The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards honor the best films from around the world. Held at London’s Royal Festival Hall on February 22, the ceremony was an emotional night for some who took home awards for Best Actor, Best Actress and of course Best Picture, which went to Warner Bros. Pictures. Pictures. Battle after battle.
See the full list of 2026 BAFTA Film Awards winners below!
Best movie
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Battle after battle – winner
Emotional value
Sinners
Best director
Pogonia – Yorgos Lanthimos
Hamnet – Chloe Zhao
Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie
One battle after another – Paul Thomas Anderson – winner
Emotional value – Joachim Trier
Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Best Lead Actor
Robert Arameo – I swear – winner
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – one battle after another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Jesse Plemons – Bogonia
Best Leading Actress
Jesse Buckley – Hamnet – winner
Rose Byrne – If I had legs I’d kick you
Kate Hudson – Song Song Blue
Infinity Chase – Battle after Battle
Renate Rainsvi – Emotional value
Emma Stone – Pogonia
Best special visual effects
Avatar: Fire and Ashes – winner
F1
Frankenstein
How to train your dragon
Lost bus
Best Supporting Actress
Odessa Azion – Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilias – Sentimental value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners – winner
Carey Mulligan – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor – Battle after battle
Emily Watson – Hamnet
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro – one battle after another
Jacob the Pink – Frankenstein
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Peter Mullan – I swear
Sean Penn – Battle after Battle – winner
Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental value
Best movie for children and family
Arco
Pong – winner
Lilo and Stitch
Zootropolis 2
Best makeup and hair
Frankenstein – winner
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Evil: for good
Best production design
Frankenstein – winner
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Battle after battle
Sinners
Best Documentary Film
2000 meters to Andriivka
End of the world in the tropics
Cover up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin – winner
The perfect neighbor
Best British Short Film
Majid / Zafar
Nostalgia
Terrence
This is endometriosis – winner
Welcome home freckles
Best British animated short
cartoon
Coup
Two black boys in heaven – winner
Best Original Screenplay
I swear – Kirk Jones
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
Secret Agent – Cléber Mendonça Filho
Emotional value – Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners – Ryan Coogler – winner
Best casting
I swear – winner
Marty Supreme
Battle after battle
Emotional value
Sinners
An outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Ceremony – Jack King (director, writer), Holly Bryan (producer), Lucy Mair (producer)
My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davis Jr. (Director), Will Davis (Writer) – winner
Bellion – Harry Layton (director, writer)
Desire for Her – Mairead Carten (Director)
Westman – Cal McMaw (director), Hunter Andrews (writer), Eoin Doran (writer)
Best casting
I swear – winner
Marty Supreme
Battle after battle
Emotional value
Sinners
Best editing
F1
Dynamite house
Marty Supreme
Battle after battle – winner
Sinners
Best animated film
Elio
Little Emily
Zootropolis 2 – winner
Best cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Battle after battle – winner
Sinners
Train dreams
Best sound
F1 – winner
Frankenstein
Battle after battle
Sinners
War
Best original score
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Battle after battle
Sinners – winner
Best Adapted Screenplay
Wallis Island Song – Tom Basden, Tim Key
Bogonia – Will Tracy
Hamnet – Chloe Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell
One battle after another – Paul Thomas Anderson – winner
Billion – Harry Layton
Best costume design
Frankenstein – winner
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Evil: for good
Best film not in English
It was just an accident
Secret agent
Emotional value – winner
Sirat
Hind Rajab’s voice
Distinctive British film
After 28 years
Wallis Island poem
Bridget Jones: Boy crazy
My love dies
H is for hook
Hamnet – winner
I swear
Mr. Burton
one billion
Steve
EE Rising Star Award
Robert Aramayo – winner
Myles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Busy Sterling
