The 2026 BAFTA Film Award nominations are moments away from being announced in London. You can watch a live stream of the announcement below.
At the longlist stage, Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling comedy One Battle After Another led the pack with a record 16 mentions. One Battle raked in mentions on all the major BAFTA categories, including Best Film, Best Director, and Adapted Screenplay. The film’s dominant showing continued in the performance categories, with newcomer Chase Infiniti landing on the Leading Actress longlist, Leonardo DiCaprio on the Leading Actor longlist, and Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Teyana Taylor on the respective Supporting longlists.
The previous record for BAFTA longlist mentions was 15, met by Emilia Perez in 2025, All Quiet on the Western Front in 2023, and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon in 2024.
Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners trail One Battle with 14 mentions apiece. Both films landed Director, Best Film, and performance mentions.
Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme follows with 13 mentions. Bugonia and Frankenstein both clocked 12, and Sentimental Value and Wicked: For Good close off the leading pack with 8 mentions each. In the way of British titles, Harry Lighton’s Pillion and Kirk Jones’s I Swear landed six mentions, and The Ballad of Wallis Island is listed in five categories. Other standout players in this year’s longlist include 28 Years Later, Die My Love, FI, and A House of Dynamite, which all landed four mentions.
Watch the nominations livestream announcement below. David Jonsson and Aimee Lou Wood are hosting.
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