| Television | Pastor Trevor | Fake | Paramount+ | |
| | Gerard | The Newsreader | Werner Film Productions | Emma Freeman |
| | Robert | Sisters | Channel TEN | Shannon Murphy |
| Feature Film | Arman | The Taverna | Rescued Films | Alkinos Tsilimidos |
| | Photocopy King | Paper Champions | | Jo-Anne Brechin |
| | Nick Enright | Holding the Man | Screen Australia | Neil Armfield |
| Theatre | Performer/Co-Creator | Homo Pentecostus | PICO | |
| | Cast/Co-creator | Homo Pentecostus | Malthouse Theatre | |
| | Kyle | Shhhh | Red Stitch | Emma Valente |
| | Tomas Sarkisian | 8/8/8: WORK | Rising Festival commission | Lynsey Peisinger |
| | Marcus | Home, I’m Darling | Melbourne Theatre Company | Sarah Goodes |
| | Lorin | Gloria | Melbourne Theatre Company | Lee Lewis |
| | Ichabod Weinberg | Minni & Liraz | Melbourne Theatre Company | Anne-Louise Sarks |
| | Antony, Paul, Arthur | Merciless Gods | Griffin Theatre/Little Ones | Steven Nicolazzo |
| | Roma | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Dont Look Away/Theatreworks | Phil Rouse |
| | Jerome | MKA Double Feature | Melbourne Theatre Company NEON | Kat Henry |
| | Charles Mizer | Calpurnia Descending | Sydney Theatre Company / Malthouse Theatre | Declan Greene |
| | The Young Syrian | Salome | Malthouse Theatre Helium/Little Ones | Stephen Nicolazzo |
| | Andrew | The Sovereign Wife | Melbourne Theatre Company NEON/Sisters Grimm | Declan Greene |
| Short Film | Pantelis | @Lavica_56_xxx | | Giordano Caputo |
| | Mark | Goodboy | | Bonnie Moir |
| | The Interpreter | The Interpreter | Continuance Pictures | Phil Rouse |
| | Centurion | Rebooted | LateNite Films | Michael Shanks |
| Web Series | Peter | FRIENDLY | A Friendly Production | David Shane Morris |
| | Darko | MOVEMENT | | Jessica Barclay Lawton |
| Commercial | The Director | The Way It Should Be | Squeaky Gate | John Pace |
| | Robo | Sneak in a cake break | Greens | Nick Kelly |
| | Hipster Barista | Break it to your Barista | 8 Bar | John Pace |
| | Crafty Guy | Beeflex Wedding | Gods & Monstors | Barny Howel |
| Photograph / Stills | Model | Medibank I am Better campaign | Whybin/TBWA Group | Paul Reardon |
| Voice Over | Joe Tagliabue | Wayward Strand | Ghost Pattern | Georgia Symons |
| | The Interpreter | The Interpreter | Continuance Pictures | Phil Rouse |
| | Voice-Over | Cake Break | Greens | Nick Kelly |
| | Joe Tagliabue | Wayward Strand | Ghost Pattern | Georgia Symons |
