Paul Thomas Anderson’s political thriller One Battle After Another won six honors at the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, with Ryan Coogler’s vampire horror drama Sinners earning three, setting a record for the most honors for a movie from a Black filmmaker. And Kirk Jones’ Tourette Syndrome advocate dramedy I Swear stunned the crowd at the ceremony, hosted by Alan Cumming, the presenter and producer of The Traitors U.S., at London’s Royal Festival Hall, winning two honors voted on by the industry and a third one voted on by the public.

The film’s star, Robert Aramayo, in fact, left the event with two statuettes, one for Rising Star, the other for best actor, a star-studded category, in which his win was met with audible gasps by the audience. The other award for I Swear came in the best casting category.

The BAFTA nominations had set up a thrill ride for the British Academy honors, with One Battle After Another earning 14 nods, narrowly edging out Sinners with 13, and Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean heartbreaker Hamnet and Josh Safdie’s ping-pong caper Marty Supreme with 11 nods each.

At the end of the night, One Battle After Another could celebrate half a dozen BAFTAs, namely for best film, best director, best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, editing, as well as best supporting actor Sean Penn.

The best supporting actress honor on Sunday went to Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners, which was also honored with the best original screenplay BAFTA for Coogler and the best original score award. Sinners followed up its record as the most-nominated film by a Black director in the British Academy’s history with a record three wins. Coogler also became the first Black winner of an original screenplay BAFTA on Sunday.

Three BAFTAs also went to Frankenstein, namely for production design, costumes, and make-up & hair. And Hamnet was honored twice, as the Outstanding British Film of the year, with star Jessie Buckley also winning the best leading actress award.

At the BAFTA Film Awards 2025, Conclave (best film) and The Brutalist (best director and actor) had won four honors each.

BAFTA chair Sara Putt opened the 2026 festivities Sunday night, lauding this year’s nominees and thanking them for providing audiences with “windows into other worlds and sometimes, yes, a respite from this one.” And she touted the excellence they have shown, “no algorithms involved.”

A pre-recorded sketch, starring Cumming discussing marketing ideas for the BAFTAs on a video call with Brian Cox, Warwick Davis, Ken Jeong, Jacobi Jupe, Hannah Waddingham, dog LaLa, a muted and video-less Leo DiCaprio, and Paddington Bear then opened the entertainment portion of the night.

In his opening monologue, Cumming ran through the topics covered by this year’s nominees. “Whatever happened to escapism? I’m exhausted,” he concluded. “It’s almost as though, I don’t know, there are events going on in the real world that are influencing filmmakers. Anyone else, like you Americans in particular?” Cumming then invited everyone in attendance to join him in a collective primal scream at world events.

Director David Borenstein accepted the honor for best documentary for his Mr. Nobody Against Putin with another U.S. reference, saying: “No matter how dark things get, whether in Russia or on the streets of Minneapolis, we always face a moral choice.”

Among other political comments during Sunday’s ceremony, My Father’s Shadow director Akinola Davies Jr., who won the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer honor with his writer and brother Wale Davies, ended his acceptance speech with the words, “Free Palestine!”

Also on Sunday, Clare Binns, the creative director of Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment and “a driving force in the distribution of films in the U.K.,” was honored with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the ceremony. The world needs more neighborhood cinemas, she told the BAFTA crowd. And she lauded the late Robert Redford for founding the Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival, saying: “He knew that above all, we should be prepared to take risks.”

And Donna Langley, the NBCUniversal Entertainment chair and the first British woman to run a major Hollywood studio, received the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest honor, telling the audience that “decency is a superpower.” 

At the end of a big BAFTA Awards night for One Battle After Another, director Paul Thomas Anderson, who had received a standing ovation, lauded the strong movies of the past year and had this message for people who say movies are no good anymore: “You can p*** right off!”

Check out the full 2026 BAFTA honors in London below. The winners are highlighted in bold in all announced categories.

Best Film
HAMNET Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes 
MARTY SUPREME Timothée Chalamet, Anthony Katagas, Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson 
SENTIMENTAL VALUE Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar 
SINNERS Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler 

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 

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 

Director
BUGONIA Yorgos Lanthimos 
HAMNET Chloé Zhao 
MARTY SUPREME Josh Safdie 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson 
SENTIMENTAL VALUE Joachim Trier 
SINNERS Ryan Coogler 

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)  
Robert Aramayo 
Miles Caton 
Chase Infiniti 
Archie Madekwe 
Posy Sterling 

Outstanding British Film
28 YEARS LATER Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, Alex Garland 
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND James Griffiths, Rupert Majendie, Tom Basden, Tim Key  
BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY Michael Morris, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jo Wallett, Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, Abi Morgan 
DIE MY LOVE Lynne Ramsay, Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Cirrocchi, Andrea Calderwood, Enda Walsh, Alice Birch 
H IS FOR HAWK Philippa Lowthorpe, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Emma Donoghue 
HAMNET Chloé Zhao, Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Speilberg, Sam Mendes, Maggie O’Farrell 
I SWEAR Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff, Piers Tempest 
MR BURTON Marc Evans, Ed Talfan, Josh Hyams, Hannah Thomas, Trevor Matthews, Tom Bullough 
PILLION Harry Lighton, Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe 
STEVE Tim Mielants, Alan Moloney, Cillian Murphy, Max Porter 

Film Not in the English Language 
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Jafar Panahi, Philippe Martin  
THE SECRET AGENT Kleber Mendonça Filho, Emilie Lesclaux 
SENTIMENTAL VALUE Joachim Trier, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar 
SIRĀT Oliver Laxe, Domingo Corral 
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Kaouther Ben Hania, Nadim Cheikhrouha 

Costume Design 
FRANKENSTEIN Kate Hawley 
HAMNET Malgosia Turzanska 
MARTY SUPREME Miyako Bellizzi 
SINNERS Ruth E. Carter 
WICKED: FOR GOOD Paul Tazewell 

Adapted Screenplay 
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND Tom Basden, Tim Key 
BUGONIA Will Tracy 
HAMNET Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson 
PILLION Harry Lighton 

Original Score
BUGONIA Jerskin Fendrix 
FRANKENSTEIN Alexandre Desplat 
HAMNET Max Richter 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Jonny Greenwood 
SINNERS Ludwig Göransson 

Sound
F1 Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta 
FRANKENSTEIN Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitallie, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoem 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor 
SINNERS Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco  
WARFARE Glenn Freemantle, Mitch Low, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner 

Cinematography  
FRANKENSTEIN Dan Laustsen 
MARTY SUPREME Darius Khondji 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Michael Bauman 
SINNERS Autumn Durald Arkapaw 
TRAIN DREAMS Adolpho Veloso 

Animated Film
ELIO Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, Mary Alice Drumm 
LITTLE AMÉLIE Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago, Edwina Liard, Claire Le Combe, Henri Magalon 
ZOOTROPOLIS 2 Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino 

Editing 
F1 Stephen Mirrione 
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Kirk Baxter 
MARTY SUPREME Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Andy Jurgensen 
SINNERS Michael P. Shawver 

Casting
I SWEAR Lauren Evans 
MARTY SUPREME Jennifer Venditti 
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Cassandra Kulukundis 
SENTIMENTAL VALUE Yngvill Kolset Haga, Avy Kaufman 
SINNERS Francine Maisler 

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer  
THE CEREMONY Jack King (Director, Writer), Hollie Bryan (Producer), Lucy Meer (Producer) 
MY FATHER’S SHADOW Akinola Davies Jr. (Director), Wale Davies (Writer) 
PILLION Harry Lighton (Director, Writer)  
A WANT IN HER Myrid Carten (Director) 
WASTEMAN Cal McMau (Director), Hunter Andrews (Writer), Eoin Doran (Writer) 

Original Screenplay 
I SWEAR Kirk Jones 
MARTY SUPREME Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie 
THE SECRET AGENT Kleber Mendonça Filho  
SENTIMENTAL VALUE Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier 
SINNERS Ryan Coogler 

British Short Animation
CARDBOARD J.P. Vine, Michaela Manas Malina 
SOLSTICE Luke Angus 
TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE Baz Sells, Dean Atta, Ben Jackson  
 
British Short Film 
MAGID / ZAFAR Luis Hindman, Sufiyaan Salam, Aidan Robert Brooks 
NOSTALGIE Kathryn Ferguson, Stacey Gregg, Marc Robinson, Kath Mattock 
TERENCE Edem Kelman, Noah Reich 
THIS IS ENDOMETRIOSIS Georgie Wileman, Matt Houghton, Harriette Wright 
WELCOME HOME FRECKLES Huiju Park, Nathan Hendren 

Documentary
2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath 
APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino 
COVER-UP Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Olivia Streisand, Yoni Golijev 
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN David Borenstein, Helle Faber, Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková 
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee 

Make-up & Hair
FRANKENSTEIN Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, Megan Many 
HAMNET Nicole Stafford 
MARTY SUPREME Kyra Panchenko, Kay Georgiou, Mike Fontaine 
SINNERS Siân Richards, Shunika Terry, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine 
WICKED: FOR GOOD Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Mark Coulier, Sarah Nuth 

Production Design 
FRANKENSTEIN Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau 
HAMNET Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton 
MARTY SUPREME Jack Fisk, Adam Willis  
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino 
SINNERS Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne 

Children’s & Family Film 
ARCO Ugo Bienvenu, Félix De Givry, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman 
BOONG Lakshmipriya Devi, Ritesh Sidhwani 
LILO & STITCH Dean Fleischer Camp, Jonathan Eirich 
ZOOTROPOLIS 2 Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino

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 SKARSGÅRD 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 

Special Visual Effects
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon  
F1 Ryan Tudhope, Keith Alfred Dawson, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington 
FRANKENSTEIN Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell 
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Christian Mänz, Francois Lambert, Glen McIntosh, Terry Palmer 
THE LOST BUS Charlie Noble, Brandon K. McLaughlin, David Zaretti