BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Actress 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 actress who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film.

BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress
The 2024 recipient: Zoe Saldaña
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez (2024)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

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 actresses have been awarded with the BAFTA Award for Best Actress 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 Actress award has been presented a total of 53 times to 52 different actresses. 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 Billie Whitelaw for her roles in Charlie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve. The most recent winner is Zoe Saldaña for her role in Emilia Pérez. The record for most wins is three, held by Judi Dench. Kate Winslet has won two times, while each other recipient has only won once in this category. Dench also holds the record for most nominations, with nine. At the 36th BAFTA Film Awards, Rohini Hattangadi and Maureen Stapleton received the same number of votes and thus both shared the award in this category's only tie.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

Jodie Foster at age 13, won for Bugsy Malone / Taxi Driver (1976).

Judi Dench won thrice A Room with a View (1986), A Handful of Dust (1988), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost (1990); first black winner in this category.

Dame Maggie Smith won for Tea with Mussolini (1999)

Kristin Scott Thomas won for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

Kate Winslet won twice, for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Steve Jobs (2015).

Juliette Binoche won for The English Patient (1996).

Sigourney Weaver won for The Ice Storm (1997).

Jennifer Connelly won for A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Catherine Zeta-Jones won for Chicago (2002).

Renée Zellweger won for Cold Mountain (2003).

Cate Blanchett won, for The Aviator (2004).

Thandiwe Newton won for Crash (2005).

Jennifer Hudson won, in her acting debut, for Dreamgirls (2006).

Tilda Swinton won for Michael Clayton (2007).

Penélope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Mo'Nique won for Precious (2009).

Helena Bonham Carter won for The King's Speech (2010).

Octavia Spencer won for The Help (2011).

Anne Hathaway won for Les Misérables (2012).

Jennifer Lawrence won for American Hustle (2013).

Patricia Arquette won for Boyhood (2014).

Viola Davis won for Fences (2016).

Allison Janney won for I, Tonya (2017).

Rachel Weisz won for The Favourite (2018).

Laura Dern won for Marriage Story (2019).

Youn Yuh-jung at age 73 won for Minari (2020)

Ariana DeBose won for West Side Story (2021).

Kerry Condon won for The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).

Da'Vine Joy Randolph won for The Holdovers (2023).

1960s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1968 (22nd)	Billie Whitelaw [A]	Charlie Bubbles Twisted Nerve	Lottie Bubbles Joan Harper
	Pat Heywood	Romeo and Juliet	The Nurse
	Virginia Maskell	Interlude	Antonia
	Simone Signoret	Games	Lisa Schindler
1969 (23rd)	Celia Johnson	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Miss Mackay
	Peggy Ashcroft	Three into Two Won't Go	Belle
	Pamela Franklin	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Sandy
	Mary Wimbush	Oh! What a Lovely War	Mary Smith

1970s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1970 (24th)	Susannah York	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	Alice LeBlanc
	Evin Crowley	Ryan's Daughter	Maureen
	Estelle Parsons	Watermelon Man	Althea Gerber
	Maureen Stapleton	Airport	Inez Guerrero
1971 (25th)	Margaret Leighton	The Go-Between	Mrs. Maudsley
	Jane Asher	Deep End	Susan
	Georgia Brown	The Raging Moon	Sarah Charles
	Georgia Engel	Taking Off	Margot
1972 (26th)	Cloris Leachman	The Last Picture Show	Ruth Popper
	Marisa Berenson	Cabaret	Natalia Landauer
	Eileen Brennan	The Last Picture Show	Genevieve Morgan
	Shelley Winters	The Poseidon Adventure	Belle Rosen
1973 (27th)	Valentina Cortese	Day for Night	Severine
	Rosemary Leach	That'll Be the Day	Mary Maclaine
	Delphine Seyrig	The Day of the Jackal	Colette de Montpellier
	Ingrid Thulin	Cries and Whispers	Karin
1974 (28th)	Ingrid Bergman	Murder on the Orient Express	Greta Ohlsson
	Sylvia Sidney	Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams	Mrs. Pritchett
	Sylvia Syms	The Tamarind Seed	Margaret Stephenson
	Cindy Williams	American Graffiti	Laurie Henderson
1975 (29th)	Diane Ladd	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Flo Castleberry
	Ronee Blakley	Nashville	Barbara Jean
	Lelia Goldoni	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Bea
	Gwen Welles	Nashville	Sueleen Gay
1976 (30th)	Jodie Foster [A]	Bugsy Malone Taxi Driver	Tallulah Iris Steensma
	Annette Crosbie	The Slipper and the Rose	The Fairy Godmother
	Vivien Merchant	The Homecoming	Ruth
	Billie Whitelaw	The Omen	Mrs. Baylock
1977 (31st)	Jenny Agutter	Equus	Julie Mason
	Geraldine Chaplin	Welcome to L.A.	Karen Hood
	Joan Plowright	Equus	Dora Strang
	Shelley Winters	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Fay Lapinsky
1978 (32nd)	Geraldine Page	Interiors	Eve
	Angela Lansbury	Death on the Nile	Salome Otterbourne
	Maggie Smith		Miss Bowers
	Mona Washbourne	Stevie	Aunt
1979 (33rd)	Rachel Roberts	Yanks	Clarrie Moreton
	Lisa Eichhorn	The Europeans	Gertrude Wentworth
	Mariel Hemingway	Manhattan	Tracy
	Meryl Streep		Jill Davis

1980s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1980 (34th)	Not awarded
1981 (35th)	Not awarded
1982 (36th)	Rohini Hattangadi (TIE) [B]	Gandhi	Kasturba Gandhi
	Maureen Stapleton (TIE) [B]	Reds	Emma Goldman
	Candice Bergen	Gandhi	Margaret Bourke-White
	Jane Fonda	On Golden Pond	Chelsea Thayer
1983 (37th)	Jamie Lee Curtis	Trading Places	Ophelia
	Teri Garr	Tootsie	Sandy Lester
	Rosemary Harris	The Ploughman's Lunch	Ann Barrington
	Maureen Lipman	Educating Rita	Trish
1984 (38th)	Liz Smith	A Private Function	Mrs. Chilvers
	Eileen Atkins	The Dresser	Madge
	Cher	Silkwood	Dolly Pelliker
	Tuesday Weld	Once Upon a Time in America	Carol
1985 (39th)	Rosanna Arquette	Desperately Seeking Susan	Roberta Glass
	Judi Dench	Wetherby	Marcia Pilborough
	Anjelica Huston	Prizzi's Honor	Maerose Prizzi
	Tracey Ullman	Plenty	Alice Park
1986 (40th)	Judi Dench	A Room with a View	Eleanor Lavish
	Rosanna Arquette	After Hours	Marcy Franklin
	Barbara Hershey	Hannah and Her Sisters	Lee
	Rosemary Leach	A Room with a View	Mrs. Honeychurch
1987 (41st)	Susan Wooldridge	Hope and Glory	Molly
	Judi Dench	84 Charing Cross Road	Nora Doel
	Vanessa Redgrave	Prick up Your Ears	Peggy Ramsay
	Dianne Wiest	Radio Days	Bea
1988 (42nd)	Judi Dench	A Handful of Dust	Mrs. Beaver
	Maria Aitken	A Fish Called Wanda	Wendy Leach
	Anne Archer	Fatal Attraction	Beth Gallagher
	Olympia Dukakis	Moonstruck	Rose Castorini
1989 (43rd)	Michelle Pfeiffer	Dangerous Liaisons	Madame de Tourvel
	Peggy Ashcroft	Madame Sousatzka	Lady Emily
	Laura San Giacomo	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Cynthia Bishop
	Sigourney Weaver	Working Girl	Katharine Parker

1990s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1990 (44th)	Whoopi Goldberg	Ghost	Oda Mae Brown
	Anjelica Huston	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Dolores Paley
	Shirley MacLaine	Steel Magnolias	Ouiser Boudreaux
	Billie Whitelaw	The Krays	Violet Kray
1991 (45th)	Kate Nelligan	Frankie and Johnny	Cora
	Annette Bening	The Grifters	Myra Langtry
	Amanda Plummer	The Fisher King	Lydia
	Julie Walters	Stepping Out	Vera
1992 (46th)	Miranda Richardson	Damage	Ingrid Fleming
	Kathy Bates	Fried Green Tomatoes	Evelyn Couch
	Helena Bonham Carter	Howards End	Helen Schlegel
	Miranda Richardson	The Crying Game	Jude
1993 (47th)	Miriam Margolyes	The Age of Innocence	Mrs. Mingott
	Holly Hunter	The Firm	Tammy Hemphill
	Winona Ryder	The Age of Innocence	May Welland
	Maggie Smith	The Secret Garden	Mrs. Medlock
1994 (48th)	Kristin Scott Thomas	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Fiona
	Charlotte Coleman	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Scarlet
	Sally Field	Forrest Gump	Mrs. Gump
	Anjelica Huston	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Marcia Fox
1995 (49th)	Kate Winslet	Sense and Sensibility	Marianne Dashwood
	Joan Allen	Nixon	Pat Nixon
	Mira Sorvino	Mighty Aphrodite	Linda Ash
	Elizabeth Spriggs	Sense and Sensibility	Mrs. Jennings
1996 (50th)	Juliette Binoche	The English Patient	Hana
	Lauren Bacall	The Mirror Has Two Faces	Hannah Morgan
	Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Secrets & Lies	Hortense Cumberbatch
	Lynn Redgrave	Shine	Gillian
1997 (51st)	Sigourney Weaver	The Ice Storm	Janey Carver
	Jennifer Ehle	Wilde	Constance Lloyd Wilde
	Lesley Sharp	The Full Monty	Jeanette
	Zoe Wanamaker	Wilde	Ada Leverson
1998 (52nd)	Judi Dench	Shakespeare in Love	Queen Elizabeth I
	Kathy Bates	Primary Colors	Libby Holden
	Brenda Blethyn	Little Voice	Mari Hoff
	Lynn Redgrave	Gods and Monsters	Hanna
1999 (53rd)	Maggie Smith	Tea with Mussolini	Hester Random	[1]
	Thora Birch	American Beauty	Jane Burnham
	Cate Blanchett	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Meredith Logue
	Cameron Diaz	Being John Malkovich	Lotte Schwartz
	Mena Suvari	American Beauty	Angela Hayes

2000s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2000 (54th)	Julie Walters	Billy Elliot	Georgia Wilkinson	[2][3]
	Judi Dench	Chocolat	Armande Voizin
	Frances McDormand	Almost Famous	Elaine Miller
	Lena Olin	Chocolat	Josephine Muscat
	Ziyi Zhang	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Jen Yu
2001 (55th)	Jennifer Connelly	A Beautiful Mind	Alicia Nash	[4]
	Judi Dench	The Shipping News	Agnis Hamm
	Helen Mirren	Gosford Park	Jane Wilson
	Maggie Smith		Constance Trentham
	Kate Winslet	Iris	Young Iris Murdoch
2002 (56th)	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Chicago	Velma Kelly	[5]
	Toni Collette	About a Boy	Fiona Brewer
	Julianne Moore	The Hours	Laura Brown
	Queen Latifah	Chicago	Matron Mama Morton
	Meryl Streep	Adaptation	Susan Orlean
2003 (57th)	Renée Zellweger	Cold Mountain	Ruby Thewes	[6]
	Holly Hunter	Thirteen	Melanie Freeland
	Laura Linney	Mystic River	Annabeth Markum
	Judy Parfitt	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Maria Thins
	Emma Thompson	Love Actually	Karen
2004 (58th)	Cate Blanchett	The Aviator	Katharine Hepburn	[7]
	Julie Christie	Finding Neverland	Emma Wightwick du Maurier
	Heather Craney	Vera Drake	Joyce Drake
	Natalie Portman	Closer	Alice Ayres / Jane Jones
	Meryl Streep	The Manchurian Candidate	Eleanor Shaw
2005 (59th)	Thandiwe Newton	Crash	Christine Thayer	[8]
	Brenda Blethyn	Pride & Prejudice	Mrs. Bennet
	Catherine Keener	Capote	Harper Lee
	Frances McDormand	North Country	Glory Dodge
	Michelle Williams	Brokeback Mountain	Alma Beers Del Mar
2006 (60th)	Jennifer Hudson	Dreamgirls	Effie White	[9]
	Emily Blunt	The Devil Wears Prada	Emily Charlton
	Abigail Breslin	Little Miss Sunshine	Olive Hoover
	Toni Collette		Sheryl Hoover
	Frances de la Tour	The History Boys	Dorothy Lintott
2007 (61st)	Tilda Swinton	Michael Clayton	Karen Crowder	[10]
	Cate Blanchett	I'm Not There	Jude Quinn
	Kelly Macdonald	No Country for Old Men	Carla Jean Moss
	Samantha Morton	Control	Deborah Woodruff Curtis
	Saoirse Ronan	Atonement	Briony Tallis
2008 (62nd)	Penélope Cruz	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	María Elena	[11]
	Amy Adams	Doubt	Sister James
	Freida Pinto	Slumdog Millionaire	Latika
	Tilda Swinton	Burn After Reading	Katie Cox
	Marisa Tomei	The Wrestler	Cassidy / Pam
2009 (63rd)	Mo'Nique	Precious	Mary Lee Johnston	[12]
	Anne-Marie Duff	Nowhere Boy	Julia Lennon
	Vera Farmiga	Up in the Air	Alex Goran
	Anna Kendrick		Natalie Keener
	Kristin Scott Thomas	Nowhere Boy	Mimi Smith

2010s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (64th)	Helena Bonham Carter	The King's Speech	Queen Elizabeth	[13]
	Amy Adams	The Fighter	Charlene Fleming
	Barbara Hershey	Black Swan	Erica Sayers
	Lesley Manville	Another Year	Mary Smith
	Miranda Richardson	Made in Dagenham	Barbara Castle
2011 (65th)	Octavia Spencer	The Help	Minny Jackson	[14]
	Jessica Chastain	The Help	Celia Foote
	Judi Dench	My Week with Marilyn	Sybil Thorndike
	Melissa McCarthy	Bridesmaids	Megan Price
	Carey Mulligan	Drive	Irene
2012 (66th) }}	Anne Hathaway	Les Misérables	Fantine	[15]
	Amy Adams	The Master	Peggy Dodd
	Judi Dench	Skyfall	M
	Sally Field	Lincoln	Mary Todd Lincoln
	Helen Hunt	The Sessions	Cheryl Cohen-Greene
2013 (67th)	Jennifer Lawrence	American Hustle	Rosalyn Rosenfeld	[16]
	Sally Hawkins	Blue Jasmine	Ginger
	Lupita Nyong'o	12 Years a Slave	Patsey
	Julia Roberts	August: Osage County	Barbara Weston-Fordham
	Oprah Winfrey	The Butler	Gloria Gaines
2014 (68th)	Patricia Arquette	Boyhood	Olivia Evans	[17]
	Keira Knightley	The Imitation Game	Joan Clarke
	Rene Russo	Nightcrawler	Nina Romina
	Imelda Staunton	Pride	Hefina Headon
	Emma Stone	Birdman	Sam Thomson
2015 (69th)	Kate Winslet	Steve Jobs	Joanna Hoffman	[18]
	Jennifer Jason Leigh	The Hateful Eight	Daisy Domergue
	Rooney Mara	Carol	Therese Belivet
	Alicia Vikander	Ex Machina	Ava
	Julie Walters	Brooklyn	Madge Kehoe
2016 (70th)	Viola Davis	Fences	Rose Maxson	[19]
	Naomie Harris	Moonlight	Paula Harris
	Nicole Kidman	Lion	Sue Brierley
	Hayley Squires	I, Daniel Blake	Katie Morgan
	Michelle Williams	Manchester by the Sea	Randi Chandler
2017 (71st)	Allison Janney	I, Tonya	LaVona Golden	[20]
	Lesley Manville	Phantom Thread	Cyril Woodcock
	Laurie Metcalf	Lady Bird	Marion McPherson
	Kristin Scott Thomas	Darkest Hour	Clementine Churchill
	Octavia Spencer	The Shape of Water	Zelda Fuller
2018 (72nd)	Rachel Weisz	The Favourite	Lady Sarah	[21]
	Amy Adams	Vice	Lynne Cheney
	Claire Foy	First Man	Janet Shearon Armstrong
	Margot Robbie	Mary Queen of Scots	Queen Elizabeth I
	Emma Stone	The Favourite	Abigail
2019 (73rd)	Laura Dern	Marriage Story	Nora Fanshaw	[22]
	Scarlett Johansson	Jojo Rabbit	Rosie Betzler
	Florence Pugh	Little Women	Amy March
	Margot Robbie	Bombshell	Kayla Pospisil
		Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Sharon Tate

2020s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020 (74th)	Youn Yuh-jung	Minari	Soon-ja	[23]
	Niamh Algar	Calm with Horses	Ursula
	Kosar Ali	Rocks	Sumaya
	Maria Bakalova	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Tutar Sagdiyev
	Dominique Fishback	Judas and the Black Messiah	Deborah Johnson
	Ashley Madekwe	County Lines	Toni
2021 (75th)	Ariana DeBose	West Side Story	Anita	[24]
	Caitríona Balfe	Belfast	Ma
	Jessie Buckley	The Lost Daughter	Young Leda Caruso
	Ann Dowd	Mass	Linda
	Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor	King Richard	Oracene Price
	Ruth Negga	Passing	Clare Bellew
2022 (76th)	Kerry Condon	The Banshees of Inisherin	Siobhán Súilleabháin	[25]
	Angela Bassett	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	Queen Ramonda
	Hong Chau	The Whale	Liz
	Jamie Lee Curtis	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Deirdre Beaubeirdre
	Dolly de Leon	Triangle of Sadness	Abigail
	Carey Mulligan	She Said	Megan Twohey
2023 (77th)	Da'Vine Joy Randolph	The Holdovers	Mary Lamb	[26]
	Emily Blunt	Oppenheimer	Katherine Oppenheimer
	Danielle Brooks	The Color Purple	Sofia
	Claire Foy	All of Us Strangers	Mum
	Sandra Huller	The Zone of Interest	Hedwig Höss
	Rosamund Pike	Saltburn	Lady Elspeth Catton
2024 (78th)	Zoe Saldaña	Emilia Pérez	Rita Mora Castro	[27]
	Jamie Lee Curtis	The Last Showgirl	Annette
	Selena Gomez	Emilia Pérez	Jessi Del Monte
	Ariana Grande	Wicked	Galinda "Glinda" Upland
	Felicity Jones	The Brutalist	Erzsébet Tóth
	Isabella Rossellini	Conclave	Sister Agnes

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Actress in a Supporting Role		Best Lead Actress		Overall (including Most Promising Newcomer)
Actress with most awards	Judi Dench	3	Maggie Smith	4	Judi Dench	6
Actress with most nominations	Judi Dench	9	Meryl Streep	12	Judi Dench Meryl Streep	15

Multiple nominations

9 nominations

• Judi Dench

4 nominations

• Amy Adams
• Maggie Smith

3 nominations

• Cate Blanchett
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Anjelica Huston
• Miranda Richardson
• Margot Robbie
• Kristin Scott Thomas
• Meryl Streep
• Julie Walters
• Billie Whitelaw
• Kate Winslet

2 nominations

• Rosanna Arquette
• Peggy Ashcroft
• Kathy Bates
• Brenda Blethyn
• Emily Blunt
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Toni Collette
• Sally Field
• Claire Foy
• Barbara Hershey
• Holly Hunter
• Rosemary Leach
• Lesley Manville
• Frances McDormand
• Carey Mulligan
• Lynn Redgrave
• Octavia Spencer
• Maureen Stapleton
• Imelda Staunton
• Emma Stone
• Tilda Swinton
• Sigourney Weaver
• Michelle Williams
• Shelley Winters

Multiple wins

3 wins

• Judi Dench

2 wins

• Kate Winslet

See also

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

Notes

A^{1 2} : Rules from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed for a performer to receive a single citation which could honor their work in more than one film. Billie Whitelaw and Jodie Foster were both nominated for their roles in two different films in the same category.

B^{1 2} : Rohini Hattangadi and Maureen Stapleton received the same number of votes, resulting in both actresses receiving the award, according to Academy rules.