Margot Robbie glistens in sequins at I, Tonya UK premiere

It’s landed her an Oscar nomination for her role as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding.

And star of I, Tonya, Margot Robbie, positively shone as she walked the red carpet for the film’s UK premiere at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema in London on Thursday evening.

The blonde actress, 27, looked every inch the movie star as she stepped out in a floor-length gown, dripping in silver, black and white sequins – clearly a nod to her skater character – a role she told MailOnline she’d never have been able to play if she hadn’t taken matters into her own hands.

The Wolf Of Wall Street star, who produced the movie herself, said: ‘If I didn’t produce this film, I would have never been offered this role. It was a gamble but it paid off.

‘I definitely don’t think anybody would have given me this role if I hadn’t gone after it and I just wasn’t prepared to wait another 10 years for someone to happen to offer me a role like this.’

She admitted: ‘It was a difficult script to make from a producerial point of view, it had a lot of challenges and you were never going to get a tonne of money for something so unconventional.

‘It’s the Olympics, it spans over four decades and there’s a lot of things that make it expensive, it was a period script. It was a huge undertaking as new producers. It was amazing and I think taking a gamble like that can pay off.’

A dramatic look: The Australian blonde looked the epitome of sleek in the dress, which covered her lithe arms and long pins, falling dramatically to the pink floor

Zebra-like: The dress featured stripes, strips and paneling of black, silver and white, which shimmered in the premiere lights

Sleek: She swept her golden tresses into a dead-straight side bob and smiled lightly for the cameras

The Australian blonde looked the epitome of sleek in the dress, which covered her lithe arms and long pins, falling dramatically to the pink floor.

The zebra-like print featured stripes, strips and paneling of black, silver and white, which shimmered in the premiere lights.

Margot offset this with black nail polish and white eye shadow, keeping the rest of her make-up natural and clean.

She swept her golden tresses into a dead-straight side bob and smiled lightly for the cameras.

Margot is nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role while her co-star Allison is nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for I, Tonya at the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4. 

Ice queen: Margot offset this with black nail polish and white eye shadow, keeping the rest of her make-up natural and clean

Stunning: The blonde actress, 27, looked every inch the movie star as she stepped out in a floor-length gown, dripping in sequins – clearly a nod to her skater character

Shimmer: Allison mirrored Margot’s nod to figure-skating chic with her own sequinned gown in midnight blue

Margot enjoyed a glass of champagne with her husband Tom Ackerley, whom she produced I, Tonya with, after the red carpet.

He was seen sharing a moment with his wife before walking the carpet and was seen to talk calmly to her to relax her nerves.

Margot was joined on the red carpet by co-star Allison Janney who appears alongside her in the biopic.

The 58-year-old actress looked spectacular in a floor-length dress, with her chestnut mane loosely falling around her lithe shoulders.

Allison mirrored Margot’s nod to figure-skating chic with her own sequinned gown in midnight blue.

The ladies shared a laugh as they entered the premiere together in their sequinned gowns.

She’s had the nod: The film has landed her an Oscar nomination for her role as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding

Animated: Margot forged a bond with real-life Tonya while making the movie – even bringing the former Olympian to the Golden Globes as her date last month

She told MailOnline: ‘I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to win the Oscar, I don’t want to disappoint my family.

‘Every time I win something, I’m sure I’m going to lose the next one. I’m very nervous and I feel a lot of pressure, I don’t want to disappoint people. 

‘It’s almost as if you want to win for them rather than yourself because it means so much to them, and me too. ‘

The stars of Dancing On Ice were also in attendance. The likes of Brooke Vincent, Jake Quickenden and Candice Brown all walked the red carpet, having tried their own hand at figure-skating lately on the ITV show.

Margot forged a bond with real-life Tonya while making the movie – even bringing the former Olympian to the Golden Globes as her date last month.

Fancy seeing you here: Margot is nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role while her co-star Allison Janney [pictured] is nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for I, Tonya

Co-stars: The ladies shared a laugh as they entered the premiere together in their sequinned gowns 

Big night ahead: Margot and Allison will both be in attendance at the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4

The Aussie beauty told James Corden on his chat show recently: ‘OMG, she was so much fun to have there.

‘Tonya anyway is very unapologetic about who she is and that’s kind of liberating sometimes, especially if you are at a fancy event because she just was not afraid to go up to anyone and say hi and get a picture,’ 

The Suicide Squad star was impressed at how unfazed Tonya was at the star-studded event. 

‘She was like, “Oh, there’s Meryl. I’m gonna go say hi.”‘ Margo added.

The Aussie beauty told James Corden on his chat show recently: ‘OMG, [Tonya] was so much fun to have [at the Golden Globes]’

Gal pals: ‘Tonya anyway is very unapologetic about who she is and that’s kind of liberating sometimes, especially if you are at a fancy event,’ the actress said

Big fan: The Suicide Squad star was impressed at how unfazed Tonya was at the star-studded event

Chat: Margot recalled that some of the Golden Globes attendees were also eager to be introduced to the ‘real’ Tonya Harding

‘She didn’t know who people were at all,’ Margot added. ‘That was even more hilarious. At one point she was like, “That is the lovely lady who helped me in the photo line at the beginning.”

‘She’s like, “Hi! Hi!” waving, and I was like, “That’s Sharon Stone. Sharon Stone’s the lovely lady?”‘ 

Margot recalled that some of the Golden Globes attendees were also eager to be introduced to the ‘real’ Tonya Harding.

‘People were equally excited to meet her, funnily enough.’ she said. 

Glam: The 58-year-old actress looked spectacular in the floor-length dress, with her chestnut mane loosely falling around her lithe shoulders

Legend: The Hollywood star showed off her lean frame in the floor-length number

Fan fave: Margot happily posed for snaps with her by-standing fans

Sign here…: She delighted onlookers by signing autographs

Skating in: Matej Silecky and Brooke Vincent attended the event, heading up the Dancing On Ice stars on the guest list

The 2018 Oscars are expected to be more explosive than 2017’s envelope-gate fiasco, putting a spotlight on the best films and honouring those involved in creating them. 

Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is up for Best Picture as well as 12 other awards, while Dunkirk follows with eight nods and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, with seven.

The Best Director Oscar could be given to Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird or Steven Spielberg for The Post, but the directors of Call Me By Your Name and Darkest Hour also received nods for this accolade. 

Back in the spotlight: Cheryl Baker and Dan Whiston – who have recently gotten the boot from Dancing On Ice – were there to grasp at some attention

Looking sharp: Candice Brown wowed in a fitted black dress and bright red heels

The boys: Jake Quickenden and Kem Cetinay walked the carpet, looking suave

Ice stars: Max Evans and Ale Izquierdo arrived together at the event

Partners: Mark Hanretty and Maria Sergejeva were in attendance

Making an entrance: Tonya Pinkins and Perri Shakes-Drayton came to watch the film

The 2018 Oscars are already expected to be a little different from past Academy Award ceremonies after Hollywood became destabilised by sexual harassment claims, gender pay equality concerns and the role of women in film over the course of the year. 

In addition to this, the #OscarsSoWhite social media campaign that began in 2015 and reappeared after subsequent Oscars may make a comeback, despite Mary J Blige being the first person in the history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for a song and acting award in one year.

This controversy and the reemergence of the #MeToo movement in the lead up to the 2018 Oscars has also resulted in Kevin Spacey being replaced by Christopher Plummer, who was then nominated for awards, James Franco being entirely snubbed and Casey Affleck withdrawing from presenting the Best Actress award. 

ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2018

BEST ACTOR

Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name

Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread

Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out

Gary OIdman – Darkest Hour

Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq

BEST ACTRESS    

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water

Frances McDormand – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Margot Robbie – I, Tonya

Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird

Meryl Streep – The Post 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Mary J Blige – Mudbound

Alison Janney – I, Tonya

Lesley Manville – Phanton Thread

Laurie Metcalf – Ladybird

Octavia Spencer – The Shape Of Water

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR   

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project

Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water

Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World

Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A Fantastic Woman

The Insult

Loveless

On Body and Soul

The Square

BEST DOCUMENTARY  SHORT

Edith + Eddie

Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heroin(e)

Knife Skills

Traffic Stop

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Faces Places

Icarus

Last Men in Aleppo

Strong Island

BEST ORIGINAL SONG 

Mighty River – Mudbound

Mystery Of Love – Call Me by Your Name

Remember Me – Coco 

Stand Up For Something – Marshall

This Is Me – The Greatest Showman 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

The Boss Baby

The Breadwinner

Coco

Ferdinand

Loving Vincent

BEST ADAPTATED SCREENPLAY

Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory

The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber

Logan – Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green

Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin

Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Big Sick – Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani

Get Out – Jordan Peele

Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig

The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor (story by Guillermo del Toro)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Dunkirk

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 

BEST DIRECTOR  

Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk 

Jordan Peele – Get Out  

Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird  

Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread

Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water 

BEST PICTURE  

Call Me By Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Get Out

Lady Bird

Phantom Thread

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

Bladerunner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

Mudbound

Shape of Water

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Phantom Thread

The Shape of Water

Victoria and Abdul

BEST SOUND EDITING

Baby Driver

Blade Runner

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Dear Basketball

Garden Party

Lou

Negative Space

Revolting Rhymes

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

DeKalb Elementary

The Eleven O’Clock

My Nephew Emmet

The Silent Child

Watu Wota / All of Us 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Blade Runner 2049

Guardian of the Galaxy vol. 2

Kong: Skull Island

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

War for the Planet of the Apes

BEST FILM EDITING

Baby Driver

I,Tonya

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri   

 BEST SOUND MIXING

Baby Driver

Blade Runner

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Beauty and the Beast

Blade Runner 2049

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

BEST MAKE UP AND HAIR STYLING

Darkest Hour

Victoria & Abdul

Wonder