British film industry award
Best Actor in a Supporting Role is aBritish Academy Film Award presented annually by theBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognise anactor who has delivered an outstandingsupporting performance in a film.
TheBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows forfilm ,television , children's film and television, and interactive media. Since1968 , 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 inbold 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.
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 byDenholm 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 [ edit ] Ian Holm won twice forThe Bofors Gun (1968) andChariots of Fire (1981). indicates the winner
Laurence Olivier won forOh! What a Lovely War (1969).Sir John Gielgud won forMurder on the Orient Express (1974)Fred Astaire won forThe Towering Inferno (1975).Sir John Hurt won forThe Elephant Man (1978)Alan Rickman won forRobin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).Ralph Fiennes won forSchindler's List (1993).Samuel L. Jackson won forPulp Fiction (1994).Tom Wilkinson won forThe Full Monty (1997).Geoffrey Rush won twice, forShakespeare in Love (1998) andThe King's Speech (2010).Benicio del Toro won forTraffic (2000).Jim Broadbent won forMoulin Rouge! (2001).Christopher Walken won forCatch Me If You Can (2002).Jake Gyllenhaal won forBrokeback Mountain (2005).Alan Arkin won forLittle Miss Sunshine (2006).Javier Bardem won forNo Country for Old Men (2007).Heath Ledger won posthumously forThe Dark Knight (2008).Christoph Waltz won twice, forInglourious Basterds (2009) andDjango Unchained (2012).Christopher Plummer won forBeginners (2011).Barkhad Abdi won forCaptain Phillips (2013).JK Simmons won forWhiplash (2014).Mark Rylance won forBridge of Spies (2015).Dev Patel won forLion (2016).Sam Rockwell won forThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).Mahershala Ali won forGreen Book (2018).Brad Pitt won forOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)Daniel Kaluuya won forJudas and the Black Messiah (2021).Troy Kotsur won forCODA (2021).Barry Keoghan won forThe Banshees of Inisherin (2022).Robert Downey Jr. won forOppenheimer (2023).Kieran Culkin won forA Real Pain (2024).Multiple wins and nominations [ edit ] Multiple nominations [ edit ] 7 nominations 4 nominations 3 nominations 2 nominations
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