The Bafta Film Awards will see some of the hottest film stars of the moment come together for a glitzy ceremony at London's Royal Festival Hall tonight.
Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr, Paul Mescal and Claire Foy were among the stars spotted arriving on the red carpet ahead of the awards on Sunday afternoon.
The Baftas is this year being hosted by Scottish actor David Tennant and will feature performances by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who's hit Murder on the Dancefloor featured in raunchy thriller Saltburn, and Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham.
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Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic Oppenheimer, about the father of the atomic bomb, could be the favourite on the night with 13 nominations, while there are 11 nods for Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos’s surreal tale Poor Things, based on a 1992 novel by Scots artist and writer Alasdair Gray.
In the best actor category, Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy faces tough competition from fellow Irishman Barry Keoghan, who played the lead role in Saltburn, and Canadian actor Ryan Gosling, who starred as Ken in the summer blockbuster Barbie.
Carey Mulligan has been nominated for her role in Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro. In the best actress category, she faces Barbie's Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, who is nominated for Poor Things, and Sandra Huller, who starred in Anatomy Of A Fall.
The Crown star Claire Foy is nominated for the best supporting actress prize for her performance in All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh’s searing drama about grief and loneliness. Her co-star Andrew Scott was a notable absence from the best actor
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