I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

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.