BAFTA-2026: Most Awards for "One Battle After Another", Best Documentary Film Was "Mr. Nobody Against Putin"
The film "One Battle After Another" won in six categories — despite being nominated in 14. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Film, Anderson became Best Director, and Sean Penn's work was named Best Supporting Role.
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Paul Thomas Anderson. Photo: Tristan Fewings / BAFTA / Getty Images for BAFTA
The expected triumph of this year's British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards ceremony was director Paul Thomas Anderson's film "One Battle After Another". In the "Best Documentary Film" category, the film Mr. Nobody Against Putin («Спадар Ніхто супраць Пуціна») by Ural geography teacher Pavel Talankin and American documentarian David Borenstein won, writes the BBC.
Anderson's film, starring DiCaprio in the main role, with Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro in supporting roles, tells the story of a revolutionary who succumbed to alcoholism and re-enters the fight when his daughter is persecuted by a corrupt police officer.
"One Battle After Another" became one of the high-profile cinematic events of last year and received positive reviews from critics.
The film "One Battle After Another" won in six categories — despite being nominated in 14. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Film, Anderson became Best Director, and Sean Penn's work was named Best Supporting Role (the actor was not present at the ceremony). Additionally, the film received awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
"Anyone who claims cinema is no longer worth anything can go [expletive] much further. Let's make films and fear nothing!" — said Anderson during the ceremony.
Prior to this, he had never received an award in this category. His only BAFTA prize remained a "mask" for the 2022 film "Licorice Pizza" in the Best Original Screenplay category.
Anderson's work was also named Best Film at the recent Golden Globes ceremony, and it is nominated for several Oscars — which will be presented on March 15.
Films with the most awards this year:
"One Battle After Another" — 6
"The Sinners" — 3
Film about Russian Propaganda — Best Documentary Film
The BAFTA Award for Best Documentary Film went to "Mr. Nobody Against Putin", which Talankin made in his school in a small town near Chelyabinsk. The film tells about the work of Russian propaganda after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Talankin left Russia, taking the filmed material with him, and then, together with Borenstein, edited it into a documentary. Their work is also nominated for an Oscar.
During the awards ceremony, Borenstein addressed Talankin and said: "Thank you for showing me that no matter how bleak things look – whether in Russia or on the streets of Minneapolis – we always have a moral choice." "It doesn't matter who we are, there is power in our actions. To quote J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Courage is found in unlikely places.' We need more 'Mr. Nobodies,'" the director added.
Among the contenders for the BAFTA prize in this category was also the film by Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov, who in 2024 received an Oscar for "20 Days in Mariupol" — a film about the siege of Mariupol by Russian forces.
His "2000 Meters to Andriivka", which tells the story of the unsuccessful Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, was nominated for Best Documentary Film this year.
Other Winners This Year
Unexpected success at the BAFTA ceremony awaited the film "I Swear" (its English title is based on a pun, as the phrase "I swear" can mean "I curse" but is most often used to mean "I promise you").
It tells the story of John Davidson, a Scottish activist who advocates for awareness of Tourette's syndrome (a neurological disorder in which people sometimes involuntarily shout expletives).
The lead actor in this film, Robert Aramayo, was named Best Actor — in this category, he surpassed Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothée Chalamet.
Davidson himself, about whom the BBC made a documentary in 1989 titled "John's Not Mad", was present at the ceremony.
Furthermore, the horror film "The Sinners" won in three categories: Best Supporting Actress (Wunmi Mosaku), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Music. Mosaku became the first British actress in four years to receive a BAFTA in this category.
"The Sinners", also nominated for several Oscars, somewhat challenge the traditional approach whereby horror films usually do not succeed at awards ceremonies.
The film tells the story of twin brothers (played by one actor) who return to 1930s Mississippi to open a bar, which is then attacked by bloodthirsty vampires.
Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" — another adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel — received three awards for Best Production Design, as well as Best Makeup and Best Costume Design.
This film, made for the Netflix streaming service, notably features a ship frozen in Arctic ice, as well as Frankenstein's laboratory atop a Victorian water tower.
Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet", whose plot is based on Maggie O'Farrell's novel of the same name, received awards in three categories. It is a fictionalized account of the life of William Shakespeare's son, who died at age 11.
Irish actress Jessie Buckley was named Best Actress for her role as Agnes Shakespeare (she had previously also received a Golden Globe for it).
"Hamnet" was also named Outstanding British Film.
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