Inside the star-studded BAFTAs bash

After the formal pleasantries of the BAFTAs award ceremony which noticed the host David Tennant crack pre-watershed gags and winners gracefully settle for their gongs – the celebrations actually started.

From Robert Downey Jr. to Emma Corrin, the BAFTAs dinner was the most well liked ticket on the town on Sunday night time as stars flooded out of the awards corridor into the perform room of London’s Royal Festival Hall.

Though massive, it was maybe much less glamorous than one would anticipate from a celebration designed to host Hollywood A-listers, just like a flowery faculty promenade night time. Stars later peeled off to separate events at Annabel’s and Chiltern Firehouse.

The room had a two-tiered ground that was jammed with white-clothed roundtables and strip lighting which dimmed or brightened at surprising intervals over the shouting tangle of A-listers.

People instantly took to their allotted tables to tuck right into a slice of roast rooster accompanied by a sq. of roast potato and a lettuce leaf topped with cheese – the veggie possibility subbed in a carrot for the meat.

A chocolate éclair adopted dinner accompanied by a dollop of cream topped with a tiny embellished gold Bafta award.

Copious quantities of wine have been obtainable – champagne could possibly be purchased – as a military of waiters charged between the tables brandishing plates or, later within the night time, whiskey sours.

But the night time sparkled with the movie business’s largest names.

After scooping up awards for Best Film and Best Director, Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan was inundated with individuals coming over to his desk to shake his hand.

Cillian Murphy had received Best Actor for his starring position in Christopher’s movie and went over to introduce his fellow nominee Past Lives’ Teo Yoo, 42, to the award-winning director.

The pair spoke for a while as Cillian, 47, made his solution to the neighbouring desk to talk to Emma, 28, and their boyfriend, Rami Malek, 42.

While chatting with the Peaky Blinders star, the couple couldn’t preserve their palms off one another, with Rami rubbing The Crown star’s again.

Rami, who cut up from a five-year relationship along with his Bohemian Rhapsody co-star Lucy Boynton final 12 months, didn’t depart Emma’s aspect and so they sat chatting carefully all night.

As Christopher was leaving later, Rami stopped the award-winning director to introduce him to Emma – Christopher is thought for using younger expertise for his epic films.

While Christopher hid his two Baftas for almost all of the night, Oppenheimer star Robert strolled via the social gathering along with his Best Supporting Actor gong, proudly tucked underneath his arm.

The Iron Man star, 58, didn’t stick round for lengthy and fought his method via the group of tables to the exit along with his spouse Susan and a big entourage of bodyguards.

They handed Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones, 25, who was locked in dialog with Marisa Abela, 27, star of the brand new Amy Winehouse biopic popping out in May.

The younger actresses had their palms on one another’s knees and spoke carefully whereas within the neighbouring chair the Sex Education star Emma Mackey, 28, kissed her photographer boyfriend.

Emma went public together with her beau, Martin Aleman, final 12 months after she met him on a shoot for Flaunt journal.

Deep within the reverse nook of the perform room Andrew Scott was accosted by a bunch of feminine BAFTA workers who have been making an attempt their luck at getting a selfie with Fleabag’s notorious ‘Hot Priest’.

Andrew starred reverse Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers final 12 months however he missed out on a nomination for Best Actor.

Hair ruffled and wide-eyed, the 47-year-old planted a kiss on the cheek of an overjoyed girl as she held her arm as much as snap an image with him.

Immediately afterwards one other girl tapped the shoulder of his burgundy swimsuit for her flip and he willingly obliged.

It wasn’t till two extra ladies insisted on a selfie with the Sherlock star that his younger assistant intervened, pulling him out of the tussle and the pair made a run for the exit.

They ducked between tables crouching low and Andrew needed to refuse yet one more selfie earlier than they made it to the grand stairway.

Andrew had virtually made a break for it earlier than one other girl who he appeared to know leaned over the doorway corridor stairway and shouted down for him.

Ever the gentleman, he stopped in his tracks and ran again to say hi there, a lot to the dismay of his assistant.

Andrew’s departure was carefully adopted by Emma Stone – the winner of Best Actress – as she too descended the staircase accompanied by a big entourage earlier than going through a sea of followers exterior the venue.

The Poor Things actress modified her ball robe for a extra sensible black night costume with ornamental shoulder pads – a lot in line with the model of her flamboyant character, Bella Baxter.

The 35-year-old, who’s nominated for an Oscar subsequent month, didn’t mingle a lot on the social gathering and left at 9:45 pm.

BAFTA’s host for the night, David, didn’t combine with the opposite company both and remained firmly at his desk all night along with his Good Omens co-star Michael Sheen.

The 52-year-old sat subsequent to his spouse and fellow Doctor Who star, Georgia, 39, who performed his engineer daughter, Jenny, within the BBC sequence in 2008.

The pair have been married for 13 years and David made his love for her very clear after he greeted her with a really lengthy and theatrical kiss whereas he hosted final night time’s purple carpet.

They share 5 youngsters with their eldest son Ty, 21 – a son from Georgia’s earlier relationship and adopted by David – touchdown a job in Good Omens alongside his father.

Michael sat subsequent to the couple along with his girlfriend Anna Lundburg, with whom he shares two youngsters, and the foursome laughed in a gaggle collectively.

Before Michael, 55, and Anna mentioned their goodbyes the gang requested for a bunch picture from none apart from the BAFTA chairwoman, Sara Putt, however didn’t ask her to affix in.

Another agency gang inside the social gathering have been the Saltburn forged who shared a desk in the midst of the massive perform room.

Director and author Emerald Fennell, 38, headed up the desk together with her younger stars Alison Oliver, 26, and Archie Madekwe, 29, who graced the purple carpet collectively and remained glued to 1 one other on the afterparty.

Rosamund Pike, 45, missed out on the gong for Best Supporting Actress in Saltburn to The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph however chatted merrily to pals on the alternative aspect to Emerald.

Murder on the Dancefloor singer, Sophie Ellis Bextor, joined their desk however was busy being endlessly congratulated for her efficiency of her single in the course of the awards ceremony.

The 44-year-old mother-of-three has had a resurgence in fame after Barry Keoghan danced round bare to her 2001 hit within the last scene of Saltburn – it has since gone viral on TikTok.

Barry, nevertheless, was nowhere to be seen after lacking out on the gong for Best Actor to his fellow Irish star Cillian.

Emerald’s desk was neighboured by one other feminine director of the hour, Greta Gerwig, 40.

Her billion-dollar-grossing field workplace sensation, Barbie, was sensationally snubbed final night time because it didn’t gather a single award and Greta spoke animatedly at her desk.

She needed to be bodily dragged out of the social gathering by her husband and Barbie co-writer, Noah Baumbach, 54, as a result of she was chatting an excessive amount of and never leaving the occasion.

Before they left, the American screenwriting couple exchanged a couple of phrases with the Crown star Gillian Anderson, who had introduced the Best Supporting Actor award.