Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor was an award bestowed by the Irish Film & Television Academy celebrating outstanding performances by actors in supporting roles in films and television dramas. It was a joint category until 2005, where actors were nominated from films and television dramas for the same award. The 3rd Irish Film & Television Awards introduced the current separate categories: Irish Film & Television Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Film and Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Television.

IFTA Award for Supporting Actor – Film
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	Ireland
Presented by	Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA)
First award	2003
Most recent winner	Brían F. O'Byrne, Conclave (2025)
Website	ifta.ie

Winners and nominees

2003-2004

Year	Winner	Film/Television Drama	Role
2003	David Wilmot[1]	Intermission	Oscar
	Colin Farrell	Intermission	Lehiff
	Ciarán Hinds	Veronica Guerin	John Traynor
	Gerard McSorley	Veronica Guerin	John Gilligan
	Owen Roe	Any Time Now	Frank O'Halloran
2004	Peter O'Toole[2]	Troy	Priam, King of Troy
	Colum Convey	Holy Cross	Gerry McClure
	Gary Lydon	The Clinic	Mr. Patrick Murray
	Ciarán Nolan	Man About Dog	Scud Murphy
	Jim Norton	Proof	Ronan Corcoran

Film

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2005	David Kelly[3]	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Grandpa Joe
	Seán McGinley	On a Clear Day	Eddie
	Cillian Murphy	Batman Begins	Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
	Tadgh Murphy	Boy Eats Girl	Diggs
2006	Liam Cunningham[4]	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Dan
	Pádraic Delaney	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Teddy O'Donovan
	Gerard McSorley	Middletown	Bill Hunter
	Stephen Rea	Breakfast on Pluto	Bertie Vaughan
2007	Brendan Conroy[5]	Kings	Git
	Donal O'Kelly	Kings	Jap Kavanagh
	Conor J. Ryan	Garage	David
	Don Wycherley	Speed Dating	Detective Noel Long
2008	Liam Cunningham[6]	Hunger	Father Dominic Moran
	Stuart Graham	Hunger	Raymond Lohan
	Gerard McSorley	Anton	Detective Lynch
	Peter O'Toole	Dean Spanley	Fisk Senior (Horatio)
2009	Aidan Quinn[7]	The Eclipse	Nicholas Holden
	Simon Delaney	Happy Ever Afters	Dessie
	Michael Fassbender	Fish Tank	Connor O'Reily
	Michael Gambon	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	Albus Dumbledore

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2010	Pierce Brosnan[8]	The Ghost	Adam Peter Bennett
	Colin Farrell	The Way Back	Valka
	Brendan Gleeson	Perrier's Bounty	Clifford
	Cillian Murphy	Inception	Robert Michael Fischer
2011	Chris O'Dowd[9]	Bridesmaids	Officer Nathan Rhodes
	Liam Cunningham	The Guard	Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
	Brendan Gleeson	Albert Nobbs	Dr. Holloran
	Ciarán Hinds	The Debt	David Peretz
2012	Domhnall Gleeson[10]	Anna Karenina	Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievich Levin
	Ciarán Hinds	The Woman in Black	Samuel "Sam" Daily
	Michael McElhatton	Death of a Superhero	James Clarke
	David Wilmot	Shadow Dancer	Kevin Mulville
2013	Michael Fassbender[11]	12 Years a Slave	Edwin Epps
	Colin Farrell	Saving Mr. Banks
	Edward MacLiam	Run & Jump
	Peter McDonald	The Stag	The Machine
2014	Domhnall Gleeson[12]	Frank	Jon Burroughs
	Allen Leech	The Imitation Game	John Cairncross
	James Nesbitt	Gold	Frank McGunn
	Andrew Scott	Pride	Gethin Roberts
2015	Jack Reynor[13]	Sing Street	Brendan Lalor
	Sean T. Ó Meallaigh	The Callback Queen	Daithí Carroll
	Domhnall Gleeson	Brooklyn	Jim Farrell
	Owen Roe	Pursuit	Mr. King
	Michael Smiley	My Name Is Emily	Robert Egan
2016	Jason O'Mara[14]	The Siege of Jadotville	Company Sergeant Jack Prendergast
	Colin Farrell	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	Percival Graves
	Brendan Gleeson	Trespass Against Us	Colby Cutler
	Ciarán Hinds	Bleed for This	Angelo Pazienza
	Chris Walley	The Young Offenders	Jock Murphy
2017	Barry Keoghan[15]	The Killing of a Sacred Deer	Martin Lang
	Jacob McCarthy	The Drummer and The Keeper
	Andrew Scott	Handsome Devil	Dan Sherry
	Fionn Walton	Cardboard Gangsters	Dano
	Barry Ward	Maze	Gordon
2018-2019	David Wilmot[16]	Ordinary Love	Peter
	Lorcan Cranitch	The Dig	Sean McKenna
	Dara Devaney	Arracht	Patsy
	Barry Keoghan	Calm with Horses	Dymphna
	Ian Lloyd Anderson	Dublin Oldschool	Daniel
	Stephen Rea	Black '47	Conneely

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role
2020	Barry Ward[17]	Dating Amber	Ian Cotter
	Brian Gleeson	Death of a Ladies' Man	Ben
	Colm Meaney	Pixie	Dermot O'Brien
	Conleth Hill	Herself	Aido
	Ned Dennehy	Undergods	Harry
2021	Ciarán Hinds[18]	Belfast	Pop
	Jamie Dornan	Belfast	Pa
	Cillian Ó'Gairbhí	Foscadh	Dave
	Dean Quinn	Who We Love	Simon
	Tom Vaughan-Lawlor	The Bright Side	Andy
2022[19]	Pierce Brosnan	Black Adam	Doctor Fate / Kent Nelson
	Colin Farrell	The Batman	Oswald Cobblepot / The Penguin
	Brendan Gleeson	The Banshees of Inisherin	Colm Doherty
	Barry Keoghan	The Banshees of Inisherin	Dominic Kearney
	Paul Mescal	God's Creatures	Brian O'Hara
	Andrew Scott	Catherine Called Birdy	Lord Rollo
2023[20]	Paul Mescal	All of Us Strangers	Harry
Diarmuid Noyes	Double Blind	Ray
Chris Walley	Lies We Tell	Edward
Kenneth Branagh	Oppenheimer	Niels Bohr
Liam Carney	Sunlight	Iver
Lalor Roddy	That They May Face The Rising Sun	Patrick

Television Drama

2000s

Year	Winner	Television Drama	Role
2005	Garrett Lombard[3]	Pure Mule	Scobie
	Gary Lydon	The Clinic	Mr. Patrick Murray
	John Lynch	The Baby War	Pierce O'Carroll
	Chris O'Dowd	The Clinic	Brendan Davenport
2006	Gary Lydon[4]	The Clinic	Mr. Patrick Murray
	Liam Cunningham	Murphy's Law	Drew Johnstone
	Allen Leech	Legend	Willy
	Chris O'Dowd	Showbands	Mervin Mooney
2007	Nick Dunning[5]	The Tudors	Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire
	Leroy Harris	Prosperity	Conroy
	Eamonn Hunt	The Running Mate	Paudie Counihan
	Gary Lydon	The Clinic	Mr. Patrick Murray
2008	Peter O'Toole[6]	The Tudors	Pope Paul III
	Michael Fassbender	The Devil's Whore	Thomas Rainsborough
	David Herlihy	The Clinic	Nurse Liam Smith
	John Kavanagh	George Gently	Doyle
2009	Stephen Rea[7]	Father & Son	Augustine Flynn
	Declan Conlon	Fair City	Turlough Norris
	Diarmuid Noyes	Pure Mule – The Last Weekend	Dean
	Owen Roe	Val Falvey, TD	Pat Daly

2010s

Year	Winner	Television Drama	Role
2010	Stephen Rea[8]	Single Handed	Sean Doyle
	Brian Gleeson	Love/Hate	Hughie "Cueball" Power
	Seán McGinley	Wild Decembers	O'Dea
	Eamon Morrissey	Fair City	Cass Cassidy
2011	Tom Vaughan-Lawlor[9]	Love/Hate	Nigel "Nidge" Delaney
	Brendan Coyle	Downton Abbey	Mr. Bates
	Aidan Gillen	Game of Thrones	Littlefinger
	Robert Sheehan	Misfits	Nathan Young
2012	Andrew Scott[10]	Sherlock	Jim Moriarty
	Peter Coonan	Love/Hate	Fran Cooney
	Allen Leech	Downton Abbey	Tom Branson
	Chris O'Dowd	Moone Boy	Seán Caution Murphy
2013	Peter Coonan[11]	Love/Hate	Fran Cooney
	Liam Cunningham	Game of Thrones	Davos Seaworth
	Aidan Gillen	Game of Thrones	Littlefinger
	Allen Leech	Downton Abbey	Tom Branson
2014	Stephen Rea[12]	The Honourable Woman	Sir Hugh Hayden
	John Connors	Love/Hate	Patrick Ward
	Liam Cunningham	Game of Thrones	Davos Seaworth
	Andrew Scott	Sherlock	Jim Moriarty
2015	Moe Dunford[13]	Vikings	Aethelwulf
	Ned Dennehy	Dickensian	Ebenezer Scrooge
	Liam Cunningham	Game of Thrones	Davos Seaworth
	Robert O'Mahoney	An Klondike	Jacob Hopkins
	Stephen Rea	War & Peace	Prince Vassily Kuragin
2016	Ned Dennehy[14]	An Klondike	Captain Pat Galvin
	Liam Cunningham	Game of Thrones	Davos Seaworth
	Moe Dunford	Vikings	Aethelwulf
	Andrew Scott	The Hollow Crown	King Louis XI of France
	Robert Sheehan	Fortitude	Vladek Klimov
2017	Liam Cunningham[15]	Game of Thrones	Davos Seaworth
	Moe Dunford	Vikings	Aethelwulf
	Aidan Gillen	Game of Thrones	Littlefinger
	Owen McDonnell	Paula	DI "Mac" McArthur
	Jason O'Mara	Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Jeffrey Mace / The Patriot
2018-2019	Mark O'Halloran[16]	The Virtues	Craigy
	Liam Cunningham	Game of Thrones	Davos Seaworth
	Barry Keoghan	Chernobyl	Pavel Gremov
	Owen McDonnell	Killing Eve	Niko Polastri
	Cillian O’Gairbhi	Blood	Barry Flood
	Tom Vaughan-Lawlor	Dublin Murders	Frank Mackey

2020s

Year	Winner	Television Drama	Role
2020	Fionn O'Shea[17]	Normal People	Jamie
	Desmond Eastwood	Normal People	Niall
	Éanna Hardwicke	Smother	Joe Ryan
	Colm Meaney	Gangs of London	Finn Wallace
	Andrew Scott	His Dark Materials	Colonel John Parry
2021	Ciarán Hinds[18]	Kin	Eamon Cunningham
	Peter Coonan	Hidden Assets	Fionn Brannigan
	Owen McDonnell	Three Families	Mark Ryan
	Emmett J. Scanlan	Kin	Jimmy Kinsella
	Andrew Scott	The Pursuit of Love	Lord Merlin
2022	Moe Dunford	The Dry	Jack
	Brian Gleeson	Bad Sisters	Tom Claffin
	Ciarán Hinds	The Dry	Tom Sheridan
	Daryl McCormack	Bad Sisters	Matt Claffin
	Michael Smiley	Bad Sisters	Roger Muldoon
	Tommy Tiernan	Conversations with Friends	Dennis Flynn
2023[20]	Richard Dormer	Blue Lights	Gerry Cliff
	Jared Harris	Foundation	Hari Seldon
	Aaron Monaghan	Hidden Assets	Sean Prender
	Aidan Gillen	Kin	Frank Kinsella
	Emmett J. Scanlan		Jimmy Kinsella
	Simon Delaney	The Woman in the Wall	Massey

See also

• Irish Film & Television Award for Best Supporting Actress – Film