Australian star Joel Edgerton was among the biggest names to miss out when the 98th annual Oscars nominations were revealed on Friday (Australian time) – but he’s also in good company.

Sydney-born Edgerton had been tipped to pick up a nomination for his role in Train Dreams. 

The movie got four nominations, including for best picture, but Edgerton’s name was absent from the long-awaited list. He is among plenty of bigger names who were also overlooked.

They include Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, who were both nominated last year for their performances in Wicked. Grande, in particular, had been an early favourite to win best supporting actress for Wicked: For Good, for her role as Oz’s good witch Glinda.

But the sequel’s disappointing box office and reviews appear to have put paid to any Oscar hopes. Wicked: For Good was shut out of every category at this year’s Academy Awards.

Other megastars who failed to receive any acting nominations included George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Paul Mescal, Amanda Seyfried, Denzel Washington, Daniel Day-Lewis and Brad Pitt

Mescal missed out for his portrayal of William Shakespeare in the hit Hamnet. Maybe it’s personal – because the film picked up nominations for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and casting.

But there were at least three Australians celebrating on Friday, with actors Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi both receiving their first Oscar nominations, and Nick Cave getting a surprise shot at best original song.

Byrne is nominated for best actress, Elordi for best supporting actor and  Cave for best original song.

Byrne’s performance in indie film If I had Legs I’d Kick You has already earned her the best actress prize at four key pre-Oscars events, including the Golden Globes. She learned of Oscar nomination in the middle of the night in Australia.

“I was falling asleep and then [husband Bobby Cannavale] starts FaceTiming me [from New York] because I wanted to try to stay up but it was so late,” she said.

“Then he started screaming, it was like ‘They said your name!’ and then my parents came in the room, they’re like ‘Oh my God’ and then we were all screaming, and that was it. Now I’ve had a shot of adrenaline and I’m wide awake.”

Byrne is up against Jessie Buckley in Hamnet, Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value and Emma Stone in Bugonia.

Elordi has been nominated for his role in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, one of nine nods for the Netflix film. The Brisbane-born actor said he was “beside himself” after receiving the news.

“I am so excited. I mean, I’m 28 years old. It’s wind in the sails,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Cave was nominated for the title song to Train Dreams.

Another Australian, costume and production designer Fiona Crombie, has also been nominated this year, in the best production design category, for her work on Hamnet.

Sinners, a Segregation-era vampire thriller starring Michael ‍B Jordan, stormed into the awards race, landing a record 16 Oscar nods when nominations dropped.

The lengthy list sets it up as the ⁠frontrunner heading into the March 15 Oscars, where it will face off against contenders including One Battle After Another, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme and others for the coveted best picture prize.

The previous record for most nominations in a single year was 14, shared by All About ‌Eve, Titanic and La La ​Land.

Train Dreams, Bugonia, F1, The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value were also nominated for this ‍year’s best picture trophy.

Winners of the gold Oscar statuettes will be chosen by the roughly 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of ​Motion ​Picture Arts and Sciences.

Comedian Conan ​O’Brien will host for the second year.

Warner Bros Discovery, the studio subject to a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount Skydance, led all studios with 30 nominations.

-with AAP