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Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison won Best Actor and Best Actress

In Pictures: BAFTA Awards winners gallery

Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison were among the big winners at the BAFTA Film Awards as they triumphed in the acting categories.

BAFTA Awards • 16 Feb

Kneecap on the red carpet at the BAFTA Awards

Kneecap: 'Young people interested in Irish language'

Kneecap's Móglaí Bap has said the success of their Irish-language biopic sends a strong message about the appetite for films in the Irish language.

BAFTA Awards • 16 Feb

BAFTA Awards: Winners, speeches and red carpet

All the action from the 78th BAFTA Awards.

BAFTA Awards • 16 Feb

Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt accepts his BAFTA - "It's more than a film, it's a movement. And it's about how everyone should have their language respected; they should have their culture respected, and they should have their homeland respected"

Kneecap director among BAFTA winners in London

Kneecap director and co-writer Rich Peppiatt has won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer on a night when Conclave and The Brutalist were the big winners.

BAFTA Awards • 28 Feb

Kneecap and Saoirse Ronan have scored BAFTA nominations

Kneecap and Saoirse Ronan among BAFTA Awards nominees

Award-winning Irish-language film Kneecap has scored six nods for the 2025 British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) Film Awards, while Saoirse Ronan has been nominated in the Leading Actress category for her role in The Outrun.

Bafta Awards • 16 Jan

Celeste: "You get to have an intimate reaction with this historic venue that otherwise you probably wouldn't get, other than in a sound check, so I think it's quite amazing".

Celeste: BAFTA performance a 'unique opportunity'

Celeste has said performing at the British Academy Film Awards in an empty Royal Albert Hall is a "unique opportunity".

Music • 11 Apr 21

Calm with Horses stars Niamh Algar and Barry Keoghan and Irish animated adventure Wolfwalkers are among the BAFTA nominees

BAFTA splits April film awards into two events

Next month's British Academy Film Awards, which include Irish hopefuls Niamh Algar, Barry Keoghan and Wolfwalkers among the nominees, will be divided into two events on Saturday, 10 April and Sunday, 11 April, it has been announced.

Movies • 24 Mar 21

BAFTA awards to take place behind closed doors

BAFTA TV awards to be held behind closed doors

The Bafta television awards will be hosted by Richard Ayoade behind closed doors and nominees will accept their awards virtually, it has been announced.

BAFTA Awards • 29 May 20

Irish stars Saoirse and Jessie among BAFTA nominees

Irish actors Saoirse Ronan and Jessie Buckley are among the nominees for this year's BAFTAs, while Joker leads the way after scoring a total of 11 nods.

Movies • 07 Jan 20

It's Colman versus Close at tonight's Bafta Awards

Olivia Colman goes head to head with Oscar-tipped Glenn Close when the Bafta film awards are handed out tonight.

Bafta Awards • 10 Feb 19

BAFTA Awards

In Pictures: BAFTA Awards winners gallery

Kneecap: 'Young people interested in Irish language'

BAFTA Awards: Winners, speeches and red carpet

Kneecap director among BAFTA winners in London

Kneecap and Saoirse Ronan among BAFTA Awards nominees

Celeste: BAFTA performance a 'unique opportunity'

BAFTA splits April film awards into two events

BAFTA TV awards to be held behind closed doors

Irish stars Saoirse and Jessie among BAFTA nominees

It's Colman versus Close at tonight's Bafta Awards

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