Nigeria’s born actors, Wunmi Mosaku and Davies brothers, were the cynosure of all eyes at the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards held in London on Sunday, February 22.
For her role in Sinners, Wunmi Mosaku received Best Supporting Actress award, adding another significant milestone to her impressive global profile.
Prior to this, Mosaku has earned BAFTA honour when she won the Supporting Actress plaque for Damilola, Our Loved Boy at the 2017 BAFTA Television Awards.
Also on the BAFTA’s roll of honour were Nigerian siblings, Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies, who won Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for their work, My Father’s Shadow.
Set in Lagos during the 1993 election crisis, the film follows a father and his two sons as they move through the city in a tense political moment.
Aside the Nigerian wins, however, One Battle After Another led the night with six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson. Sinners also won Original Screenplay and Original Score, giving the title three wins overall.
Full list of winners:
Best Film
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Winner: One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best Actor
Winner: 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
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Peter Mullan, I Swear
Winner: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Best Supporting Actress
Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Winner: Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Carey Mulligan, The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Emily Watson, Hamnet
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
Winner: One Battle After Another
Pillion
Best Original Screenplay
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Winner: 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
Winner: Hamnet
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
Steve
Best Animated Film
Elio
Little Amélie
Winner: Zootopia 2
Best Film Not in the English Language
It Was Just an Accident
The Secret Agent
Winner: Sentimental Value
Sirāt
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best Documentary Film
2,000 Meters to Andriivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
Winner: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
Best Children’s & Family Film
Arco
Winner: Boong
Lilo & Stitch
Zootopia 2
Best Editing
A House of Dynamite
F1
Marty Supreme
Winner: One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Casting
Winner: I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Winner: One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Production Design
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Sound
Winner: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Best Special Visual Effects
Winner: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
Best Costume Design
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Mary Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Makeup and Hair
Winner: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Original Score
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Winner: Sinners
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema
Clare Binns
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer
Pillion
The Ceremony
Wasteman
A Want In Her
Winner: My Father’s Shadow
Best British Short Animation
Cardboard
Solstice
Winner: Two Black Boys in Paradise
Best British Short Film
Welcome Home Freckles
Magid/Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
Winner: This Is Endometriosis
EE Rising Star Award
Winner: Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling