The BAFTA Movie Awards race has drawn its battle traces — and Paul Thomas Anderson is standing firmly on the entrance. One Battle After One other emerged because the clear frontrunner when the 2026 BAFTA nominations had been unveiled in London on Tuesday, racking up a formidable 14 nods and setting the tone for an awards season that feels unusually combative, unpredictable, and star-heavy.
Behind Anderson’s lead sits a tightly packed discipline that displays a 12 months of daring swings fairly than protected consensus. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners follows intently with 13 nominations, whereas Chloé Zhao’s quietly devastating Hamnet and Josh Safdie’s kinetic Marty Supreme land simply behind, every securing double-digit recognition. From gothic horror to literary grief to high-adrenaline spectacle, the unfold suggests a BAFTA slate comfy with tonal extremes.
The nominations additionally underline a delicate however significant divergence from the Oscars. Whereas Sinners dominated the Academy’s shortlist earlier this season, the British Academy has reshuffled the hierarchy, elevating Anderson’s movie and giving vital weight to director-driven storytelling and performance-heavy drama over pure box-office momentum.
Listed below are the nominations in full forward of the 2026 BAFTA Movie Awards ceremony at London’s Royal Pageant Corridor on Sunday, 22 February.
Greatest Movie
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Sentimental Worth”
- “Sinners”
Excellent British Movie
- “28 Years Later”
- “The Ballad of Wallis Island”
- “Bridget Jones: Mad in regards to the Boy”
- “Die My Love”
- “H Is For Hawk”
- “Hamnet”
- “I Swear”
- “Mr Burton”
- “Pillion”
- “Steve”
Greatest Main Actress
- Jessie Buckley —”Hamnet”
- Rose Byrne — “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
- Kate Hudson — “Tune Sung Blue”
- Chase Infiniti —”One Battle After One other”
- Renate Reinsve — “Sentimental Worth”
- Emma Stone — “Bugonia”
Greatest Main Actor
- Robert Aramayo — “I Swear”
- Timothée Chalamet — “Marty Supreme”
- Leonardo DiCaprio — “One Battle After One other”
- Ethan Hawke — “Blue Moon”
- Michael B Jordan — “Sinners”
- Jesse Plemons —”Bugonia”
Greatest Supporting Actress
- Odessa A’zion — “Marty Supreme”
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — “Sentimental Worth”
- Wunmi Mosaku — “Sinners”
- Carey Mulligan — “The Ballad of Wallis Island”
- Teyana Taylor — “One Battle After One other”
- Emily Watson — “Hamnet”
Greatest Supporting Actor
- Benicio del Toro — “One Battle After One other”
- Jacob Elordi — “Frankenstein”
- Paul Mescal — “Hamnet”
- Peter Mullan — “I Swear”
- Sean Penn — “One Battle After One other”
- Stellan Skarsgård — “Sentimental Worth”
Greatest Director
- “Bugonia” — Yorgos Lanthimos
- “Hamnet”—Chloé Zhao
- “Marty Supreme” — Josh Safdie
- “One Battle After One other” — Paul Thomas Anderson
- “Sentimental Worth” — Joachim Trier
- “Sinners” — Ryan Coogler
Excellent Debut by a British Author, Director or Producer
- “The Ceremony”
- “My Father’s Shadow”
- “Pillion”
- “A Need In Her”
- “Wasteman”
Greatest Movie (Not within the English Language)
- “It Was Simply An Accident”
- “The Secret Agent”
- “Sentimental Worth”
- “Sirât”
- “The Voice of Hind Rajab”
Greatest Documentary
- “2000 Meters to Andriivka”
- “Apocalypse within the Tropics”
- “Cowl-Up”
- “Mr No person Towards Putin”
- “The Excellent Neighbor”
Greatest Animated Movie
- “Elio”
- “Little Amélie”
- “Zootropolis 2”
Greatest Kids’s and Household Movie
- “Arco”
- “Boong”
- “Lilo & Sew”
- “Zootropolis 2”
Greatest Authentic Screenplay
- “I Swear”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “The Secret Agent”
- “Sentimental Worth”
- “Sinners”
Greatest Tailored Screenplay
- “The Ballad of Wallis Island”
- “Bugonia”
- “Hamnet”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Pillion”
EE Bafta Rising Star Award (Voted for by the general public)
- Robert Aramayo
- Miles Caton
- Chase Infiniti
- Archie Madekwe
- Posy Sterling
Greatest Authentic Rating
- “Bugonia” — Jerskin Fendrix
- “Frankenstein” — Alexandre Desplat
- “Hamnet” — Max Richter
- “One Battle After One other” — Jonny Greenwood
- “Sinners” — Ludwig Göransson
Greatest Casting
- “I Swear”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Sentimental Worth”
- “Sinners”
Greatest Cinematography
- “Frankenstein”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Sinners”
- “Prepare Goals”
Greatest Costume Design
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “Sinners”
- “Depraved: For Good”
Greatest Enhancing
- “F1”
- “A Home of Dynamite”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Sinners”
Greatest Manufacturing Design
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Sinners”
Greatest Make-up and Hair
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “Sinners”
- ‘Depraved: For Good”
Greatest Sound
- “F1”
- “Frankenstein”
- “One Battle After One other”
- “Sinners”
- “Warfare”
Greatest Particular Visible Results
- “Avatar: Fireplace and Ash”
- “F1”
- “Frankenstein”
- “The way to Prepare Your Dragon”
- “The Misplaced Bus”
Greatest British Quick Movie
- “Magid / Zafar”
- “Nostalgie”
- “Terence”
- “This Is Endometriosis”
- “Welcome Dwelling Freckles”
British Quick Animation
- “Cardboard’
- “Solstice”
- “Two Black Boys in Paradise”
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