Baz Luhrmannsays it would be an amazing historical moment ifElviscinematographer Mandy Walker were to triumph at Sundays Academy Awards.

It can be a bit laddish and a bit cowboy.

Walker started out as a clapper loader and worked her way up.

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(Clockwise from top left) Tom Ford, Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrmann, Mandy Walker, Annie Lenox, Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger.Getty Images

She can execute the film unit like an army and yet maintain her Mandyness, Luhrmann adds.

I knew her back in the day when she was at Film4 in London.

Sadly, I had to skedaddle before the arrival of Cate Blanchett, star ofTar.

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came the rather odd command when really all I wanted to do was say hello.

I guess good intentions get lost in translation during the intense run-up to theOscars.

Nonetheless, the actress was very charming.

And there was Jerry Hall with daughter Georgia May Jagger.

The actor Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) was also there.

I mean, I have zero clue about the Barbie universe, so answers on a postcard, like.

Its amazing, Ford exclaimed, just how far this has evolved.