Scottish film I Swear has emerged as the frontrunner for this year’s BAFTA Scotland Awards after picking up seven nominations.
BAFTA Scotland has revealed the full shortlist for its 2026 awards, with 41 films and television programmes recognised across 14 competitive categories.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Glasgow on Sunday 15 November, hosted by broadcaster Edith Bowman, with coverage available through BAFTA’s YouTube channel and social media platforms.
I Swear leads the nominations with seven, as well as a previously announced Audience Award nomination for Peter Mullan.
The film has secured all three places in the Actor Film category, with Mullan nominated alongside Robert Aramayo and Scott Ellis Watson.
Shirley Henderson is nominated for Actress Film, while Kirk Jones is shortlisted for both Director Fiction and Writer Film/Television. The production is also among the nominees for Feature Film.
Ashley Storrie in Dinosaur
Netflix drama Dept. Q and BBC Scotland comedy Dinosaur have each received three nominations.
Dept. Q is nominated for Television Scripted, while Chloe Pirrie is shortlisted for Actress Television and writers Scott Frank and
Chandni Lakhani are nominated in the writing category. Leah Byrne is also among the six contenders for the public-voted Audience Award.
Dinosaur is nominated for Television Scripted, Ashley Storrie for Actress Television and Niamh McKeown for Director Fiction.
Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story, Everybody to Kenmure Street and Midwinter Break have each received two nominations.
A number of well-known Scottish actors are competing in the television performance categories.
Dougray Scott is nominated for Summerwater, Jack Lowden for Slow Horses, Peter Capaldi for Criminal Record and Robert Carlyle for The Hack. All four have previously won BAFTA Scotland awards.
Ashley Storrie, Chloe Pirrie, Emma Laird and Lucy Halliday make up the Actress Television shortlist.
Halliday is one of the ceremony’s double acting nominees, receiving recognition for California Schemin’ in Actress Film and The Testaments in Actress Television.
Lesley Manville is nominated for Midwinter Break alongside Halliday and Henderson in the film actress category.
Elsewhere, Lynne Ramsay is shortlisted for Director Fiction for Die My Love, while The Gold director Patrick Harkins joins Jones, Ramsay and McKeown in the category.
The Feature Film shortlist consists of Everybody to Kenmure Street, Grow, I Swear and The Golden Spurtle.
Television Scripted will see Dept. Q and Dinosaur compete with The Bombing of Pan Am 103 and The Buccaneers.
Factual productions receiving recognition include The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone, Murder Case: The Vanishing Cyclist and
The Beauty Queen and the Catfish, while Being Stanley Baxter is nominated for Single Documentary alongside Dunblane: How Britain Banned Handguns and Lover, Liar, Predator.
The Audience Award, presented in partnership with Screen Scotland, is the only category decided by the public.
Julie Wilson Nimmo for Balamory, Katie Leung for Bridgerton, Leah Byrne for Dept. Q, Ncuti Gatwa for Doctor Who, Peter Mullan for I Swear and Stephen Libby for The Traitors are nominated.
Voting remains open until Friday 30 October.
Dani Carlaw, chair of BAFTA Scotland, said: “A big congratulations to all this year’s BAFTA Scotland nominees.
“These nominations are a reminder of just how much creative talent we have across Scotland, both on screen and behind the scenes.
“Every project takes people with vision and determination to make it happen. I’m really looking forward to celebrating their work and the teams who made it possible.”
The recipient of the BAFTA Special Award, which recognises an outstanding contribution to film, games or television, will be announced ahead of the Glasgow ceremony.