Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ leads the BAFTA nominations for the 2026 Film Awards with 14 nods, including Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay. The film’s 14 nominations is the second-highest haul recorded by a film, after Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ which landed 16 in 1983. Films that have previously achieved 14 BAFTA nominations include ‘The King’s Speech’, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, all of which won Best Film except the latter.
Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ follows closely with 13 nominations, including Best Director and Original Screenplay. Michael B. Jordan receives his first BAFTA nomination in the Best Actor category, while Manchester-born Wunmi Mosaku is nominated for Best Actress.
‘Hamnet’ and ‘Marty Supreme’ each secured 11 nominations, with Paul Mescal and Timothée Chalamet both nominated for Best Actor, and Chloé Zhao and Josh Safdie for Best Director. ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Sentimental Value’ both earned eight nominations, while ‘Bugonia’ and British box office hit ‘I Swear’ received five each. Other British titles ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ and ‘Pillion’ each gained three nominations.
Eight first-time nominees feature in the performance categories, including Michael B. Jordan, Robert Aramayo, Odessa A’zion, Rose Byrne, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti. Infiniti is also nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award. In the Best Director category, Coogler and Safdie are first-time nominees.
The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards will take place on 22 February. The full list of nominations includes ‘Hamnet’, ‘Marty Supreme’, ‘One Battle After Another’, ‘28 Years Later’, ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’, ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’, ‘Die My Love’, ‘H Is for Hawk’, ‘Mr Burton’, ‘Pillion’, ‘Steve’, ‘The Ceremony’, ‘My Father’s Shadow’, ‘Wasteman’, ‘Sentimental Value’, ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’, ‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’, ‘Cover-Up’, ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’, ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ and ‘Elio’.
