The London-born screen star and his make-up artist partner - who have been dating since March - made a rare red carpet appearance for the annual ceremony.
Idris, who is the lead star in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, speaking previously about getting into character for movie he told the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye's he spent a night on Robben Island, locked in a cell next to the one where Mandela was jailed for 18 years.
He said: "I wanted the audience to know what it was like once Mandela and his colleagues were jailed and the crowds dissipated."
"It was a s***hole," Elba said. "I had a thin blanket for a mattress and that's all there was between me and the concrete floor. They gave me a bowl. I had no water, nothing to drink at all.
"I was wearing my sweats and what not. I had two iPads to document myself and a cell phone."
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