2026 Nominees

Jacob Elordi, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Curio Pictures

AUSTRALIA

- Best Performance in a Drama

The Narrow Road to the Deep North has emerged as one of the most acclaimed TV dramas of the year. Following a prestigious Gala screening at the 2025 Berlinale Film Festival, the series earned rapturous global reviews and holds a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize–winning novel, the drama is a haunting meditation on love, memory, and the brutality of war, telling the largely untold story of Australian POWs forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Directed by Justin Kurzel in his first television project, the series is anchored by extraordinary dual performances from Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds as the same man across two eras. Their work has been hailed as “outstanding” and “devastating,” with Elordi’s Golden Globe–nominated performance described as career-defining. Deeply personal for Kurzel and writer Sean Grant, BBC Culture called it “one of the best evocations of the horrors of conflict ever committed to screen.”