Cymru Awards

In Pictures: The BAFTA Cymru Awards 2026

Posted: 5 Oct 2026

The BAFTA Cymru Awards are the biggest annual celebration of creative excellence across film and television in Wales.

Hosted by Welsh TV presenter Owain Wyn Evans, 17 competitive awards were presented across the evening as well as two BAFTA Outstanding Contribution Awards.  

View some photos from the night below and take a look at the full list of winners and nominees.

AWARD WINS

A white woman with dark hair, swept to one side, wearing a thin strapped black dress and stood at a lectern with her BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Gabrielle Creevy was delighted to receive the Actress award for The Guest. The Actor award went to Matthew Rhys (who was unable to attend) for The Beast in Me.
A white woman with long wavy blonde hair wearing a long sleeved black dress. She has one hand in a fist held high above her head in celebration and she is stood at a lectern with a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Carol Vorderman was recognised for the longstanding impact she has had on the industry with the Sian Phillips Award for Outstanding Contribution to Television.
A white woman with blonde wavy hair wearing a black top and blazer and stood at a lectern holding a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Elin Fflur accepted the Entertainment Programme Award for Amour A Mynydd.
A white man with dark hair and beard wearing a dark green suit with white top and pocket square posing with his BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Matthew Barry poses with his BAFTA Cymru Award after winning the Writer category for his work on The Guest.
A white woman with blonde wavy hair wearing a black tiered dress posing with her BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Lauren Evans was recognised for her work in the industry with the BAFTA Cymru Outstanding Contribution to Craft Award.
A white woman with blonde hair tied back wearing a floral strapless gown and holding her BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Mari Grug received the Presenter award for the deeply personal Un Dydd Ar Y Tro.
A white man with dark hair and stubble wearing a black suit and skinny tie and holding a BAFTA Cymru balanced in one hand.
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Gareth Bryn was given the Director: Fiction Award for Karen Pirie.
A white woman with bobbed blonde hair wearing a sage green silky outfit, and a bald white man wearing a tuxedo look at each other while collecting a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Donna Wiffen and Alec Spiteri accept the Television Drama Award for Y Golau: Dwr. The programme also saw editor Mali Evans (who was unable to attend) receive the Editing award.
A group of three people holding a BAFTA Cymru Award and a model figure. From left to right, a woman with black hair in a pixie cut wearing wire framed glasses and a black dress giving the peace sign, a woman with pink bobbed hair wearing a green blazer and a man with dark blond hair in black blazer.
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Laura Tofarides and the production team of the Short Film Award winner Gofod Ymennydd - Brain Space.
Three men in tuxedos posing in front of a BAFTA branding board with a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Ed Talfan, Tom Bullough and Josh Hyams received the award for Feature/Television Film for Mr Burton.
A bald white man with a full ginger beard wearing wire rim glasses and holding a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Adam Scarth with the award for Photography and Lighting: Fiction Award for Under Salt Marsh.
A white woman with black hair in a pixie cut wearing a black long mesh sleeved dress talking into a microphone at a lectern along with a white woman with blonde hair and a white man in a tuxedo.
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Luned Phillips, Caryl Ebenezer and Gruffydd Sion Rees accept the Factual Series Award for Stori'r laith.
Three people posing with their BAFTA Cymru Award backstage and taking a selfie. Two white men in black suits and a woman with dark hair and wearing black an silver sparkly dress.
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Anna Marie Robinson with the award for News/Current Affairs Programme Award for Foden: O Brifathro I Bedoffeil.
Three men all in black suits and with hands held high celebrating with their BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Max Hughes, Aria Prayogi and Gareth Steel with the Sound Award for Havoc.
A bald white man in a dark suit at a lectern with a dark-haired woman wearing a long green dress and holding a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Aled Mills accepts the Children's Programme Award for Itopia.
Four white men in black suits pose backstage with a BAFTA Cymru Award.
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Rhys Edwards, Rhodri Brooks, and Lynyr Williams celebrated a double win after receiving the award for Single Documentary for Y Crwydryn and for Edwards receiving the Director: Factual Award for the same programme.

Red Carpet...

A white woman with shoulder length dark hair wearing a red halter-neck dress.
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Actress nominee Sian Reese-Williams from Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards
A woman with long black braided hair wearing an off the shoulder, full length maroon coloured dress.
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Singer and radio presenter Aleighcia Scott poses on the red carpet.
A black woman with a sleeve of tattoos and hair tied back wearing a dark velvety bandeau dress on the red carpet.
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The Party and Black Rabbit actress Amaka Okafor co-presented the awards for Entertainment Programme and Children's Programme.
A white woman with blonde bobbed hair wearing a full length black dress with sheer sleeves.
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Actress nominee Buddug Povey from Rownd a Rownd.
A woman with black hair, tied back wearing a statement neck black dress.
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Presenter and journalist Seren Jones co-presented the Factual Series and News and Current Affairs Bafta Cymru Awards.
A man with dark curly hair wearing a brown oversized suit and black shirt.
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Lost Boys & Fairies actor Shaheen Jafargholi co-presented the Sound and Photography & Lighting Bafta Cymru Awards.
A woman with dark hair tied back wearing a grey double breasted suit dress.
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VisionQuest actress Lauren Morais co-presented the Editing and Single Documentary Bafta Cymru Awards.
A white man with dark blond hair and beard poses on the red carpet in a black suit and tie.
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Actor nominee Callum Scott-Howells from Madfabulous.

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