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Stars hit the red carpet at The BAFTAs

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AP,
Publish Date
Mon, 13 Feb 2017, 7:54AM
(Getty Images).
(Getty Images).

Stars hit the red carpet at The BAFTAs

Author
AP,
Publish Date
Mon, 13 Feb 2017, 7:54AM

Hollywood stars mingled with royalty at the British Academy Film Awards, where Ryan Gosling vehicle La La Land was favoured to dance away with multiple trophies.

Prince William and his wife Kate were due on the red carpet at London's Royal Albert Hall, along with nominees including Meryl Streep, Casey Affleck and Australia's Nicole Kidman.

Kidman, nominated for best supporting actress in the film Lion, signed autographs for fans in the London chill, while wearing a black, low-cut and backless gown.

Kidman thanked London for supporting the film, which is about an orphan Indian boy raised in Tasmania, after it was launched in 2016 at the London Film Festival.

"It was embraced here, so you launched us, so thank you London," Kidman said.

She also praised her co-star, British actor Dev Patel, who is nominated in the supporting actor category.

"I'm just so happy he's the leading man now and that he's been given the platform to become a leading man, and he's taking it with a vengeance and I'm so happy for him."

La La Land, an effervescent musical starring Gosling and Emma Stone, has 11 nominations, including best picture, best actor and best actress.

The UK awards, known as BAFTAs, are often seen as an indicator of who will win at Hollywood's Academy Awards, held two weeks later.

La La Land already is a dominant force at the Oscars, with 14 nominations. It also has won seven Golden Globes.

Viola Davis is the favourite to win the best supporting actress BAFTA for Fences, Denzel Washington's adaptation of August Wilson's stage drama about an African-American family.

Davis said being recognised in Britain was proof that Wilson "has told a universal story of the everyman and American history."

The BAFTAs differ from their US counterpart in having a separate category for best British film.

Gosling's rivals in the best actor race are Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge; Casey Affleck for Manchester by the Sea; Jake Gyllenhaal for Nocturnal Animal and Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fantastic.

Best-actress contenders were Stone; Amy Adams for Arrival; Emily Blunt for The Girl on the Train; Meryl Streep for Florence Foster Jenkins and Natalie Portman for Jackie.

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