BAFTA 2026 Full winners list: One Battle After Another takes home most awards; Sinners and Frankenstein in close competition

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.

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.

Here's the full list of winners and their nominations:

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

One Battle After Another FAQs:

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.