Key events
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WINNER! Sentimental Value, film not in the English language
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WINNER! Frankenstein, best costume design
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WINNER! Paul Thomas Anderson, best adapted screenplay
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WINNER! Akinola Davies Jr and Wale Davies, Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
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WINNER! Ryan Coogler, best original screenplay
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WINNER! Boong, best children’s and family film
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WINNER! Sean Penn, best supporting actor
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WINNER! Wunmi Mosaku, best supporting actress
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WINNER! Avatar: Fire and Ash, best visual effects
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Unsure what just happened, but Alan Cumming just called out Paul Mescal for being on his phone. Everyone looks embarrassed, but it will still qualify as perhaps only the sixth weirdest thing that has happened tonight.
WINNER! Sentimental Value, film not in the English language
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Joachim Trier accepts the award, pointing out that this is the first time a Norwegian film has won a Bafta. He uses his speech to point out that the films nominated this year are different from phone adverts.
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Alia Bhatt is here to present film not in the English language, which she does not in the English language. Form and content, solid presentation, 7/10
WINNER! Frankenstein, best costume design
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Sadly, Frankenstein can’t be here tonight, so here to collect the award on his behalf is the woman who made his clothes. You have no idea how long I’ve been sitting on this joke.
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Hannah Waddingham is here to present best costume design, and describes tonight as “gently raucous”, which is a nice way to describe the sight of several A-listers being thrown by the sound of loud Tourette tics.
WINNER! Paul Thomas Anderson, best adapted screenplay
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For One Battle After Another. The fightback against Sinners begins. Anderson nearly drops his award, and says how much he loves London. It’s a short speech, the sort one gives when you think you may be back for another one soon.
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Adapted screenplay now, presented by Warwick Davis, who suggests that he was asked to present because Bafta already had a miniature lectern they wanted to reuse.
WINNER! Akinola Davies Jr and Wale Davies, Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
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For My Father’s Shadow. Very sweet, and very brief speech.
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Cumming is in the audience again, telling Paul Mescal off for being younger than him, before he introduces Ethan Hawke. He’s presenting outstanding British debut.
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And now the KPop Demon Hunters people are singing Golden. It’s the first time they’ve performed this outside of the states, apparently. As ever with these things, it’s always weird when a film awards show does something that’s sincerely popular. Shame they’re doing it to a sea of uniformly blank faces (aside from Chase Infiniti and the kid from Hamnet), but that doesn’t stop it from being the best part of the evening so far.
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Cumming is doing the thing where he goes out into the audience with snacks. He gives Emma Stone some Hula Hoops. He gives Stormzy some Skips. Chalamet gets some Scampi Fries. DiCaprio gets a flapjack. This is getting more laughs than his monologue. Which admittedly wouldn’t take much, but still.
WINNER! Ryan Coogler, best original screenplay
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For Sinners. So far, it’s is looking like Sinners may run away with the evening. Coogler seems surprised and a little nervous. He’s talking about his first time in the UK, when his driver showed him where Marcus Garvey lived. He shouts out his fellow nominees, too. This is a very good speech, not least for how sincerely off the cuff it sounds.
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Kathryn Hahn and Bryan Cranston are here now, to present best original screenplay. They promise the audience that the characters they play in The Studio are not based on anyone in attendance. They’re taking more time than Paddington, which I think qualifies as treason in this country.
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Clearly nobody was expecting Boong win, because the winners were all hidden away at the back of the auditorium and they took about a thousand years to get to the stage. Hopefully this doesn’t cut into any of the montages.
WINNER! Boong, best children’s and family film
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An unexpected winner, especially against a juggernaut like Zootropolis 2. But Boong is a lovely Indian Manipuri-language coming-of-age drama. And also, what a great thing that Bafta has this category.
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Paddington is making a joke about getting marmalade on his award, which is nice because it distracts everyone from his cold, dead eyes.
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Here comes the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Paddington Bear is here, as a presenter and not to accompany members of the royal family to the afterlife like he does on Facebook.
WINNER! Sean Penn, best supporting actor
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For One Battle After Another. So not Skarsgård, then. Even more awkwardly, Skarsgård is there and Penn is not. Nobody is there to collect his award. Oh well.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/film/live/2026/feb/22/baftas-2026-the-red-carpet-the-ceremony-the-winners-follow-live
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