Rose Byrne, Jacob Elordi lead Aussie Oscar hopes

Actors Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi are leading an Aussie onslaught in Hollywood, with both receiving their first Oscar nominations.

The pair are nominated for best actress, best supporting actor, and are joined by a third Australian in line for a major gong with Nick Cave getting a surprise shot at best original song.

Byrne's performance in indie film If I had Legs I'd Kick You has already earned her the best actress prize at four key pre-Oscars events including the Golden Globes.

She received the news of her Oscar nomination in the middle of the night in Australia.

"I was falling asleep and then (husband Bobby Cannavale) starts FaceTiming me (from New York) because I wanted to try and stay up but it was so late," she said.

"And then he started screaming, it was like 'They said your name!' and then my parents came in the room, they're like 'Oh my God' and then we were all screaming, and that was it. Now I've had a shot of adrenaline and I'm wide awake."

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Aussie Rose Byrne has already won four pre-Oscars awards for her role in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.

Byrne is up against Jessie Buckley in Hamnet, Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value and Emma Stone in Bugonia.

Elordi has been nominated for his role in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, one of nine nods for the Netflix film.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the Brisbane-born actor said he was "beside himself" after receiving the news.

"I am so excited. I mean, I'm 28 years old. It's wind in the sails," he said.

Cave was nominated for the title song to Clint Bentley's film Train Dreams, which stars Australian actor Joel Edgerton.

Joel Edgerton, the central pillar of Train Dreams, was not nominated, though the picture earned four nominations, including best picture.

Australian costume and production designer Fiona Crombie has also been nominated for an Oscar this year, in the best production design category, for her work on Hamnet.

Sinners, a Segregation-era vampire thriller starring Michael ?B Jordan, has stormed into the awards race with the most Academy Award nominations of ?any film this year, landing a record 16 nods.

The large haul sets up Sinners as the ?frontrunner heading into the March 15 Oscars, where it will face off against contenders including One Battle After Another, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme and others for the coveted best picture prize.

The previous record for most nominations in a single year was 14, a mark hit by All About ?Eve, Titanic and La La ?Land.

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Aussie costume and production designer Fiona Crombie has received an Oscars nomination for her work on Hamnet.

Bugonia, F1, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams also were nominated for this ?year's best picture trophy.

Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes will be chosen by the roughly 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of ?Motion ?Picture Arts and Sciences.

Comedian Conan ?O'Brien will host for the second year.

Warner Bros Discovery, the studio subject to a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount Skydance, led all studios with 30 nominations.

with Reuters and Associated Press