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.

BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2024 recipient: Kieran Culkin
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain (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 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

Ian Holm won twice for The Bofors Gun (1968) and Chariots of Fire (1981).

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

Sir John Gielgud won for Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Fred Astaire won for The Towering Inferno (1975).

Sir John Hurt won for The Elephant Man (1978)

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).

Tom Wilkinson won for The Full Monty (1997).

Geoffrey Rush won twice, for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The King's Speech (2010).

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).

Alan Arkin won for Little Miss Sunshine (2006).

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).

Christopher Plummer won for Beginners (2011).

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).

Robert Downey Jr. won for Oppenheimer (2023).

Kieran Culkin won for A Real Pain (2024).

1960s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
{{center|1968 (22nd)	Ian Holm	The Bofors Gun	Flynn	[1]
	Anthony Hopkins	The Lion in Winter	King Richard I
	John McEnery	Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio
	George Segal	No Way to Treat a Lady	Morris Brummel
{{center|1969 (23rd)	Laurence Olivier	Oh! What a Lovely War	John French	[2]
	Jack Klugman	Goodbye, Columbus	Ben Patimkin
	Jack Nicholson	Easy Rider	George Hanson
	Robert Vaughn	Bullitt	Chalmers

1970s

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

1980s

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

1990s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1990 (44th)	Salvatore Cascio	Cinema Paradiso	Salvatore Di Vita (child)
	Alan Alda	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Lester
	John Hurt	The Field	Bird O'Donnell
	Al Pacino	Dick Tracy	Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
1991 (45th)	Alan Rickman	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Sheriff of Nottingham
	Alan Bates	Hamlet	King Claudius
	Derek Jacobi	Dead Again	Franklyn Madson
	Andrew Strong	The Commitments	Deco Cuffe
1992 (46th)	Gene Hackman	Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett
	Jaye Davidson	The Crying Game	Dil
	Tommy Lee Jones	JFK	Clay Shaw
	Samuel West	Howards End	Leonard Bast
1993 (47th)	Ralph Fiennes	Schindler's List	Amon Göth
	Tommy Lee Jones	The Fugitive	Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard
	Ben Kingsley	Schindler's List	Itzhak Stern
	John Malkovich	In the Line of Fire	Mitch Leary
1994 (48th)	Samuel L. Jackson	Pulp Fiction	Jules Winnfield
	Simon Callow	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Gareth
	John Hannah		Matthew
	Paul Scofield	Quiz Show	Mark Van Doren
1995 (49th)	Tim Roth	Rob Roy	Archibald Cunningham
	Ian Holm	The Madness of King George	Dr. Willis
	Martin Landau	Ed Wood	Bela Lugosi
	Alan Rickman	Sense and Sensibility	Christopher Brandon
1996 (50th)	Paul Scofield	The Crucible	Thomas Danforth
	John Gielgud	Shine	Cecil Parkes
	Edward Norton	Primal Fear	Aaron Stampler
	Alan Rickman	Michael Collins	Éamon de Valera
1997 (51st)	Tom Wilkinson	The Full Monty	Gerald
	Mark Addy	The Full Monty	Dave
	Rupert Everett	My Best Friend's Wedding	George Downes
	Burt Reynolds	Boogie Nights	Jack Horner
1998 (52nd)	Geoffrey Rush	Shakespeare in Love	Philip Henslowe
	Ed Harris	The Truman Show	Christof
	Geoffrey Rush	Elizabeth	Francis Walsingham
	Tom Wilkinson	Shakespeare in Love	Hugh Fennyman
1999 (53rd)	Jude Law	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Dickie Greenleaf	[3]
	Wes Bentley	American Beauty	Ricky Fitts
	Michael Caine	The Cider House Rules	Wilbur Larch
	Rhys Ifans	Notting Hill	Spike
	Timothy Spall	Topsy-Turvy	Richard Temple

2000s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2000 (54th)	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Javier Rodriguez	[4][5]
	Albert Finney	Erin Brockovich	Edward L. Masry
	Gary Lewis	Billy Elliot	Jackie Elliot
	Joaquin Phoenix	Gladiator	Commodus
	Oliver Reed (posthumous)		Proximo
2001 (55th)	Jim Broadbent	Moulin Rouge!	Harold Zidler	[6]
	Hugh Bonneville	Iris	Young John Bayley
	Robbie Coltrane	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	Rubeus Hagrid
	Colin Firth	Bridget Jones's Diary	Mark Darcy
	Eddie Murphy [A]	Shrek	Donkey
2002 (56th)	Christopher Walken	Catch Me If You Can	Frank Abagnale Sr.	[7]
	Chris Cooper	Adaptation	John Laroche
	Ed Harris	The Hours	Richard Brown
	Alfred Molina	Frida	Diego Rivera
	Paul Newman	Road to Perdition	John Rooney
2003 (57th)	Bill Nighy	Love Actually	Billy Mack	[8]
	Paul Bettany	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Dr. Stephen Maturin
	Albert Finney	Big Fish	Ed Bloom (Old)
	Ian McKellen	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Gandalf
	Tim Robbins	Mystic River	Dave Boyle
2004 (58th)	Clive Owen	Closer	Larry Gray	[9]
	Alan Alda	The Aviator	Owen Brewster
	Phil Davis	Vera Drake	Stanley Drake
	Rodrigo de la Serna	The Motorcycle Diaries	Alberto Granado
	Jamie Foxx	Collateral	Max Durocher
2005 (59th)	Jake Gyllenhaal	Brokeback Mountain	Jack Twist	[10]
	Don Cheadle	Crash	Det. Graham Waters
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck	Fred W. Friendly
		Syriana	Bob Barnes
	Matt Dillon	Crash	Sgt. John Ryan
2006 (60th)	Alan Arkin	Little Miss Sunshine	Edwin Hoover	[11]
	James McAvoy	The Last King of Scotland	Nicholas Garrigan
	Jack Nicholson	The Departed	Frank Costello
	Leslie Phillips	Venus	Ian Brooks
	Michael Sheen	The Queen	Tony Blair
2007 (61st)	Javier Bardem	No Country for Old Men	Anton Chigurh	[12]
	Paul Dano	There Will Be Blood	Eli Sunday / Paul Sunday
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Charlie Wilson's War	Gust Avrakotos
	Tommy Lee Jones	No Country for Old Men	Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
	Tom Wilkinson	Michael Clayton	Arthur Edens
2008 (62nd)	Heath Ledger (posthumous)	The Dark Knight	Joker	[13]
	Robert Downey Jr.	Tropic Thunder	Kirk Lazarus
	Brendan Gleeson	In Bruges	Ken Daley
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Doubt	Father Brendan Flynn
	Brad Pitt	Burn After Reading	Chad Feldheimer
2009 (63rd)	Christoph Waltz	Inglourious Basterds	Col. Hans Landa	[14]
	Alec Baldwin	It's Complicated	Jacob Adler
	Christian McKay	Me and Orson Welles	Orson Welles
	Alfred Molina	An Education	Jack Miller
	Stanley Tucci	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey

2010s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2010 (64th)	Geoffrey Rush	The King's Speech	Lionel Logue	[15]
	Christian Bale	The Fighter	Dicky Eklund
	Andrew Garfield	The Social Network	Eduardo Saverin
	Pete Postlethwaite (posthumous)	The Town	Fergus "Fergie" Colm
	Mark Ruffalo	The Kids Are All Right	Paul Hatfield
2011 (65th)	Christopher Plummer	Beginners	Hal Fields	[16]
	Kenneth Branagh	My Week with Marilyn	Laurence Olivier
	Jim Broadbent	The Iron Lady	Denis Thatcher
	Jonah Hill	Moneyball	Peter Brand
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Ides of March	Paul Zara
2012 (66th)	Christoph Waltz	Django Unchained	Dr. King Schultz	[17]
	Alan Arkin	Argo	Lester Siegel
	Javier Bardem	Skyfall	Raoul Silva
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	The Master	Lancaster Dodd
	Tommy Lee Jones	Lincoln	Thaddeus Stevens
2013 (67th)	Barkhad Abdi	Captain Phillips	Abduwali Muse	[18]
	Daniel Brühl	Rush	Niki Lauda
	Bradley Cooper	American Hustle	Richard "Richie" DiMaso
	Matt Damon	Behind the Candelabra	Scott Thorson
	Michael Fassbender	12 Years a Slave	Edwin Epps
2014 (68th)	J. K. Simmons	Whiplash	Terrence Fletcher	[19]
	Steve Carell	Foxcatcher	John du Pont
	Ethan Hawke	Boyhood	Mason Evans Sr.
	Edward Norton	Birdman	Mike Shiner
	Mark Ruffalo	Foxcatcher	David Schultz
2015 (69th)	Mark Rylance	Bridge of Spies	Rudolf Abel	[20]
	Christian Bale	The Big Short	Michael Burry
	Benicio del Toro	Sicario	Alejandro Gillick
	Idris Elba	Beasts of No Nation	The Commandant
	Mark Ruffalo	Spotlight	Michael Rezendes
2016 (70th)	Dev Patel	Lion	Saroo Brierley	[21]
	Mahershala Ali	Moonlight	Juan
	Jeff Bridges	Hell or High Water	Marcus Hamilton
	Hugh Grant	Florence Foster Jenkins	St. Clair Bayfield
	Aaron Taylor-Johnson	Nocturnal Animals	Ray Marcus
2017 (71st)	Sam Rockwell	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Jason Dixon	[22]
	Willem Dafoe	The Florida Project	Bobby Hicks
	Hugh Grant	Paddington 2	Phoenix Buchanan
	Woody Harrelson	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Bill Willoughby
	Christopher Plummer	All the Money in the World	J. Paul Getty
2018 (72nd)	Mahershala Ali	Green Book	Don Shirley	[23]
	Timothée Chalamet	Beautiful Boy	Nic Sheff
	Adam Driver	BlacKkKlansman	Flip Zimmerman
	Richard E. Grant	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Jack Hock
	Sam Rockwell	Vice	George W. Bush
2019 (73rd)	Brad Pitt	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Cliff Booth	[24]
	Tom Hanks	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	Fred Rogers
	Anthony Hopkins	The Two Popes	Pope Benedict XVI
	Al Pacino	The Irishman	Jimmy Hoffa
	Joe Pesci		Russell Bufalino

2020s

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
2020 (74th)	Daniel Kaluuya	Judas and the Black Messiah	Fred Hampton	[25]
	Barry Keoghan	Calm with Horses	Dymphna
	Alan Kim	Minari	David Yi
	Leslie Odom Jr.	One Night in Miami...	Sam Cooke
	Clarke Peters	Da 5 Bloods	Otis
	Paul Raci	Sound of Metal	Joe
2021 (75th)	Troy Kotsur	CODA	Frank Rossi	[26]
	Mike Faist	West Side Story	Riff
	Ciarán Hinds	Belfast	Pop
	Woody Norman	C'mon C'mon	Jesse
	Jesse Plemons	The Power of the Dog	George Burbank
	Kodi Smit-McPhee		Peter Gordon
2022 (76th)	Barry Keoghan	The Banshees of Inisherin	Dominic Kearney	[27]
	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty
	Ke Huy Quan	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Waymond Wang
	Eddie Redmayne	The Good Nurse	Charles Cullen
	Albrecht Schuch	All Quiet on the Western Front	Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky
	Micheal Ward	Empire of Light	Stephen
2023 (77th)	Robert Downey Jr.	Oppenheimer	Lewis Strauss	[28]
	Robert De Niro	Killers of the Flower Moon	William Hale
	Jacob Elordi	Saltburn	Felix Catton
	Ryan Gosling	Barbie	Ken
	Paul Mescal	All of Us Strangers	Harry
	Dominic Sessa	The Holdovers	Angus Tully
2024 (78th)	Kieran Culkin	A Real Pain	Benji Kaplan	[29]
	Yura Borisov	Anora	Igor
	Clarence Maclin	Sing Sing	Himself
	Edward Norton	A Complete Unknown	Pete Seeger
	Guy Pearce	The Brutalist	Harrison Lee Van Buren
	Jeremy Strong	The Apprentice	Roy Cohn

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple nominations

7 nominations Denholm Elliott 4 nominations John Gielgud Philip Seymour Hoffman Ian Holm John Hurt Tommy Lee Jones Jack Nicholson 3 nominations Robert Duvall Edward Fox Edward Norton Alan Rickman Mark Ruffalo Geoffrey Rush Tom Wilkinson

2 nominations Alan Alda Mahershala Ali Alan Arkin Christian Bale Martin Balsam Ian Bannen Javier Bardem Jim Broadbent Simon Callow George Clooney Sean Connery Benicio del Toro Robert Downey Jr. Albert Finney Brendan Gleeson

Hugh Grant Gene Hackman Ed Harris Anthony Hopkins Barry Keoghan Ray McAnally Alfred Molina Al Pacino Brad Pitt Christopher Plummer Ralph Richardson Jason Robards Sam Rockwell Paul Scofield Christopher Walken Christoph Waltz

Multiple wins

3 wins

• Denholm Elliott

2 wins

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

See also

• 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

Notes

A^ : Eddie Murphy was nominated for a voice-only performance.