The F1 film picked up one other award over the weekend on the 2026 BAFTA Movie Awards.
Having been nominated alongside Frankenstein, One Battle After One other, Sinners and Warfare, the Brad Pitt-led movie gained the Finest Sound class on the awards.
F1 had additionally been nominated for the Particular Visible Results and Finest Enhancing classes. Avatar: Hearth and Ash gained Finest Particular Visible Results, and the award for Finest Enhancing went to One Battle After One other.
F1 follows nomadic driver Sonny Hayes (Pitt) as he returns to Components 1 with the struggling APXGP group alongside rookie driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). The group, owned by Hayes’ former team-mate Rubén Cervantes (Javier Bardem), has the ultimate 9 races of the season to win a grand prix, in any other case the traders will promote it.
The APXGP vehicles have been modified Components 2 vehicles and have been really pushed by Pitt and Idris. This, along with the film being filmed throughout actual race weekends, gave the blockbuster a practical backdrop, albeit with a little bit of Hollywood sprinkled over it.
F1 drivers from the 2023 and 2024 seasons appeared within the movie alongside the star-studded forged, with drivers reminiscent of Alex Albon, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Fernando Alonso making cameos. Seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton not solely appeared within the movie as himself, he additionally served as government producer on the manufacturing.
Brad Pitt, Damson Idris
Photograph by: Erik Junius
The movie has seen immense success since its June 2025 launch, exceeding $630million on the world field workplace. Because of this, it comes as no shock {that a} sequel is already within the works, as confirmed by producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
“We’re engaged on a sequel,” he instructed the BBC.
“It was a protracted journey to get the film made as a result of we needed to endure a few strikes – however ultimately, the film entertained audiences around the globe,” he mentioned of F1 on the Academy Awards luncheon in Los Angeles. “I by no means labored with Brad Pitt earlier than and it is actually a thrill to work with Brad.”
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