# British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor

The British Academy Television Awards are given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). They are informally known as the BAFTA TV Awards. They have been awarded since 1954.
From 1968-1997, the BAFTA TV Awards and the BAFTA Film Awards were presented in one joint ceremony. Since 1998, there have been two separate ceremonies. The film awards are held in February, two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards (Oscars) in America, while the Television awards are held in late May. The BAFTA TV Award is the UK equivalent to the Emmy Award in the United States.
The awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were first presented at the 2010 ceremony.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Actors | Work | Character | Network |
| 2010 (56th) |
| 2010 (56th) | Matthew Macfadyen | Criminal Justice | Joe Miller | BBC One |
| 2010 (56th) | Tom Hollander | Gracie! | Monty Banks | BBC Four |
| 2010 (56th) | Benedict Cumberbatch | Small Island | Bernard Bligh | BBC One |
| 2010 (56th) | Gary Lewis | Mo | Adam Ingram | Channel 4 |
| 2011 (57th) |
| 2011 (57th) | Martin Freeman | Sherlock | Dr. John Watson | BBC One |
| 2011 (57th) | Brendan Coyle | Downton Abbey | John Bates | ITV |
| 2011 (57th) | Johnny Harris | This is England '86 | Michael "Mick" Jenkins | Channel 4 |
| 2011 (57th) | Robert Sheehan | Misfits | Nathan Young | E4 |
| 2012 (58th) |
| 2012 (58th) | Andrew Scott | Sherlock | Jim Moriarty | BBC One |
| 2012 (58th) | Stephen Rea | The Shadow Line | Gatehouse | BBC Two |
| 2012 (58th) | Martin Freeman | Sherlock | Dr. John Watson | BBC One |
| 2012 (58th) | Joseph Mawle | Birdsong | Jack Firebrace | BBC One |
| 2013 (59th) |
| 2013 (59th) | Simon Russell Beale | "Henry IV, Parts I & II": The Hollow Crown | Falstaff | BBC Two |
| 2013 (59th) | Harry Lloyd | The Fear | Matty Beckett | Channel 4 |
| 2013 (59th) | Stephen Graham | Accused | Tony | BBC One |
| 2013 (59th) | Peter Capaldi | The Hour | Randall Brown | BBC Two |
| 2014 (60th) |
| 2014 (60th) | David Bradley | Broadchurch | Jack Marshall | ITV |
| 2014 (60th) | Jerome Flynn | Ripper Street | Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake | BBC One |
| 2014 (60th) | Nico Mirallegro | The Village | Joe Middleton | BBC One |
| 2014 (60th) | Rory Kinnear | Southcliffe | David Whitehead | Channel 4 |
| 2015 (61st) |
| 2015 (61st) | Stephen Rea | The Honourable Woman | Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle | BBC Two |
| 2015 (61st) | Adeel Akhtar | Utopia | Wilson Wilson | Channel 4 |
| 2015 (61st) | James Norton | Happy Valley | Tommy Lee Royce | BBC One |
| 2015 (61st) | Ken Stott | The Missing | Ian Garrett | BBC One |
| 2016 (62nd) |
| 2016 (62nd) | Tom Courtenay | Unforgotten | Eric Slater | ITV |
| 2016 (62nd) | Ian McKellen | The Dresser | Norman | Channel 4 |
| 2016 (62nd) | Anton Lesser | Wolf Hall | Thomas More | BBC Two |
| 2016 (62nd) | Cyril Nri | Cucumber | Lance Sullivan | BBC Two |
| 2017 (63rd) |
| 2017 (63rd) | Tom Hollander | The Night Manager | Major "Corky" Lance Corkoran | BBC One |
| 2017 (63rd) | Daniel Mays | Line of Duty | Danny Waldron | BBC Two |
| 2017 (63rd) | Jared Harris | The Crown | King George VI | Netflix |
| 2017 (63rd) | John Lithgow | The Crown | Winston Churchill | Netflix |
| 2018 (64th) |
| 2018 (64th) | Brían F. O'Byrne | Little Boy Blue | Steve Jones | ITV |
| 2018 (64th) | Adrian Dunbar | Line of Duty | Ted Hastings | BBC One |
| 2018 (64th) | Anupam Kher | The Boy With The Topknot | Sathnam’s Father | BBC Two |
| 2018 (64th) | Jimmi Simpson | Black Mirror: USS Callister | James "Wally" Walton | Netflix |
| 2019 (65th) |
| 2019 (65th) | Ben Whishaw | A Very English Scandal | Norman Josiffe | BBC One |
| 2019 (65th) | Alex Jennings | Unforgotten | Tim Finch | ITV |
| 2019 (65th) | Kim Bodnia | Killing Eve | Konstantin Vasiliev | BBC One |
| 2019 (65th) | Stephen Graham | Save Me | Fabio "Melon" Melonzola | Sky Atlantic |

### 2020s

| Year | Actors | Work | Character | Network |
| 2020 (66th) |
| 2020 (66th) | Will Sharpe | Giri/Haji | Rodney Yamaguchi | BBC Two |
| 2020 (66th) | Joe Absolom | A Confession | Christopher Halliwell | ITV |
| 2020 (66th) | Josh O'Connor | The Crown | Charles, Prince of Wales | Netflix |
| 2020 (66th) | Stellan Skarsgård | Chernobyl | Boris Shcherbina | HBO / Sky Atlantic |
| 2021 (67th) | Malachi Kirby | Small Axe: Mangrove | Darcus Howe | BBC One |
| 2021 (67th) | Kunal Nayyar | Criminal: UK | Sandeep Singh | Netflix |
| 2021 (67th) | Tobias Menzies | The Crown | Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | Netflix |
| 2021 (67th) | Michael Sheen | Quiz | Chris Tarrant | ITV |
| 2021 (67th) | Rupert Everett | Adult Material | Carroll Quinn | Channel 4 |
| 2021 (67th) | Micheal Ward | Small Axe: Lovers Rock | Franklyn Cooper | BBC One |
| 2022 (68th) | Matthew MacFadyen | Succession | Tom Wambsgans | HBO / Sky Atlantic |
| 2022 (68th) | Callum Scott Howells | It's a Sin | Colin "Gladys Pugh" Morris-Jones | Channel 4 |
| 2022 (68th) | Omari Douglas | It's a Sin | Roscoe Babatunde | Channel 4 |
| 2022 (68th) | David Carlyle | It's a Sin | Gregory "Gloria" Finch | Channel 4 |
| 2022 (68th) | Nonso Anozie | Sweet Tooth | Tommy Jepperd | Netflix |
| 2022 (68th) | Stephen Graham | Time | Eric McNally | BBC One |
| 2023 (69th) | Adeel Akhtar | Sherwood | Andy Fisher | BBC One |
| 2023 (69th) | Samuel Bottomley | Somewhere Boy | Aaron | Channel 4 |
| 2023 (69th) | Josh Finan | The Responder | Marco | BBC One |
| 2023 (69th) | Salim Daw | The Crown | Mohamed Al-Fayed | Netflix |
| 2023 (69th) | Jack Lowden | Slow Horses | River Cartwright | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 (69th) | Will Sharpe | The White Lotus | Ethan Spiller | Sky Atlantic |
| 2024 (70th) | Matthew MacFadyen | Succession | Tom Wambsgans | HBO / Sky Atlantic |
| 2024 (70th) | Amit Shah | Happy Valley | Faisal Bhatti | BBC One |
| 2024 (70th) | Éanna Hardwicke | The Sixth Commandment | Ben Field | BBC One |
| 2024 (70th) | Harris Dickinson | A Murder at the End of the World | William "Bill" Farrah | Disney+ |
| 2024 (70th) | Jack Lowden | Slow Horses | River Cartwright | Apple TV+ |
| 2024 (70th) | Salim Daw | The Crown | Mohamed Al-Fayed | Netflix |

## Superlatives

| Record | Actor | Programme | Age (in years) |
| Oldest winner | Tom Courtenay | Unforgotten | 79 |
| Oldest nominee | Tom Courtenay | Unforgotten | 79 |
| Youngest winner | Malachi Kirby | Small Axe : Mangrove | 30 |
| Youngest nominee | Samuel Bottomley | Somewhere Boy | 21 |

## Actors with multiple wins and nominations
### Multiple wins

The following people have won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor multiple times:

### Multiple nominations

The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor multiple times: