Wagner Moura and O Agente Secreto leave Bafta 2026 empty-handed

Wagner Moura attended the Bafta ceremony in London, but wagner moura and the film O Agente Secreto, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, did not secure any trophies. The Brazilian entry lost both of its nominations on Sunday: Best Original Screenplay and Best Film in a Non-English Language.

Wagner Moura no tapete vermelho

Wagner Moura walked the red carpet at the Bafta in London. The actor had previously received the prize for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama at the Globo de Ouro, but did not compete in any individual Bafta category this year.

Vitórias de Uma Batalha Após a Outra

Paul Thomas Anderson’s film Uma Batalha Após a Outra (referred to in some coverage as Batalha Atrás de Batalha or One Battle After Another) was among the night’s big winners. The title left the ceremony with six prizes after entering with 14 nominations, and Paul Thomas Anderson was named Best Director. The film won awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, a Supporting Actor prize for Sean Penn, and Cinematography.

Sinners e prêmios históricos

Sinners did notably well, taking four wins and making history as the film by a Black director to collect the largest number of awards for such a director at the Baftas. Wins tied to Sinners included Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler; Wunmi Mosaku won Best Supporting Actress; Michael P. Shawver won for Editing; and Ludwig Göransson took a prize for Original Score.

Key winners and categories

Best Original Screenplay went to the American film Pecadores. Best Film in a Non-English Language was awarded to the Norwegian film Valor Sentimental. Valor Sentimental, directed by Joachim Trier, became the first Norwegian film to receive a Bafta and won Best Film in a Non-English Language over Sirât (Spain), O Agente Secreto (Brazil — noted as approaching 90, 000 viewers in Portugal), A Voz de Hind Rajab (Tunisia) and Foi Só Um Acidente (France).

Brazil also competed in Best Cinematography: Adolpho Veloso, credited on the production Sonhos de Trem, was nominated but was beaten by Michael Bauman, responsible for the cinematography of Uma Batalha Após a Outra. Petra Costa was nominated for Best Documentary with Apocalipse nos Trópicos but lost to Pavel Talankin and David Borestein for Mr. Nobody Against Putin.

Nominees, surprises and audience figures

Robert Aramayo won Best Actor for I Swear, a result described as surprising in some commentary; he was noted as the only British nominee among the group. Other acting nominees included Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme; Leonardo DiCaprio for Uma Batalha Após a Outra; Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon; Michael B. Jordan for Pecadores; and Jesse Plemons for Bugonia. Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet, where she portrays the wife of William Shakespeare.

Additional named performers and credits in the season’s nominations included: Benicio del Toro (Uma Batalha Após a Outra); Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein); Paul Mescal (Hamnet); Peter Mullan (I Swear); Sean Penn (Uma Batalha Após a Outra); Stellan Skarsgård (Valor Sentimental); Odessa A’zion (Marty Supreme); Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Valor Sentimental); Wunmi Mosaku (Pecadores); Carey Mulligan (The Ballad of Wallis Island); Teyana Taylor (Uma Batalha Após a Outra); Emily Watson (Hamnet); and directors Yorgos Lanthimos (Bugonia), Chloé Zhao (Hamnet), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Paul Thomas Anderson (Uma Batalha Após a Outra), Joachim Trier (Valor Sentimental) and Ryan Coogler (Sinners).

Lists of films and titles represented across categories included Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Uma Batalha Após a Outra, Valor Sentimental, Pecadores, Frankenstein, Sonhos de Trem, Avatar: Fire and Ash, F1, Como Treinar o Seu Dragão, The Lost Bus, Sinners and Wicked: For Good.

Reactions and context

Coverage noted that Uma Batalha Após a Outra led with 14 nominations and secured six prizes; Pecadores had 13 nominations and won three; and Hamnet had 11 nominations and won two. One piece of coverage cited an audience figure of about 150, 000 viewers in Portugal for Batalha Atrás de Batalha. Valor Sentimental was noted to have passed 22, 000 viewers in Portugal, and Hamnet had reached 60, 000 viewers in Portuguese cinemas. Commentators highlighted that Marty Supreme left the night without wins, tying a record for the largest number of Bafta defeats for a single film, and that the Bafta results set up a contest ahead of the Academy Awards scheduled for March 15.

For Brazilian fans, the failure of O Agente Secreto, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and starring Wagner Moura, to convert nominations into wins was noted alongside the broader success of films such as Uma Batalha Após a Outra, Pecadores and Valor Sentimental.

Winners named this season included Pecadores, Valor Sentimental, Uma Batalha Após a Outra, Sinners, Hamnet and I Swear among others; Petra Costa and Adolpho Veloso were nominated but did not win in their respective documentary and cinematography categories.

Sunday’s ceremony took place in London, with references to both the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in coverage of the event.