{"id":312303,"date":"2026-02-23T02:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312303\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:29:16","slug":"timothee-chalamet-wunmi-mosaku-sean-penn-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312303\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothee Chalamet, Wunmi Mosaku, Sean Penn, Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards did plenty to pump up One Battle After Another<\/a>‘s bona fides \u2014 as if the film needed it \u2014 with Paul Thomas Anderson’s juggernaut racking up a half-dozen trophies<\/a>, including Best Picture and Best Director, to dominate the evening and tighten its grip on the Academy Awards race.<\/p>\n

And One Battle wasn’t the only contender to lock up some Oscars<\/a> on Sunday. Jessie Buckley continued her dominating march towards Best Actress for Hamnet, as did below-the-liners like Frankenstein (Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hair) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (Best Special Visual Effects). But the biggest buzz coming out of the BAFTAS had less to do with the favorites who won and everything about the jaw-dropping surprises \u2014 none more so than Oscar frontrunner Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>\u00a0losing Best Actor.<\/p>\n

\"Robert<\/a> \"Conan<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s our instant analysis of the BAFTAs and what it portends for the rest of the Oscar race.<\/p>\n

Timothee Chalamet suddenly on shaky ground?<\/p>\n

Trivia time: In the last 10 years, BAFTA and Oscar voters have only disagreed on the Best Actor of the year\u00a0once. And that happened at the 2023 BAFTA ceremony, when\u00a0Austin Butler’s Elvis torpedoed\u00a0Brendan Fraser\u00a0in\u00a0The Whale\u00a0\u2014 one of Fraser’s only major losses that cycle.<\/p>\n

\"TimotheeTimoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Kylie JennerPhoto by Carlo Paloni\/BAFTA via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Going into Sunday, we were hoping BAFTA voters would help settle the question of whether or not Chalamet\u00a0really is\u00a0too young to win a Best Actor statuette<\/a> from the Academy. Instead, the Brits punted and went with one of their own in the wildest surprise of the BAFTAs. Robert Aramayo \u2014 best known here for playing young Ned Stark on Game of Thrones and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power \u2014 won for the U.K. film I Swear, a biopic about a young Scottish man with Tourette syndrome who becomes a renowned advocate honored by the queen. Aramayo’s performance wowed his homeland as he was also named Rising Star over the likes of One Battle\u2019s Chase Infiniti and Sinners<\/a>\u2019 Miles Caton \u2014 leaving the Best Actor race less of a certainty.<\/p>\n

But I Swear won’t be eligible for the Oscars until 2027, and we still need to figure out the 2026 edition. Chalamet’s loss here might open up a race he has led \u2014 and continues to lead per the Gold Derby charts \u2014 for months. <\/p>\n

Best Actor<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

\"Timothee<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet <\/p>\n

Marty Supreme<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

\"Wagner<\/p>\n

Wagner Moura <\/p>\n

The Secret Agent<\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

\"Leonardo<\/p>\n

Leonardo DiCaprio <\/p>\n

One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael B. Jordan <\/p>\n

Sinners<\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

\"Ethan <\/p>\n

In the meantime, the BAFTAs’ prognosticating prowess takes a rare L, and we’ll turn to the Actor Awards on March 1 to see if SAG breaks precedent and gives Chalamet the top acting honor two years in a row \u2014 a feat never accomplished before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Film Actor<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

\"Timothee<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet <\/p>\n

Marty Supreme<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael B. Jordan <\/p>\n

Sinners<\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

\"Ethan <\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

\"Leonardo<\/p>\n

Leonardo DiCaprio <\/p>\n

One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

\"jesse <\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actress is not a done deal<\/p>\n

\"WunmiWunmi Mosaku<\/a>Stuart Wilson\/BAFTA\/Getty Images for BAFTA<\/p>\n

Wunmi Mosaku\u2019s huge win on Sunday<\/a> signals that the Oscar supporting race is far from settled. Yes, Mosaku is a British favorite and a previous BAFTA winner who provided the heart and soul of Sinners as hoodoo warrior Annie, but with the across-the-line strength of Ryan Coogler\u2019s vampires at the Oscars \u2014 as evidenced by the film\u2019s record nomination haul \u2014 Mosaku just established herself as a threat to the presumptive leaders: One Battle After Another\u2019s Teyana Taylor, atop the Gold Derby Oscar odds at 71 percent going into the BAFTAs, and Weapons\u2019 Amy Madigan, No. 2 with 19 percent. (As soon as Mosaku won, the odds began to shift<\/a>.) If Academy voters tilt towards Sinners, Mosaku could benefit. In any case, her BAFTA victory provides some needed drama for the rest of the race. Whoever gets the SAG endorsement next week will go into the Oscars with the juice.<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actress<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

\"Teyana<\/p>\n

Teyana Taylor <\/p>\n

One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

\"Amy <\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

\"Wunmi <\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

\"Inga<\/p>\n

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas <\/p>\n

Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

\"Elle<\/p>\n

Elle Fanning <\/p>\n

Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

Is Sean Penn<\/a>\u2019s apathy a winning strategy?<\/p>\n

Are we sleeping on Sean Penn? The two-time Oscar winner entered awards season with a bang \u2014 when One Battle After Another debuted, he immediately soared to the top of the Gold Derby rankings for Best Supporting Actor for playing the screwy, revenge-minded Col. Steven J. Lockjaw. But over the past several months, sentiment shifted in favor of costar Benicio Del Toro, who passed Penn in the odds, and Sentimental Value<\/a>\u2019s Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd and Frankenstein\u2019s Jacob Elordi, who traded trophies at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards. Penn became something of an afterthought. His lack of visibility on the campaign trail decidedly didn\u2019t help. While he popped up for an interview here or there and supported the One Battle cast at some key events, Penn wasn\u2019t working the rooms like his fellow contenders and didn\u2019t seem to care about adding a third statuette to his collection. Heck, he wasn\u2019t even present in London to collect his first-ever BAFTA Award. Who knew that apathy could be a winning strategy? With One Battle the prohibitive Best Picture favorite and the consummate actor\u2019s-actor Penn obviously beloved by the Academy, he clearly remains in play at the Academy Awards \u2014 and Sunday\u2019s BAFTA win may show that the best campaign might be none at all. Or maybe it\u2019s just a blip, and a way for Brits to thumb their noses at the current American political landscape. If nothing else, Team Skarsg\u00e5rd has got to be sweating.<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actor<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

\"Stellan<\/p>\n

Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd <\/p>\n

Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

\"Sean<\/p>\n

Sean Penn <\/p>\n

One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

\"Jacob<\/p>\n

Jacob Elordi <\/p>\n

Frankenstein<\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

\"Delroy <\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

\"Benicio<\/p>\n

Benicio Del Toro <\/p>\n

One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

Sentimental Value maintains the edge over The Secret Agent<\/a><\/p>\n

While the Brazilians are an undeniable force, their sway didn\u2019t carry across the pond, where Sentimental Value won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language over The Secret Agent. The two films might be in the biggest Oscar nail-biter of all<\/a>, Best International Feature, and Sunday\u2019s victory undoubtedly tips the scales towards Joachim Trier\u2019s family drama.<\/p>\n

Sinners helps rewrite BAFTAs ugly race narrative<\/p>\n

Sinners came into the BAFTAs with 13 nominations, one fewer than One Battle, and the chance to change perceptions. The British Academy has been excoriated for its historical lack of diversity among winners, prompting #BAFTAsSoWhite and #BAFTAsStillSoWhite backlash<\/a> in the last decade. As recently as 2023, there were no people of color among the winners<\/a>. The body has expanded its voting pool to help fix the issue, and there were positive signs on Sunday that the narrative has begun to shift.<\/p>\n

\"RyanRyan Coogler and Zinzi CooglerJames McCauley\/Variety<\/p>\n

Sinners captured three awards: In addition to Ludwig G\u00f6ransson’s expected win for Best Score and Mosaku’s surprise victory, Ryan Coogler became the first Black winner of the BAFTAs\u2019 Best Original Screenplay Award. The award affirms Coogler’s edge in the same category at the Oscars.<\/p>\n

But for all its success at the BAFTAs, Sinners did miss out on two key prizes: Best Casting and Best Cinematography. In the former category, Sinners lost out to I Swear. That film was an obvious favorite among British Academy voters and the award acknowledged the casting of the pitch-perfect star Aramayo. Sinners remains in the pole position for the inaugural Best Casting category at the Oscars and the equivalent Best Ensemble at the Actor Awards.<\/p>\n

Cinematography, however, was a bigger miss. Sinners\u2019 Autumn Durald Arkapaw, the first woman of color to be nominated in the category at both the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards, is in a tight Oscar contest with Train Dreams DP Adolpho Veloso, per the Gold Derby data. But on Sunday, it was One Battle\u2019s Michael Bauman who emerged with the BAFTA, perhaps signaling a tighter race than imagined. We’ll get some clarity on March 8, when the American Society of Cinematographers unveils their guild winners and tees up the Oscars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards did plenty to pump up One Battle After Another‘s bona fides \u2014 as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[146223,3206,124634,321,93,7551,61,60,11549,2625,11198,2983,71212,91236,94287,90275],"class_list":{"0":"post-312303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-2026-bafta-awards","9":"tag-2026-oscars","10":"tag-bafta-awards","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fyc","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-one-battle-after-another","17":"tag-oscars","18":"tag-sean-penn","19":"tag-sentimental-value","20":"tag-sinners","21":"tag-the-secret-agent","22":"tag-timothu00e9e-chalamet","23":"tag-wunmi-mosaku"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}