The Golden Globes have been and gone and the Oscars are mere weeks away, but tonight all eyes were on London’s Royal Festival Hall as Alan Cumming hosted the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards. And on a star-studded evening that saw Paddington Bear hit the red carpet and KPop Demon Hunters’ Huntr/x singers take to the stage, it was a case of one award after another for One Battle After Another. On the night, Paul Thomas Anderson’s white-knuckle epic Thomas Pynchon adaptation scooped six gongs, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein followed hot on its heels with three awards apiece, with the former’s historic Best Original Screenplay win making Coogler the first Black filmmaker to scoop that particular prize.
The story of the night was one of unexpected snubs and even more unexpected wins as this year’s awards race continued to prove far from a foregone conclusion. While Marty Supreme didn’t quite live up to its title, becoming BAFTA’s most-nominated film to go home empty-handed, there was still plenty to cheer about elsewhere. The biggest surprise of the night was easily Robert Aramayo’s richly deserved Best Actor win for his astonishing performance in Tourette’s biopic I Swear. Aramayo beat out the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Blue Moon‘s Ethan Hawke, and Marty Supreme Oscar hopeful Timothée Chalamet to win his second BAFTA (his first came earlier in the evening — but more on that below.) Elsewhere, OBAA‘s Sean Penn and Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku both also became first time BAFTA Film Awards winners, edging out category favourites Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) and Teyana Taylor (OBAA) for Best Supporting Actor and Actress respectively. Jessie Buckley, in perhaps one of the few near-nailed-on wins of the evening, also took home a first BAFTA for her emotionally wrenching work in Hamnet.
As mentioned above, Frankenstein took a very respectable three awards from the Southbank Centre. Jacob Elordi may have missed out on Best Supporting Actor in what proved a highly competitive category, but Guillermo del Toro’s passion project came in for some love in technical categories, snagging wins for Costume Design, Production Design, and Make-Up And Hair. More craft category love was shared out to Avatar: Fire And Ash and F1: The Movie, which took home VFX and Sound awards respectively that we don’t think anybody would contest.
The BAFTAs is always seen — and rightly so — as a real celebration of British cinema, and this year’s Brit-based award winners represented the best of a very bright year for homegrown talent. Chloé Zhao’s tearjerking epic Hamnet landed Outstanding British Film; I Swear star Robert Aramayo became the latest recipient of the public-voted EE Rising Star award, joining a long line of esteemed previous winners including David Jonsson, Tom Hardy, and Mia McKenna-Bruce; and Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies landed Outstanding British Debut for the brilliant My Father’s Shadow. It was also a night of recognition for Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment’s creative director Clare Binns, who received the prestigious Outstanding Contribution To British Cinema honour, and for Universal Pictures chair Dame Donna Langley-Shamshiri, this year’s BAFTA Fellowship recipient.
For a full rundown of all the major winners at the 2026 BAFTAs, check out our list below. [Note: Winners highlighted in bold.]
The BAFTAs 2026 Award Winners
Best Film
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Leading Actor
Robert Aramayo – I Swear
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Leading Actress
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Peter Mullan – I Swear
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental Value
Supporting Actress
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Carey Mulligan – The Ballad Of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Emily Watson – Hamnet
Original Screenplay
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad Of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Pillion
Outstanding British Debut
The Ceremony – Jack King , Hollie Bryan, Lucy Meer
My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr., Wale Davies
Pillion – Harry Lighton
A Want In Her – Myrid Carten
Wasteman – Cal McMau, Hunter Andrews, Eoin Doran
Outstanding British Film
28 Years Later
The Ballad Of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
Die My Love
H Is For Hawk
Hamnet
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
Steve
Film Not In The English Language
It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
The Voice Of Hind Rajab
Animated Film
Elio
Little Amélie
Zootropolis 2
Children’s And Family Film
Arco
Boong
Lilo & Stitch
Zootropolis 2
Editing
A House Of Dynamite
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Costume Design
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Special Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire And Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How To Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
Casting
I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Make Up & Hair
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Production Design
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Original Score
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Sound
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Documentary
2000 Meters To Andriivka
Apocalypse In The Tropics
Cover-Up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
British Short Film
Welcome Home Freckles
Magid / Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
This Is Endometriosis
British Short Animation
Cardboard
Solstice
Two Black Boys In Paradise
EE Rising Star Award
Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
For a complete, comprehensive rundown of all the winners in all categories, head to the BAFTA website.
