I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

Subsequently Kidman received her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy as well as other acting awards. She followed these with other successful films in the late 1990s. She also received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

She starred in various Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Her performance in 2010's Rabbit Hole (which Nicole Kidman also produced) earned Kidman further accolades including a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.