The 2026 British Academy of Film And Television Arts awards (BAFTAs) took place on Sunday 10 May in London to celebrate achievements in British television. As expected, Adolescence swept the awards with four wins across the evening’s top categories; long-running soap Eastenders took home the award for Best Soap and the celebrity special of hit reality show, Traitors, unsurprisingly beat out its competitors in the Best Reality category. Here are the winners from the 2026 BAFTAs.
Drama series
Winner: Code Of Silence (ITV1)
A Thousand Blows (Disney+)
Blue Lights (BBC One)
This City Is Ours (BBC One)
Limited drama
Winner: Adolescence (Netflix)
I Fought The Law (ITV1)
Trespasses (Channel 4)
What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC Three)
Leading actor
Winner: Stephen Graham – Adolescence (Netflix)
Colin Firth – Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (Sky Atlantic)
Ellis Howard – What it Feels Like for a Girl (BBC Three)
James Nelson-Joyce – This City is Ours (BBC One)
Matt Smith – The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky Atlantic)
Taron Egerton – Smoke (Apple TV)
Leading actress
Winner: Narges Rashidi – Prisoner 951 (BBC One)
Aimee Lou Wood – Film Club (BBC Three)
Erin Doherty – A Thousand Blows (Disney+)
Jodie Whittaker – Toxic Town (Netflix)
Sheridan Smith – I Fought The Law (ITV1)
Siân Brooke – Blue Lights (BBC One)
Supporting actor
Winner: Owen Cooper – Adolescence (Netflix)
Ashley Walters – Adolescence (Netflix)
Fehinti Balogun – Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV)
Joshua Mcguire – The Gold (BBC One)
Paddy Considine – MobLand (Paramount+)
Rafael Mathé – The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky Atlantic)
Supporting actress
Winner: Christine Tremarco – Adolescence (Netflix)
Aimee Lou Wood – The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)
Chyna McQueen – Get Millie Black (Channel 4)
Emilia Jones – Task (Sky Atlantic)
Erin Doherty – Adolescence (Netflix)
Rose Ayling-Ellis – Reunion (BBC One)
Scripted comedy
Winner: Amandaland (BBC One)
Big Boys (Channel 4)
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) (BBC One)
Things You Should Have Done (BBC Three)
Best actor in a comedy
Winner: Steve Coogan – How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) (BBC One)
Jim Howick – Here We Go (BBC One)
Jon Pointing – Big Boys (Channel 4)
Lenny Rush – Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)
Mawaan Rizwan – Juice (BBC Three)
Oliver Savell – Changing Ends (ITV1)
Best actress in a comedy
Winner: Katherine Parkinson – Here We Go (BBC One)
Diane Morgan – Mandy (BBC Two)
Jennifer Saunders – Amandaland (BBC One)
Lucy Punch – Amandaland (BBC One)
Philippa Dunne – Amandaland (BBC One)
Rosie Jones – Pushers (Channel 4)
Entertainment
Winner: Last One Laughing (Prime Video)
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show (BBC One)
Would I Lie To You (BBC One)
Reality
Winner: The Celebrity Traitors (BBC One)
The Jury: Murder Trial (Channel 4)
Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix)
Virgin Island (Channel 4)
Soap
Winner: EastEnders (BBC One)
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITVX)
International
Winner: The Studio (Apple TV)
The Bear (Disney+)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
Severance (Apple TV)
The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)
Factual series
Winner: See No Evil (Channel 4)
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park (Sky Documentaries)
Educating Yorkshire (Channel 4)
The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed (ITV1)
Current affairs
Winner: Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (Channel 4)
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War (Exposure) (ITV1)
The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money ( ITV1)
Undercover in the Police (Panorama) (BBC One)
Single documentary
Winner: Grenfell: Uncovered (Netflix)
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (BBC Two)
One Day In Southport (Channel 4)
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire (BBC Two)
Bafta Fellowship
Winner: Dame Mary Berry
Featured image courtesy of Instagram/adolescence
