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Adolescence star Owen Cooper towers over co-stars Stephen at TV BAFTAs

Adolescence star Owen Cooper towered over married co-stars Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters as they took to the red carpet at London’s Royal Festival Hall for the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday.

The actor, 16, who has made history by becoming the youngest winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Actor Awards for his role in the smash hit Netflix drama, is once again nominated.

Nominations were announced in March with Adolescence leading the way with 11 nods, it tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller, who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online.

Owen cut a dashing figure in a quirky white shirt which was layered with a powder blue bomber jacket worn with black trousers.

Meanwhile Stephen, 57, who also hopes to continue his award winning streak with a nod for Best Actor, opted for a classic black suit. 

Hannah, 52, who starred in and also produced Adolescence was the epitome of elegance in a Grecian-inspired burgundy gown. 

Adolescence star Owen Cooper towered over married co-stars Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters as they took to the red carpet at the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday

Adolescence star Owen Cooper towered over married co-stars Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters as they took to the red carpet at the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday

The actor, 16, who has made history by becoming the youngest winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Actor Awards is once again nominated.

The actor, 16, who has made history by becoming the youngest winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at both the Golden Globes and the Actor Awards is once again nominated.

The couple, who have been married since 2008, were also joined by their daughter Grace, 21, and their 19-year-old son Alfie. 

Each episode of Adolescence is filmed in one continuous shot and has been widely praised for addressing topics such as online radicalisation and misogyny. 

It is up for Limited Drama and Leading Actor, including the Craft Awards. 

Stars Stephen, Owen, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty and Christine Tremarco are also 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. 

Meanwhile, 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. 

While 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.

Owen cut a dashing figure in a quirky white shirt which was layered with a powder blue bomber jacket worn with black trousers

Owen cut a dashing figure in a quirky white shirt which was layered with a powder blue bomber jacket worn with black trousers

Adolescence tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller, who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online

Adolescence tells the story of British teenager Jamie Miller, who is found guilty of murdering a female classmate after being sucked in by the manosphere online

The couple, who have been married since 2008, were also joined by their daughter Grace, 21, and their 19-year-old son Alfie

The couple, who have been married since 2008, were also joined by their daughter Grace, 21, and their 19-year-old son Alfie

Stephen, 57, who also hopes to continue his award winning streak with a nod for Best Actor, opted for a classic black suit

 Stephen, 57, who also hopes to continue his award winning streak with a nod for Best Actor, opted for a classic black suit

Hannah, 52, who starred in and also produced Adolescence was the epitome of elegance in a Grecian Inspired burgundy gown

Hannah, 52, who starred in and also produced Adolescence was the epitome of elegance in a Grecian Inspired burgundy gown

Stephen and Owen pictured in Adolescence

Stephen and Owen pictured in Adolescence 

Erin and Aimee will face off for a second time on the night in the Leading Actress category, this time 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 as Ann Ming and Jodie Whittaker in Toxic Town.

While Netflix has a total of 29 nominations, it’s the BBC who have the highest number of nominations, with 73 in total – five of which are for The Celebrity Traitors. 

The show became the highest-rated show on British TV last year, with host Claudia Winkleman up for a chance at taking 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 up for best Entertainment Performance. 

Before the ceremony, Fleur East and Roman Kemp will present live on the red carpet on BAFTA’s YouTube. 

The Celebrity Traitors’ star Cat Burns will perform How To Be Human while for the In Memoriam, Norwegian singer-songwriter AURORA will also perform Through the Eyes of a Child from BAFTA-nominated Netflix series Adolescence.

BAFTA TV AWARDS 2026: THE WINNERS

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? Its 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 – WINNER

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

Would I Lie to You

Entertainment Performance

Amanda Holden – Alan Carr Amanda & Alan’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 (Netflix) – WINNER

Fought The Law (ITV)

Trespasses (Channel 4) 

What It Feels Like for a Girl (BBC Three) 

News Coverage 

BBC Newsnight – Grooming Survivors Speak 

Production TeamChannel 4 News – Israel-iran: The Twelve Day War 

Production TeamSky News: Gaza – Fight for Survival Production Team

Reality

The Celebrity Traitors – WINNER 

The Jury: Murder Trial

Squid Game: The Challenge

Virgin Island

Scripted Comedy

Amandaland – WINNER

Big Boys

How Are You? Its 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 Production Team

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 – WINNER 

Paddy Considine – Mobland

Rafael Mathé – The Death of Bunny Munro

Supporting Actress

Aimee Lou Wood – The White Lotus

Christine Tremarco – Adolescence – WINNER 

Chyna Mcqueen – Get Millie Black

Emilia Jones – Task

Erin Doherty – Adolescence

Rose Ayling-Ellis – Reunion

Specialist Factual 

Belsen: What They Found (BBC Two)

Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (BBC Two) – WINNER 

Surviving Black Hawk Down (Netflix)

Vietnam: The War That Changed America (Apple TV)

Factual Series 

Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park (Sky Documentaries)

Educating Yorkshire (Channel 4)

See No Evil (Channel 4) – WINNER

The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed (ITV1)

Children’s Non-Scripted

A Real Bug’s Life (Disney+)

BooSnoo! (Sky Kids)

Deadly 60: Saving Sharks (CBBC)

World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates) – WINNER

Children’s Scripted

Crongton (BBC iPlayer) – WINNER 

Horrible Science (BBC iPlayer)

Shaun the Sheep (CBBC)

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (Cartoon Network)

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award (Voted for 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 plot to silence a key witnessT

The Celebrity Traitors – Alan Carr wins The Celebrity Traitors – Studio Lambert Scotland / BBC One

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, where she introduces herself as Paris

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