Australian actors Guy Pearce, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Naomi Watts have been nominated for Golden Globe Awards.

Kidman has been nominated for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture, drama, for Babygirl, in which she plays a chief executive who becomes entangled in an affair with young intern Samuel (Harris Dickinson). In the same category, Pamela Anderson landed her first Golden Globe nomination for The Last Showgirl.

Pearce is nominated for best supporting male actor in a film for The Brutalist, a historical drama about a Hungarian Jewish immigrant (Adrien Brody) who lands in Philadelphia in 1947. The film, directed by Brady Corbet, landed seven nominations in total, including best picture, drama, and a lead acting nod for Brody.

Blanchett is nominated for best performance by a female actor in a limited series for the psychological thriller Disclaimer. She is up against Watts for her role as American socialite Babe Paley in the critically acclaimed Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.

Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail is nominated for the best animated movie.

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical Emilia Pérez, about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery to become a woman, led the nominations announced overnight with 10 nods, over other contenders including musical smash Wicked, the papal thriller Conclave and the postwar epic The Brutalist.

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The young Donald Trump drama The Apprentice also landed nominations for its two central performances, by Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. The president-elect has called The Apprentice a “politically disgusting hatchet job” made by “human scum”.

Edward Berger’s Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal tasked with leading the conclave to elect a new pope, landed six nominations, including best picture, drama, and acting nods for Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini.