

BEST FILM
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another WINNER
Sentimental Value
Sinners
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM of the YEAR
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Die My Love
H is for Hawk
Hamnet WINNER
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
Steve
BEST CASTING
I Swear (Lauren Evans) WINNER
Marty Supreme (Jennifer Venditti)
One Battle After Another (Cassandra Kulukundis)
Sentimental Value (Yngvill Kolset Haga & Avy Kaufman)
Sinners (Francine Maisler)
BEST DIRECTION
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) WINNER
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Yorgos Lanthimos (Bugonia)
Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)
Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)
Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)
BEST LEADING ACTOR
Robert Aramayo (I Swear) WINNER
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)
Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)
Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)
Jesse Plemons (Bugonia)
BEST LEADING ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) WINNER
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 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) WINNER
Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) WINNER
Carey Mulligan (The Ballad of Wallis Island)
Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Emily Watson (Hamnet)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
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) WINNER
BEST SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)
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) WINNER
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frankenstein (Dan Laustsen)
Marty Supreme (Darius Khondji)
One Battle After Another (Michael Bauman) WINNER
Sinners (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)
Train Dreams (Adolpho Veloso)
BEST EDITING
F1 (Stephen Mirrione)
A House of Dynamite (Kirk Baxter)
Marty Supreme (Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie)
One Battle After Another (Andy Jurgensen) WINNER
Sinners (Michael P. Shawver)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Frankenstein (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau) WINNER
Hamnet (Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton)
Marty Supreme (Jack Fisk & Adam Willis)
One Battle After Another (Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino)
Sinners (Hannah Beachler & Monique Champagne)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Frankenstein (Kate Hawley) WINNER
Hamnet (Malgosia Turzanska)
Marty Supreme (Miyako Bellizzi)
Sinners (Ruth E. Carter)
Wicked: For Good (Paul Tazewell)
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Bugonia (Jerskin Fendrix)
Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)
Hamnet (Max Richter)
One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)
Sinners (Ludwig Göransson) WINNER
BEST MAKE UP/HAIR
Frankenstein (Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, Megan Many) WINNER
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)
BEST SOUND
F1 (Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta) WINNER
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)
BEST ACHIEVEMENT in SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett & Eric Saindon) WINNER
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)
BEST FILM NOT in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value WINNER
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Elio
Little Amélie
Zootropolis 2 WINNER
BEST CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
Arco
Boong WINNER
Lilo & Stitch
Zootropolis 2
BEST DOCUMENTARY
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin WINNER
The Perfect Neighbor
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) WINNER
Pillion Harry Lighton (Director/Writer)
A Want in Her Myrid Carten (Director) (Writer/Director)
Wasteman Cal McMau (Director), Hunter Andrews (Writer), Eoin Doran (Writer)
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Caardboard J.P. Vine, Michaela Manas Malina
Solstice Luke Angus
Two Black Boys in Paradise Baz Sells, Dean Atta & Ben Jackson WINNER
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Magid/Zafar (LuisHindman, Sufiyaan Salam & Aiden 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) WINNER
Welcome Home Freckles (Huiju Park & Nathan Hendren)
EE RISING STAR AWARD
Robert Aramayo WINNER
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
The British Academy Film Awards were held on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre and streamed on BBC One and iPlayer starting at 7pm (GMT) local time (2pm EST).


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