2026 BAFTA Round-Up

What's so unique about the British Academy's own film awards each year, is not so particularly British at all.  It's so fairly about the best of the cinema, that's chosen, along with the public, the fans would go to.

But this year, Feb. 22, its 79th, the gold statue handed out to the Best Lead Actor, Robert Aramayo, the British star, right after picking up the Rising Star Award, and beating out DiCaprio, Chalamet, from an indie biopic of a real life drama, "I Swear."

And the best actress award went to an Irish star, Jessie Buckley, not too much shock there, the favorite, from "Hamnet", all the same, no odds, the best picture was won by also the favorite, "One Battle After Another".