Awards season burns bright overseas, as “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” score some pre-Oscars heat.
One of the final stops for top contenders on the Oscars trail really heated up the race on Sunday.
Alan Cumming hosted the 2026 BAFTA Awards ceremony Feb. 22, with winners announced during a live telecast from the United Kingdom, where the region’s equivalent to the Academy Awards has added fuel to the fire in the ongoing Oscars contest.
Announced five days after the 2026 Oscar nods, the BAFTA nominations anointed presumed Best Picture frontrunner One Battle After Another as the European organization’s leader, with 14 nods overall. The picture won six awards at the event: Best Film, Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography.
Despite breaking a historic Academy Awards record by earning 16 total Oscar nods, Sinners trailed close behind with 13 BAFTA nominations this year, winning four: Best Supporting Actress for Wunmi Mosaku, Best Original Score, and Best Original Screenplay for writer-director Ryan Coogler, who made history as the first Black winner in the category.
Robert Aramayo had the twin distinction of winning Best Actor for his starring role in Tourette’s syndrome drama I Swear, which has yet to be released widely in the U.S., and the EE Rising Star Award, which is voted on by the public. Aramayo is perhaps best known to U.S. viewers as Elrond in Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Jessie Buckley won the Best Actress award for her starring role in Hamnet, which itself won Outstanding British Film.
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A key precursor on the road to the Oscars, the BAFTAs often foretell Academy tastes, with the voting bodies sharing huge overlap in membership.
Last year, BAFTA and the Academy shared all four acting category winners, with Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Mikey Madison (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain), and Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez) winning trophies from both groups in their respective brackets.
See the full list of 2026 BAFTA Awards winners below.
Best Film
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
WINNER:
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best Actor
WINNER: 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
Best Actress
WINNER: 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
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Peter Mullan, I Swear
WINNER: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Best Supporting Actress
Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
WINNER: Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Carey Mulligan, The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Emily Watson, Hamnet
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
WINNER:
One Battle After Another
Pillion
Best Original Screenplay
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
WINNER: Sinners
Outstanding British Film
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Die My Love
H is for Hawk
WINNER:
Hamnet
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
Steve
Best Animated Film
Elio
Little Amélie
WINNER: Zootopia 2
Best Film Not in the English Language
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
WINNER:
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best Documentary Film
2,000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
WINNER:
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
Best Children’s & Family Film
ArcoWINNER:
Boong
Lilo & Stitch
Zootopia 2
Best Editing
A House of Dynamite
F1
Marty Supreme
WINNER:
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Casting
WINNER:
I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
WINNER:
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Production Design
WINNER:
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Sound
WINNER:
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Best Special Visual Effects
WINNER:
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
Best Costume Design
WINNER:
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Mary Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Makeup and Hair
WINNER:
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Original Score
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
WINNER:
Sinners
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Clare Binns
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer
Pillion
The Ceremony
Wasteman
A Want In Her
WINNER: My Father’s Shadow
Best British Short Animation
Cardboard
Solstice
WINNER: Two Black Boys in Paradise
Best British Short Film
Welcome Home Freckles
Magid / Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
WINNER: This Is Endometriosis
EE Rising Star Award
WINNER: Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
Fellowship
Donna Langley
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