BAFTAs 2026: Full Winners List and Highlights
London calling
On 22 February, it was over to the Brits to celebrate and honour the best in cinema in the past year at the 79th British Academy Film Awards (more commonly known as the BAFTAs). The night was an array of surprise wins and historic moments, from Robert Aramayo beating out Hollywood royalty to take home Best Actor to Ryan Coogler’s vampire gothic Sinners becoming the most awarded film by a Black director with three trophies.
Unlike its run at American award shows so far, Sinners swept the BAFTAs by taking home Best Original Score, Best Supporting Actress for Wunmi Mosaku, and Best Original Screenplay, with Coogler also making history as the first Black person to win in the award’s 77-year history.
Another emotional and historic win at London’s Royal Albert Hall was Lakshmipriya Devi’s directorial debut, Boong, winning Best Children’s & Family Film. The Manupuri-language film about displaced children is the first Indian film to be awarded at the BAFTAs in that category, beating out Zootopia 2 and Lilo & Stitch to claim the honour.
But if there was one moment that truly cemented the 2026 BAFTAs as one to remember, it was in the Best Actor category. Most viewers going into the awards would have pegged it as a two-man duel between Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet for their performances in One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme, respectively.
However, British actor Robert Aramayo beat the odds to win the BAFTA for his role in I Swear, an indie film based on Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson (who also created a bit of a stir of his own due to his verbal tics that contained racist expletives heard during the ceremony).
Aramayo, who had previous roles in Game of Thrones and The Rings of Power, was overcome with emotion during his speech. While this win throws a spanner in the works (the BAFTAs are considered a major predictor for the Oscars), his win over Hollywood juggernauts is the underdog story everyone can get behind. The actor also took home the public-voted EE Rising Star Award.
At the end of the night, One Battle After Another emerged as the biggest winner with six trophies, including the coveted Best Film, followed by I Swear, Sinners and Frankenstein, with three each, and Hamnet at two, winning Outstanding British Film and Leading Actress for Jessie Buckley. Despite 11 nominations, Marty Supreme was noticeably shut out, with zero wins, joining the BAFTAs’ history books as one of the worst film losses alongside Women in Love (1969) and Finding Neverland (2004).
Ahead, find the full list of winners at the 2026 BAFTAs.
Best film
Winner: One Battle After Another
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Outstanding British film
Winner: Hamnet
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy
Die My Love
H Is For Hawk
I Swear
Mr Burton
Pillion
Steve
Leading 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
Leading 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
Supporting actress
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Carey Mulligan – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Emily Watson – Hamnet
Supporting actor
Winner: Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Peter Mullan – I Swear
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
Director
Winner: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos
Hamnet – Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier
Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Winner: My Father’s Shadow
The Ceremony
Pillion
A Want In Her
Wasteman
Film not in the English language
Winner: Sentimental Value
It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Outstanding British contribution to cinema
Winner: Clare Binns, creative director of Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment
Documentary
Winner: Mr Nobody Against Putin
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
The Perfect Neighbor
Animated film
Winner: Zootopia 2
Elio
Little Amélie
Children’s and family film
Winner: Boong
Arco
Lilo & Stitch
Zootopia 2
Original screenplay
Winner: Sinners
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Adapted screenplay
Winner: One Battle After Another
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
Pillion
EE BAFTA Rising Star Award
Winner: Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
Original score
Winner: Sinners – Ludwig Göransson
Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet – Max Richter
One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Casting
Winner: I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Cinematography
Winner: One Battle After Another
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Train Dreams
Costume design
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Editing
Winner: One Battle After Another
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Production design
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Make-up and hair
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Sound
Winner: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Special visual effects
Winner: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
British short film
Winner: This Is Endometriosis
Magid / Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
Welcome Home Freckles
British short animation
Winner: Two Black Boys in Paradise
Cardboard
Solstice
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