Sandra Bullock, who was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Actress, had to skip the ceremony as her three-year-old son was sick.
According to the New York Post, the 49-year-old had planned to grace the red carpet at London’s Royal Opera House but stayed at home to care for her little boy Louis instead.
The mum of one, who divorced her husband Jesse James in 2010 amid cheating rumours, has often said that motherhood is her first priority and tries to make life as normal for her young son as possible. The Gravity star admitted last year: "If I see whatever I'm doing affecting [Louis] negatively, I will pack up and move to Alaska."
Director of Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron, who divorced his wife Annalisa Bugliani in 2008, admitted that his and Sandra’s shared failed relationships helped them to get to the emotional core of the movie.
He added that the first time the met they “didn’t talk about space or technology” but rather “talked about adversity--and not even in the context of the film, but in the context of our lives. In an abstract way.”
He went on to say: ''We'd happened to be going through a process of adversities and we were trying to make sense out of them. It created a very interesting bond between the two of us, and a common understanding of what we were looking for."
