Sean Penn and Wunmi Mosaku crowned BAFTA winners as star-studded ceremony gets underway: Live updates

Paddington has presented the Bafta for best children or family film to Boong.

Before he handed out the gong, the star of the West End musical version of the children’s story said:

Mrs Brown says me giving this award is something of a first for Bafta, the first bear to present a Bafta.

I’m also the first presenter to get marmalade all over a Bafta. I was going to lick it off, but apparently that is not very good manners.

He added:

I’m meant to open the envelope but it’s not easy with paws, but bear with me. The slightly sticky Bafta goes to Boong.

• WINNER  Boong
• Arco
• Lilo & Stitch
• Zootropolis 2

One Battle After Another has scooped its first BAFTA of the evening as Sean Penn is crowned best supporting actor.

Penn is not in London to take to the stage so Gillian Anderson who announced the awards jokes she will ‘take it’.

• WINNER Sean Penn – One Battle After Another  (not there to accept)
• Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
• Paul Mescal – Hamnet
• Peter Mullan – I Swear
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

British actress Wunmi Mosaku has won the BAFTA best supporting actress for her portrayal of Annie in vampire horror Sinners.

Accepting her award on stage, she told the audience: ‘I found part of myself in Annie.. part of myself I had to dim as an immigrant’.

Paying tribute to the film’ director, Ryan Coogler, she added: ‘Your commitment to artistry, truth and humanity is to be treasured and protected at all costs.’

The nominees were

• Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
• Odessa A’Zion – Marty Supreme
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
• Carey Mulligan – The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
• Emily Watson – Hamnet

We have our first result of the evening.

Here it is…

Best Special Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash – WINNER

F1

Frankenstein

How to Train Your Dragon

The Lost Bus

Alan Cumming has opened the 2026 Bafta film awards saying ‘watching films this year was like taking part in a collective nervous breakdown.’

He referred to the distress and anxiety of films including Hamnet, One Battle After Another and Frankenstein, saying:

‘It’s almost like there are events in the real world that are influencing filmmakers,’ before suggesting: ‘It would be a good idea if we had one big collective primal scream.’

There was also levity when he referred to Paul Mescal’s nominated performance as William Shakespeare and said: ‘I’m not sure what seat Paul Mescal is in? Is it 2B or not…?’

The 79th BAFTA Film Awards is officially underway at Royal Festival Hall.

The ceremony is taking place now and will be televised on BBC One from 7pm.

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

Sinners is just behind with 13 nods whilst Marty Supreme and Hamnet scored eleven each.

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

Stick with us as we bring you all the winners.

Irish actors Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley – who are both nominated for their roles in Hamnet – were photographed together at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, as were Hollywood couple Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons.

Buckley is tipped for victory after proving unbeatable so far through the awards season for her performance as Shakespeare’s wife Agnes Hathaway – historically known as Anne – in Hamnet.

The big-screen adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel about the family life of William Shakespeare and the death of their young son, helmed by Chloe Zhao, broke the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in Bafta history, with 11.

The nominations include best film, outstanding British film and best director for Zhao.

Mescal, who plays Shakespeare, is nominated for best supporting actor, while co-star Watson is nominated for best supporting actress.

It is no longer just the A-list that attend the prestigious awards ceremonies after being nominated for their film success from the past year.

There has been a growing trend in reality stars and influencers receiving invitations to the event and rubbing shoulders with Hollywood’s elite at the celebration.

Among the unlikely attendees at the EE BAFTA Film Awards this year, which were hosted at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, were Lottie Tomlinson, Vogue Williams and her husband Spencer and Maura Higgins.

This year’s BAFTAs now has a touch of royalty as Prince William and Kate arrive on the red carpet.

Our eyewitness told how workers at the film awards went ‘crazy’ as they cleared celebrities for the royal couple to arrive.

The BAFTAs marks the couple’s first appearance in public since the arrest of William’s uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in what has proved a week of turmoil for the Royal Family.