Kyra Sedgwick wears stylish black jacket as Saoirse Ronan turns heads in elegant lace-panelled dress at Brooklyn screening

By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com

Published: 01:26 EST, 8 October 2015 | Updated: 05:07 EST, 8 October 2015

She's receiving Oscar chatter for her portrayal of a young woman torn between two very different fates in the film Brooklyn.

And Saoirse Ronan put on a show stopping display when she attended a special screening for the period piece in New York City on Wednesday.

The 21-year-old dazzled in an elegant and dramatic black number, though faced some competition from Kyra Sedgwick, 50, who turned heads in a very different look of her own. 

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Different approaches: Saoirse Ronan dazzled in an elegant black dress, while Kyra Sedgwick turned heads in a stylish jacket at a special screening of Brooklyn in New York on Wednesday 

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress looked incredible in a sharp black jacket, matching trousers, and a pair of polka dot heels.   

Kyra looked radiant with her gold blonde locks pinned up, with a few curly strands framing her flawlessly made-up face.

Hot red lipstick and a healthy heap of mascara helped liven up her famous face.

Super stylish: Sedgwick worked her magic in black trousers and a ruffled white top

Meanwhile, Saoirse dazzled with her ornate and dramatic pink and green earrings, which added a pop of colour to her all-black look.

The Irish actress kept her make-up simple, letting her face shine with light pink blush and lip gloss.

Saoirse was won praise for her performance in Brooklyn.

Posing perfection! The actress struck a playful pose as she smiled for photographers

Set in the 1950s, Saoirse portrays a young woman who moves from her homeland of Ireland to New York City, where she falls in love with an Italian-American man (Emory Cohen).

However when she returns home, she finds herself deciding between life in the Big Apple or in Ireland, where she meets another man.

Saoirse recalled how she and Emory were directed to refrain from embracing each other as they threw themselves into their roles, in order to preserve the sexual tension.

Let's get together! The fashionable actresses posed up with each other for a snap

'Back then, there was a process: there’s the initial meeting, the courting period, then marriage, then sex. People weren't as tactile then. It wasn't in the culture to be physical with each other - even if you were just chatting with someone,' she told ET Online.

'We're quite cuddly now - especially actors - all kisses and hugs. John [Crowley, the director] had to keep an eye on that with us during filming. 

'We couldn't hug each other; we had to be quite restrained. It adds a sexual tension, the not touching, so that just the touching of a hand means so much.'

The romantic drama, which is a film adaptation of Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel Brooklyn, will hit theatres in the U.S. on November 4, 2015.

There they are! Colm Tóibín, Finola Dwyer, John Crowley, Ronan, Nick Horny, and James DiGiacomo looked picture perfect as they posed together 

Torn: Ronan stars as a young woman who must decide between two very different fates - here she is pictured in the film with the man she meets in Ireland, Domhnall Gleeson

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