"Hollywood celebrates four decades in the business," posts the 56-year-old actress about her anniversary. "Bush Christmas" was her first film, filmed at age 14, and might be the earliest an Australian actress whose fame would have spread globally to be filed in a museum, or so she and her film exhibitor would suggest in a short, poignant clip shared on Kidman's well-instituted Instagram page. She thanks the movie gods for "working with so many incredible artists" and for "creating all those roles that I've loved to play." From her debut as Rae Ingram in Jane Campion's "Dead Calm" in 1989, Kidman has played under the direction of such major filmmakers as Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, Sydney Pollack, Aaron Sorkin, and Stanley Kubrick.
But Kidman was already an artist who had significant impact by the time she gained international attention for Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's "The Hours." For it, Kidman would earn her fifth Academy Award nomination and a win; it would also mark her second Academy Award nomination, a BAFTA Award, two Emmys and the decisive sixth Golden Globe. The AFI honored Kidman with its Life Achievement Award on April 27, a first among Australians, aceshowbiz.com reports.
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