Awards Season 2026: BAFTA Film Awards Nominations

The nominations for the 79th British Academy (BAFTA) Film Awards were announced this afternoon, by David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus, Rye Lane) and Aimee Lou Wood (Living, Sex Education). 

Here's a selection of the nominees:

BEST FILM

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

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

I Swear

Mr. Burton

Pillion

Steve

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)

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)

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)

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)

A full list of nominees in all categories can be found here.

BAFTA previously announced longlists for all categories, so you can see what was in contention for nominations here.

One Battle After Another leads the pack with an astonishing 14 nominations, followed by Sinners with 13, and Hamnet and Marty Supreme tied for third place with a thoroughly respectable 11 each.

No real shocks or surprises here, to be honest. As expected, BAFTA voters will go for British-made films and performances therein, so it's nice to see that being reflected with acting nods for both The Ballad Of Wallis Island (a quirky comedy about an eccentric lottery winner who invites his favourite musicians to perform a private gig for him) and I Swear (a biopic of John Davidson, the Tourette's campaigner who brought widespread attention to the condition when he appeared in a documentary as a teenager). 

I'll be honest, it does feel a bit weird doing this after the Oscar nominations have been announced, like things are out of order. That said, it was only in 2001 that the BAFTA Film Awards moved to be handed out before the Oscars. The first BAFTA Film Awards ceremony was held in May, with subsequent ceremonies happening anywhere between February and July (although mostly held in March and April). Hopefully just an outlier and we'll go back to things as usual next year. 

It has also been announced that BAFTA's Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award will go to Clare Binns, the creative director of Picturehouse Cinemas. 

The nominees for the 2026 Rising Star award - the only BAFTA awarded by public vote - have also been announced: this year's nominees are Robert Aramayo (I Swear), Miles Caton (Sinners), Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another), Archie Madekwe (Lurker), and Posy Sterling (Lollipop). Find out more about them, and cast your vote here.

The 79th BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday 22nd February in a ceremony to be hosted by the force of nature that is Alan Cumming.

Congratulations to all nominees!