Cillian Murphy made a rare red carpet appearance with his wife Yvonne McGuinness at the BAFTAs on Sunday night, after praising her for providing a ‘safe place’ away from the spotlight.
The Oscar winner, 49, and the visual artist, 53, arrived hand-in-hand at the star-studded ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall, wearing coordinating all-black outfits.
Cillian looked as dapper as ever in a tailored double-breasted blazer, with a white collared shirt and tie and shiny dress shoes.
While Yvonne exuded elegance in a draped satin jumpsuit, boasting a stylish one-shouldered neckline and flowing front panel, which she teamed with chandelier earrings and a bold red lip.
Cillian, who hails from Cork, was in attendance at the ceremony to present the Best Actress award, that poignantly went to County Kerry-born star Jessie Buckley – which also made her the first Irish performer to win the coveted prize at the BAFTAs.
Despite his incredible success and stardom, Cillian has managed to maintain a low-key family life – thanks in part to the unwavering support of wife Yvonne.
The notoriously private couple have now been together for three decades and share two sons Malachy, 20, and Aran, 18.
Cillian Murphy made a rare red carpet appearance with his beloved wife Yvonne McGuinness at the 2026 BAFTAs on Sunday night, after hailing her for giving him a ‘safe place’ away from the spotlight
The Oscar winner, 49, and the visual artist, 53, arrived at the star-studded ceremony hand-in-hand and wearing coordinating all-black outfits
Cillian looked as dapper as ever in a tailored double-breasted blazer, with a white collared shirt and tie and shiny dress shoes
The pair have made efforts to shun the spotlight, with Cillian frequently admitting his discomfort with the global fame that comes with his career.
Speaking on Desert Island Discs in 2024, he explained how he found the ‘ancillary aspect’ of being an actor – such as walking red carpets – ‘quite challenging’.
The 28 Days Later star branded Yvonne and their kids ‘crucial’ in helping him adapt to Hollywood, insisting that he wouldn’t have been able to achieve all that he had without them.
‘To have a really secure, solid base is important,’ Cillian said. ‘You have to have that safe place. I certainly do. It’s just like an island of comfort and ease.
‘It’s been crucial, honestly. I don’t think I could have done any of the things that we’ve talked about without having them. It’s been the most important thing for me, having those kids and raising them.’
The couple gave a very rare display of public affection at the 2024 Oscars, sharing a sweet celebratory kiss as Cillian won Best Actor for his performance in Oppenheimer.
Taking to the stage to accept the gong, the Peaky Blinders star shared a touching tribute to his proud wife and their sons in his speech.
He gushed: ‘Yvonne McGuiness, my partner in life and art. My two boys, Malachy and Aran who are sitting up there. I love you so much.’
While Yvonne exuded elegance in a draped satin jumpsuit, boasting a stylish one-shouldered neckline and flowing front panel, which she teamed with chandelier earrings and a bold red lip
Cillian, who hails from Cork, was in attendance at the ceremony to present the Best Actress award, that poignantly went to County Kerry-born star Jessie Buckley – which also made her the first Irish performer to win the coveted prize at the BAFTAs
Despite his incredible success and stardom, Cillian has managed to maintain a low-key family life – thanks in part to the unwavering support of wife Yvonne (L-R Yvonne, Carey Mulligan, Jessie, Cillian and Lawrence Atkinson pictured)
They first met in the 1990s when Yvonne joined the touring cast of Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh’s 1996 play that launched Cillian’s career – in a role he later reprised in the 2001 film adaptation.
Speaking to The Guardian in 2016, the Inception star branded the time he spent making Disco Pigs as ‘the most important period of my life’.
‘The people I met there remain my closest friends,’ he explained. ‘They shaped me in terms of my tastes, in terms of what I wanted to do with my life.
‘And it was around the same time I met my wife. She came on tour with us. It was so exciting, 20 years ago or whatever it was – we were all just kids, trying to find our way – but such a special, special time.’
The couple married in 2004 and reportedly held the ceremony at Yvonne’s father’s vineyard in France, and the following year welcomed their first son Malachy – with Aran then arriving in 2007.
One Battle After Another was the big winner of the night, as it scooped six gongs during the ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
The hit film had already received a record 14 nominations, and came out on top as it won Best Film, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Supporting Actor for Sean Penn.
Director and producer Paul Thomas Anderson said: ‘Thank you for rewarding our film in the way that you have, its just a tremendous honour.
The notoriously private couple have now been together for three decades and share two sons Malachy, 20, and Aran, 18 (family seen in August 2014)
‘I’m well aware of the other films that share this. Anybody that says movies aren’t any good any more they can piss off because this is just a great f*****g year.’
He added that he planned to go and find a ‘bar somewhere to go celebrate’.
Jessie continued to sweep the board this awards season with her Best Actress win for Hamnet, adding even more momentum to expectations she will win the Oscar next month.
She dedicated the award to her six-month-old daughter in an emotional speech, saying: ‘I’d like to share this with my daughter who has been with me since she was six weeks old on the road with this.
‘It’s the best role of my life being your mom and I promise to continue to be disobedient so you can belong to a world where all your mad, complex wildness as a young woman.’
While the biggest surprise of the night came when home-grown favourite Robert Aramayo landed the coveted Best Actor prize for I Swear, beating out Hollywood heavyweights Leonardo DiCaprio and Timothee Chalamet.
Upon learning of his son’s honour, his father jumped to his feet and was shouting and jumping up and down when his son’s name was read.
From the stage, Robert was overwhelmed with emotion as he said: ‘I absolutely can’t believe this. I can’t believe I’m looking at people like you never mind that I’m stood here.’
The couple gave a very rare display of public affection at the 2024 Oscars, sharing a sweet celebratory kiss as Cillian won Best Actor for his performance in Oppenheimer (seen)
The pair have made efforts to shun the spotlight, with Cillian frequently admitting his discomfort with the global fame that comes with his career (seen in August 2016)
While he also paid tribute to fellow nominee Ethan Hawke for giving an ‘amazing speech’ to his class at Juilliard, which he said had a ‘great impact’ on him.
His win stunned viewers and the audience, as Timothee had been widely-tipped as the favourite for the award for his titular role in Marty Supreme.
It was a bad night all round for the table tennis sports-drama however, with the Josh Safdie film not taking home a single awards, despite going in with a whopping 11 nominations.
While Sinners star Wunmi Mosaku was among the early winners as she received the award for Supporting Actress for her role in the Ryan Coogler film.
Wunmi, who is pregnant with her second child, thanked her husband, family and daughter from the stage, and said that her mother had ‘beamed’ her love at her ‘to give me the freedom to make my choices’.
She said that playing priestess Annie in Sinners she had connected with a part of herself which she had ‘dimmed as an immigrant trying to fit in’.
With 28 gongs awarded on Sunday night, the main winners were One Battle After Another with six prizes. Sinners, Frankenstein and I Swear followed with three each whilst Hamnet won two gongs.
EE BAFTA FILM AWARDS 2026: THE WINNERS
BEST FILM
HAMNET
MARTY SUPREME
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – WINNER
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SINNERS
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
28 YEARS LATER
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
DIE MY LOVE
H IS FOR HAWK
HAMNET – WINNER
I SWEAR
MR BURTON
PILLION
STEVE
One Battle After Another earned the most nods with 14, including one for lead star Leonardo DiCaprio
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
THE CEREMONY Jack King (Director, Writer), Hollie Bryan (Producer), Lucy Meer (Producer)
MY FATHER’S SHADOW Akinola Davies Jr. (Director), Wale Davies (Writer) – WINNER
PILLION Harry Lighton (Director, Writer)
A WANT IN HER Myrid Carten (Director)
WASTEMAN Cal McMau (Director), Hunter Andrews (Writer), Eoin Doran (Writer)
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
THE SECRET AGENT
SENTIMENTAL VALUE – WINNER
SIRĀT
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB
Marty Supreme has scored eleven BAFTA nominations including Best Film
DOCUMENTARY
2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA
APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS
COVER-UP
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN – WINNER
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
ANIMATED FILM
ELIO
LITTLE AMÉLIE
ZOOTROPOLIS 2 – WINNER
CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM
ARCO
BOONG – WINNER
LILO & STITCH
ZOOTROPOLIS 2
DIRECTOR
BUGONIA
HAMNET
MARTY SUPREME
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson – WINNER
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SINNERS
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
I SWEAR
MARTY SUPREME
THE SECRET AGENT
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SINNERS – WINNER
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
BUGONIA
HAMNET
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – WINNER
PILLION
LEADING ACTRESS
JESSIE BUCKLEY Hamnet – WINNER
ROSE BYRNE If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
KATE HUDSON Song Sung Blue
CHASE INFINITI One Battle After Another
RENATE REINSVE Sentimental Value
EMMA STONE Bugonia
Teyana Taylor has a Supporting Actress nomination for One Battle After Another
LEADING ACTOR
ROBERT ARAMAYO I Swear – WINNER
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Marty Supreme
LEONARDO DICAPRIO One Battle After Another
ETHAN HAWKE Blue Moon
MICHAEL B. JORDAN Sinners
JESSE PLEMONS Bugonia
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ODESSA A’ZION Marty Supreme
INGA IBSDOTTER LILLEAAS Sentimental Value
WUNMI MOSAKU Sinners – WINNER
CAREY MULLIGAN The Ballad of Wallis Island
TEYANA TAYLOR One Battle After Another
EMILY WATSON Hamnet
SUPPORTING ACTOR
BENICIO DEL TORO One Battle After Another
JACOB ELORDI Frankenstein
PAUL MESCAL Hamnet
PETER MULLAN I Swear
SEAN PENN One Battle After Another – WINNER
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has earned 11 nods overall
CASTING
I SWEAR Lauren Evans – WINNER
MARTY SUPREME Jennifer Venditti
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Cassandra Kulukundis
SENTIMENTAL VALUE Yngvill Kolset Haga, Avy Kaufman
SINNERS Francine Maisler
CINEMATOGRAPHY
FRANKENSTEIN Dan Laustsen
MARTY SUPREME Darius Khondji
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Michael Bauman – WINNER
SINNERS Autumn Durald Arkapaw
TRAIN DREAMS Adolpho Veloso
EDITING
F1 Stephen Mirrione
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE Kirk Baxter
MARTY SUPREME Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Andy Jurgensen – WINNER
SINNERS Michael P. Shawver
COSTUME DESIGN
FRANKENSTEIN Kate Hawley – WINNER
HAMNET Malgosia Turzanska
MARTY SUPREME Miyako Bellizzi
SINNERS Ruth E. Carter
WICKED: FOR GOOD Paul Tazewell
MAKE UP & HAIR
FRANKENSTEIN Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey, Mike Hill, Megan Many – WINNER
HAMNET Nicole Stafford
MARTY SUPREME Kyra Panchenko, Kay Georgiou, Mike Fontaine
SINNERS Siân Richards, Shunika Terry, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine
WICKED: FOR GOOD Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Mark Coulier, Sarah Nuth
ORIGINAL SCORE
BUGONIA Jerskin Fendrix
FRANKENSTEIN Alexandre Desplat
HAMNET Max Richter
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Jonny Greenwood
SINNERS Ludwig Göransson – WINNERS
Hamnet has broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in BAFTA history
PRODUCTION DESIGN
FRANKENSTEIN Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – WINNER
HAMNET Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
MARTY SUPREME Jack Fisk, Adam Willis
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
SINNERS Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne
SOUND
F1 Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta – WINNER
FRANKENSTEIN Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitallie, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoem
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor
SINNERS Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco
WARFARE Mitch Low, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner
Sentimental Value has eight BAFTA nominations
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Eric Saindon – WINNER
F1 Ryan Tudhope, Keith Alfred Dawson, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington
FRANKENSTEIN Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Christian Mänz, Francois Lambert, Glen McIntosh, Terry Palmer
THE LOST BUS Charlie Noble, Brandon K. McLaughlin, David Zaretti
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
CARDBOARD
SOLSTICE
TWO BLACK BOYS IN PARADISE – WINNER
BRITISH SHORT FILM
MAGID / ZAFAR
NOSTALGIE
TERENCE
THIS IS ENDOMETRIOSIS – WINNER
WELCOME HOME FRECKLES
EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ROBERT ARAMAYO – WINNER
MILES CATON
CHASE INFINITI
ARCHIE MADEKWE
POSY STERLING
