BAFTAs 2026 nominations in full as Pillion and Wicked: For Good get nods

The BAFTA nominations are in and ‘Thank Goodness’ Wicked: For Good has actually been recognised, as has the BDSM rom-com, Pillion.

The nominations for 2026 were announced on Tuesday (27 January) ahead of the ceremony due to take place at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 22 February.

Much like the Oscars, Sinners is one of the most recognised films this year with 13 nominations. That’s beaten only by One Battle After Another which has 14.

Wicked: For Good managed to secure two nominations at the BAFTAs – one for Costume Design and another for Make-up and Hair. There was an outcry last week when the Oscar nominations were announced and the sequel to 2024’s Wicked failed to pick up a single nod.

Though, we’re still sad that neither Cynthia Erivo nor Ariana Grande, who were up for the Leading Actress and Supporting Actress categories last year were recognised for their work in the sequel.

Some experts have wondered if the reason why Wicked: For Good has failed to make much traction during this awards season is partly due to a historic lack of recognition for sequels, as well as the source musical’s second act never having really lived up to the first.

Meanwhile, it’s good news too for Pillion, the gay BDSM rom-com starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling. The film, which follows the love story between the dom biker, Ray (Skarsgård) and his sub, Colin (Melling) has been recognised in the Outstanding British Film, Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, and Adapted Screenplay categories.

If won, the last two would go to the out-gay director, Harry Lighton, who made his feature debut with the film based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Lighton is also named in the Outstanding British Film category alongside Emma Norton, Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe.

Also recognised for Sound is Warfare, which starred Heartstopper‘s Kit Connor among others. And Ethan Hawke is also up for Leading Actor for his turn as lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon. Hart is reported to have been gay despite proposing to women.

Queer filmmaker Adrian Molina and Pixar’s Elio is nominated for Animated Film. Following the film’s release, it came out that the titular character was explicitly “queer-coded” but that got “sanded down”.

The nominations might just be enough to allay the frustration of those accusing the Academy Awards of being “Oscars so straight”.

The 2026 BAFTA nominees in full are:

Best film

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Outstanding British film

• 28 Years Later
• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy
• Die My Love
• H Is For Hawk
• Hamnet
• I Swear
• Mr Burton
• Pillion
• Steve

Leading actress

• 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

Leading actor

• 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

Supporting actress

• Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
• Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
• Carey Mulligan – The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
• Emily Watson – Hamnet

Supporting actor

• Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
• Paul Mescal – Hamnet
• Peter Mullan – I Swear
• Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Director

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

Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

• The Ceremony
• My Father’s Shadow
• Pillion
• A Want In Her
• Wasteman

Film not in the English language

• It Was Just An Accident 
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value 
• Sirât
• The Voice of Hind Rajab 

Documentary

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

Animated film

• Elio
• Little Amélie
• Zootropolis 2

Children’s and family film

• Arco
• Boong
• Lilo & Stitch
• Zootropolis 2 

Original screenplay

• I Swear
• Marty Supreme
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Adapted screenplay

• The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Bugonia
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Pillion

EE Bafta rising star award

• Robert Aramayo
• Miles Caton
• Chase Infiniti
• Archie Madekwe
• Posy Sterling

Original score

• Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
• Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
• Hamnet – Max Richter
• One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
• Sinners – Ludwig Göransson

Casting

• I Swear
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another 
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners 

Cinematography

• Frankenstein
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another 
• Sinners 
• Train Dreams 

Costume design

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet 
• Marty Supreme 
• Sinners
• Wicked: For Good 

Editing

• F1 
• A House of Dynamite 
• Marty Supreme 
• One Battle After Another 
• Sinners 

Production design

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Make-up and hair

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners
• Wicked: For Good

Sound

• F1
• Frankenstein
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Warfare

Special visual effects

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

British short film

• Magid / Zafar 
• Nostalgie
• Terence
• This Is Endometriosis 
• Welcome Home Freckles 

British short animation

• Cardboard
• Solstice
• Two Black Boys in Paradise

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