Former Neighbours star Margot Robbie was a no-show and missed out on the rising star award at the Baftas.
Fellow Aussie Nick Cave twirled his way down the red carpet before a film he co-wrote was defeated for best documentary.
But it wasn't all bad news for the Australians at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday night with The Lego Movie, made in Sydney, named best animated feature.
Robbie, who found international fame with The Wolf Of Wall Street, was in Los Angeles rather than London as Jack O'Connell took to the stage to claim the rising star award.
The gong is awarded to actors who "are destined to be bright stars in the future of cinema".
Previous winners include James McAvoy (2006), Shia LaBeouf (2008) and Kristen Stewart (2010).
"Thank you very much," O'Connell said at the Royal Opera House after winning the only Bafta voted by the general public.
Cave also missed out on a Bafta when Citizenfour, about former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden, was named best documentary.
The Australian musician and actor co-wrote 20,000 Days On Earth which depicts a fictionalised 24-hour period in his life.
On the red carpet, Cave was asked whether the film was actually a documentary or rather a fiction he was acting in.
"We are not really describing it as a documentary because a documentary suggests that it's trying to get behind the character to some greater truth and actually we believe that the truth is in front of the mask, not behind it," the 57-year-old told AAP.
Then, after a moment's reflection, he added: "That's the only remotely intelligent thing I've said all night."
Earlier, Cave was asked by online news site BuzzFeed to twirl in order to show off his suit, and he happily obliged.
BuzzFeed was hoping to turn the tables by asking male stars about fashion only.
The Lego Movie, made by Sydney animation studio Animal Logic, won a Bafta just weeks after missing out on an Oscar nomination.
American director Phil Lord posed with the best animated film award and declared while it wasn't made of Lego bricks it was "still pretty great".
"Oh yeah, you are our favourite academy by far," Lord told the crowd of famous faces which included David Beckham.
Co-director Christopher Miller had earlier told AAP that while missing out on an Oscars nod had initially been tough, in the end it was a-okay.
Australian visual effects experts David Clayton (The Hobbit) and Tom Crosbie (X-Men) were both nominated for a Bafta but lost out to the team behind space film Interstellar.
Crosbie, at least, has another chance to win an accolade at the Oscars on February 22.
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