‘One Battle After One other’ wins six prizes at Britain’s BAFTA Movie Awards

Politically charged motion thriller ‘One Battle After One other’ has received six prizes, together with ‘Finest Image’ at Britain’s BAFTA movie awards. Vampire saga ‘Sinners’ and gothic horror story ‘Frankenstein’ every received three prizes. Paul Thomas Anderson was named ‘Finest Director’ for ‘One Battle After One other’. Jessie Buckley received one of the best actress prize for ‘Hamnet’. Robert Aaramayo took the ‘Finest Actor’ prize for the British indie movie ‘I Swear’, beating stars together with Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet.

The British awards supply clues about who might win on the Academy Awards in Hollywood subsequent month. Hollywood stars and British celebrities, from Paddington Bear to the Princess of Wales, gathered Sunday for the British Academy Movie Awards, the place politically charged thriller ‘One Battle After One other’ and blues-steeped epic ‘Sinners’ fought it out for the highest prizes.

The 2 movies are each up for ‘Finest Image’ and snagged early prizes, with Wunmi Mosaku taking the ‘Supporting Actress’ award for ‘Sinners’ and Sean Penn successful the supporting actor trophy for ‘One Battle After One other’.

‘Sinners’ writer-director Ryan Coogler additionally received the prize for ‘Finest Authentic Screenplay’, whereas ‘One Battle…’ filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson took the trophy for ‘Finest Tailored Screenplay’.

The very best movie nominees are ‘One Battle After One other’, ‘Hamnet’, ‘Marty Supreme’, ‘Sinners’ and ‘Sentimental Worth’.

Shakespearean household tragedy ‘Hamnet’ was named greatest ‘British Movie’ – a separate class – and oddsmakers steered it may beat the front-runners to greatest image if British movie business voters reply to the emotionally wealthy story, earthy English setting and intense performances in Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s historic novel.

Stars together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, Cillian Murphy, Glenn Shut and Ethan Hawke had been amongst these strolling the pink carpet outdoors London’s Royal Competition Corridor earlier than a black-tie ceremony hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming.

Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, additionally attended, three days after William’s uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested by police and held for 11 hours over allegations he despatched delicate authorities info to the late financier and intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The scandal has rocked the royal household, led by King Charles III, although William and Kate stay common standard-bearers for the monarchy. William is because of current an award in his function as president of the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts.

Among the many greatest receptions from gathered followers was for Paddington, the puppet bear who stars in a musical stage adaptation of the beloved youngsters’s basic.

‘One Battle…’ went into the ceremony with 14 nominations, together with ‘Finest Image’ and performing nods for 5 of its solid. ‘Sinners’ was simply behind with 13, whereas ‘Hamnet’ and the ping-pong odyssey ‘Marty Supreme’ every had 11 nominations.

Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of ‘Frankenstein’ and Norwegian household drama ‘Sentimental Worth’ every bought eight nominations.

‘Frankenstein’ took awards for manufacturing design, costume design and for the hair and make-up artists, who spent 10 hours a day reworking Jacob Elordi into the film’s monstrous creature.

‘Sentimental Worth’ received the prize for the ‘Finest Movie Not in English’.

The British prizes, formally referred to as the EE BAFTA Movie Awards, typically present hints about who will win at Hollywood’s Academy Awards, held this yr on March 15. Within the Oscar nominations, ‘Sinners’ leads the race with a file 16 nominations, adopted by ‘One Battle After One other’ with 13.

Cumming advised the viewers that it had been a powerful yr for cinema, if not a cheerful one, with nominated movies tackling themes together with youngster demise, racism and political violence: “Watching the movies this yr was like collaborating in a collective nervous breakdown,” he stated. “It’s nearly as if there are occasions happening in the actual world which can be influencing filmmakers.”

The ceremony was extra glitz than gloom, although, together with a efficiency by Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami – the voices of animated band ‘HUNTR/X’ in field workplace juggernaut ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ – singing the film hit ‘Golden’.

Directing contenders are Anderson for ‘One Battle…’, Josh Safdie for ‘Marty Supreme’, Coogler for ‘Sinners’, Yorgos Lanthimos for dystopian tragicomedy ‘Bugonia’, Joachim Trier for ‘Sentimental Worth’ and Zhao for ‘Hamnet’. Zhao would be the first feminine director to win two BAFTAs if she takes the prize. She received the directing award in 2021 for ‘Nomadland’.

‘Finest Main Actor’ nominees are bookies’ favorite Chalamet for ‘Marty Supreme’, DiCaprio for ‘One Battle After One other’, Ethan Hawke for Broadway biopic ‘Blue Moon’, Michael B Jordan for ‘Sinners’, Jesse Plemons for ‘Bugonia’ and Robert Aramayo for taking part in an advocate for individuals with Tourette’s syndrome in biographical drama ‘I Swear’.

The ‘Finest Documentary’ prize went to ‘Mr. No person Towards Putin’, a few Russian trainer who documented the propaganda imposed on Russian faculties after the invasion of Ukraine.

The movie’s American director, David Borenstein, stated that trainer Pavel Talankin had proven that ‘whether or not it’s in Russia or the streets of Minneapolis, we at all times face an ethical selection’, referring to the protests in opposition to US immigration enforcement in Minnesota. “We want extra Mr Nobodies,” he stated.

Like yearly, the world of leisure misplaced a number of artists across the globe in 2025-2026. The ‘In Memoriam’ section on the BAFTA Awards paid tribute to the departed. Alongside towering Hollywood legends, an Indian actor additionally featured prominently within the featurette. It was the late legendary Dharmendra, who breathed his final on November 24, 2025.

Dharmendra’s title and movie appeared subsequent to these of German actor Udo Kier and French actor-singer Brigitte Bardot. British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware rendered Barbara Streisand’s title tune of Sydney Pollack’s 1973 romantic movie ‘The Approach We Have been’ in reminiscence of the artists who handed away within the final yr.

Robert Redford, American actor and filmmaker, who performed the lead reverse Barbara in ‘The Approach We Have been’, additionally featured prominently within the section. So did Annie Corridor (1977), actress Diane Keaton, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ star Catherine O’Hara, ‘When Harry Met Sally’ (1989) director Rob Reiner, ‘The Godfather’ (1972) star Robert Duvall and ‘The French Connection’ (1971) actor Gene Hackman.

Different artists who additionally featured within the section on the BAFTAs this yr embody American actors Diane Ladd and Terence Stamp, British actor Pauline Collins OBE, British screenwriters Tom Stoppard and Graham Greene, amongst different artists and technicians. One of many longest snippets within the featurette, together with Redford, O’Hara, Keaton and Hackman, was reserved for Val Kilmer, from his memorable change with Tom Cruise in Tony Scott’s 1986 blockbuster motion movie ‘Prime Gun’.

Nevertheless, the web couldn’t assist however level out two main omissions within the BAFTAs’ section – ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ actor Eric Dane and ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actor James Van Der Beek, each of whom handed away earlier this month. Different Indian actors like Manoj Kumar, Satish Shah, Asrani and others, who handed away final yr, had been additionally not featured within the section.