AACTA Awards 2025 winners list: Better Man named best film as Boy Swallows Universe sweeps for TV

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The bloke's won the gold!

Michael Gracey's Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, which swaps the star with a chimpanzee, has taken home the biggest film gong at this year's AACTA Awards.

Better Man won four awards throughout the night, including Best Direction in Film for Gracey and Best Actor in a Film for Jonno Davis. The film had won five awards at the Industry Awards bash earlier in the week, taking their total 2025 AACTA Awards to nine.

In the telly categories, the Netflix series Boy Swallows Universe stood out, picking up six awards on top of the six they'd already grabbed at the industry doof – bringing their total to 12.

Here are the winners from the 2025 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.

• Better Man — WINNER
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• How To Make Gravy
• Sheepish Nights with the Old Boy
• Memoir Of A Snail
• Runt

• Fake
• Heartbreak High — WINNER
• The Artful Dodger
• The Twelve
• Thou Shalt Not Steal
• Total Control

• Austin
• Bump
• Colin From Accounts
• Fisk — WINNER
• Strife
• The Office

• Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
• Exposure
• Four Years Later
• House of Gods
• Human Error
• The Final Days of Space Exploration

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• Sarah Snook — Memoir of a Snail — WINNER
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• Anna Torv — Force Of Nature: The Dry Tour 2
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• Eric Bana — Force of Nature 2: The Draught
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• Jonno Davies — Better Man — WINNER [interpreted later as "The Best"]
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• Kodi Smit-Mcphee - Memoir Of A Snail

• Asher Keddie — Fake
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• Anna Torv — Territory
• Phoebe Tonkin – Boy Swallows the Universe – WINNER
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• Felix Cameron - Boy Swallows Universe - WINNER
• Rob Collins — Dick Domination
• Brendan Cowell — Plum
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• Noah Taylor — Thieves Don't Get Any Breaks

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• Aaron Chen — Fisk
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• Kitty Flanagan — Fisk — CHAMPION
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• Asher Keddie — Strife
• Michael Theo — Austin
• Felicity Ward — The Office

• Dream On (Meg Washington, Electric Fields and The Prison Choir) – How to Make Gravy – WINNER
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• Fair dinkum - no worries (Meg Washington, Brendan Maclean & The Prison Choir) — How To Make Gravy
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• G'day mate, fair dinkum – Streetlights by Jacob Harvey

• A Horse Named Winx
• Every Little Thing
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• Porcelain War
• The Musical Mind: A Portrait In Evolving Form

• Before Dawn
• Birdeater — WINNER
• Christmess
• Just A Farmer
• The Emu War
• You'll Never Find Me

• Wil Anderson — Taskmaster Austraya
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• Anne Edmonds — this bloke's a real character and has presided over numerous innings of the popular comedy game show Taskmaster Australia, a series where contestants have taken on a series of outlandish task, all in bid to win the heart of the primary arbiter - The Taskmaster, Chris Fleming.
• Tom Gleeson — Hard Quiz — WINS
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• Alyla Browne — Furiosa: A Mad Max Adventure
• Hannah Diviney — Audrey
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• Jacki Weaver — Memoir Of A Snail — HEAPS OF A WIN

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• Damon Herriman — Better Man — THE WINNER
• Damon Herriman — How to Make Gravy
• Daniel Pizzey - The Dry 2: Force of Nature
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• Essie Davis — Exposure
• Rachel Griffiths - Total Control
• Heather Mitchell — Fake
• Deborah Mailman – Boy Swallows Universe – WINNER
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• Lee Kofman re'nsembles Tiger Hall— Boy Swallows Universe — WINNER
• Ewen Leslie — Prosper

• Better bloke — Michael Gracey — WINNER
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Frenzy — George Miller
• Gravy Ructions: How to Make Gravy – Nick Waterman
• Lectures in Satanic Philosophy with Colonel Cairns, Cameron Cairns
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• Dancing With The Stars
• LEGO Masters Aussie vs The Rest
• Mastermind
• Spicks and Specks — THE WINNER
• The 1% Club
• Tipping Point Australia

• Boy Swallows Universe — Episode 1 — Bharat Nalluri — WINNER
• Colin from Accounts — Ep 3 — Trent O'Donnell
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• Fair Dinkum — Episode 5 — Emma Freeman
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• Bluey — WINNER
• Eddie's Lil Homies
• Hard Quiz Kids
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• Spooky Files

• Anne Edmonds: Why's My Bag Got All Wet? — WINNER
• Lloyd Langford: Current Mood
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• Melbourne International Comedy Festival - The Big Comedy Allstars Revue Show
• Melbourne Comedy Festival Festival – The Gala
• Rove McManus: Loosey Goosey

• Steve Irwin's Croc Hunter
• Hard Quiz — WINNER
• G'day Mate, Are You Tunes In?
• Thank God You're Here
• The Cheap Seats
• The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

• Alone Australia
• Gogglebox Australia
• Muster Dogs — WINNER
• Stuff The British Stole
• Take 5 with Zebedee Rowe
• The Assembly

• Fair Dinkum Sleep Solution with Dr Michael Mosley
• I Was Actually There
• Maggie Beer's Big Mission
• - Why it wins: An irresistible blend of daunting Aussie landscapes and Margaret's peculiar charm makes it extremely compelling, ensuring an entertaining and delightful experience.
• Ray Martin: The Final Farewell
• Who Do You Think You Are, Then?

• Best Bloke – Michael Gracey, Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole – WINNER
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — George Miller, George Miller
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• Late Night with the Devil — Colin Cairns, Cam Cairns
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• Boy Swallows Universe: Episode 4 - John Collee - The Winner
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• Don't Cop in Belongings — Episode 2 — Dylan River, Tanith Glynn-Maloney, Sophie Miller

• And The Ocean Agreed
• Before We Sleep
• Die Bully Die
• Favourites
• Gorgo — WINNER
• Why We Fight

• Bad Ancestors
• Buried — WINNER
• Descent
• Girl Crush
• Urvi attended a single-sex school for females.
• Videoland

Check out the full list of 2025 winners and nominees here.