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BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
The 2023 recipient: Robert Downey Jr.
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer (2023)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

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 recognize 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. Since 1968, 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 in bold 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.

History

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 Robert Downey Jr. for his role in Oppenheimer. The record for most wins is three, held by Denholm 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

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple nominations

Multiple wins

3 wins

• Denholm Elliott

2 wins

• Edward Fox
• Ian Holm
• Ray McAnally
• Geoffrey Rush
• Christoph Waltz

See also

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
• Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Notes

A : Eddie Murphy was nominated for a voice-only performance.

References

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External links

• BAFTA Awards Database

• British Academy Film Awards
• Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award winners
• Film awards for supporting actor