‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Sinners’ lead Bafta 2026 film award nominations

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‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Sinners’

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leads the nominations at the Bafta 2026 film awards with 14, closely followed by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners with 13.

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Black comedy thriller One Battle After Another is nominated in best film, director, and all four acting categories: leading actor and actress for Leonardo DiCaprio and Chase Infiniti respectively, supporting actor for Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn and supporting actress for Teyana Taylor.

Vampire horror Sinners has also landed in best film and director, plus leading actor for Michael B. Jordan and supporting actress for Nigerian-British star Wunmi Mosaku.

Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet leads among UK-produced films, with 11 nominations. Liza Marshall’s Hera Pictures and Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions are the UK producers. The Maggie O’Farrell book adaptation is the most nominated film from a female director in Bafta’s history. Josh Safdie’s table tennis tale Marty Supreme also has 11 nominations.

Further UK-produced films to receive multiple nominations are Kirk Jones’ I Swear and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia with five and James Griffiths’s The Ballad Of Wallis Island and Harry Lighton’s Pillion with three.

“A brilliant year”

A total of 46 films are nominated this year, up from 42 in 2025. “It’s representative of a brilliant year,” said Jane Millichip, Bafta CEO. “Four of the top 10 [most] nominated films are British: Hamnet, I Swear, Ballad of Wallis Island and Pillion.

“More broadly, it’s an amazing year for bold, uncompromising storytelling, with films like One Battle After Another, [about] the moral ambiguity of activism, Sinners [about] Black identity, and Bugonia, societal collapse.”

Bafta chair Sara Putt highlighted the success of genre films in this year’s line-up. “Genre movies can also be something very challenging, thoughtful, as well as being incredibly entertaining.”

Millichip and Putt also feel the documentary selection is particularly noteworthy.

“These are extraordinary, really powerful documentaries, three of which were directed by women [Petra Costa’s Apocalypse In the Tropics, Laura Poitras’ Cover-Up and Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor], which is interesting,” said Millichip.

“We go from the Ukraine through Russia, Florida, Brazil,” added Putt. “That’s a huge range of subjects and stories that help us understand the world we live in.”

The Bafta Film Awards ceremony will take place on February 22 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, with Scottish actor, writer, producer and TV host Alan Cumming presenting for the first time.

Picturehouse’s Clare Binns will receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.

The final, third round of voting opens tomorrow (Jan 28) to determine the winners.

Bafta film award nominations 2026

Best Film

Hamnet - Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes
Marty Supreme - Timothée Chalamet, Anthony Katagas, Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another - Adam Somner, Sara Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value - Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Sinners - Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler

Outstanding British Film

28 Years Later - Danny Boyle, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernard Bellew, Alex Garland
The Ballad Of Wallis Island - James Griffiths, Rupert Majendie, Tom Basden, Tim Key
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy - Michael Morris, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jo Wallett, Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer, Abi Morgan
Die My Love - Lynne Ramsay, Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Lawrence, Justine Cirrocchi, Andrea Calderwood, Enda Walsh, Alice Birch
H Is For Hawk - Philippa Lowthorpe, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Emma Donoghue
Hamnet - Chloé Zhao, Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Speilberg, Sam Mendes, Maggie O’Farrell
I Swear - Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff, Piers Tempest
Mr Burton - Marc Evans, Ed Talfan, Josh Hyams, Hannah Thomas, Trevor Matthews, Tom Bullough
Pillion - Harry Lighton, Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
Steve - Tim Mielants, Alan Moloney, Cillian Murphy, Max Porter

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)
Pillion - Harry Lighton (director, writer)
A Want In Her - Myrid Carten (director)
Wasteman - Cal Mcmau (director), Hunter Andrews (writer), Eoin Doran (writer)

Film Not In The English Language

It Was Just An Accident - Jafar Panahi, Philippe Martin
The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonça Filho, Emilie Lesclaux
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier, Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Sirāt - Oliver Laxe, Domingo Corral
The Voice Of Hind Rajab - Kaouther Ben Hania, Nadim Cheikhrouha

Documentary

2000 Meters To Andriivka - Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath
Apocalypse In The Tropics - Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino
Cover-Up - Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Olivia Streisand, Yoni Golijev
Mr. Nobody Against Putin - David Borenstein, Helle Faber, Radovan Síbrt, Alžběta Karásková
The Perfect Neighbor - Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, Sam Bisbee

Animated Film

Elio - Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, Mary Alice Drumm
Little Amélie - Mailys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago, Edwina Liard, Claire Le Combe, Henri Magalon
Zootropolis 2 - Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino

Children’s & Family Film

Arco - Ugo Bienvenu, Félix De Givry, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman
Boong - Lakshmipriya Devi, Ritesh Sidhwani
Lilo & Stitch - Dean Fleischer Camp, Jonathan Eirich
Zootropolis 2 - Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino

Director

Yorgos 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 - Kirk Jones
Marty Supreme - Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value - Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners - Ryan Coogler

Adapted Screenplay

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
Pillion - Harry Lighton

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 Plemons - 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 - Lauren Evans
Marty Supreme - Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another - Cassandra Kulukundis
Sentimental Value - Yngvill Kolset Haga, Avy Kaufman
Sinners - Francine Maisler

Cinematography

Frankenstein - Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme - Darius Khondji
One Battle After Another - Michael Bauman
Sinners - Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Train Dreams - Adolpho Veloso

Editing

F1 - Stephen Mirrione
A House Of Dynamite - Kirk Baxter
Marty Supreme - Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another - Andy Jurgensen
Sinners - Michael P. Shawver

Costume Design

Frankenstein - Kate Hawley
Hamnet - Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme - Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners - Ruth E. Carter
Wicked: For Good - Paul Tazewell

Make Up & Hair

Frankenstein - Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, Megan Many
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

Original Score

Bugonia - Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein - Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet - Max Richter
One Battle After Another - Jonny Greenwood
Sinners - Ludwig Göransson

Production Design

Frankenstein - Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau
Hamnet - Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
Marty Supreme - Jack Fisk, Adam Willis
One Battle After Another - Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
Sinners - Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne

Sound

F1 - Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta
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 - Mitch Low, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner

Special Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire And Ash - Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon
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

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