There may be fewer celebrities at the BAFTAs, Britain's top award show for achievement in film, but there is no less fashion scrutiny than at that big daddy of all award shows one continent away, the Oscars.
Once, picking a dress that would clash with the red carpet was considered the preserve of the very foolish or the very brave. No longer. Julianne Moore collected her Best Actress BAFTA for Still Alice in a Tom Ford dress the colour of blood and rubies, cut daringly low in the front. Ms Moore is 54, but you couldn't tell. Giving her stiff competition in both her category and on the red carpet was Wild star Reese Witherspoon, in stunning purple Stella McCartney.
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Best Actress nominees Amy Adams and Rosamund Pike were like the yin and yang of the evening, one in white belted Stella McCartney, the other in a black Roland Mouret halterneck column. (In Pics: Julianne, Nimrat, Reese Steal the Show at BAFTA Red Carpet )
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Actresses Monica Bellucci and Lea Seydoux, who co-star in Bond film SPECTRE
British actress Alice Eve wore a sexy velvet dress with thigh high slit; Kristin Scott Thomas wore vintage Balmain; and Gugu Mbatha-Raw wore grey Prada.
The BAFTAs, hosted by actor Stephen Fry, were given out in London on February 8.
