Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Kannada

The Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award is and award presented annually by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Kannada films. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the Kannada film industry. Although the awards for Kannada films started in 1970, awards for the best supporting actor category started only in 2007. At the 54th Filmfare Awards South ceremony held in 2007, Rangayana Raghu was the first winner of this award for his role in Cyanide. Since its inception, the award has been given to eight actors. Achyuth Kumar has received the most awards in this category with three awards.

Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Kannada
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First award	Rangayana Raghu, Cyanide (2006)
Currently held by	Rangayana Raghu, Tagaru Palya (2023)
Website	Filmfare Awards

Superlatives

Superlative	Actor	Record
Actor with most awards	Achyuth Kumar	4 wins
Actor with most nominations		7 nominations
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	Anant Nag	4 nominations
Actor with most nominations in a single year	Anant Nag (2008)	2 nominations
Oldest winner	B. Suresha	60 years
Oldest nominee	H. G. Dattatreya	75 years
Youngest winner	Yash	22 years
Youngest nominee

Winners and nominees

Table key

‡	Indicates the winner

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2006 (54th)	Rangayana Raghu ‡	Cyanide	Ranganath
2007 (55th)	Sharath Lohitashwa ‡	Aa Dinagalu	Kotwal Ramachandra
2008 (56th)	Yash ‡	Moggina Manasu	Rahul
	Anant Nag	Aramane	Rajashekhara Aras
		Taj Mahal	Narayana Murthy
	Diganth	Gaalipata	Diganth
	Rajesh Krishnan	Gaalipata	Kitty
2009 (57th)	Achyuth Kumar ‡	Jhossh	Rakesh's Father
	Dilip Raj	Love Guru	Abhi
	Rangayana Raghu	Raam	M. C. Krishna Murthy
	Sharan	Jhossh	Physical Education Teacher
	Tabla Nani	Eddelu Manjunatha	Nani
2010 (58th)	Avinash ‡	Aptharakshaka	Ramachandra Acharya
	Achyuth Kumar	Naanu Nanna Kanasu	Brijesh Patel
	Ambareesh	Veera Parampare	Varadegowda
	Rangayana Raghu	Modalasala	Deepu's Father
	Vaijanath Biradar	Kanasemba Kudureyaneri	Irya
2011 (59th)	P. Ravi Shankar ‡	Kempegowda	Armugam	[1]
	H. G. Dattatreya	Bettada Jeeva	Gopalaiah
	Rangayana Raghu	Olave Mandara	Ratna
	Sharath Lohitashwa	Saarathi	Nagappa
	Yogesh	Hudugaru	Siddesh
2012 (60th)	Atul Kulkarni ‡	Edegarike	Sridhar Murthy	[2] [3]
	Ravi Kale	Dandupalya	Hanuma
	Sai Kumar	Kalpana	Kalpana
	Sharan	Parijatha	Sundar
	Shashi Kumar	Sangolli Rayanna	Channabasava
2013 (61st)	Achyuth Kumar ‡	Lucia	Shankaranna	[4] [5]
	Ambareesh	Bulbul	Amarnath
	Rangayana Raghu	Jayammana Maga	Bhagavantha
	Sai Kumar	Brindavana	Madhu's Father
	Sharath Lohitashwa	Kaddipudi	Shankarappa
2014 (62nd)	Achyuth Kumar ‡	Drishya	Surya Prakash	[6] [7]
	Harish Raj	Power	Shastry
	Kishore	Ulidavaru Kandanthe	Munna
	Thilak	Ugramm	Bala
	V. Ravichandran	Maanikya	Adishesha
2015 (63rd)	Saikumar Pudipeddi ‡	RangiTaranga	Thenkabail Ravindra "Kalinga" Bhat	[8]
	Anant Nag	Vaastu Prakaara	Anantha Krishna
	P. Ravi Shankar	Aatagara	Ravi Gowda
	Ramakrishna	Raja Rajendra	Neelakanta Raju
	Sundar	Naanu Avanalla...Avalu
2016 (64th)	Vasishta N. Simha ‡	Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu	Ranga	[9]
	Achyuth Kumar	Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu	Shankara
	H. G. Dattatreya	Neer Dose	Dattatreya
	Roger Narayan	U Turn	Nayak
	Sadhu Kokila	Zoom	M.J.
2017 (65th)	P. Ravishankar ‡	College Kumar	Shiva Kumar	[10] [11]
	Achyuth Kumar	Beautiful Manasugalu	Inspector Kodanda
	Devaraj	Tarak	Tarak Ram
	H. G. Dattatreya	Kempirve
	Vasishta N. Simha	Dayavittu Gamanisi	Proxy
2018 (66th)	Dhananjay ‡	Tagaru	Dolly	[12] [13]
	Achyuth Kumar	Churikatte	Ravikanth
	Ashwin Rao Pallakki	Katheyondu Shuruvagide	Pedro
	P. Ravishankar	Raambo 2	Joker
	Radhakrishna Urala	Ammachi Yemba Nenapu	Puttamatte
2020-21 (67th)	B. Suresha ‡	Act 1978	Sharanappa	[14]
	Achyuth Kumar	Bheemasena Nalamaharaja	Varadarajan Iyengar
	Balaji Manohar	Amruth Apartments	Lakkappa Gowda
	Dhananjaya	Salaga	ACP Samrat
	Nagabhushana	Badava Rascal	Nagalinga
	Pramod Panju	Rathnan Prapancha	Udaal Babu Rao
	Sanchari Vijay	Gentleman	Inspector Shivmurthy
2022 (68th)	Achyuth Kumar‡	Kantara	Devendra Suttooru	[15]
	Ananth Nag	Gaalipata 2	Kishore
	Kishore	Kantara	Murali
	Nirup Bhandari	Vikrant Rona	Sanjeev Gambhira / Raghava
	Prakash Raj	KGF: Chapter 2	Vijayendra Ingalagi
2023 (69th)	Rangayana Raghu‡	Tagaru Palya	Chikka	[16]
	Nagabhushana	Kousalya Supraja Rama	Santhu
	Poornachandra Mysuru	Daredevil Musthafa	Sulthankeri Usman
	Rajesh Nataranga	19.20.21	Rafi
	Ramesh Indira	Sapta Saagaradaache Ello - Side A	Soma