The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards take place this Sunday evening at London’s Royal Festival Hall. The British answer to the Oscars will see a whole host of movie stars hit the red carpet this weekend. This year, the favourite for Best Film is One Battle After Another, and Outstanding British Film is expected to go to Hamnet. Below are the five Best Film nominees from Hamnet to Sinners, followed by the 10 nods for Outstanding British Film from 28 Years Later to Steve. Note that Hamnet is the only movie nominated in both categories. Check out the plots, trailers and where you can watch each movie on streaming.

Hamnet (Rent for £15.99 or Buy for £19.99 on Apple TV or Prime Video)

The big screen adaptation of the 2020 novel of the same name follows Paul Mescal’s Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) getting together, having kids and then dealing with the grief of losing their son Hamnet via the play Hamlet. It’s heavy stuff, just a shame it’s incredibly dull and self-indulgent, despite the subject matter. Read our two star review for this Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes Hollywood luvvie snoozefest here.

Marty Supreme (Rent for £15.99 or Buy for £19.99 on Apple TV or Prime Video)

Josh Safdie’s 5 star comedy-drama is Forrest Gump meets Uncut Gems. Timothée Chalamet stars as a 1950s ping pong champion who also happens to be a terrible person. Marty will throw anyone and everyone under the bus to meet his goals. An incredible satire of the American success myth.

One Battle After Another (Rent for £4.99 on Apple TV or Buy for £9.99 on Prime Video)

Set on the Texas-Mexico border, Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor star as revolutionaries Bob and Perfidia Beverly Hills, who raid sites holding illegal immigrants in cages, rob banks to fund their cause and bomb government buildings. Flash forward 16 years, and single father Bob is raising their daughter Willa when former comrades get in contact and a whirlwind begins with Leo running around in a dressing gown with a rifle, desperately trying to charge his phone. Paul Thomas Anderson’s black comedy is decent but has been massively overhyped by being hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. To make such a declaration so early amounts to nothing more than cringe. Check out our four star review here.

Sentimental Value (MUBI or MUBI via Prime Video)

This Norwegian drama stars Stellan Skarsgård as an estranged film director father, who reunites with his two daughters. When the actress of the two declines his offer to lead his latest feature, he hires Elle Fanning’s American movie star instead. The hype around this one is slightly overblown; it’s alright.

Sinners (NOW)

Ryan Coogler’s 1930s Southern vampire horror is incredibly ambitious, with Michael B Jordan playing twin brothers. Very much a film of two halves, the first is grounded in 1930s Mississippi, before the second half, when the fangs come out amid themes of music appropriation. Check out our four star review here.

28 Years Later (NOW)

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland return for a follow up to their 2002 horror classic, 28 Days Later. Set in the same universe, the zombie apocalypse has left Great Britain isolated and quarantined. The story this time around focuses on a group of survivors led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jodie Comer. Our best film of 2025, read our five star review here. The first film in a trilogy, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple hit cinemas last month and Cillian Murphy’s Jim will lead 28 Years Later 3.

The Ballad of Wallis Island (NOW)

Tim Key stars in this comedy-drama about the wealthy fan of a folk duo (Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan), who pays for them, a former couple, to reunite on a remote British island.

Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy (NOW)

Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth reprise their roles in the fourth Bridget Jones movie to date. Now widowed, Bridget starts dating Leo Woodall’s Roxster, who’s a couple of decades her junior.

Die My Love (MUBI or MUBI via Prime Video)

Lynne Ramsay’s latest film follows Jennifer Lawrence as a young mother in rural Montana living with severe postpartum depression and psychosis. Robert Pattinson co-stars as her husband.

H Is For Hawk (still exclusively in cinemas)

Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson star in the true story about a woman who looks after a Goshawk after her father dies.

I Swear (Rent for £5.49 or Buy for £9.99 on Apple TV or Prime Video)

Robert Aramayo stars as John Davidson, a real-life Scottish man with severe Tourette’s during the 1980s and 1990s, when the condition wasn’t recognised properly.

Mr Burton (BBC iPlayer)

This biopic about the early life of Richard Burton stars Harry Lawtey as the future Welsh Hollywood star and Toby Jones as his adoptive father, teacher and mentor, Philip Burton. Lesley Manville also features as Ma Smith.

Pillion (Rent for £9.99 or Buy for £14.99 on Apple TV or Prime Video)

Harry Melling stars as a timid gay man who starts a BDSM relationship with Alexander Skarsgård’s biker.

Steve (Netflix)

Cillian Murphy stars in the title role as a headmaster at a boys’ school for those with societal and behavioural problems.

The 79th British Academy Film Awards takes place at the Royal Festival Hall at London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday evening and will be broadcast on BBC One that evening at 7pm.