Bafta Awards 2010: Carey Mulligan arrives on red carpet hoping for Best Actress award

Published: 6:44PM GMT twenty-one February 2010

Link to this video

The Oscar-nominated 24-year-old is hotly sloping to win majority appropriate singer at the Orange British Academy Film Awards for her lead purpose in coming-of-age movie An Education.

Thousands of fans went to Covent Garden to catch a glance of the A-listers vibrating on the red runner in the cold continue as they arrived for the greatest eventuality in the British movie calendar.

Bafta movie nominations 2010 Stars deplane on London Christoph Waltz at Baftas From propagandize theatre to Bafta"s red runner Kate Winslet"s Bafta oath King of fantasy"s being check

Mulligan, who has spin one of Hollywood"s majority sought-after actresses notwithstanding being deserted by 3 play schools, done it a family arise by bringing along her relatives and hermit to the ceremony.

She painted her brunette stand blonde and done a glamorous opening in a floor-length monochrome floral series with a sight - notwithstanding the hazard of puddles - by French engineer Vionnet.

She pronounced of her superb and figure-hugging dress: ""I have only attempted to whirl but I finished up jacket myself up.""

Of her Oscar and Bafta nominations, she said: ""I don"t feel anything really. It"s sort of similar to being punched. At initial you think it"s a mistake, afterwards it sinks in slowly. It"s bizarre, surreal.""

She said: ""I rang my mom when I was Oscar nominated and she"s a clergyman and had only told her students to spin off their phones. Then her phone rang.""

Mulligan has been related with her Wall Street 2 co-star Shia LaBeouf, but the singer did not crop up to be at the event, Britain"s answer to the Oscars.

An Education, formed on publisher Lynn Barber"s memoir, is additionally up for majority appropriate film.

It takes on Hollywood movies Avatar and The Hurt Locker - the 3 drive-in theatre have eight nominations each.

Kate Winslet, who is not nominated for any awards, churned up a frenzy of fad on the red runner when she arrived in a Stella McCartney black skirt with edging cut-out panels.

She pronounced of not being nominated: "The vigour is so off. It"s only fantastic. I can only relax and unequivocally suffer it. I unequivocally love it. It"s great to come here.

"I"m going to see my family. It"s great to catch up with my silent and dad. It"s unequivocally critical to keep entrance back."

Veteran singer Vanessa Redgrave, who is to embrace an Academy Fellowship tonight, easeful from the sleet underneath an powerful when she arrived with her singer daughter Joely Richardson, who was ready to go in a dim blue Katherine Walker gown.

Colin Firth, 49, who is up for majority appropriate singer for A Single Man, was additionally at the event.

Asked about personification a happy man, he said: "I don"t think about it as well most really."

He joked: "Matthew Goode (Firth"s co-star) was a great kisser, so was Julianne Moore, so it was formidable to be a singular man."

Asked about stripping in the film, he said: "It"s a nightmare. The conflict opposite sobriety doesn"t get any simpler as you proceed 50."