Winners of the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts’ twenty second BAFTA Pupil Awards embrace younger filmmakers from Spain, France, China and america, it was revealed at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Friday night, hosted by TV presenter Elle Osili Wooden and attended by presenters together with actor/producer Asif Ali, actor/author Wil Wheaton, immersive artist Gina Kim and movie executives Kathryn Busby and Niels Swinkels.
The BAFTA Pupil Awards have a good time rising artistic expertise from around the globe in movie, gaming and immersive storytelling. This yr’s winners have been chosen from greater than 600 submissions from universities around the globe by a jury together with actor/author Joel Kim Booster, composer Laura Karpman, documentary filmmaker Smriti Mundhra, actor/comic Nico Santos and govt director Heather Callow.
“We proceed to be impressed by the originality and ambition of the work of scholars around the globe,” Courtney LaBarge Bell, govt director of BAFTA North America, stated in an announcement. “Every year, these tasks elevate the bar for storytelling throughout movie, gaming and immersive media, and mirror the artistic power that drives the long run. We’re proud to offer a platform that acknowledges this expertise and helps help the subsequent stage of their careers.”
Here’s a checklist of the 2026 BAFTA Pupil Award winners…
THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR BROCCOLI ALBERT R. ‘CUBBY’
Rage
Fran Moreno Blanco, Santi Pujol Amat
Increased Faculty of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia, Spain
FOR ANIMATION (PRESENTED BY CRUNCHYROLL)
Gauze
Noran Fikri Alezabi, Nicholas Arujah, Xinyue Ma, Yulin Yue, Xiaonan Zhou
Gobelins, France
FOR DOCUMENTARY (PRESENTED BY ESPN BOLD)
Strangers on our land
Zane Karram, Kelsey Oliver
College of California, Berkeley, United States
FOR LIVE ACTION
Whispers of the waves
Patricia Xu
Beijing Movie Academy, China
FOR GAMES
A candle
Eva Martinello, Mattéo Gomez
Isart Numérique, France