# BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognise an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 1968, selected actors have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

## History

The Best Supporting Actor award has been presented a total of 54 times to 48 different actors. No award was given out in this category in 1980, when no actors, male or female, were nominated for supporting roles. In addition, the award was replaced with a gender-neutral category for Best Supporting Artist, allotted for the year 1981 only, with all four nominees that year being male. The first winner was Ian Holm for his role in The Bofors Gun. The most recent winner is Kieran Culkin for his role in A Real Pain. The record for most wins is three, held by Denholm Elliott, who won three consecutive times, while five other actors have won twice. Elliott also holds the record for most nominations, with seven.

## Winners and nominees
### 1960s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1968 (22nd) | Ian Holm | The Bofors Gun | Flynn |
| 1968 (22nd) | Anthony Hopkins | The Lion in Winter | King Richard I |
| 1968 (22nd) | John McEnery | Romeo and Juliet | Mercutio |
| 1968 (22nd) | George Segal | No Way to Treat a Lady | Morris Brummel |
| 1969 (23rd) | Laurence Olivier | Oh! What a Lovely War | John French |
| 1969 (23rd) | Jack Klugman | Goodbye, Columbus | Ben Patimkin |
| 1969 (23rd) | Jack Nicholson | Easy Rider | George Hanson |
| 1969 (23rd) | Robert Vaughn | Bullitt | Chalmers |

### 1970s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1970 (24th) | Colin Welland | Kes | Mr. Farthing |
| 1970 (24th) | Bernard Cribbins | The Railway Children | Albert Perks |
| 1970 (24th) | John Mills | Ryan's Daughter | Michael |
| 1970 (24th) | Gig Young | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Rocky |
| 1971 (25th) | Edward Fox | The Go-Between | Hugh Trimingham |
| 1971 (25th) | Michael Gough | The Go-Between | Mr. Maudsley |
| 1971 (25th) | Ian Hendry | Get Carter | Eric Paice |
| 1971 (25th) | John Hurt | 10 Rillington Place | Timothy Evans |
| 1972 (26th) | Ben Johnson | The Last Picture Show | Sam the Lion |
| 1972 (26th) | Max Adrian (posthumous) | The Boy Friend | Mr. Max / Lord Hubert Brockhurst |
| 1972 (26th) | Robert Duvall | The Godfather | Tom Hagen |
| 1972 (26th) | Ralph Richardson | Lady Caroline Lamb | King George IV |
| 1973 (27th) | Arthur Lowe | O Lucky Man! | Mr. Duff / Charlie Johnson / Dr. Munda |
| 1973 (27th) | Ian Bannen | The Offence | Kenneth Baxter |
| 1973 (27th) | Denholm Elliott | A Doll's House | Nils Krogstad |
| 1973 (27th) | Michael Lonsdale | The Day of the Jackal | Lebel |
| 1974 (28th) | John Gielgud | Murder on the Orient Express | Mr. Beddoes |
| 1974 (28th) | Adam Faith | Stardust | Mike Menary |
| 1974 (28th) | John Huston | Chinatown | Noah Cross |
| 1974 (28th) | Randy Quaid | The Last Detail | Seaman Larry Meadows |
| 1975 (29th) | Fred Astaire | The Towering Inferno | Harlee Claiborne |
| 1975 (29th) | Martin Balsam | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Harold Longman |
| 1975 (29th) | Burgess Meredith | The Day of the Locust | Harry Greener |
| 1975 (29th) | Jack Warden | Shampoo | Lester Carp |
| 1976 (30th) | Brad Dourif | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Billy Bibbit |
| 1976 (30th) | Martin Balsam | All the President's Men | Howard Simons |
| 1976 (30th) | Michael Hordern | The Slipper and the Rose | The King |
| 1976 (30th) | Jason Robards | All the President's Men | Ben Bradlee |
| 1977 (31st) | Edward Fox | A Bridge Too Far | Brian Horrocks |
| 1977 (31st) | Colin Blakely | Equus | Frank Strang |
| 1977 (31st) | Robert Duvall | Network | Frank Hackett |
| 1977 (31st) | Zero Mostel | The Front | Hecky Brown |
| 1978 (32nd) | John Hurt | Midnight Express | Max |
| 1978 (32nd) | Gene Hackman | Superman | Lex Luthor |
| 1978 (32nd) | Jason Robards | Julia | Dashiell Hammett |
| 1978 (32nd) | François Truffaut | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Claude Lacombe |
| 1979 (33rd) | Robert Duvall | Apocalypse Now | Bill Kilgore |
| 1979 (33rd) | Denholm Elliott | Saint Jack | William Leigh |
| 1979 (33rd) | John Hurt | Alien | Kane |
| 1979 (33rd) | Christopher Walken | The Deer Hunter | Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich |

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1980 (34th) | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 1981 (35th) | Ian Holm | Chariots of Fire | Sam Mussabini |
| 1981 (35th) | Denholm Elliott | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Marcus Brody |
| 1981 (35th) | John Gielgud | Arthur | Hobson |
| 1981 (35th) | Nigel Havers | Chariots of Fire | Andrew Lindsay |
| 1982 (36th) | Jack Nicholson | Reds | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1982 (36th) | Frank Finlay | The Return of the Soldier | William Grey |
| 1982 (36th) | Edward Fox | Gandhi | Reginald Dyer |
| 1982 (36th) | Roshan Seth | Gandhi | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 1983 (37th) | Denholm Elliott | Trading Places | Coleman |
| 1983 (37th) | Bob Hoskins | The Honorary Consul | Colonel Perez |
| 1983 (37th) | Burt Lancaster | Local Hero | Felix Happer |
| 1983 (37th) | Jerry Lewis | The King of Comedy | Jerry Langford |
| 1984 (38th) | Denholm Elliott | A Private Function | Charles Swaby |
| 1984 (38th) | Michael Elphick | Gorky Park | Pasha |
| 1984 (38th) | Ian Holm | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Phillippe D'Arnot |
| 1984 (38th) | Ralph Richardson | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | The Earl of Greystoke |
| 1985 (39th) | Denholm Elliott | Defence of the Realm | Vernon Bayliss |
| 1985 (39th) | James Fox | A Passage to India | Richard Fielding |
| 1985 (39th) | John Gielgud | Plenty | Leonard Darwin |
| 1985 (39th) | Saeed Jaffrey | My Beautiful Laundrette | Nasser |
| 1986 (40th) | Ray McAnally | The Mission | Altamirano |
| 1986 (40th) | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Out of Africa | Bror Blixen |
| 1986 (40th) | Simon Callow | A Room with a View | Arthur Beebe |
| 1986 (40th) | Denholm Elliott | A Room with a View | Mr. Emerson |
| 1987 (41st) | Daniel Auteuil | Jean de Florette | Ugolin |
| 1987 (41st) | Ian Bannen | Hope and Glory | Grandfather George |
| 1987 (41st) | Sean Connery | The Untouchables | Jimmy Malone |
| 1987 (41st) | John Thaw | Cry Freedom | Kruger |
| 1988 (42nd) | Michael Palin | A Fish Called Wanda | Ken Pile |
| 1988 (42nd) | Joss Ackland | White Mischief | Jock Delves Broughton |
| 1988 (42nd) | Peter O'Toole | The Last Emperor | Reginald Johnston |
| 1988 (42nd) | David Suchet | A World Apart | Muller |
| 1989 (43rd) | Ray McAnally | My Left Foot | Mr. Brown |
| 1989 (43rd) | Marlon Brando | A Dry White Season | Ian McKenzie |
| 1989 (43rd) | Sean Connery | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Henry Jones Sr. |
| 1989 (43rd) | Jack Nicholson | Batman | Jack Napier / The Joker |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 1990 (44th) | Salvatore Cascio | Cinema Paradiso | Salvatore Di Vita (child) |
| 1990 (44th) | Alan Alda | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Lester |
| 1990 (44th) | John Hurt | The Field | Bird O'Donnell |
| 1990 (44th) | Al Pacino | Dick Tracy | Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice |
| 1991 (45th) | Alan Rickman | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Sheriff of Nottingham |
| 1991 (45th) | Alan Bates | Hamlet | King Claudius |
| 1991 (45th) | Derek Jacobi | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson |
| 1991 (45th) | Andrew Strong | The Commitments | Deco Cuffe |
| 1992 (46th) | Gene Hackman | Unforgiven | Little Bill Daggett |
| 1992 (46th) | Jaye Davidson | The Crying Game | Dil |
| 1992 (46th) | Tommy Lee Jones | JFK | Clay Shaw |
| 1992 (46th) | Samuel West | Howards End | Leonard Bast |
| 1993 (47th) | Ralph Fiennes | Schindler's List | Amon Göth |
| 1993 (47th) | Tommy Lee Jones | The Fugitive | Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard |
| 1993 (47th) | Ben Kingsley | Schindler's List | Itzhak Stern |
| 1993 (47th) | John Malkovich | In the Line of Fire | Mitch Leary |
| 1994 (48th) | Samuel L. Jackson | Pulp Fiction | Jules Winnfield |
| 1994 (48th) | Simon Callow | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Gareth |
| 1994 (48th) | John Hannah | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Matthew |
| 1994 (48th) | Paul Scofield | Quiz Show | Mark Van Doren |
| 1995 (49th) | Tim Roth | Rob Roy | Archibald Cunningham |
| 1995 (49th) | Ian Holm | The Madness of King George | Dr. Willis |
| 1995 (49th) | Martin Landau | Ed Wood | Bela Lugosi |
| 1995 (49th) | Alan Rickman | Sense and Sensibility | Christopher Brandon |
| 1996 (50th) | Paul Scofield | The Crucible | Thomas Danforth |
| 1996 (50th) | John Gielgud | Shine | Cecil Parkes |
| 1996 (50th) | Edward Norton | Primal Fear | Aaron Stampler |
| 1996 (50th) | Alan Rickman | Michael Collins | Éamon de Valera |
| 1997 (51st) | Tom Wilkinson | The Full Monty | Gerald |
| 1997 (51st) | Mark Addy | The Full Monty | Dave |
| 1997 (51st) | Rupert Everett | My Best Friend's Wedding | George Downes |
| 1997 (51st) | Burt Reynolds | Boogie Nights | Jack Horner |
| 1998 (52nd) | Geoffrey Rush | Shakespeare in Love | Philip Henslowe |
| 1998 (52nd) | Ed Harris | The Truman Show | Christof |
| 1998 (52nd) | Geoffrey Rush | Elizabeth | Francis Walsingham |
| 1998 (52nd) | Tom Wilkinson | Shakespeare in Love | Hugh Fennyman |
| 1999 (53rd) | Jude Law | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Dickie Greenleaf |
| 1999 (53rd) | Wes Bentley | American Beauty | Ricky Fitts |
| 1999 (53rd) | Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules | Wilbur Larch |
| 1999 (53rd) | Rhys Ifans | Notting Hill | Spike |
| 1999 (53rd) | Timothy Spall | Topsy-Turvy | Richard Temple |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 2000 (54th) | Benicio del Toro | Traffic | Javier Rodriguez |
| 2000 (54th) | Albert Finney | Erin Brockovich | Edward L. Masry |
| 2000 (54th) | Gary Lewis | Billy Elliot | Jackie Elliot |
| 2000 (54th) | Joaquin Phoenix | Gladiator | Commodus |
| 2000 (54th) | Oliver Reed (posthumous) | Gladiator | Proximo |
| 2001 (55th) | Jim Broadbent | Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler |
| 2001 (55th) | Hugh Bonneville | Iris | Young John Bayley |
| 2001 (55th) | Robbie Coltrane | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Rubeus Hagrid |
| 2001 (55th) | Colin Firth | Bridget Jones's Diary | Mark Darcy |
| 2001 (55th) | Eddie Murphy | Shrek | Donkey |
| 2002 (56th) | Christopher Walken | Catch Me If You Can | Frank Abagnale Sr. |
| 2002 (56th) | Chris Cooper | Adaptation | John Laroche |
| 2002 (56th) | Ed Harris | The Hours | Richard Brown |
| 2002 (56th) | Alfred Molina | Frida | Diego Rivera |
| 2002 (56th) | Paul Newman | Road to Perdition | John Rooney |
| 2003 (57th) | Bill Nighy | Love Actually | Billy Mack |
| 2003 (57th) | Paul Bettany | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Dr. Stephen Maturin |
| 2003 (57th) | Albert Finney | Big Fish | Ed Bloom (Old) |
| 2003 (57th) | Ian McKellen | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Gandalf |
| 2003 (57th) | Tim Robbins | Mystic River | Dave Boyle |
| 2004 (58th) | Clive Owen | Closer | Larry Gray |
| 2004 (58th) | Alan Alda | The Aviator | Owen Brewster |
| 2004 (58th) | Phil Davis | Vera Drake | Stanley Drake |
| 2004 (58th) | Rodrigo de la Serna | The Motorcycle Diaries | Alberto Granado |
| 2004 (58th) | Jamie Foxx | Collateral | Max Durocher |
| 2005 (59th) | Jake Gyllenhaal | Brokeback Mountain | Jack Twist |
| 2005 (59th) | Don Cheadle | Crash | Det. Graham Waters |
| 2005 (59th) | George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck | Fred W. Friendly |
| 2005 (59th) | George Clooney | Syriana | Bob Barnes |
| 2005 (59th) | Matt Dillon | Crash | Sgt. John Ryan |
| 2006 (60th) | Alan Arkin | Little Miss Sunshine | Edwin Hoover |
| 2006 (60th) | James McAvoy | The Last King of Scotland | Nicholas Garrigan |
| 2006 (60th) | Jack Nicholson | The Departed | Frank Costello |
| 2006 (60th) | Leslie Phillips | Venus | Ian Brooks |
| 2006 (60th) | Michael Sheen | The Queen | Tony Blair |
| 2007 (61st) | Javier Bardem | No Country for Old Men | Anton Chigurh |
| 2007 (61st) | Paul Dano | There Will Be Blood | Eli Sunday / Paul Sunday |
| 2007 (61st) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Charlie Wilson's War | Gust Avrakotos |
| 2007 (61st) | Tommy Lee Jones | No Country for Old Men | Sheriff Ed Tom Bell |
| 2007 (61st) | Tom Wilkinson | Michael Clayton | Arthur Edens |
| 2008 (62nd) | Heath Ledger (posthumous) | The Dark Knight | Joker |
| 2008 (62nd) | Robert Downey Jr. | Tropic Thunder | Kirk Lazarus |
| 2008 (62nd) | Brendan Gleeson | In Bruges | Ken Daley |
| 2008 (62nd) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Doubt | Father Brendan Flynn |
| 2008 (62nd) | Brad Pitt | Burn After Reading | Chad Feldheimer |
| 2009 (63rd) | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds | Col. Hans Landa |
| 2009 (63rd) | Alec Baldwin | It's Complicated | Jacob Adler |
| 2009 (63rd) | Christian McKay | Me and Orson Welles | Orson Welles |
| 2009 (63rd) | Alfred Molina | An Education | Jack Miller |
| 2009 (63rd) | Stanley Tucci | The Lovely Bones | George Harvey |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 2010 (64th) | Geoffrey Rush | The King's Speech | Lionel Logue |
| 2010 (64th) | Christian Bale | The Fighter | Dicky Eklund |
| 2010 (64th) | Andrew Garfield | The Social Network | Eduardo Saverin |
| 2010 (64th) | Pete Postlethwaite (posthumous) | The Town | Fergus "Fergie" Colm |
| 2010 (64th) | Mark Ruffalo | The Kids Are All Right | Paul Hatfield |
| 2011 (65th) | Christopher Plummer | Beginners | Hal Fields |
| 2011 (65th) | Kenneth Branagh | My Week with Marilyn | Laurence Olivier |
| 2011 (65th) | Jim Broadbent | The Iron Lady | Denis Thatcher |
| 2011 (65th) | Jonah Hill | Moneyball | Peter Brand |
| 2011 (65th) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Ides of March | Paul Zara |
| 2012 (66th) | Christoph Waltz | Django Unchained | Dr. King Schultz |
| 2012 (66th) | Alan Arkin | Argo | Lester Siegel |
| 2012 (66th) | Javier Bardem | Skyfall | Raoul Silva |
| 2012 (66th) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | The Master | Lancaster Dodd |
| 2012 (66th) | Tommy Lee Jones | Lincoln | Thaddeus Stevens |
| 2013 (67th) | Barkhad Abdi | Captain Phillips | Abduwali Muse |
| 2013 (67th) | Daniel Brühl | Rush | Niki Lauda |
| 2013 (67th) | Bradley Cooper | American Hustle | Richard "Richie" DiMaso |
| 2013 (67th) | Matt Damon | Behind the Candelabra | Scott Thorson |
| 2013 (67th) | Michael Fassbender | 12 Years a Slave | Edwin Epps |
| 2014 (68th) | J. K. Simmons | Whiplash | Terrence Fletcher |
| 2014 (68th) | Steve Carell | Foxcatcher | John du Pont |
| 2014 (68th) | Ethan Hawke | Boyhood | Mason Evans Sr. |
| 2014 (68th) | Edward Norton | Birdman | Mike Shiner |
| 2014 (68th) | Mark Ruffalo | Foxcatcher | David Schultz |
| 2015 (69th) | Mark Rylance | Bridge of Spies | Rudolf Abel |
| 2015 (69th) | Christian Bale | The Big Short | Michael Burry |
| 2015 (69th) | Benicio del Toro | Sicario | Alejandro Gillick |
| 2015 (69th) | Idris Elba | Beasts of No Nation | The Commandant |
| 2015 (69th) | Mark Ruffalo | Spotlight | Michael Rezendes |
| 2016 (70th) | Dev Patel | Lion | Saroo Brierley |
| 2016 (70th) | Mahershala Ali | Moonlight | Juan |
| 2016 (70th) | Jeff Bridges | Hell or High Water | Marcus Hamilton |
| 2016 (70th) | Hugh Grant | Florence Foster Jenkins | St. Clair Bayfield |
| 2016 (70th) | Aaron Taylor-Johnson | Nocturnal Animals | Ray Marcus |
| 2017 (71st) | Sam Rockwell | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Jason Dixon |
| 2017 (71st) | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project | Bobby Hicks |
| 2017 (71st) | Hugh Grant | Paddington 2 | Phoenix Buchanan |
| 2017 (71st) | Woody Harrelson | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Bill Willoughby |
| 2017 (71st) | Christopher Plummer | All the Money in the World | J. Paul Getty |
| 2018 (72nd) | Mahershala Ali | Green Book | Don Shirley |
| 2018 (72nd) | Timothée Chalamet | Beautiful Boy | Nic Sheff |
| 2018 (72nd) | Adam Driver | BlacKkKlansman | Flip Zimmerman |
| 2018 (72nd) | Richard E. Grant | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Jack Hock |
| 2018 (72nd) | Sam Rockwell | Vice | George W. Bush |
| 2019 (73rd) | Brad Pitt | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Cliff Booth |
| 2019 (73rd) | Tom Hanks | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Fred Rogers |
| 2019 (73rd) | Anthony Hopkins | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict XVI |
| 2019 (73rd) | Al Pacino | The Irishman | Jimmy Hoffa |
| 2019 (73rd) | Joe Pesci | The Irishman | Russell Bufalino |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Film | Character |
| 2020 (74th) | Daniel Kaluuya | Judas and the Black Messiah | Fred Hampton |
| 2020 (74th) | Barry Keoghan | Calm with Horses | Dymphna |
| 2020 (74th) | Alan Kim | Minari | David Yi |
| 2020 (74th) | Leslie Odom Jr. | One Night in Miami... | Sam Cooke |
| 2020 (74th) | Clarke Peters | Da 5 Bloods | Otis |
| 2020 (74th) | Paul Raci | Sound of Metal | Joe |
| 2021 (75th) | Troy Kotsur | CODA | Frank Rossi |
| 2021 (75th) | Mike Faist | West Side Story | Riff |
| 2021 (75th) | Ciarán Hinds | Belfast | Pop |
| 2021 (75th) | Woody Norman | C'mon C'mon | Jesse |
| 2021 (75th) | Jesse Plemons | The Power of the Dog | George Burbank |
| 2021 (75th) | Kodi Smit-McPhee | The Power of the Dog | Peter Gordon |
| 2022 (76th) | Barry Keoghan | The Banshees of Inisherin | Dominic Kearney |
| 2022 (76th) | Brendan Gleeson | The Banshees of Inisherin | Colm Doherty |
| 2022 (76th) | Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Waymond Wang |
| 2022 (76th) | Eddie Redmayne | The Good Nurse | Charles Cullen |
| 2022 (76th) | Albrecht Schuch | All Quiet on the Western Front | Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky |
| 2022 (76th) | Micheal Ward | Empire of Light | Stephen |
| 2023 (77th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Oppenheimer | Lewis Strauss |
| 2023 (77th) | Robert De Niro | Killers of the Flower Moon | William Hale |
| 2023 (77th) | Jacob Elordi | Saltburn | Felix Catton |
| 2023 (77th) | Ryan Gosling | Barbie | Ken |
| 2023 (77th) | Paul Mescal | All of Us Strangers | Harry |
| 2023 (77th) | Dominic Sessa | The Holdovers | Angus Tully |
| 2024 (78th) | Kieran Culkin | A Real Pain | Benji Kaplan |
| 2024 (78th) | Yura Borisov | Anora | Igor |
| 2024 (78th) | Clarence Maclin | Sing Sing | Himself |
| 2024 (78th) | Edward Norton | A Complete Unknown | Pete Seeger |
| 2024 (78th) | Guy Pearce | The Brutalist | Harrison Lee Van Buren |
| 2024 (78th) | Jeremy Strong | The Apprentice | Roy Cohn |

## Multiple wins and nominations
### Multiple wins
#### 3 wins

* Denholm Elliott

#### 2 wins

* Edward Fox
* Ian Holm
* Ray McAnally
* Geoffrey Rush
* Christoph Waltz