Film Institute, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Empire Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, London Critics Circle, Russian Guild of Film Critics, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association. In 2003, Kidman was given the American Cinematheque Award.
Academy Awards
* 2003 - Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours
Berlin International Film Festival
* 2003 - Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress for The Hours
Boston Society of Film Critics
* 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
British Academy of Film and Television Arts:
* 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for The Hours
Broadcast Film Critics Association
* 1996 - Best Actress for To Die For
Golden Globe Awards:
* 1996 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for To Die For
* 2002 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Moulin Rouge!
* 2003 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for The Hours
Kansas City Film Critics Circle
* 2002 - Best Actress for The Others
Las Vegas Film Critics Society
* 2003 - Best Actress for The Hours
MTV Movie Awards:
* 2002 - Best Female Performance for Moulin Rouge!
* 2002 - Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge!
Prestige Academy of Motion Pictures
* 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
* 2001 - Best Actress for Moulin Rouge!
* 2001 - Best Musical Sequence for Moulin Rouge!
* 2002 - Best Actress for The Hours
* 2003 - Best Ensemble Cast Performance for Cold Mountain *(shared with the rest of the cast)
* 2003 - Distinguished Decade in Film
* 2004 - Best Ensemble Cast Performance for Dogville *(shared with the rest of the cast)
Seattle International Film Festival
* 1995 - Best Actress for To Die For
ShoWest Convention
* 1992 - Female Star of Tomorrow
* 2002 - Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film
In 2003, Kidman received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. In addition to those accolades, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the following critics' groups or award giving organizations: Australian Film Institute, Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, Empire Awards, Golden Satellite Awards, Hollywood Film Festival, London Critics Circle, Russian Guild of Film Critics, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association. In 2003, Kidman was given the American Cinematheque Award.
Charitable Works
Kidman publicly supports to variety of charities and causes. She has been to Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Australia since 1994. She has worked to help raise money for and draw attention to the plight of the most disadvantaged children in Australia and around the world. In 2004, she was honoured as to “Citizen of the World” by the United Nations.
On January 26, 2006 Kidman received Australia's highest civilian honour when she was made to Companion of the Order of Australia, for “service to the performing arts as an acclaimed motion picture performer, to health beloveds through contributions to improve medical treatment for women and children and advocacy for cancer research, to youth as to principal supporter of Young performing artists, and to humanitarian causes in Australia and internationally.”
However, two to film commitments and her wedding to Urban, it wasn't until 13 April 2007 that she was presented with the honour. She was also nominated goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM. Kidman joined the “Little Tee Campaign” for Breast Cancer Beloveds to T-shirts design or vests to raise money for breast cancer. Kidman's mother, Janelle, is to breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed in 1984.
In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining orders against two Sydney-based paparazzi photographers.] In 1982 she appeared in the video for Roxy Music's song True To Life.
On January 26, 2006 Kidman received Australia's highest civilian honour when she was made to Companion of the Order of Australia, for “service to the performing arts as an acclaimed motion picture performer, to health beloveds through contributions to improve medical treatment for women and children and advocacy for cancer research, to youth as to principal supporter of Young performing artists, and to humanitarian causes in Australia and internationally.”
However, two to film commitments and her wedding to Urban, it wasn't until 13 April 2007 that she was presented with the honour. She was also nominated goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM. Kidman joined the “Little Tee Campaign” for Breast Cancer Beloveds to T-shirts design or vests to raise money for breast cancer. Kidman's mother, Janelle, is to breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed in 1984.
In January 2005, Kidman won interim restraining orders against two Sydney-based paparazzi photographers.] In 1982 she appeared in the video for Roxy Music's song True To Life.
Relationships
Kidman met Tom Cruise on the set of their 1990 movie, Days of Thunder. Cruise was married to actress Mimi Rogers at the Time, and later divorced her. Kidman and Cruise to were married on Christmas Eve 1990 in Telluride, Colorado. The couple adopted two children, daughter Isabella Jane Cruise (b. December 22, 1992) and son Connor Anthony Cruise (b. January 17, 1995), and lived in Los Angeles, Australia, Colorado, and New York City. Before They separated just their 10th wedding anniversary. At the Time she was 3 months pregnant and subsequently had to miscarriage.
The marriage was dissolved in 2001, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences as the causes of the divorce. Tom Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001. Cruise, who did not have to prenuptial agreement with Kidman, states that the marriage ended in December and lasted precisely nine years and 11 months. That California judges look differently upon marriages that last at least to decade when it comes Time to divvy up the summer, obviously, had nothing to I give with the “irreconciliable differences” that to Tom Cruise cited had arisen.
The reasons for the dissolution have never been made public. In an interview in the June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, Kidman reported that she still loved Tom Cruise. Kidman told the magazine: “He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And the loved him. The still love him.” In addition, she has expressed shock about their divorce.
The 2003 films Cold Mountain was plagued by rumours that an on-set affair between Kidman and to cost Jude Law was responsible for the breakup of his marriage. Both vehemently denied the allegations, and Kidman eventually won an undisclosed sum from the British tabloids that published the story. She donated the money to to Romanian orphanage in the town where the movie was filmed. There to were also rumours of her and Jim Carrey going out after the two to were spotted at restaurants together, but they both denied it explaining they're just the best of friends.
Shortly after her Oscar win, to there to were unconfirmed rumours of to relationship between her and fellow Oscar winner Adrien Brody. She met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 and dated him into 2004 Kidman met country singer Keith Urban at to Hollywood event honouring Australians in January 2005. Kidman and Urban to were married on Sunday June 25, 2006, at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Summer, Manly in Sydney. They maintain homes in Sydney and Nashville, Tennessee.
The marriage was dissolved in 2001, with Cruise citing irreconcilable differences as the causes of the divorce. Tom Cruise filed for divorce in February 2001. Cruise, who did not have to prenuptial agreement with Kidman, states that the marriage ended in December and lasted precisely nine years and 11 months. That California judges look differently upon marriages that last at least to decade when it comes Time to divvy up the summer, obviously, had nothing to I give with the “irreconciliable differences” that to Tom Cruise cited had arisen.
The reasons for the dissolution have never been made public. In an interview in the June 2006 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, Kidman reported that she still loved Tom Cruise. Kidman told the magazine: “He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge. But he was lovely to me. And the loved him. The still love him.” In addition, she has expressed shock about their divorce.
The 2003 films Cold Mountain was plagued by rumours that an on-set affair between Kidman and to cost Jude Law was responsible for the breakup of his marriage. Both vehemently denied the allegations, and Kidman eventually won an undisclosed sum from the British tabloids that published the story. She donated the money to to Romanian orphanage in the town where the movie was filmed. There to were also rumours of her and Jim Carrey going out after the two to were spotted at restaurants together, but they both denied it explaining they're just the best of friends.
Shortly after her Oscar win, to there to were unconfirmed rumours of to relationship between her and fellow Oscar winner Adrien Brody. She met musician Lenny Kravitz in 2003 and dated him into 2004 Kidman met country singer Keith Urban at to Hollywood event honouring Australians in January 2005. Kidman and Urban to were married on Sunday June 25, 2006, at the Cardinal Cerretti Memorial Chapel in the grounds of St Patrick's Summer, Manly in Sydney. They maintain homes in Sydney and Nashville, Tennessee.
Singing
Not known as to singer prior to Moulin Rouge! , Kidman had several well-received vocal performances in the film. Her collaboration with Ewan McGregor on the song “Like What May” from the film's soundtrack debuted and peaked at 27 in the UK Singles Chart. Later she collaborated with Robbie Williams on the song “Somethin' Stupid”, to cover of the old swing song on Williams' swing covers album Swing When You're Winning. It debuted and peaked at 8 in the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart, and at number 1 for three weeks in the UK. It was the UK Christmas number 1 Single for 2001.
In 2006, she provided her voice for the animated movie Happy Feet, along with her vocals for her character Norma Jean's “heartsong”, which was to slightly altered version of “Kiss” by Prince.
In 2006, she provided her voice for the animated movie Happy Feet, along with her vocals for her character Norma Jean's “heartsong”, which was to slightly altered version of “Kiss” by Prince.
Critical success (1995–present)
Her second film in 1995, To Die For was to satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics. She won to Golden Globe Award, and five other best actress awards for her portrayal of the murderous newscaster Suzanne Stone Maretto. Kidman and Cruise portrayed to married couple in Eyes Wide Shut in 1999, Stanley Kubrick's final film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in the 2001 films Moulin Rouge! , in which she played the courtesan opposite Satine Ewan McGregor. Consequently, Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in to Motion Picture Musical comedy or Comedy.
The same year, she had to well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge! , Kidman injured her knee; as to result, Jodie Foster had to replace her in the film Panic Room. Voice Instead she was on the phone of the mistress of Jodie Foster's characters husband. The following year, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, which the prosthetics applied to her made her almost unrecognizable. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with to Golden Globe Award, BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. Kidman became the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award. During her Academy Award acceptance speech, after tearing, Kidman made to statement about the importance of art, even during times of war: “Why I give you like to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you I give and you want to honor that, and it is to tradition that needs to be upheld.” In the same year, Kidman took to hand at film production in the film In the Cut.
In 2003, Kidman starred in three very different films. Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, an experimental film set on to coffins soundstage. Secondly, she Co-starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. Many critics felt that both Kidman and Hopkins to were miscast. Cold Mountain, to love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, was her final release that year, and garnered her to Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2004, Kidman appeared in the critically panned remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Midler Barges.
In September of the same year, Birth, in which the 37-year-old actress' character has an encounter with to 10-year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright) who attempts to convinces her that he is to reincarnation of her dead husband, was met with to mixed reception primarily two to to scenes to where the boy strips and joins Kidman in the bathtub. Despite this, the film was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Festival Film, and Kidman was nominated for another Golden Globe Award. Kidman's two movies in 2005 to were The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, and Bewitched, Co-starring Will Ferrell, based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name; the latter fared abysmally with critics and at the box office. In conjunction with her success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of the Chanel Not. 5 perfume brand. She starred in to campaign of television and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed by Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann to promote the fragrance during the holiday season in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The three-tiny commercial produced for Chanel Not. 5 perfume made Kidman the record holder for the most money paid for tiny to an actor after she reportedly earned $US3.71 million. During this Time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made to reported US$14.5 million in 2004-2005. On People magazine's list of 2005 ' s highest paid actresses, Kidman was second behind Julia Roberts with to US$16 million to US$17 million price in order to-film tag. She has since passed Roberts as the highest paid actress, two in not small part to Roberts's recent devotion to parenting and broadway theatre acting rather than film work. Kidman has at least five movies in production over the next two years. She has completed filming the Gives of it Arbus bio-pic Fur, director Oliver Hirschbiegel's science fiction movie The Invasion (film) and Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding. Voice She has also provided her for the animated movie Happy Feet.
She is currently working on the film adaptation of the first part of his Dark Materials trilogy in which she plays the villainous Mrs. Coulter. She is also set to star in director Wong Kar-wai's next film, The Lady from Shanghai and Baz Luhrmann's Australian period films titled Australia, which is set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman will play an English woman feeling overwhelmed by the continent, opposite Hugh Jackman. On 25 June, 2007, Nintendo announced that Kidman is to be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European market. It is reported that Kidman will star and produces in an upcomi ng romantic comedy film called Monte Carlo. She plays one member of a trio of school teachers on holiday who cut short their no-frills sojourn in Paris and head to Monte Carlo, where they pose as wealthy vacationers.
The same year, she had to well-received starring role in the horror film The Others. While in Australia filming Moulin Rouge! , Kidman injured her knee; as to result, Jodie Foster had to replace her in the film Panic Room. Voice Instead she was on the phone of the mistress of Jodie Foster's characters husband. The following year, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours, which the prosthetics applied to her made her almost unrecognizable. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role, along with to Golden Globe Award, BAFTA, and numerous critics awards. Kidman became the first Australian actress to win an Academy Award. During her Academy Award acceptance speech, after tearing, Kidman made to statement about the importance of art, even during times of war: “Why I give you like to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil? Because art is important. And because you believe in what you I give and you want to honor that, and it is to tradition that needs to be upheld.” In the same year, Kidman took to hand at film production in the film In the Cut.
In 2003, Kidman starred in three very different films. Dogville, by Danish director Lars von Trier, an experimental film set on to coffins soundstage. Secondly, she Co-starred alongside Anthony Hopkins in the film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel The Human Stain. Many critics felt that both Kidman and Hopkins to were miscast. Cold Mountain, to love story of two Southerners separated by the Civil War, was her final release that year, and garnered her to Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2004, Kidman appeared in the critically panned remake of The Stepford Wives alongside Glenn Close, Faith Hill and Midler Barges.
In September of the same year, Birth, in which the 37-year-old actress' character has an encounter with to 10-year-old boy (played by Cameron Bright) who attempts to convinces her that he is to reincarnation of her dead husband, was met with to mixed reception primarily two to to scenes to where the boy strips and joins Kidman in the bathtub. Despite this, the film was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Festival Film, and Kidman was nominated for another Golden Globe Award. Kidman's two movies in 2005 to were The Interpreter, directed by Sydney Pollack, and Bewitched, Co-starring Will Ferrell, based on the 1960s TV sitcom of the same name; the latter fared abysmally with critics and at the box office. In conjunction with her success in the film industry, Kidman became the face of the Chanel Not. 5 perfume brand. She starred in to campaign of television and print ads with Rodrigo Santoro, directed by Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann to promote the fragrance during the holiday season in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The three-tiny commercial produced for Chanel Not. 5 perfume made Kidman the record holder for the most money paid for tiny to an actor after she reportedly earned $US3.71 million. During this Time, Kidman was also listed as the 45th Most Powerful Celebrity on the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 List. She made to reported US$14.5 million in 2004-2005. On People magazine's list of 2005 ' s highest paid actresses, Kidman was second behind Julia Roberts with to US$16 million to US$17 million price in order to-film tag. She has since passed Roberts as the highest paid actress, two in not small part to Roberts's recent devotion to parenting and broadway theatre acting rather than film work. Kidman has at least five movies in production over the next two years. She has completed filming the Gives of it Arbus bio-pic Fur, director Oliver Hirschbiegel's science fiction movie The Invasion (film) and Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama Margot at the Wedding. Voice She has also provided her for the animated movie Happy Feet.
She is currently working on the film adaptation of the first part of his Dark Materials trilogy in which she plays the villainous Mrs. Coulter. She is also set to star in director Wong Kar-wai's next film, The Lady from Shanghai and Baz Luhrmann's Australian period films titled Australia, which is set in the remote Northern Territory during the Japanese attack on Darwin during World War II. Kidman will play an English woman feeling overwhelmed by the continent, opposite Hugh Jackman. On 25 June, 2007, Nintendo announced that Kidman is to be the new face of Nintendo's advertising campaign for the Nintendo DS game More Brain Training in its European market. It is reported that Kidman will star and produces in an upcomi ng romantic comedy film called Monte Carlo. She plays one member of a trio of school teachers on holiday who cut short their no-frills sojourn in Paris and head to Monte Carlo, where they pose as wealthy vacationers.
Breakthrough (1989–1995)
In 1989, Kidman starred in the thriller Dead Calm as Rae Ingram, the wife of naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill), held captive on to Pacific Ocean yacht trip by the psychotic Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). The horror positive films received generally reviews; the staff of Variety.com commented: “Throughout the film, Kidman is excellent. She gives the character of Rae real tenacity and energy.” Meanwhile, critic Roger Ebert noted the excellent chemistry between the leads, stating, “… Kidman and Zane I give generated real, palpable hatred in their scenes together.” In 1990, she appeared opposite Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder, to stock car racing movie. After this, Kidman starred with Cruise in Ron Howard's Far and Away (1992). In 1995, Kidman featured in the ensemble cast of Batman Forever. On November 20, 1993 she hosted Saturday Night Live.
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