Smith is a longtime Nolan collaborator, whose first feature film as editor was the 1986 Ozploitation oddity Dead End Drive-In.
The most famous Australian nominated this year – and clearly the best dressed – was Margot Robbie.
In his acceptance speech, Smith described Nolan as “an editor himself, [but] he doesn’t handle the actual equipment, and I am very, very happy for that”.
Another Australian, Paul Machliss, was in contention for best editing, nominated for his work on the writer/director Edgar Wright’s offbeat crime caper Baby Driver.