Even though the Oscar nominations have been announced, there are still major nominations to come, as BAFTA are set to announce their nominees for this year’s British Academy Film Awards. With the longlists already out, it seems straightforward to predict who is getting nominated. But with BAFTA, you never know, as they love to surprise us with their picks, especially favouring British films that haven’t received any awards love across the pond. Recent shocks have included Viola Davis and Carey Mulligan missing Best Actress nominations for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Promising Young Woman, respectively, in favour of Alfre Woodard (Clemency), Radha Blank (The Fourty Year Old Version), and recent first time Oscar nominee for Sinners, Wunmi Mosaku (His House); eventual Oscar Best Picture winner CODA not even getting nominated for Best Film; and All Quiet on the Western Front turning its nomination leading tally of 14 into 7 wins, while Oscar sweeper Everything Everywhere All at Once came home with just 1 win (6 less than it received from AMPAS). While these nominations won’t give us clues for the Oscar race this year, it is still exciting to see who BAFTA go for. Here are our predictions:
BEST FILM
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Alt: Frankenstein
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
The Choral
Die My Love
H Is for Hawk
Hamnet
I Swear
Pillion
Steve
Warfare
Alt: Ballad of a Small Player
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
The Ceremony
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion
Urchin
Wasteman
Alt: A Want in Her
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
Alt: Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay
LEADING ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Alt: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
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
Alt: Harry Melling, Pillion
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Emily Watson, Hamnet
Alt: Brenda Blethyn, Dragonfly
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Alexander Skarsgård, Pillion
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Alt: Delroy Lindo, Sinners
CASTING
Hamnet
I Swear
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Alt: Marty Supreme
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
I Swear
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Alt: Blue Moon
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Pillion
Alt: Nuremberg
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Alt: Marty Supreme
COSTUME DESIGN
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Alt: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
EDITING
F1
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Alt: Frankenstein
MAKEUP & HAIR
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
Wicked: For Good
Alt: One Battle After Another
ORIGINAL SCORE
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Alt: Marty Supreme
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Alt: One Battle After Another
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
The Lost Bus
Superman
Alt: Jurassic World Rebirth
SOUND
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Alt: Avatar: Fire and Ash
CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
Arco
Elio
How To Train Your Dragon
Zootropolis 2
Alt: Little Amelie
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Alt: Sirāt
DOCUMENTARY
Cover-Up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Ocean With David Attenborough
One to One: John & Yoko
The Perfect Neighbour
Alt: Becoming Led Zepplin
ANIMATED FILM
Arco
Elio
Zootropolis 2
Alt: Little Amelie
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Cardboard
Ovary-Acting
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Alt: Solstice
BRITISH SHORT FILM
22+1
Nostalgie
This Is Endometriosis
Welcome Home Freckles
Wonderwall
Alt: Terence
The nominations for the 79th British Academy Film Awards will be announced on Tuesday, 26th January 2026.
Joseph Trusson is a BA Graduate in Film and Television Studies from the University of Nottingham and an MA Graduate in Film Distribution and Marketing from Birmingham City University. He specialises in film awards analysis and hosts the Best Picture Must Be Doing Something Right Podcast, and is covering the 2025/26 Awards Season for Celestial Cinephile. You can find him on Letterboxd @JosephT.
