BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role facts for kids

Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2023 recipient: Robert Downey Jr.
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Location	United Kingdom
Currently held by	Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer (2023)

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 recognize 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 Robert Downey Jr. for his role in Oppenheimer. 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

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Ian Holm was the inaugural winner, winning two times for The Bofors Gun (1968) and Chariots of Fire (1981).

Laurence Olivier won for Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).

Ben Johnson won for The Last Picture Show (1972).

Fred Astaire won for The Towering Inferno (1975).

Robert Duvall won for Apocalypse Now (1979).

Daniel Auteuil won for Jean de Florette (1987).

Alan Rickman won for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).

Ralph Fiennes won for Schindler's List (1993).

Samuel L. Jackson won for Pulp Fiction (1994).

Paul Scofield won for The Crucible (1996).

Tom Wilkinson won for The Full Monty (1997).

Benicio del Toro won for Traffic (2000).

Jim Broadbent won for Moulin Rouge! (2001).

Christopher Walken won for Catch Me If You Can (2002).

Jake Gyllenhaal won for Brokeback Mountain (2005).

Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men (2007).

Heath Ledger won posthumously for The Dark Knight (2008).

Christoph Waltz won twice, for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012).

Barkhad Abdi won for Captain Phillips (2013).

JK Simmons won for Whiplash (2014).

Mark Rylance won for Bridge of Spies (2015).

Dev Patel won for Lion (2016).

Sam Rockwell won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

Mahershala Ali won for Green Book (2018).

Brad Pitt won for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Daniel Kaluuya won for Judas and the Black Messiah (2021).

Troy Kotsur won for CODA (2021).

Barry Keoghan won for The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).

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Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple nominations

Multiple wins

3 wins

• Denholm Elliott

2 wins

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

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA al mejor actor de reparto para niños

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
• Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role