The 2026 BAFTA Film Awards have unveiled a raft of celebrity talent set to take to the stage and present on Sunday, Feb. 22.
KPop Demon Hunters singing trio EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami were previously unveiled as performers at the London ceremony, their first live show outside of the U.S., and British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware will cover Barbra Streisand during the In Memoriam segment.
On Tuesday, the British Academy also confirmed Aimee Lou Wood, Bryan Cranston, Cillian Murphy, David Jonsson, Delroy Lindo, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Olivia Cooke, Patrick Dempsey will present awards, alongside BAFTA nominees Ethan Hawke, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Hudson, Miles Caton, Kate Hudson, Emily Watson, and Stellan Skargård.
Aaron Pierre, Alicia Vikander, Alia Bhatt, Erin Doherty, Hannah Waddingham, Kathryn Hahn, Kerry Washington, Little Simz, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Milly Alcock, Minnie Driver, Noah Jupe, Regé-Jean Page, Riz Ahmed, Sadie Sink, Stormzy and Warwick Davis will also be presenting, according to BAFTA.
Among the list of nominees attending are Jacob Elordi, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothee Chalamet, Chloé Zhao, Teyana Taylor, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Benicio del Toro, Jesse Plemons, Odessa A’Zion, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Rose Byrne.
Donna Langley, chair of NBCUniversal Entertainment, will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the awards ceremony, the British Academy’s highest honor, recognizing “outstanding and exceptional” contributions to film, games, or television. Clare Binns, the creative director of Picturehouse Cinemas and Picturehouse Entertainment, will be honored with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award.
Anderson’s political thriller One Battle After Another leads the BAFTAs pack, going in with 14 nods, narrowly edging out Ryan Coogler’s vampire film Sinners with 13.
Chloé Zhao’s Shakespearean heartbreaker Hamnet and Josh Safdie’s ping-pong caper Marty Supreme earned 11 BAFTA nods each, while Joachim Trier’s drama Sentimental Value and Guillermo del Toro’s gothic epic Frankenstein earned eight BAFTA noms. Yorgos Lanthimos’ black comedy Bugonia and comedy Kirk Jones’ Tourette Syndrome advocate dramedy I Swear received five each.
Read the full list of nominees ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards this weekend.
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