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Are Sunday’s BAFTAs 2026 a sneak peek into this year’s upcoming Academy Awards? Well, yes and no. While many of the nominees for the 79th British Academy Film Awards are also up for Oscars, the BAFTAs voting body—which overlaps with the Academy to a certain degree—often charts a singular path, especially when it comes to honoring British projects and artists.
On Sunday, the British Academy balanced those two interests. Going into the ceremony, the top nominee was One Battle After Another, which had 14 nods. It ultimately took home six awards, winning director and adapted screenplay (which went to Paul Thomas Anderson), cinematography (Michael Bauman), editing (Andy Jurgensen), supporting actor (Sean Penn) and the big one, best film.
It was a good night for the horror genre as well (and we’re not talking about One Battle After Another’s view of American society). Frankenstein cleaned up in the costume, hair and makeup, and production design categories, proving that the famously ugly monster had some beauty within. Vampire (and more) movie Sinners, which came in to the night with 13 nominations, picked up some notable wins as well. Writer/director Ryan Coogler won for his original screenplay, as did Wunmi Mosaku for supporting actress. Composer Ludwig Göransson also took home a trophy for the movie’s score.
The film may have taken away fewer films than its many and passionate supporters might have hoped for. But Sinners’s haul is still less stinging than Marty Supreme’s rebuke: as Variety notes, Josh Safdie’s period-set ping-pong epic tied the all-time BAFTA record for most losses in a single night. Marty began the night full of promise, with 11 nominations. But it didn’t win in a single category. Even Timothée Chalamet was shut out, as Robert Aramayo, the star of biographical drama I Swear, beat him out for the lead actor win. If I Swear is unfamiliar to you, you’re not alone: it doesn’t hit US theaters until April 24.
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Best film WINNER: One Battle After Another
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best 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
Best 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
Paul Thomas Anderson accepts the director award for One Battle After Another
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Best 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
Robert Aramayo accepts the EE rising star award
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EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public) WINNER: Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
Emily Watson, Max Richter, Malgosia Turzanska, Jessie Buckley, Maggie O’Farrell, Paul Mescal, Chloé Zhao, Olivia Lynes, and Jacobi Jupe accept the outstanding British film award for Hamnet
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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
Joachim Trier, Maria Ekerhovd, and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar accept the film not in the English fanguage award for Sentimental Value
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Best film not in the English language WINNER: Sentimental Value
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best costume design WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best adapted screenplay WINNER: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Ballad of Wallis Island – Tom Basden, Tim Key
Bugonia – Will Tracy
Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell
Pillion – Harry Lighton
Best original score WINNER: Sinners
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Best sound WINNER: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Best cinematography WINNER: One Battle After Another
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best animated film WINNER: Zootropolis 2 (US name: Zootopia 2)
Elio
Little Amélie
Best editing WINNER: One Battle After Another
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Best casting WINNER: I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer WINNER: My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr (director), Wale Davies (writer)
The Ceremony – Jack King (director, writer), Hollie Bryan (producer), Lucy Meer (producer)
Pillion – Harry Lighton (director, writer)
A Want in Her – Myrid Carten (director)
Wasteman – Cal McMau (director), Hunter Andrews (writer), Eoin Doran (writer)
Ryan Coogler accepts the original screenplay award for Sinners
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Best original screenplay WINNER: Sinners – Ryan Coogler
I Swear – Kirk Jones
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Best British short animation WINNER: “Two Black Boys in Paradise”
“Cardboard”
“Solstice”
Best British short film WINNER: “This Is Endometriosis”
“Magid / Zafar”
“Nostalgie”
“Terence”
“Welcome Home Freckles”
Best documentary WINNER: Mr Nobody Against Putin
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
The Perfect Neighbor
Best make up & hair WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best production design WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best children’s and family film WINNER: Boong
Arco
Lilo & Stitch
Zootropolis 2
Best 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
Wunmi Mosaku accepts the supporting actress award for Sinners
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Best 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
Best special visual effects WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
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