The 2026 BAFTA Awards were announced a few hours ago, at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Britain. It honours the top achievements in the film (and/or movie) world across different categories. Notably, the British awards, the “BAFTAs,” are equivalent to the American awards, the “Oscars”.
“Boong”, A Manipuri Film From India, Wins One of the Prestigious BAFTA Awards
In FOCUS: The Complete List of the BAFTA Awards 2026 Winners
- Children’s and Family Film (Best)
- Special Visual Effects (Best)
- Supporting Actress (Best)
- Supporting Actor (Best)
- Production Design (Best)
- Makeup & Hair (Best)
- Documentary (Best)
- British Short Film (Best)
- British Short Animation (Best)
- Original Screenplay (Best)
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
- Casting (Best)
- Editing (Best)
- Animated Film (Best)
- Cinematography (Best)
- Sound (Best)
- Original Score (Best)
- Adapted Screenplay (Best)
- Costume Design (Best)
- Best Film not in the English language
- Outstanding British Film
- EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
- Best Director
- Leading Actor (Best)
- Leading Actress (Best)
- Best Film
- Outstanding British contribution to cinema award
- Bafta fellowship
Children’s and Family Film (Best)
| Winner | Boong (India) |
| Other Nominees | Arco Lilo & Stitch Zootropolis 2 |
Boong, a Manipuri film set in the troubled state of Manipur in India, has picked up the respected BAFTA award.
“A schoolboy, Boong, navigates racial tensions and border challenges in Manipur, driven by resilience and determination to reunite his divided family.”
“Greetings to everyone.
The walk up till here felt like the last few steps to reach a summit of a mountain we never knew we were climbing in the first place. So thank you to the jury members and BAFTA for giving our very small film such big love.
A film that is not only rooted in a place which is very troubled, very much ignored and very underrepresented in India, my homeland Manipur. It’s a homage to my homeland. So I just want to use this opportunity to say that we pray for peace, to return to Manipur. We pray that all the internally displaced children, including the child actors in the film, regain their joy, their innocence and their dream once again. We pray that no conflict is ever formidable enough to destroy the one superpower that all of us have as human beings. That is forgiveness.
So, thank you, BAFTA, for giving us not only an award, but this stage to express our hope. I am Lakshmipriya, thank you and have a wonderful evening, everyone.”
Lakshmipriya Devi, Writer & Director
Bonus Video Clip Link to the Boong - trailer | IFFG 2025 festival | YouTube.
Special Visual Effects (Best)
| Winner | Avatar: Fire and Ash |
| Other Nominees | F1 Frankenstein The Lost Bus How to Train Your Dragon |
Supporting Actress (Best)
| Winner | Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners |
| Other Nominees | Emily Watson – Hamnet Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value Carey Mulligan – The Ballad of Wallis Island |
Supporting Actor (Best)
| Winner | Sean Penn – One Battle After Another |
| Other Nominees | Paul Mescal – Hamnet Peter Mullan – I Swear Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another |
Production Design (Best)
| Winner | Frankenstein |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another |
Makeup & Hair (Best)
| Winner | Frankenstein |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Hamnet Marty Supreme Wicked: For Good |
Documentary (Best)
| Winner | Mr Nobody Against Putin |
| Other Nominees | Cover-Up The Perfect Neighbor 2000 Meters to Andriivka Apocalypse in the Tropics |
British Short Film (Best)
| Winner | This Is Endometriosis |
| Other Nominees | Terence Nostalgie Magid/Zafar Welcome Home Freckles |
British Short Animation (Best)
| Winner | Two Black Boys in Paradise |
| Other Nominees | Solstice Cardboard |
Original Screenplay (Best)
| Winner | Sinners – Ryan Coogler |
| Other Nominees | I Swear – Kirk Jones The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie |
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
| Winner | My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr (director), Wale Davies (writer) |
| Other Nominees | Pillion – Harry Lighton (director, writer) A Want in Her – Myrid Carten (director) Wasteman – Cal McMau (director), Hunter Andrews (writer), Eoin Doran (writer) The Ceremony – Jack King (director, writer), Hollie Bryan (producer), Lucy Meer (producer) |
Casting (Best)
| Winner | I Swear |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Marty Supreme Sentimental Value One Battle After Another |
Editing (Best)
| Winner | One Battle After Another |
| Other Nominees | F1 Sinners Marty Supreme A House of Dynamite |
Animated Film (Best)
| Winner | Zootropolis 2 |
| Other Nominees | Elio Little Amélie |
Cinematography (Best)
| Winner | One Battle After Another |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Train Dreams Frankenstein Marty Supreme |
Sound (Best)
| Winner | F1 |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Warfare Frankenstein One Battle After Another |
Original Score (Best)
| Winner | Sinners |
| Other Nominees | Hamnet Bugonia Frankenstein One Battle After Another |
Adapted Screenplay (Best)
| Winner | One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Other Nominees | Bugonia – Will Tracy Pillion – Harry Lighton Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell The Ballad of Wallis Island – Tom Basden, Tim Key |
Costume Design (Best)
| Winner | Frankenstein |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Hamnet Marty Supreme Wicked: For Good |
Best Film not in the English language
| Winner | Sentimental Value (Norwegian: Affeksjonsverdi) |
| Other Nominees | Sirāt The Secret Agent It Was Just an Accident The Voice of Hind Rajab |
Outstanding British Film
| Winner | Hamnet |
| Other Nominees | Steve Pillion I Swear Mr Burton Die My Love H Is for Hawk 28 Years Later The Ballad of Wallis Island Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy |
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
| Winner | Robert Aramayo |
| Other Nominees | Miles Caton Chase Infiniti Posy Sterling Archie Madekwe |
Best Director
| Winner | One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Other Nominees | Hamnet – Chloé Zhao Sinners – Ryan Coogler Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier |
Leading Actor (Best)
| Winner | Robert Aramayo – I Swear |
| Other Nominees | Jesse Plemons – Bugonia Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon Michael B Jordan – Sinners Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another |
Leading Actress (Best)
| Winner | Jessie Buckley – Hamnet |
| Other Nominees | Emma Stone – Bugonia Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another |
Best Film
| Winner | One Battle After Another |
| Other Nominees | Sinners Hamnet Marty Supreme Sentimental Value |
Outstanding British contribution to cinema award
Clare Binns
Bafta fellowship
Donna Langley
So, that concludes our full list of the
Lastly, check out the Movie review of "One Battle After Another" (2025, USA) in our Focus Magazine.
Featured Image of the BAFTA Awards 2026 Winners: – Writer & Director Lakshmipriya Devi – Boong | Image Credit: Farhan Akhtar/Facebook.
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