One Battle After Another has won best picture at the 2026 BAFTA Awards.
The prizegiving ceremony, the height of celebration for the British film industry, took place on Sunday in London.
Film News Blitz’s Dan Lawrence takes a look at the major film winners.
‘One Battle After Another’ is the big winner at the 2026 BAFTA Awards
One Battle After Another entered proceedings with the most nominations, 14, one ahead of Sinners.
The nominees for the best picture prize included the pair of these films, alongside Hamnet, Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value.
One Battle After Another also won for editing, cinematography, best adapted screenplay and best director as Paul Thomas Anderson’s film was the major winner of the 2026 BAFTA Awards, with actor Sean Penn also winning for his supporting role in this modern masterpiece.
Sinners didn’t go empty-handed, however, winning awards for original screenplay, original score and supporting actress.
What other films won prizes at the 2026 BAFTA Awards?
The first award of the night went to Avatar: Fire and Ash, as James Cameron’s science fiction epic won for Special Visual Effects.
Star of stage and screen, Paddington Bear, became “the first presenter to get marmalade all over a Bafta,” as he presented the award for the best children’s and family film to Boong.
Best documentary went to the undercover Russian-school feature Mr Nobody Against Putin.
Zootropolis 2 was victorious in the best animated film category, while Sentimental Value became the first Norwegian film to win a BAFTA by taking the award for film not in the English language.
As ever, the 2026 BAFTA Awards celebrated the talented craftspeople, artisans and creatives working in the film industry today, with notable prizes being handed out.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein unsurprisingly won awards for production design, makeup and hair and costume design after bringing Mary Shelley’s gothic tale to life for Netflix.
F1: The Movie’s technical wizardry resulted in the prize for best sound.
There was also a spotlight on British filmmaking, specifically, with My Father’s Shadow, for Akinola Davies Jr and Wale Davies, a brotherly effort, winning the award for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer.
10 pieces of art were nominated for outstanding British film, with Hamnet taking the gong, beating the likes of I Swear, Pillion and Steve.
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The 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards winners and nominees
Best film
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (Winner)
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Outstanding British film
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
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
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
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
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
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (Winner)
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
The Ceremony
My Father’s Shadow (Winner)
Pillion
A Want In Her
Wasteman
Film not in the English language
It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value (Winner)
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Documentary
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
Mr Nobody Against Putin (Winner)
The Perfect Neighbour
Animated film
Elio
Little Amélie
Zootropolis 2 (Winner)
Children’s and family film
Arco
Boong (Winner)
Lilo & Stitch
Zootropolis 2
Original screenplay
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners (Winner)
Adapted screenplay
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
One Battle After Another (Winner)
Pillion
EE BAFTA Rising Star Award
Robert Aramayo (Winner)
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
Original score
Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
Max Richter, Hamnet
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Ludwig Göransson, Sinners (Winner)
Casting
I Swear (Winner)
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (Winner)
Sinners
Train Dreams
Costume design
Frankenstein (Winner)
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Editing
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another (Winner)
Sinners
Production design
Frankenstein (Winner)
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Make-up and hair
Frankenstein (Winner)
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Sound
F1 (Winner)
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Special visual effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash (Winner)
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
British short film
Magid / Zafar
Nostalgie
Terenece
This is Endometriosis (Winner)
Welcome Home Freckeles
British short animation
Cardboard
Solstice
Two Black Boys in Paradise (Winner)
