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Apple lands four BAFTA Film Award nominations for Academy Award Best Picture nominee “F1” and “The Lost Bus”

Apple also earns American Cinema Editors Award nominations for “F1,” “Mr. Scorsese,” “The Studio,” “Pluribus” “Severance” and “The Gorge” 
Press Release January 27, 2026
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Apple earned recognition with four nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards and seven nominations for the American Cinema Editors Awards.

Today, Apple was recognized with four nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, including Best Sound, Best Special Visual Effects and Best Editing for acclaimed Academy Award Best Picture nominee “F1,” the highest-grossing sports feature of all time, alongside a Best Special Visual Effects nod for the gripping film “The Lost Bus.” The BAFTA Film Award winners will be revealed on Sunday, February 22, 2026 in London. 

Apple also earned seven nominations for the 76th Annual American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards, including Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical) for “F1”; two Best Edited Drama Series nominations for “Severance,” including “Chikhai Bardo” and “Cold Harbor”; Best Edited Drama Series “Pluribus” for “We Is Us”; Best Edited Single Camera Comedy Series for “The Studio” for “The Promotion”; Best Edited Documentary Series for “Mr. Scorsese” for “All This Filming Isn’t Healthy”; and Best Edited Feature Film (Non-Theatrical) for “The Gorge.” The ACE Eddie Award winners will be revealed on Friday, February 27, 2026 in Los Angeles. 

These nominations mark the latest honors for “F1,” the Apple Original Film from Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, seven-time Formula 1® world champion Lewis Hamilton, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman, following its record-breaking box office run. “F1” has also been recognized with four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects and Best Editing; as one of the National Board of Review Top 10 Films of 2025; and landed two Critics Choice Award wins for Best Editing and Best Sound. The film has received nominations for the Actor Awards presented by SAG-AFTRA, Golden Globe Awards, Producers Guild Awards, Costume Designers Guild Awards, Art Directors Guild Awards, ACE Eddie Awards, Artios Awards, Grammy Awards, Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards and NAACP Image Awards, among many others. “The Lost Bus” was recently recognized with an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.

This is the latest recognition from the BAFTA Film Awards for Apple following an Outstanding British Film nomination for “Blitz” in 2025; a record 14 nominations including Best Film for “Killers of the Flower Moon” and an Outstanding British Film nomination for “Napoleon” in 2024; a British Short Animation win for beloved Academy Award winner “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” in 2023; and a Best Adapted Screenplay win for Siân Heder alongside a Best Supporting Actor win for Troy Kotsur for the historic, Academy Award-winning film “CODA” in 2022.

To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 689 wins and 3,249 award nominations and counting, including multi-Emmy Award-winning and history-making comedies “The Studio” and “Ted Lasso,” and Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”

Apple received four total nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, including:

“F1”

Sound — Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta

Special Visual Effects — Ryan Tudhope, Keith Alfred Dawson, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington

Editing — Stephen Mirrione

“The Lost Bus”

Special Visual Effects — Charlie Noble, Brandon K. McLaughlin, David Zaretti

Apple received seven total nominations for the 76th Annual ACE Awards, including:

“F1”

Best Edited Feature Film (Drama, Theatrical) — Stephen Mirrione

“Severance”

Best Edited Drama Series — “Chikhai Bardo,” Keith Fraase

Best Edited Drama Series — “Cold Harbor,” Geoffrey Richman

“Pluribus”

Best Edited Drama Series — “We Is Us,” Skip Macdonald

“The Studio”

Best Edited Single Camera Comedy Series — “The Promotion,” Eric Kissack

“Mr. Scorsese”

Best Edited Documentary Series — “All This Filming Isn’t Healthy,” David Bartner

“The Gorge”

Best Edited Feature Film (Non-Theatrical) — Frédéric Thoraval

All titles are now streaming globally on Apple TV. 

“F1” 

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.

“F1” is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, seven-time Formula 1® world champion Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Chad Oman. Kosinski directs from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, with the story by Kosinski and Kruger. Apple Original Films and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Monolith Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer / Plan B Entertainment / Dawn Apollo Films Production, a Joseph Kosinski film, “F1,” distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

“The Studio”

In “The Studio,” Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.

“Severance”

In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.

“Pluribus”

“Pluribus” is a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

“The Lost Bus”

From director Paul Greengrass and inspired by real events, “The Lost Bus” is a white-knuckle ride through one of America’s deadliest wildfires as a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno. Written by Greengrass and Brad Ingelsby, who also serve as producers, “The Lost Bus” is produced by Gregory Goodman, Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions and Jamie Lee Curtis for Comet Pictures.

“Mr. Scorsese”

“Mr. Scorsese” is a film portrait of a man through the lens of his work, exploring the many facets of a visionary who redefined filmmaking, including his extraordinary career and unique personal history. With exclusive, unrestricted access to Martin Scorsese’s private archives, the documentary series is anchored by extensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with friends, family and creative collaborators including Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto, along with his children, wife Helen Morris and close childhood friends. From acclaimed director Rebecca Miller, “Mr. Scorsese” examines how his own colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision as each film he made stunned the world with originality. Starting with his New York University student films and continuing to the present day, this documentary explores the themes that have fascinated Scorsese and informed his work, including the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind.

“The Gorge”

Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.

Apple TV offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment, and is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service in its debut. 

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