Sorry, Baby & Wicked: For Good Lead The 2026 Girls On Film Awards

The awards season is heating up and the team at the Girls On Film podcast have announced their nominations. Sorry, Baby and Wicked: For Good lead the 2026 shortlist with a total of  six nods each.

Girls On Film co-founders Anna Smith and Hedda Lornie Archbold made the announcement today. The cast of Sorry, Baby featured strongly, with nominations for Supporting Role, Female Friendship On Screen and Ensemble, alongside Best Film, Director and Cinematography. Similarly, the performances in Wicked: For Good earned the film nods for Leading Role, Supporting Role and Female Friendship On Screen, as well as being represented in the Cinematography and Intimacy categories. Its director, Jon M Chu, is also in the running for the Ally Award.

Chloe Zhao‘s Hamnet, which arrives in UK cinemas tomorrow, picked up nods for Best Film, Director, Leading Role (Jessie Buckley) and Production Design. Sinners was also recognised for Production Design, Cinematography and Intimacy, with Ryan Coogler making the shortlist for the Ally Award. Behind them with three nods each are Dragonfly, Die My Love, The Chronology Of Water, and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

The awards celebrate outstanding filmmaking and extraordinary talent both in front of and behind the camera, with craftswomen recognised across cinematography, music, editing, production design and intimacy. The Ally Award recognises a male filmmaker who champions the representation and empowerment of women in film.

“Our nominations celebrate films about complex women, and the teams who tell these stories,” said Girls On Film host and co-founder Anna Smith. “Whether real or fictional, the people on screen aren’t simply characterised by their gender, race, sexuality or circumstances. They are much more than politicians, refugees, academics, mothers, daughters, lovers, or indeed, witches. True to the Girls On Film mission, many of the films question how stories are told, and from whose perspective. And I’m proud that our groundbreaking Female Friendship on Screen category continues to identify some of the most important and entertaining feminist films of the year.”

The winners of the 5th annual Girls On Film Awards will be announced on February 2nd.

Full list of Nominations:

BEST FEATURE FILM Sponsored by EON Productions

●     Die My Love

●     Hamnet

●     A House of Dynamite

●     If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

●     Sorry, Baby

BEST DIRECTOR

●     Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

●     Lynne Ramsay – Die My Love

●     Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water

●     Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

●     Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A LEADING ROLE

●     Jessie Buckley – Hamnet

●     Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

●     Cynthia Erivo – Wicked: For Good

●     Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love

●     Imogen Poots – The Chronology of Water

●     Andrea Riseborough – Dragonfly

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

●     Naomi Ackie – Sorry, Baby

●     Rebecca Ferguson – A House of Dynamite

●     Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good

●     Clara Pacini – The Ice Tower

●     Maxine Peake – I Swear

●     Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

BEST DOCUMENTARY

●     Come See Me in the Good Light

●     The Extraordinary Miss Flower

●     The Perfect Neighbor

●     Prime Minister

●     Twiggy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Sponsored by CrewHQ

●     Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC – Sinners

●     Sarah Blum AFC and Hélène Louvart AFC (with Tim Fleming ISC and Leandro Monti) – Palestine 36

●     Alice Brooks ASC – Wicked: For Good

●     Mia Cioffi Henry – Sorry, Baby

●     Vanessa Whyte BSC – Dragonfly

BEST COMPOSER

●     Hildur Guðnadóttir – 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple; Hedda

●     Laura Karpman – Captain America: Brave New World

●     Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – H is for Hawk

●     Rachel Portman – The Return

●     Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

●     Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Kave Quinn

●     Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell

●     Hamnet – Fiona Crombie

●     One Battle After Another – Florencia Martin

●     Sinners – Hannah Beachler

BEST EDITING Sponsored by DISAUTHORITY 

●     The Chronology of Water – Olivia Neergaard-Holm

●     Cover-Up – Amy Foote and Laura Poitras (with Peter Bowman)

●     On Falling – Helle le Fevre (with Francisco Moreira)

●     The Perfect Neighbor – Viridiana Lieberman

●     The Voice of Hind Rajab – Kaouther Ben Hania (with Qutaiba Barhamji and Maxime Mathis)

INTIMACY AWARD

●      Black Bag – Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender with Intimacy Coordinator Ita O’Brien

Writer David Koepp, director Steven Soderbergh, producers Gregory Davids and Casey Silver

●      Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – Renée Zellweger and Leo Woodall with Intimacy Coordinator Adelaide Waldrop

Writers Helen Fielding and Abi Morgan (with Dan Mazer), director Michael Morris and producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Jo Wallett

●      Dreamers– Ronke Adekoluejo and Ann Akinjirin with Intimacy Coordinator El Wood

Writer/director Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor and producer Emily Morgan

●      Sinners– Wunmi Mosaku and Michael B. Jordan with Intimacy Coordinator Amanda Peek

Writer/director/producer Ryan Coogler

●      Wicked: For Good – Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey with Intimacy Coordinator Yarit Dor

Writers Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox (with Stephen Schwartz), director Jon M. Chu, producers Mark Platt, David Stone and Joan Schneider

BEST FEMALE FRIENDSHIP ON SCREEN

●     Brides – Safiyya Ingar & Ebada Hassan

●     Eleanor the Great – June Squibb & Erin Kellyman

●     Lollipop – Posy Sterling & Idil Ahmed

●     Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor & Naomi Ackie

●     Wicked: For Good – Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

●     Brides – Safiyya Ingar, Ebada Hassan

●     Goodbye June – Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Toni Colette, Helen Mirren, Johnny Flynn, Timothy Spall, Fisayo Akinade

●     Hedda – Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots

●     Left-Handed Girl – Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Mah, Nina Ye

●     Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi, Lucas Hedges

THE GIRLS ON FILM ALLY AWARD Sponsored by IMDb

 The Girls On Film Ally Award recognises a male filmmaker who has created complex on-screen women characters and champions the representation and empowerment of women in film.

●     Jon M. Chu – Wicked: For Good

●     Ryan Coogler – Sinners

●     John Maclean – Tornado

●     Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value

●     Paul Andrew Williams – Dragonfly

ACTIVIST IMPACT AWARD 

●     Daisy-May Hudson – filmmaker and artist

●     Female Film Club – online female filmmakers members club

●     Ita O’Brien – intimacy coordinator and founder of Intimacy on Set

●     Reclaim The Frame – campaign for gender justice in cinema

●     We Are Parable – an exhibition and distribution company specialising in culturally relevant experiences for Black cinema and TV