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 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
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Multiple nominations

 * 7 nominations
 * Denholm Elliott


 * 4 nominations
 * John Gielgud
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman
 * Ian Holm
 * John Hurt
 * Tommy Lee Jones
 * Jack Nicholson


 * 3 nominations
 * Robert Duvall
 * Edward Fox
 * Alan Rickman
 * Mark Ruffalo
 * Geoffrey Rush
 * Tom Wilkinson


 * 2 nominations
 * Alan Alda
 * Mahershala Ali
 * Alan Arkin
 * Christian Bale
 * Martin Balsam
 * Ian Bannen
 * Javier Bardem
 * Jim Broadbent
 * Simon Callow
 * George Clooney
 * Sean Connery
 * Benicio del Toro
 * Robert Downey Jr.
 * Albert Finney
 * Brendan Gleeson
 * Hugh Grant


 * Gene Hackman
 * Ed Harris
 * Anthony Hopkins
 * Barry Keoghan
 * Ray McAnally
 * Alfred Molina
 * Edward Norton
 * Al Pacino
 * Brad Pitt
 * Christopher Plummer
 * Ralph Richardson
 * Jason Robards
 * Sam Rockwell
 * Paul Scofield
 * Christopher Walken
 * Christoph Waltz

Multiple wins

 * 3 wins
 * Denholm Elliott


 * 2 wins
 * Edward Fox
 * Ian Holm
 * Ray McAnally
 * Geoffrey Rush
 * Christoph Waltz