LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 19: A general view of the BAFTA award trophy ahead of the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2023 at The Royal Festival Hall on February 19, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Klára Šimonová/Getty Images for BAFTA)
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is announcing the nominees for its 2026 awards celebration on Tuesday.
The nominations for the EE BAFTA Awards come five days after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 2026 Oscars. Sinners scored a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, followed by One Battle After Another with 13 nominations, and Frankenstein, Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value earned nine nods apiece.
The nominations for the 2026 EE BAFTA Awards will be announced by The White Lotus Season 3 star Aimee Lou Wood and Alien: Romulus star David Jonsson at 12 p.m. in the U.K, which is 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT in the U.S. The nominations announcement will stream live on the BAFTA YouTube channel and on the BAFTA X account.
The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards are set for Sunday, Feb. 22, in London. The awards are annually voted on by industry professionals who are BAFTA members.
There are six nominees for most of the categories for the BAFTAs, whereas the Oscars have five nominees for each category with the exception of Best Picture, which has 10 nomination slots.
In addition, most BAFTA nominees are selected from longlists of 10 candidates, with the exception of Outstanding British Film, which has 15 candidates.
Also, the Best Animated Feature and Animated Short categories only have six potential nominees on the BAFTA longlists, which results in a fewer number of nominees in each category. The same goes for the Best Children’s & Family Film longlist, which only has eight candidates.
The 10 potential nominees for the six BAFTA Best Film slots are The Ballad of Wallis Island, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, I Swear, Marty Supreme, Nuremberg, One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value and Sinners.
In 2025, the BAFTA Best Film award went to the Ralph Fiennes papal thriller Conclave.
One Battle After Another leads all potential BAFTA Film nominees after it made the cut in 16 longlist categories, while Sinners and Hamnet were next by making 14 longlists each.
See all of the longlists for the 2026 BAFTA Film nominations listed below.
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 16: (L to R) Tessa Ross, Peter Straughan, Edward Berger, Isabella Rossellini, Juliette Howell, Ralph Fiennes and Michael Jackman, winners of the Best Film award for “Conclave”, pose in the winners room at the 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards at The Royal Festival Hall on February 16, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
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2026 BAFTA Film Awards Longlists
Best Film
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
I Swear
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Outstanding British Film
28 Years Later
Ballad of a Small Player
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
The Choral
Die My Love
Goodbye June
H Is for Hawk
Hamnet
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
The Roses
Steve
Warfare
Best Leading Actress
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Andrea Riseborough, Dragonfly
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Tessa Thompson, Hedda
Best Leading Actor
Robert Aramayo, I Swear
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Russell Crowe, Nuremberg
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Harry Melling, Pillion
Cillian Murphy, Steve
Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
Best Supporting Actress
Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
Brenda Blethyn, Dragonfly
Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Carey Mulligan, The Ballad of Wallis Island
Gwyneth Paltrow, Marty Supreme
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Emily Watson, Hamnet
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Peter Mullan, I Swear
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly
Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
Alexander Skarsgård, Pillion
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best Director
Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos
Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay
Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
Rental Family, Hikari
Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Sinners, Ryan Coogler
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben Hania
Best Original Screenplay
Blue Moon
A House of Dynamite
I Swear
Is This Thing On?
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Weapons
Best Adapted Screenplay
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Pillion
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Ceremony
The Man in My Basement
Mother Vera
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion
Ocean With David Attenborough
The Shadow Scholars
Urchin
A Want In Her
Wasteman
Best Children’s & Family Film
Arco
Boong
Elio
Grow
How to Train Your Dragon
Lilo & Stitch
Little Amelie
Zootropolis 2 (Zootopia 2 in North America)
Best Films Not in English Language
It Was Just an Accident
La Grazia
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
Rental Family
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best Documentary
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover-Up
The Librarians
Mr Nobody Against Putin
Ocean With David Attenborough
One to One: John & Yoko
The Perfect Neighbor
Riefenstahl
Best Animated Film
Arco
The Bad Guys 2
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Elio
Little Amélie
Zootropolis 2 (titled Zootopia 2 in North America)
Best Casting
Frankenstein
Hamnet
A House of Dynamite
I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Pillion
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Sirāt
Best Cinematography
Ballad of a Small Player
Bugonia
Die My Love
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Costume Design
Bugonia
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Nouvelle Vague
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Editing
28 Years Later
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Weapons
Best Make Up & Hair
Bugonia
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
Wicked: For Good
Best Original Score
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Production Design
Ballad of a Small Player
Bugonia
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Mickey 17
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Special Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Mickey 17
Superman
Tron: Ares
Wicked: For Good
Best Sound
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
The Lost Bus
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Wicked: For Good
Best British Short Animation
Brain Space
Cardboard
Death’s Peak
Ovary-Acting
Solstice
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Best British Short Film
22+1
Blondi
Magid/Zafar
Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites
Nostalgie
The Pearl Comb
Terence
This Is Endometriosis
Welcome Home Freckles
Wonderwall
The nominations for the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards will be announced at 12 p.m. in the U.K, which is 7 a.m. ET/4 a.m. PT in the U.S., and it will stream live on the BAFTAs’ YouTube channel and on BAFTA’s X account.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2026/01/26/how-to-watch-2026-bafta-film-awards-nominations-on-streaming/
