While One Battle After Another won six awards, including best film at BAFTA 2026, Sinners and Frankenstein took home three trophies each

BAFTA 2026, held at Royal Festival Hall, in London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday night, has concluded with One Battle After Another winning big. While Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie took home most awards, Sinners and Frankenstein followed suit.
Catch BAFTA 2026's biggest winner One Battle After Another, the supernatural thriller Sinners, Pixar’s cosmic adventure Elio, and the record-breaking live-action Lilo & Stitch, all streaming now on OTTplay Premium!
Indian movie Boong, based out of North-East India’s Manipur, also won Best Children’s & Family Film. It was the first major win for India at the global scale this year.
Best film
Winner: One Battle After Another
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Outstanding British film
Winner: Hamnet
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy
Die My Love
H Is For Hawk
I Swear
Mr Burton
Pillion
Steve
Leading actress
Winner: 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
Winner: 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
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku - Sinners
Odessa A'zion - Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value
Carey Mulligan - The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another
Emily Watson - Hamnet
Supporting actor
Winner: Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
Benicio del Toro - One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
Paul Mescal - Hamnet
Peter Mullan - I Swear
Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value
Director
Winner: One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson
Bugonia - Yorgos Lanthimos
Hamnet - Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme - Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier
Sinners - Ryan Coogler
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
Winner: My Father's Shadow
The Ceremony
Pillion
A Want In Her
Wasteman
Film not in the English language
Winner: Sentimental Value
It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Outstanding British contribution to cinema
Winner: Claire Binns creative director of Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment
Documentary
Winner: Mr Nobody Against Putin
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
The Perfect Neighbor
Animated film
Winner: Zootropolis 2
Elio
Little Amélie
Children's and family film
Winner: Boong
Arco
Lilo & Stitch
Zootropolis 2
Original screenplay
Winner: Sinners
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Adapted screenplay
Winner: One Battle After Another
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
Pillion
Original score
Winner: Sinners - Ludwig Göransson
Bugonia - Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein - Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet - Max Richter
One Battle After Another - Jonny Greenwood
Casting
Winner: I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Cinematography
Winner: One Battle After Another
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Train Dreams
Costume design
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Editing
Winner: One Battle After Another
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Production design
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Make-up and hair
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Sound
Winner: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Special visual effects
Winner: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
British short film
Winner: This Is Endometriosis
Magid / Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
Welcome Home Freckles
British short animation
Winner: Two Black Boys in Paradise
Cardboard
EE Bafta rising star award (Public’s choice)
Winner: Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
Q. Is One Battle After Another based on a book?
A. The film is reportedly inspired by Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel Vineland using its characters and plot outline but presenting a more accessible narrative. The director has stated he "stole the parts that spoke to [him] and just started running like a thief".
Q. What does the title mean?
A. The title is a quote taken from a 1969 statement from the revolutionary political group, the Weather Underground. The full quote from their publication, New Left Notes reads: "From here on out, it's one battle after another - with white youth joining in the fight and taking the necessary risks. Pig Amerika beware. There's an army growing in your guts and it's going to bring you down".
Q. What are the main themes?
A. One Battle After Another explores themes of extr emism, the cost of polarizing views on human relationships, the function and dysfunction of revolutionary groups, the American nuclear family, and the persistence of resistance against authoritarian power. The film also heavily critiques white supremacy and systemic power structures.
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