One Battle After Another and Sinners Lead 2026 BAFTA Nominations

Warner Bros. dominated this year’s BAFTA Film Award nominations, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s political satire One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners emerging as clear frontrunners.

Anderson’s film scored 14 nods, nearing the all-time record held by Gandhi, while Coogler’s historical horror earned 13, the most ever for a Black director in BAFTA history. Both will compete for Best Film alongside Hamnet, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value, which brought 74-year-old Stellan Skarsgård his first-ever BAFTA nomination.

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet secured 11 nominations, making it the most-recognized film from a female director in the academy’s history, though Zhao is the only woman in the Best Director race.

Timothée Chalamet picked up a second consecutive Leading Actor nod for Marty Supreme, and Josh Safdie earned his first directing nomination. Still, there were surprises: despite eight nominations, Frankenstein missed out on the top categories, and the musical epic Wicked: For Good managed just two technical mentions.

The Manipuri-language film Boong, produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, was nominated in the Best Children’s and Family Film category this year. ‘Boong’ is a coming-of-age story about a young boy from Manipur who believes the greatest gift for his mother would be bringing his father home.

Notably snubbed this year by the BAFTAs were Wicked: For Good‘s Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, both of whom also missed out on Oscar nominations for the sequel to 2025’s Wicked. Weapons star Amy Madigan, who recently won a Critics’ Choice Award, was also omitted from the Supporting Actress race.

This year’s BAFTAs will be held on Sunday, Feb. 22 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, and will be hosted by Alan Cumming. See the full list of nominees below:

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

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

The Ceremony
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion
A Want In Her
Wasteman

Film Not in the English Language

It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirat
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Documentary

2000 Meters to Adraiivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Animated Film

Elio
Little Amélie
Zootropolis 2

Children’s & Family Film

Arco
Boong
Lilo & Stitch
Zootropolis 2

Director

Yargos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Original Screenplay

I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Adapted Screenplay

The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Pillion

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

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 Plemmons, Bugonia

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

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

Casting

I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Cinematography

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams