Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil briefly appeared in Darwin Magistrates Court on Tuesday over drinking offences.
The 56-year-old movie veteran has been charged with consuming liquor in a restricted area, bringing liquor into a restricted area and failing to wear a seatbelt.
He failed to attend his first court appearance for the matter last month because he was working in Sydney on Baz Luhrmann's upcoming epic Australia.
The romance, set in the Northern Territory outback, stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
Gulpilil's case before Magistrate John Lowndes on Tuesday was adjourned for three weeks.
The Northern Territory's 2005 Australian of the Year is no stranger to court.
A Darwin magistrate imposed a 12-month domestic violence order on the actor in March last year to protect his wife Miriam Ashley.
He had been accused of bashing the woman and had failed to abide by an earlier court order to stay away from her while drinking.
A few weeks earlier, the internationally-known star of films such as The Tracker and Crocodile Dundee was acquitted of a charge of carrying an offensive weapon.
The magistrate ruled a machete he produced during a heated stand-off with friends was used for cultural activities, such as carving didgeridoos, and not as a weapon.
Gulpilil, who splits his time between southern cities, his home in remote Arnhem Land and the streets of Darwin, began his movie career in the 1971 movie Walkabout.
His film career has undergone a revival in recent years after he narrated the award-winning Rolf de Heer film Ten Canoes, which was the first major Australian feature acted entirely in an Aboriginal language.
The movie was overlooked for a best foreign language film Oscar nomination but Ten Canoes went on the win six awards including best film, best sound and best direction at the 2006 Australian Film Institute awards.
