Adolescence star Owen Cooper, aged 16, towered over his married co-stars Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters as they stepped onto the red carpet at London's Royal Festival Hall for the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday evening.
The young actor, who has already made history by becoming the youngest recipient of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Actor Awards for his role in the hit Netflix drama, is once again nominated for a BAFTA. Nominations were announced in March, with Adolescence leading the pack with 11 nods. The series tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller, who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being drawn into the manosphere online.
Owen cut a dashing figure in a quirky white shirt layered with a powder blue bomber jacket, paired with black trousers. Meanwhile, Stephen, 57, who is also hoping to continue his award-winning streak with a nomination for Best Actor, opted for a classic black suit. His wife Hannah, 52, who both starred in and produced Adolescence, was the epitome of elegance in a Grecian-inspired burgundy gown.
The couple, who have been married since 2008, were accompanied by their daughter Grace, 21, and son Alfie, 19. Each episode of Adolescence is filmed in a single continuous shot and has been widely praised for addressing topics such as online radicalisation and misogyny. The series is nominated for Limited Drama and Leading Actor, including the Craft Awards.
Stars Stephen, Owen, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty, and Christine Tremarco are all up for awards. Stephen will compete against Lockerbie's Colin Firth, The Death of Bunny Munro's Matt Smith, and Smoke's Taron Egerton in the Leading Actor category. Ashley, 43, will face his co-star Owen in the Supporting Actor category, alongside Mobland's Paddy Considine, The Death of Bunny Munro's Rafael Mathe, The Gold's Joshua McGuire, and Down Cemetery Road's Fehinti Balogun.
Co-stars Erin and Christine will go up against each other and The White Lotus's Aimee Lou Wood, Get Millie Black's Chyna McQueen, Task's Emilia Jones, and Reunion's Rose Ayling-Ellis for Best Supporting Actress. Erin and Aimee will also face off in the Leading Actress category for their roles in A Thousand Blows and Film Club, respectively. The category is rounded out by Blue Lights' Siân Brooke, Prisoner 951's Narges Rashidi, Sheridan Smith for I Fought the Law, and Jodie Whittaker in Toxic Town.
Netflix has a total of 29 nominations, but the BBC leads with 73 nominations overall, five of which are for The Celebrity Traitors. The show became the highest-rated programme on British TV last year, with host Claudia Winkleman up for a chance to take home a gong in the Best Entertainment Programme section. Prime Video's Last One Laughing will compete against the all-stars version of The Traitors, with show star Bob Mortimer nominated for Best Entertainment Performance.
Before the ceremony, Fleur East and Roman Kemp presented live on the red carpet on BAFTA's YouTube. The Celebrity Traitors star Cat Burns performed How To Be Human, while for the In Memoriam segment, Norwegian singer-songwriter AURORA performed Through the Eyes of a Child from the BAFTA-nominated Netflix series Adolescence.
Below is the full list of nominations for the BAFTA TV Awards 2026:
Actor in a Comedy
- Jim Howick - Here We Go
- Jon Pointing - Big Boys
- Lenny Rush - Am I Being Unreasonable?
- Mawaan Rizwan - Juice
- Oliver Savell - Changing Ends
- Steve Coogan - How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
Actress in a Comedy
- Diane Morgan - Mandy
- Jennifer Saunders - Amandaland
- Katherine Parkinson - Here We Go
- Lucy Punch - Amandaland
- Philippa Dunne - Amandaland
- Rosie Jones - Pushers
Daytime
- The Chase
- Lorraine
- Richard Osman's House of Games
- Scam Interceptors
Drama Series
- A Thousand Blows
- Blue Lights
- Code of Silence
- This City is Ours
Entertainment
- The Graham Norton Show
- Last One Laughing
- Michael McIntyre's Big Show
- Would I Lie to You
Entertainment Performance
- Amanda Holden - Alan Carr & Amanda's Spanish Job
- Bob Mortimer - Last One Laughing
- Claudia Winkleman - The Celebrity Traitors
- Lee Mack - The 1% Club
- Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan - Rob & Romesh vs...
- Romesh Ranganathan - Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle
International
- The Bear
- The Diplomat
- Pluribus
- Severance
- The Studio
- The White Lotus
Leading Actor
- Colin Firth - Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
- Ellis Howard - What It Feels Like for a Girl
- James Nelson-Joyce - This City is Ours
- Matt Smith - The Death of Bunny Munro
- Stephen Graham - Adolescence
- Taron Egerton - Smoke
Leading Actress
- Aimee Lou Wood - Film Club
- Erin Doherty - A Thousand Blows
- Jodie Whittaker - Toxic Town
- Narges Rashidi - Prisoner 951
- Sheridan Smith - I Fought The Law
- Siân Brooke - Blue Lights
Limited Drama
- Adolescence
- I Fought The Law
- Trespasses
- What It Feels Like for a Girl
News Coverage
- BBC Newsnight - Grooming Survivors Speak
- Channel 4 News - Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War
- Sky News: Gaza - Fight for Survival
Reality
- The Celebrity Traitors
- The Jury: Murder Trial
- Squid Game: The Challenge
- Virgin Island
Scripted Comedy
- Amandaland
- Big Boys
- How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
- Things You Should Have Done
Single Documentary
- Grenfell: Uncovered
- Louis Theroux: The Settlers
- One Day in Southport
- Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
Soap
- Casualty
- Coronation Street
- EastEnders
Sports Coverage
- The 2025 Ryder Cup
- The FA Cup Final
- UEFA Women's Euro 2025
- Wimbledon 2025
Supporting Actor
- Ashley Walters - Adolescence
- Fehinti Balogun - Down Cemetery Road
- Joshua McGuire - The Gold
- Owen Cooper - Adolescence
- Paddy Considine - Mobland
- Rafael Mathé - The Death of Bunny Munro
Supporting Actress
- Aimee Lou Wood - The White Lotus
- Christine Tremarco - Adolescence
- Chyna McQueen - Get Millie Black
- Emilia Jones - Task
- Erin Doherty - Adolescence
- Rose Ayling-Ellis - Reunion
P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award (Voted by the Public)
- Adolescence - Jamie snaps at the psychologist
- Big Boys - I didn't make it, did I?
- Blue Lights - The police are warned of an ambush to silence a key witness
- The Celebrity Traitors - Alan Carr wins
- Last One Laughing - Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade's speed date
- What It Feels Like for a Girl - Byron leaves for Brighton to start uni
