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.