Nicole Kidman cries at the “Lioness” premiere while talking about her red-hot career

In a career filled with so many, Nicole Kidman is on another hot streak.

The Oscar-winning actress won the Best Actress award last month at the Venice Film Festival for her critically acclaimed performance in Halina Reijn's gripping film Girljust to watch his new Netflix series The perfect couple rocket to #1 on the streaming charts days later. He will next star in the second season of Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ series Lionesswhich debuts Sunday, and is about to jump in front of Amazon Studios' cameras Shoe alongside fellow Oscar winners Jamie Lee Curtis and Ariana DeBose and based on the novel by Patricia Cornwell.

So how does Kidman feel about all the good work being done right now? It's complicated. “I wish my mom was here,” he said The Hollywood journalist Wednesday night while walking the red carpet at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. “That would be the only thing I would say. Everything is fine with work, but I wish my mom was here.

Kidman's eyes filled with tears as she talked about how bittersweet it is to be going through this moment in her career and not having the chance to do so alongside her mother, Janelle Ann Kidman, who died last month. It was Reijn who broke the news by accepting Kidman's Volpi Cup for best actress. “I am in shock and have to go to my family, but this award is for her,” Kidman wrote via Reijn. “I am extremely grateful to be able to say his name to all of you. The collision between life and art is heartbreaking and my heart is broken.

It stays like this. “It was tough,” Kidman explained THR on Wednesday. “It's a difficult road. I'll stay there.”

On a lighter note, Kidman was eager to talk about teaming up with Sheridan in the new season of her Paramount+ series which stars her as Kaitlyn Meade, a high-ranking CIA official. “We're talking about a powerhouse,” he said of Sheridan, who is juggling a huge slate of TV shows from Yellowstone universe and beyond. “He's doing everything and writing such beautiful projects – he never stops. It's bringing so much work to all of us and the industry, and it's incredible. It's fantastic.”

More good news for Kidman: This week it was revealed that she has been selected to receive this year's prestigious Sherry Lansing Leadership Award during The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment breakfast gala, scheduled for December 4 in Los Angeles. The actress, producer and philanthropist explained that she has a long history not only with Lansing but also with Paramount.

“I'm very, very happy to be able to do this,” Kidman said last night in accepting the honor. “Sherry Lansing and I have a long history, so this will allow me to be able to shine a light, not on myself, but on other women. This is what I want to talk about [at the event]. I am very happy that I was given this opportunity.”

He had a chance to find comfort Lioness co-stars like Zoe Saldaña and Morgan Freeman and reps like CAA's Kevin Huvane and Chris Andrews. Kidman made the scene at the Lioness afterparty at Layla where she hugged and held hands with many of them. Check out Kidman's night below.