The BAFTA Awards on Sunday saw juggernaut Sinners pick up several key trophies for which it was nominated. These wins included Ryan Coogler for Best Original Screenplay, Wunmi Mosaku for Best Supporting Actress and Ludwig Göransson for Best Original Score.
With the award, Coogler has become the first Black person to win Best Original Screenplay. Heading into the Oscars, only one Black person has won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay: Jordan Peele for 2017’s Get Out.
Ryan Coogler on his historic BAFTA win
“I didn’t expect that,” he said when accepting the win, as Variety reported. “This is nerve-wracking.”
He went on to say, “I come from a community that loves me. They made me believe that I could do this, that I could be a writer. And it was amazing to be accepted into the community of film actors, the community of Los Angeles…For all the writers out there, when y’all look at that blank page, think of who you love, think of anybody who you’ve seen in pain that you identify with and wish they felt better and let that love motivate you. I’ll be forever grateful for this, thank you all.”
Wunmi Mosaku spoke about her victory
In what may be seen as an upset because Teyana Taylor seemed to be the favorite, but also not an upset because she is a British darling, Mosaku took home the Best Supporting Actress prize as her stock continues to rise for the Oscars after she shocked many when she was nominated for her moving performance.
“I found a part of myself in Annie, a part of my hopes, my ancestral power and connection, parts I thought I had lost or tried to dim as an immigrant trying to fit in,” she said.
After the win in the press room, per BBC, she also said, “It always feels good when you feel like your story and your experience is being represented with integrity and creativity,” and that it was pleasing to see “the response of black women feeling seen, loved, valued, treasured, and the power of our ancestry and the spirituality.”
She added, “For me, seeing that response made me realise how lonely I felt, and all of a sudden these women were in my life who I’d never met, I felt a kinship to.”
Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies won for ‘My Father’s Shadow’
Elsewhere, for the film My Father’s Shadow, brothers Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies on Outstanding Debut for a British Writer, Director or Producer. The film was directed by Akinola, who co-wrote it with Wale.
Full list of 2025 BAFTA winners
Check out the full list of BAFTA winners below:
Best Film
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Outstanding British Film
28 Years Later
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Die My Love
H Is For Hawk
Hamnet
I Swear
Mr. Burton
Pillion
Steve
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Ceremony
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion
A Want In Her
Wasteman
Best Film Not in the English Language
It Was Just An Accident
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirat
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best Documentary
2000 Meters to Adraiivka
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Cover-Up
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
Best Animated Film
Elio
Little Amélie
Zootopia 2
Best Children’s & Family Film
Arco
Boong
Lilo & Stitch
Zootopia 2
Best Director
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best Original Screenplay
I Swear
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Pillion
Best Leading Actress
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia
Best Leading Actor
Robert Aramayo, I Swear
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Jesse Plemmons, Bugonia
Best Supporting Actress
Odessa A’Zion, Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Carey Mulligan, The Ballad of Wallis Island
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Emily Watson, Hamnet
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Peter Mullan, I Swear
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best Casting
I Swear
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Best Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Editing
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Costume Design
Hamnet
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Makeup & Hair
Hamnet
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Wicked: For Good
Best Original Score
Bugonia
Frankestein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Best Production Design
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet
Best Sound
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Best Special Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
How to Train Your Dragon
The Lost Bus
Best British Short Animation
Cardboard
Solstice
Two Black Boys in Paradise
Best British Short Film
Magid/Zafar
Nostalgie
Terence
This Is Endometriosis
Welcome Home Freckles
EE Rising Star Award
Robert Aramayo
Miles Caton
Chase Infiniti
Archie Madekwe
Posy Sterling
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