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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    One Battle After Another was the big winner at Sunday night's (22.02.26) EE BAFTA Film Awards, bagging six prizes

    The action-thriller - which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, 51, Sean Penn, 65, and 25 year old Chase Infiniti - won Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at the event, held at London's Royal Festival Hall.


    Also, One Battle After Another's director Paul Thomas Anderson, 55, was crowned Best Director, and Penn was named Best Supporting actor for his role as Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw.

    After Song Sung Blue star Kate Hudson, 46, revealed Anderson as Best Director, he said in his acceptance speech: "I'm so happy about your appreciation for this film."

    Meanwhile, I Swear bagged three accolades - Best Leading Actor and the EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for Robert Aramayo (John Davidson), as well as Best Casting.

    Aramayo, 33, was in shock after Shadow Force actress Kerry Washington, 49, announced him as the Best Leading Winner.

    He said in his acceptance speech: "I honestly cannot believe that I have won this award. I really, really cannot."

    Joining I Swear with three prizes was Frankenstein - Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Make-up and Hair.

    Sinners also secured three awards - Best Supporting Actress for 39 year old Wunmi Mosaku (Annie), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Score (Ludwig Goransson)

    Hamnet, however, received two big accolades - Outstanding British film, and Best Leading Actress for Jessie Buckley (Agnes Hathaway).

    Buckley, 36, dedicated her award to the women who inspired her to break the mould.

    After Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy, 49, dec lared her as the Best Leading Actress recipient, she said in her acceptance speech: "This really does belong to the women past, present and future that have taught me and continued to teach me how to do it differently.

    "You are all just radical, and you're doing it for the naughty girls, and I'm in awe of all your incredible performances.

    "I love what I do. I love cinema. ?I believe in storytelling to bring us together as a community. I believe in women's voices to tell those stories."

    Elsewhere on the night, Zootropolis 2 was named Best Animated Film, Avatar: Fire and Ash came out on top in the Best Special Visual Effects category, and F1's received Best Sound.

    2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards full list of winners:




    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




    Best 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




    Best 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




    Best 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




    Best 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 Skarsgard - Sentimental Value




    Best 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




    Best Original screenplay

    Winner: Sinners

    I Swear

    Marty Supreme

    The Secret Agent

    Sentimental Value




    Best Adapted screenplay

    Winner: One Battle After Another

    The Ballad of Wallis Island

    Bugonia

    Hamnet

    Pillion




    EE BAFTA rising star award (voted for by the public)

    Winner: Robert Aramayo

    Miles Caton

    Chase Infiniti

    Archie Madekwe

    Posy Sterling




    Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

    Winner: My Father's Shadow

    The Ceremony

    Pillion

    A Want In Her

    Wasteman




    Outstanding British contribution to cinema

    Winner: Claire Binns, creative director of Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment




    2026 BAFTA Fellowship

    Dame Donna Langley - Universal




    Best Animated film

    Winner: Zootropolis 2

    Elio

    Little Amélie




    Best Children's and family film

    Winner: Boong

    Arco

    Lilo + Stitch

    Zootropolis 2




    Film not in the English language

    Winner: Sentimental Value

    It Was Just An Accident

    The Secret Agent

    Sirat

    The Voice of Hind Rajab




    Best Documentary

    Winner: Mr Nobody Against Putin

    2000 Meters to Andriivka

    Apocalypse in the Tropics

    Cover-Up

    The Perfect Neighbor




    Best Original score

    Winner: Sinners - Ludwig Göransson

    Bugonia - Jerskin Fendrix

    Frankenstein - Alexandre Desplat

    Hamnet - Max Richter

    One Battle After Another - Jonny Greenwood




    Best 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




    Best Costume design

    Winner: Frankenstein

    Hamnet

    Marty Supreme

    Sinners

    Wicked: For Good




    Best Editing

    Winner: One Battle After Another

    F1

    A House of Dynamite

    Marty Supreme

    Sinners




    Best Production Design

    Winner: Frankenstein

    Hamnet

    Marty Supreme

    One Battle After Another

    Sinners




    Best Make-up and Hair

    Winner: Frankenstein

    Hamnet

    Marty Supreme

    Sinners

    Wicked: For Good




    Best Sound

    Winner: F1

    Frankenstein

    One Battle After Another

    Sinners

    Warfare




    Best Special Visual Effects

    Winner: Avatar: Fire and Ash

    F1

    Frankenstein

    How to Train Your Dragon

    The Lost Bus




    Best British short film

    Winner: This Is Endometriosis

    Magid / Zafar

    Nostalgie

    Terence

    Welcome Home Freckles




    Best British short animation

    Winner: Two Black Boys in Paradise

    Cardboard

    Solstice

    © 2026 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

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