POV: Your movie nerd friends are talking about the BAFTAs and what that might mean for the Oscars.

Full list of winners below! But first…

WHAT IS A BAFTA?

BAFTA: The British Academy Film and Television Awards. The organization first formed and held its inaugural ceremony in 1947. It has evolved since its inception, and delivers (2) separate nights now to honor excellence in film and television.

On Sunday, February 22nd, 2026, the EE BAFTA Film Awards took place, awarding excellence in film from 2025.

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I’ll be honest, my favorite thing about the BAFTAs is the focus on being British. Some of their categories are:

Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Best British Short Animation
Best British Short Film
Rising Star Award (voted for by the public, and is mostly British nominees)

The Rising Star Award went to Robert Aramayo, who also took home the Best Actor win above Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothee Chalamet, and Michael B. Jordan. His starring role in “I Swear” will not release in the US until April 2026. I am DESPERATE to see this movie as the trailer is magnetizing. The story follows a young boy diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, and the unique struggles that follow. Aramayo’s performance looks to be incredibly immersive, reminding me of how realistic Leo was in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape for a different nervous system disorder.

The film is gathering BIG attention. The real life person Aramayo portrays – John Davidson – was present, and shocked audiences when an uncontrollable vocal tic found its way onto the broadcast. This tic is also defined as Coprolalia: an involuntary, often repetitive, outbursts of swearing, cursing, or socially unacceptable remarks. Some of the presenters and nominees felt very surprised that a BAFTA organizer did not give them any warning ahead of the broadcast or debriefed them following the incident.

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Big moments for the BAFTAs included the wins per film:

Film	BAFTA Awards
One Battle After Another*	6
Sinners	3
Frankenstein	3
Hamnet	2
I Swear	2
Sentimental Value	1
Zootopia 2	1

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THE ROAD TO THE OSCARS

The BAFTAs have increasingly indicated big wins at the Oscars. Normally, the Actor Awards (formerly the SAG Awards) were the best indicator. The margin for BAFTAs to Oscars wins is steadily on the rise over the past 10 years. Could we see a similar list this spring at the Academy, our are big shakeups in store?

Here are some of the award categories that won at the BAFTAs and Academy Awards in recent years:

Year	Film	Actor	Category
2015	Room	Brie Larson	Best Actress
2017	Darkest Hour	Gary Oldman	Best Actor
2019	Joker	Joaquin Phoenix	Best Actor
2020	The Father	Anthony Hopkins	Best Actor
2021	King Richard	Will Smith	Best Actor
2024	Oppenheimer	Cillian Murphy	Best Actor
2024	Poor Things	Emma Stone	Best Actress
2024	Oppenheimer	Robert Downey Jr	Best Supporting Actor
2024	The Holdovers	Da’Vine Joy Randolph	Best Supporting Actress

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THE WINNERS

BEST PICTURE

WINNER: One Battle After Another
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Director

WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

Best 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 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 Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Original Screenplay

WINNER: Sinners, Ryan Coogler
I Swear, Kirk Jones
Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value, Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

Best Adapted Screenplay

WINNER: One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Ballad of Wallis Island, Tom Basden, Tim Key
Bugonia, Will Tracy
Hamnet, Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell
Pillion, Harry Lighton

Best 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 Make Up & Hair

WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good

Best Production Design

WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Score

WINNER: Sinners
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another

Best Sound

WINNER: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare

Best Visual Effects

WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus

Best Casting

WINNER: I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Animated Film

WINNER: Zootopia 2
Elio
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Best Children’s & Family Film

WINNER: Boong
Arco
Lilo & Stitch
Zootopia 2

Best Documentary

WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
The Perfect Neighbor

Best Foreign Film

WINNER: Sentimental Value
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best 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

Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

WINNER: Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling

Best Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

WINNER: My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr. (director), Wale Davies (writer)
The Ceremony, Jack King (director, writer), Hollie Bryan (producer), Lucy Meer (producer)
Pillion, Harry Lighton (director, writer)
A Want in Her, Myrid Carten (director)
Wasteman, Cal McMau (director), Hunter Andrews (writer), Eoin Doran (writer)

Best British Short Animation

WINNER: “Two Black Boys in Paradise”
“Cardboard”
“Solstice”

Best British Short Film

WINNER: “This Is Endometriosis”
“Magid / Zafar”
“Nostalgie”
“Terence”
“Welcome Home Freckles”

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We’ll see you at the Oscars! What BAFTA wins surprised you?

Review by: Kirk Dulin