79th British Academy Film Awards

The 79th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, will be held on 22 February 2026, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2025, at the Royal Festival Hall within London's Southbank Centre. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades will be handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2025.

79th British Academy Film Awards
Date	22 February 2026
Site	Royal Festival Hall, London
Hosted by	Alan Cumming
Highlights
Most nominations	One Battle After Another (14)
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The ceremony will be hosted by Alan Cumming for the first time, following David Tennant's hosting duties in 2024 and 2025. The broadcast will stream live on BBC One and iPlayer in the United Kingdom. For the first time, E!, taking over the rights from BritBox, will air the ceremony in the United States, starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT; however, it will not air the event live given that it is set in London and will run earlier in the day in the UK.

The BAFTA longlists were unveiled on 9 January 2026. The nominations were announced by 2025 EE Rising Star Award winner David Jonsson and Aimee Lou Wood on 27 January 2026 from BAFTA's HQ at 195 Piccadilly, London, and streamed live on BAFTA's X account and YouTube channel. The EE Rising Star Award nominees, which is the only category voted for by the British public, were unveiled on 14 January 2026. The action thriller film One Battle After Another led the longlists with sixteen nods, becoming the most longlisted film in BAFTA history, followed by Hamnet and Sinners with fourteen each. One Battle After Another ultimately received the most nominations with fourteen, followed by Sinners with thirteen, and Hamnet and Marty Supreme with eleven each. Hamnet also made history as BAFTA's most-nominated film by a female director, while Sinners took another record for the most-nominated film by a Black director in BAFTA history.

Winners and nominees

The BAFTA longlists were announced on 9 January 2026. The nominees were announced on 27 January 2026. The winners will be announced on 22 February 2026.

BAFTA Fellowship

TBA

Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

The Outstanding Contribution Award recipient was announced on 19 January 2026.

Clare Binns

Awards

Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film Hamnet – Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, and Sam Mendes Marty Supreme – Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas, and Timothée Chalamet One Battle After Another – Adam Somner (p.n.), Sara Murphy, and Paul Thomas Anderson Sentimental Value – Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar Sinners – Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Ryan Coogler	Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Actor in a Leading Role Robert Aramayo – I Swear as John Davidson Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Jesse Plemons – Bugonia as Teddy Gatz	Best Actress in a Leading Role Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Peter Mullan – I Swear as Tommy Trotter Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg	Best Actress in a Supporting Role Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Carey Mulligan – The Ballad of Wallis Island as Nell Mortimer Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills Emily Watson – Hamnet as Mary Shakespeare
Best Original Screenplay Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Ryan Coogler – Sinners Kleber Mendonça Filho – The Secret Agent Kirk Jones – I Swear Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value	Best Adapted Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Tom Basden and Tim Key – The Ballad of Wallis Island Harry Lighton – Pillion Will Tracy – Bugonia Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell – Hamnet
Best Animated Film Elio – Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, and Mary Alice Drumm Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago, Edwina Liard, Claire Le Combe, and Henri Magalon Zootopia 2 – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Yvett Merino	Best Documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka – Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, and Raney Aronson-Rath Apocalypse in the Tropics – Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino Cover-Up – Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Olivia Streisand, and Yoni Golijev Mr Nobody Against Putin – David Borenstein, Helle Faber, Radovan Síbrt, and Alžběta Karásková The Perfect Neighbor – Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, and Sam Bisbee
Best Film Not in the English Language It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi and Philippe Martin The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho and Emilie Lesclaux Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier, Maria Ekerhovd, and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar Sirāt – Oliver Laxe and Domingo Corral The Voice of Hind Rajab – Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha	Best Casting I Swear – Lauren Evans Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis Sentimental Value – Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman Sinners – Francine Maisler
Best Cinematography Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso	Best Costume Design Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska Marty Supreme – Miyako Bellizzi Sinners – Ruth E. Carter Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell
Best Editing F1 – Stephen Mirrione A House of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen Sinners – Michael P. Shawver	Best Make Up & Hair Frankenstein – Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, and Megan Many Hamnet – Nicole Stafford Marty Supreme – Kyra Panchenko, Kay Georgiou, and Mike Fontaine Sinners – Siân Richards, Shunika Terry, Ken Diaz, and Mike Fontaine Wicked: For Good – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Mark Coulier, and Sarah Nuth
Best Original Score Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Hamnet – Max Richter One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Sinners – Ludwig Göransson	Best Production Design Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk and Adam Willis One Battle After Another – Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne
Best Sound F1 – Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, and Juan Peralta Frankenstein – Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, and Brad Zoern One Battle After Another – José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor Sinners – Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, and Felipe Pacheco Warfare – Mitch Lowe, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, and Richard Spooner	Best Special Visual Effects Avatar: Fire and Ash – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, and Eric Saindon F1 – Ryan Tudhope, Keith Alfred Dawson, Nicolas Chevallier, and Robert Harrington Frankenstein – Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, and José Granell How to Train Your Dragon – Christian Manz, Francois Lambert, Glen McIntosh, and Terry Palmer The Lost Bus – Charlie Noble, Brandon K. McLaughlin, and David Zaretti
Outstanding British Film 28 Years Later – Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, and Alex Garland The Ballad of Wallis Island – James Griffiths, Rupert Majendie, Tom Basden, and Tim Key Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Michael Morris, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jo Wallett, Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, and Abi Morgan Die My Love – Lynne Ramsay, Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Cirrocchi, Andrea Calderwood, Enda Walsh, and Alice Birch H Is for Hawk – Philippa Lowthorpe, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Emma Donoghue Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes, and Maggie O'Farrell I Swear – Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff, and Piers Tempest Mr Burton – Marc Evans, Ed Talfan, Josh Hyams, Hannah Thomas, Trevor Matthews, and Tom Bullough Pillion – Harry Lighton, Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe Steve – Tim Mielants, Alan Moloney, Cillian Murphy, and Max Porter	Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer The Ceremony – Jack King, Hollie Bryan, and Lucy Meer My Father's Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies Pillion – Harry Lighton A Want in Her – Myrid Carten Wasteman – Cal McMau, Hunter Andrews, and Eoin Doran
Best British Short Animation Cardboard – J.P. Vine and Michaela Manas Malina Solstice – Luce Angus Two Black Boys in Paradise – Baz Sells, Dean Atta, and Ben Jackson	Best British Short Film Magid / Zafar – Luis Hindman, Sufiyaan Salam, and Aidan Robert Brooks Nostalgie – Kathryn Ferguson, Stacey Gregg, Marc Robinson, and Kath Mattock Terence – Edem Kelman and Noah Reich This Is Endometriosis – Georgie Wileman, Matt Houghton, and Harriette Wright Welcome Home Freckles – Huiju Park and Nathan Hendren
Best Children's & Family Film Arco – Ugo Bienvenu, Félix De Givry, Sophie Mas, and Natalie Portman Boong – Lakshmipriya Devi and Ritesh Sidhwani Lilo & Stitch – Dean Fleischer Camp and Jonathan Eirich Zootopia 2 – Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Yvett Merino	EE Rising Star Award Robert Aramayo Miles Caton Chase Infiniti Archie Madekwe Posy Sterling

Ceremony information

The ceremony will take place at the Royal Festival Hall within London's Southbank Centre on 22 February 2026, hosted by Alan Cumming. It will premiere on BBC One and iPlayer in the United Kingdom, as-live, and will be broadcast on E! in the United States later in the day. Viewers will be able to watch the red carpet pre-show, ceremony and more, across BAFTA and BBC's social media platforms. The nominations were announced on 27 January 2026.

In their first ever live performance outside the US, the singing trio of the Netflix animated musical film KPop Demon Hunters (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami) will perform their hit song "Golden". Emma Baehr, Executive Director of Awards & Content, said that KPop Demon Hunters has gained "a phenomenal impact on the hearts and minds of audiences of all ages around the world since its release" in summer 2025, adding, "We are thrilled the talented singers behind HUNTR/X will bring their K Pop energy to the EE BAFTA Film Awards."

Statistics

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
14	One Battle After Another
13	Sinners
11	Hamnet
11	Marty Supreme
8	Frankenstein
8	Sentimental Value
5	Bugonia
5	I Swear
3	The Ballad of Wallis Island
	F1
	Pillion
2	The Secret Agent
	Wicked: For Good
	Zootopia 2