{"id":105261,"date":"2026-02-23T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/one-battle-after-another-wins-big-at-britains-bafta-film-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:43:09","slug":"one-battle-after-another-wins-big-at-britains-bafta-film-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/one-battle-after-another-wins-big-at-britains-bafta-film-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"'One Battle After Another' wins big at Britain's BAFTA film awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON\u2014Dark comedy \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d was the big winner at Britain\u2019s top movie awards on Sunday, picking up six BAFTAs including best film and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It beat home favourite, the tearjerker \u201cHamnet\u201d, and vampire thriller \u201cSinners\u201d, which has a record number of Oscar nominations, in the big two categories in the ceremony, where Prince William and Princess Kate were guests of honour.
\u201cWe have a line from Nina Simone that we stole in our film. She says \u2018I know what freedom is, it\u2019s no fear\u2019,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo let\u2019s keep making things without fear, it\u2019s a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson also picked up the award for best adapted screenplay, while Sean Penn beat his co-star Benicio del Toro among others for best supporting actor.<\/p>\n

The critical hit also won best cinematography and best editing to total six prizes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinners\u201d, which has 16 Oscar nods, won best original screenplay for writer and director Ryan Coogler, best supporting actress for Wunmi Mosaku, and best original score.<\/p>\n

SURPRISE IN BEST ACTOR CATEGORY<\/h3>\n

The biggest surprise was Robert Aramayo beating Timothee Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Ethan Hawke and Jesse Plemons to win best actor for his acclaimed performance as Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson in \u201cI Swear\u201d.<\/p>\n

He accepted the award \u2013 his second of the evening after picking up the rising star prize \u2013 in tears, saying \u201cI absolutely can\u2019t believe it.\u201d
Asked before the ceremony what it would mean to him to win, Aramayo told Reuters: \u201cI haven\u2019t even engaged with that thought to be honest with you, I just feel really, really lucky to be on that list of names.\u201d<\/p>\n

Favourite Jessie Buckley won best actress for playing Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare, in \u201cHamnet\u201d, based on the novel by Maggie O\u2019Farrell and directed by previous Oscar winner Chloe Zhao.<\/p>\n

The film also won outstanding British film, but it lost out on the two major awards, including best film, where its home advantage had made it a favourite.<\/p>\n

The awards, hosted by Alan Cumming, were the first joint engagement for William and Kate since William\u2019s uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday.<\/p>\n

William, president of the film academy, presented the BAFTA Fellowship to Donna Langley, studio head at NBCUniversal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON\u2014Dark comedy \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d was the big winner at Britain\u2019s top movie awards on Sunday, picking up six BAFTAs including best film and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson. It beat home favourite, the tearjerker \u201cHamnet\u201d, and vampire thriller \u201cSinners\u201d, which has a record number of Oscar nominations, in the big two categories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FotoJet-149.jpg?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}