Bafta 2026: Full list of winners as Adolescence and The Traitors dominate awards
The Bafta awards ceremony has taken place seeing Adolescence at The Traitors dominating - here’s the full list of 2026 winners
Hard-hitting teen drama Adolescence made Bafta history after taking top awards at last night's television awards - alongside reality show Celebrity Traitors and comedy hit, Last One Laughing. The Netflix drama, which tells the story of a teenage boy accused of a terrible crime, claimed four awards, the most won by a single TV series in the main ceremony.
It was named best limited drama, while stars Stephen Graham, Christine Tremarco and Owen Cooper all won awards for their performances, with Graham named best leading actor, Tremarco winning the best supporting actress prize and Cooper taking best supporting actor.
Graham, who co-wrote the script with Jack Thorne, has won a string of awards for his performance in the Netflix series, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe, but had never won a Bafta. Speaking on stage, he said: “I might take my time. I’ve been nominated eight times and this is the first time I’ve won. Nice one Bafta, this is lovely.
“When I was a kid, I watched a telly programme called Scully, written by Alan Bleasdale, and it had the wonderful Drew Schofield in it and he lived across the road from my nana’s house, so he showed me that I could be on the telly. He was my inspiration. So for any other young kid, no matter where you’re from, anything is possible.”
Teenager Cooper won the first prize of the night and said: “A year ago, I was presenting an award and now I’m collecting one. This is a bit mad.”
The 16-year-old added: “In the words of John Lennon, you won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. So in my eyes, I think you only need three things to succeed: one, you need an obsession; two, you need a dream; and three, you need The Beatles.”
Tremarco was named best supporting actress for playing Cooper’s mother and said: “I feel so privileged to be standing up here holding this Bafta. I feel so honoured to be part of Adolescence. I hold this Bafta high.”
The show also won two prizes at the Bafta Craft Awards last weekend for directing and sound.
Meanwhile, Celebrity Traitors won the best reality award, as well as the memorable moment prize, for Alan Carr’s treacherous victory. Collecting the award, he said: “Was I good? Was I really? Or were the other celebrities just thick?
“It was Nick (Mohammed) who made me cry – we were round that round table and he went, ‘We’ve got this’, and I was like, ‘No, I’ve got this’. When I laughed in their faces and went ‘I’m a faithful’, I was packing my bags. But I had the best time ever.”
Referring to the cast filming the second series in Scotland, he said: “I’m so jealous of all the celebs up there doing it, I wish I could do it all again. Sometimes, when I’m a bit sad, I remember the laughter. I can even smell Celia’s fart. I dedicate this to Paloma (Faith): there is no-one else I would rather murder than you.”
Comedy show Last One Laughing won two awards, for entertainment programme and entertainment performance for Bob Mortimer, while hit BBC comedy Amandaland won the prize for best scripted comedy.
The leading actress Bafta was won by Narges Rashidi for her portrayal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Prisoner 951. Dedicating the prize to the British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned in Tehran, and her family, Rashidi said: “Your resilience, your dignity, your love through impossible circumstances have moved us all. Your courage will stay with me for the rest of my life. This is for you.”
She added: “I was a seven-year-old who survived war. In Gaza, in Ukraine, in Sudan, they may never get that opportunity, that chance.”
Leading actress in a comedy was won by Katherine Parkinson for Here We Go, while leading actor in a comedy went to Steve Coogan for How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge). During his speech, Coogan pledged to play Partridge for the rest of his life, saying: “Doing comedy in these troubled times is so important.
“It’s a privilege to make people laugh after all these years. I will keep on doing it. If anyone wants to know when Alan Partridge is going to die, it’s about the same time that I am going to die.”
EastEnders was named best soap, while US comedy The Studio was named best international. Code Of Silence, starring Rose Ayling-Ellis as a deaf canteen worker who helps police with a dangerous investigation using her advanced lip-reading skills, called on the TV industry to improve representation, saying: “The industry needs to improve and hopefully it will.”
TV chef and former Bake Off judge Dame Mary Berry was honoured with the Bafta fellowship, saying: “I’m really bowled over by this accolade. I’m a cook, I’m a teacher, so I feel very honoured to be given Bafta’s highest award.”
Consumer champion Martin Lewis was given the special award. Collecting the prize at the Royal Festival Hall, he said he wrote his speech on Thursday, 42 years after the death of his mother when he was 11.
He said: “For six years, barring school, I barely left the house. Now I’m picking up a Bafta. Life can be transformed, it can get better. If you had told that broken, scared boy that I’d proudly be a campaigning journalist, his jaw would have dropped. So I dedicate this to consumer journalism, where I found my voice.”
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the documentary commissioned and then shelved by the BBC over impartiality concerns and later aired by Channel 4, won the current affairs Bafta. During his speech on stage, executive producer Ben de Pear referred to the fact the BBC airs the ceremony on delay, saying: “Finally, just a question for the BBC: given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?”
Grenfell: Uncovered was awarded the Bafta for single documentary, and director Olaide Sadiq used her acceptance speech to say the victims of the fire “deserve justice”.
Bafta 2026 winners
Adolescence was the biggest winner of the night at the Bafta Television Awards on Sunday, with the hit series about a teenage boy accused of a terrible crime picking up four prizes at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Here are the winners in full:
- Leading actress – Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951
- Leading actor – Stephen Graham, Adolescence
- Limited drama – Adolescence
- Supporting actress – Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
- Supporting actor – Owen Cooper, Adolescence
- P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award – Alan Carr winning The Celebrity Traitors
- Actor in a comedy – Steve Coogan, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
- Actress in a comedy – Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
- Reality – The Celebrity Traitors
- Drama series – Code Of Silence
- Entertainment – Last One Laughing
- Entertainment performance – Bob Mortimer, Last One Laughing
- Scripted comedy – Amandaland
- Children’s: non-scripted – World. War. Me. (Sky Kids Investigates)
- Children’s: scripted – Crongton
- Current affairs – Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
- Daytime – Scam Interceptors
- Factual entertainment – Go Back To Where You Came From
- Factual series – See No Evil
- International – The Studio
- Live event coverage – VE Day 80: A Celebration To Remember
- News coverage – Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve-Day War
- Short form – Hustle And Run
- Single documentary – Grenfell: Uncovered
- Soap – EastEnders
- Specialist factual – Simon Schama: The Road To Auschwitz
- Sports coverage – Uefa Women’s Euro 2025
- Bafta Special Award – Martin Lewis
- Fellowship – Dame Mary Berry