Pregnant Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku breaks down in tears as she takes dwelling the primary British win on the 2026 BAFTAs as she is topped Best Supporting Actress

Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku couldn’t hold back her tears as she became the first British star to take home a gong at the British Academy Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.

After a star-studded red carpet, Hollywood’s finest settled into the iconic venue to reveal who had received the coveted honours.

Mosaku, who is pregnant with her second child, thanked her husband, family and daughter from the stage. 

The actress said that playing priestess Annie in the vampire drama Sinners she had connected with a part of herself which she had ‘dimmed as an immigrant trying to fit in.’

Ryan Coogler wrote the role of Hoodoo priestess Annie in Sinners especially for Mosaku, who was raised in Manchester and sang for 11 years in the Manchester Girls’ Choir.

Later, Wumni broke down into tears in the Winners Press Conference room on finding out Sinners’ director and writer, Ryan, won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay. 

Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku was the first British star to take home a gong at the British Academy Film Awards at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday

Mosaku, who is pregnant with her second child, thanked her husband, family and daughter from the stage 

She said: ‘Ryan credits everyone who’s ever poured into him. He doesn’t have an ego. He says, “I couldn’t have done it without you. You couldn’t have done it without the audience. You couldn’t have done it without the crew, catering, like everyone”. 

‘He lets everyone know on the set that they are so important and we can’t do it without them. So yeah, that’s what makes Ryan so special, because it’s true we, none of we all are standing on the shoulders of giants, and even if you feel small, you’re still a giant in someone’s world. 

‘And those are the people who poured into writing. And that’s why he saw he wasn’t affected by what the outside world told him was valuable. 

‘He said, “No, she’s valuable. I want Annie [Wumni’s character] to look like her, feel like her”, because those are the people who love him.’

A Rada graduate, she was catapulted into the spotlight in the 2010 film I Am Slave, in which she played a Sudanese girl sold into slavery.

She won a TV BAFTA as best supporting actress for her role as Damilola Taylor’s mother Gloria in Damilola, Our Loved Boy. She’s appeared in blockbusters Deadpool & Wolverine and Batman vs Superman.

Wunmi was born in Zaria, Nigeria to parents who are both professors. She now lives in Los Angeles and is expecting her second child.

‘It’s just been the best feeling ever because we really loved this film,’ said Wunmi, who has previously won a Bafta TV Award for her role as Gloria Taylor in the TV film Damilola, Our Loved Boy.

She said that playing priestess Annie in the vampire drama Sinners she had connected with a part of herself which she had ‘dimmed as an immigrant trying to fit in’

‘It’s just been the best feeling ever because we really loved this film,’ said Mosaku, who has previously won a Bafta Award for her role as Gloria Taylor in the film Damilola, Our Loved Boy 

She proudly posed with her gong after winning Best Supporting Actress 

Of Sinners, she said: ‘We really poured everything we had into it, and so the audiences showing up and showing so much love for the film last year was so overwhelming and so affirming. Now to have these nominations come in, it’s just been the cherry on top.’

The first award of the night was for Special Visual Effects, which was awarded to Avatar: Fire and Ash.

This year’s Special Award recipients include Dame Donna Langley, who will be honoured with this year’s BAFTA Fellowship, the arts charity’s highest accolade. 

The British Chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment will be celebrated for her prolific career and as of the most influential and respected figures in the entertainment industry.

Additionally, Clare Binns, Creative Director of Picture House Cinemas, will be presented with the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award. 

The honour recognises her role in championing diverse and fiercely independent work on big screens around the United Kingdom. 

One Battle After Another will be no doubt be hoping to win one award after another, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film earning a remarkable fourteen nominations at this year’s ceremony. 

But it faces stiff competition, notably from supernatural horror Sinners, with thirteen nominations, and Hamnet, director Chloé Zhao’s moving drama about the death of Shakespeare’s only son, with eleven. 

Adapted for the screen from Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel about the Bard’s family life, Hamnet has broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in BAFTA history. 

Irish star Jessie Buckley has been nominated for her lead role in the film after already scoring a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award and nominations for the Academy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. 

Co-star Paul Mescal, who was was snubbed during Oscar nominations, will also be hoping for an award after earning a Supporting Actor BAFTA nod. 

Elsewhere, Marty Supreme and Timothée Chalamet will be hoping to make it three times lucky after earning eleven BAFTA nominations, including Best Film and Best Actor, following recent wins at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. 

Frankenstein and Sentimental Value each have eight whilst there are five nominations for I Swear and Bugonia, and three nominations for The Ballad of Wallis Island, Pillion and F1. 

Ryan Coogler (pictured) wrote the role of Hoodoo priestess Annie in Sinners especially for Mosaku, who was raised in Manchester and sang for 11 years in the Manchester Girls’ Choir

Later, Wumni broke down into tears in the Winners Press Conference room on finding out Sinners’ director and writer, Ryan, won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay

Also vying for the Leading Actress BAFTA are Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue; Chase Infiniti for One Battle After Another; Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value and Emma Stone for Bugonia.

Leonardo DiCaprio could earn his second ever BAFTA after scoring his seventh nomination, this year for his Leading Actor performance in the already heavily decorated movie One Battle After Another.

First time BAFTA Film nominees include Robert Aramayo, Odessa A’zion, Rose Byrne, Chase Infiniti, Michael B. Jordan, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, and Teyana Taylor. 

Emma Baehr, Executive Director of Awards and Content, said: ‘We are delighted to welcome so many of this year’s remarkable nominees to London for the EE BAFTA Film Awards, a vibrant celebration of the creativity, craft and collaboration that goes into British and global cinema. 

‘It’s especially exciting to have such an impressive lineup of presenters joining us on the night, representing the very best of film and the wider creative industries. 

‘This year’s ceremony is set to be an unforgettable occasion for audiences at home and in the room.’ 

BAFTA’s mission as a charity is to champion the creative and cultural importance of the screen arts across film, games and television. 

Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of talent initiatives and learning events that include masterclasses, lectures, scholarships, bursaries and mentoring schemes in the UK and North America, BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, inspires and nurtures new screen talent, and enables learning and creative collaboration. 

The ceremony will be broadcast at 7pm on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, and on E! in North America at 8:00pm Eastern Time. The awards will also be available on a number of other broadcasters internationally.

EE BAFTA FILM AWARDS 2026: THE WINNERS

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 – WINNER 

I SWEAR 

MR BURTON 

PILLION 

STEVE

One Battle After Another earned the most nods with 14, including one for lead star Leonardo DiCaprio

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

THE CEREMONY Jack King (Director, Writer), Hollie Bryan (Producer), Lucy Meer (Producer)

MY FATHER’S SHADOW Akinola Davies Jr. (Director), Wale Davies (Writer) – WINNER

PILLION Harry Lighton (Director, Writer)

A WANT IN HER Myrid Carten (Director)

WASTEMAN Cal McMau (Director), Hunter Andrews (Writer), Eoin Doran (Writer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 

THE SECRET AGENT 

SENTIMENTAL VALUE – WINNER

SIRĀT 

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB 

Marty Supreme has scored eleven BAFTA nominations including Best Film

DOCUMENTARY

2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA 

APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS 

COVER-UP 

MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN – WINNER

THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR 

ANIMATED FILM

ELIO 

LITTLE AMÉLIE 

ZOOTROPOLIS 2 

CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM

ARCO 

BOONG – WINNER

LILO & STITCH 

ZOOTROPOLIS 2 

DIRECTOR

BUGONIA 

HAMNET 

MARTY SUPREME 

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 

SENTIMENTAL VALUE 

SINNERS

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

I SWEAR 

MARTY SUPREME 

THE SECRET AGENT 

SENTIMENTAL VALUE 

SINNERS – WINNER

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND 

BUGONIA 

HAMNET

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – WINNER

PILLION

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

Teyana Taylor has a Supporting Actress nomination for 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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

ODESSA A’ZION Marty Supreme

INGA IBSDOTTER LILLEAAS Sentimental Value

WUNMI MOSAKU Sinners – WINNER

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 – WINNER

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD Sentimental Value

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has earned 11 nods overall 

CASTING

I SWEAR Lauren Evans

MARTY SUPREME Jennifer Venditti

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Cassandra Kulukundis

SENTIMENTAL VALUE Yngvill Kolset Haga, Avy Kaufman

SINNERS Francine Maisler

CINEMATOGRAPHY

FRANKENSTEIN Dan Laustsen

MARTY SUPREME Darius Khondji

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Michael Bauman – WINNER

SINNERS Autumn Durald Arkapaw

TRAIN DREAMS Adolpho Veloso

EDITING 

F1 Stephen Mirrione

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Kirk Baxter

MARTY SUPREME Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Andy Jurgensen

SINNERS Michael P. Shawver

COSTUME DESIGN 

FRANKENSTEIN Kate Hawley – WINNER

HAMNET Malgosia Turzanska

MARTY SUPREME Miyako Bellizzi

SINNERS Ruth E. Carter

WICKED: FOR GOOD Paul Tazewell

MAKE UP & HAIR 

FRANKENSTEIN Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, Megan Many – WINNER

HAMNET Nicole Stafford

MARTY SUPREME Kyra Panchenko, Kay Georgiou, Mike Fontaine

SINNERS Siân Richards, Shunika Terry, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine

WICKED: FOR GOOD Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Mark Coulier, Sarah Nuth

ORIGINAL SCORE

BUGONIA Jerskin Fendrix

FRANKENSTEIN Alexandre Desplat

HAMNET Max Richter

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Jonny Greenwood

SINNERS Ludwig Göransson – WINNERS

Hamnet has broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in BAFTA history

PRODUCTION DESIGN 

FRANKENSTEIN Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – WINNER

HAMNET Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton

MARTY SUPREME Jack Fisk, Adam Willis

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino

SINNERS Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne

SOUND

F1 Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta – WINNER

FRANKENSTEIN Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitallie, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoem

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor

SINNERS Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco

WARFARE Mitch Low, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner

Sentimental Value has eight BAFTA nominations

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon – WINNER

F1 Ryan Tudhope, Keith Alfred Dawson, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington

FRANKENSTEIN Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Christian Mänz, Francois Lambert, Glen McIntosh, Terry Palmer

THE LOST BUS Charlie Noble, Brandon K. McLaughlin, David Zaretti

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION 

CARDBOARD 

SOLSTICE 

TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE  – WINNER

BRITISH SHORT FILM 

MAGID / ZAFAR 

NOSTALGIE 

TERENCE 

THIS IS ENDOMETRIOSIS – WINNER

WELCOME HOME FRECKLES 

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

ROBERT ARAMAYO – WINNER

MILES CATON

CHASE INFINITI

ARCHIE MADEKWE

POSY STERLING