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.

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 Billie Whitelaw for her roles in Charlie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve.

The most recent winner is Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her role in The Holdovers.

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.

Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
Jodie Foster won a joint award for Bugsy Malone / Taxi Driver (1976); at age 13, this category's youngest winner.
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Jamie Lee Curtis won for Trading Places (1983).
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Judi Dench received a leading nine nominations in this category, winning a record three times for A Room with a View (1986), A Handful of Dust (1988), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
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Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost (1990); first black winner in this category.
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Kristin Scott Thomas won for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
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Kate Winslet won twice, for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Steve Jobs (2015).
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Juliette Binoche won for The English Patient (1996).
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Sigourney Weaver won for The Ice Storm (1997).
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Jennifer Connelly won for A Beautiful Mind (2001).
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Catherine Zeta-Jones won for Chicago (2002).
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Renée Zellweger won for Cold Mountain (2003).
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Cate Blanchett won, portraying a real-life BAFTA winner, for The Aviator (2004).
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Thandiwe Newton won for Crash (2005).
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Jennifer Hudson won, in her acting debut, for Dreamgirls (2006).
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Tilda Swinton won for Michael Clayton (2007).
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Penélope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); first Spanish winner in this category.
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Mo'Nique won for Precious (2009).
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Helena Bonham Carter won for The King's Speech (2010).
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Octavia Spencer won for The Help (2011).
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Anne Hathaway won for Les Misérables (2012).
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Jennifer Lawrence won for American Hustle (2013).
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Patricia Arquette won for Boyhood (2014).
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Viola Davis won for Fences (2016).
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Allison Janney won for I, Tonya (2017).
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Rachel Weisz won for The Favourite (2018).
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Laura Dern won for Marriage Story (2019).
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Youn Yuh-jung won for Minari (2020); this category's oldest winner, at age 73.
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Ariana DeBose won for West Side Story (2021); first openly queer POC to win.
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Kerry Condon won for The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).
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Da'Vine Joy Randolph won for The Holdovers (2023).