Australian star power will light up the Golden Globes with Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush and Katherine Langford among a long list of Australians nominated for awards.
The news was not so good for fellow Aussies Ben Mendelsohn, Naomi Watts, Jason Clarke, Craig Gillespie and Warwick Thornton who were snubbed.
Robbie and Jackman boosted their campaigns for Oscar nominations with Monday's Globe nods.
The Globes serve as a key guide to the Oscars.
Robbie was nominated in the best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy category for playing controversial US Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.
The Queenslander however is up against some of the greats of cinema with Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul), Helen Mirren (The Leisure Seeker), Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes) and Saorise Ronan (Lady Bird) also nominated.
Robbie, as a producer of I, Tonya, could get a double win with the biopic nominated for a Globe for best motion picture comedy/musical against Jackman's The Greatest Showman, The Disaster Artist, Get Out and Lady Bird.
I, Tonya's Australian director Gillespie missed out in the directing category, with Steven Spielberg (The Post), Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk), Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World) and Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards) nominated.
Jackman received his best actor in a comedy/musical nomination for playing PT Barnum in The Greatest Showman.
Kidman had two potential Oscar movies this year, The Beguiled and Killing of a Sacred Deer, but was snubbed by Globe voters for both.
Kidman, however, should walk away from the Beverly Hilton on January 7 with two Golden Globes for her TV performance in Big Little Lies.
Kidman was nominated for best actress in a limited TV series for her role as an abused mother and as a producer on the series, with Australia's Bruna Papandrea, is favourite to win the Globe for best mini-series.
Big Little Lies will compete against another Kidman project, Jane Campion's Australian-shot Top of the Lake: China Girl, in the mini-series category.
Australian Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush was nominated for a Globe for best actor in a limited TV series for playing Albert Einstein in Genius.
Perth 21-year-old Katherine Langford's star continues to rise with her nomination for best performance by an actress in a TV series for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
The Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards are considered the best guide to the March 4 Academy Awards.
The SAG nominees will be announced on Wednesday.
Australians Mendelsohn (Darkest Hour), Watts (The Glass Castle), Clarke (Mudbound) and Thornton (Sweet Country) all suffered setbacks to their Oscar campaigns with the Globes snubs.
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