The leading actor was caught in a spatter of applause as he moved among the admiring drinkers.
The leading actor who had insisted on her playing the small part had introduced her to someone there.
Meanwhile, Anglo-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis is a favourite to win the leading actor prize for his turn as Lincoln in Spielberg's historical drama.
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She had been selected because the leading actor himself, Rendall Harris, had told the casting director that she was the most talented of the young women in the theatre group.
Affleck was also nominated for the Leading Actor award, but that prize went to Daniel Day-Lewis, the favorite not only of the bookies but of his peers, including fellow nominee Hugh Jackman.
But the gladiator fights now pale beside Mr Scott's, while the script's lofty ambitions are undercut by the insistence of Kirk Douglas, the leading actor, that the focus must continually return to his on-screen romance with Jean Simmons.
And this gave him the challenge of directing his leading male to display traits that didn't come naturally to the younger actor.
The Hunger star's role was taken by Australian actor Joel Edgerton, who remains with the western alongside its leading lady Natalie Portman and Brazil's Rodrigo Santoro.
However, they dismissed as "pure speculation" reports that either Spacey or Omagh-born actor Gerard McSorley are to play the leading role.
This is evident, for example, in the race for best performance of an actor in a leading role in a play.
Hollywood star Kevin Kline picked up the award for outstanding actor in a play for his leading role in Cyrano de Bergerac, opposite Jennifer Garner.
" Bertie Carvel, best leading actor in a musical nominee for "Matilda: The Musical.
Firth thanked the team behind the film, including a reference to his "masterly voice coach Neil Swain" while accepting his Leading Actor Award.
It ended the night with a number of big wins, including best musical, best director for John Tiffany and best leading actor in a musical for Steve Kazee.
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