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.

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.

No award was given out in this category in 1980, when no actors, male or female, were nominated for supporting roles.

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.

Ian Holm was the inaugural winner, winning two times for The Bofors Gun (1968) and Chariots of Fire (1981).
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Laurence Olivier won for Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).
Ben Johnson won for The Last Picture Show (1972).
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Fred Astaire won for The Towering Inferno (1975).
Photo of Robert Duvall in 2001.
Robert Duvall won for Apocalypse Now (1979).
Daniel Auteuil won for Jean de Florette (1987).
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Alan Rickman won for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).
Photo of Ralph Fiennes at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011
Ralph Fiennes won for Schindler's List (1993).
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Samuel L. Jackson won for Pulp Fiction (1994).
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Paul Scofield won for The Crucible (1996).
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Tom Wilkinson won for The Full Monty (1997).
Geoffrey Rush won twice, for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The King's Speech (2010).
Photo of Benicio Del Toro speaking at San Diego Comic Con in 2013
Benicio del Toro won for Traffic (2000).
Photo of Jim Broadbent at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010
Jim Broadbent won for Moulin Rouge! (2001).
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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).
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Javier Bardem won for No Country for Old Men (2007).
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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).
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Mark Rylance won for Bridge of Spies (2015).
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Dev Patel won for Lion (2016).
Photo of Sam Rockwell at the 2009 premiere of Moon at the Tribeca Film Institute
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).