IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor

The IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor recognizes a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role. The award is chosen by the viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. Saif Ali Khan, Arjun Rampal, Anil Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan are leading with 2 wins.

List of winners
† – indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award ‡ – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award

2000s

 * 2000 Anil Kapoor – Taal as Vikrant Kapoor †
 * 2001 Amitabh Bachchan – Mohabbatein as Narayan Shankar †
 * Anupam Kher – Kya Kehna as Gulshan Baxi
 * Chandrachur Singh – Josh as Rahul
 * Paresh Rawal – Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega as Goverdhan
 * Sunil Shetty – Refugee as Ranger Mohammad Ashraf ‡
 * 2002 Saif Ali Khan – Dil Chahta Hai as Sameer
 * Akshaye Khanna – Dil Chahta Hai as Siddharth Sinha †
 * Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Yashvardhan Raichand ‡
 * Hrithik Roshan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Rohan Raichand ‡
 * Kulbhushan Kharbanda – Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India as Rajah Puran Singh
 * 2003 Mohanlal – Company as Srinivasan ‡
 * Ashutosh Rana – Raaz as Agni Swaroop
 * Dilip Prabhavalkar – Encounter: The Killing as Ponappa Awadhe
 * Jackie Shroff – Devdas as Chunnilal ‡
 * Sushant Singh – The Legend of Bhagat Singh as Sukhdev
 * 2004 Saif Ali Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Rohit Patel †
 * Arshad Warsi – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Sarkeshwar (Circuit) ‡
 * Ashutosh Rana – LOC Kargil as Yogender Singh, 18 Grenadiers
 * Sunil Shetty – Qayamat: City Under Threat as Akram Sheikh
 * Yash Tonk – Janasheen as Max Pereira
 * 2005 Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh †
 * Amitabh Bachchan – Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh‡
 * Pankaj Kapur – Maqbool as Jahangir Khan (Abbaji)
 * Paresh Rawal – Aitraaz as Advocate Patel
 * Zayed Khan – Main Hoon Na as Lakshman Prasad Sharma a.k.a. Lucky ‡
 * 2006 Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar as Shankar Nagre †
 * Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Dashrath Singh ‡
 * John Abraham – Garam Masala as Shyam "Sam"
 * Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal as Mohit ‡
 * Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta as Girish ‡
 * 2007 Arshad Warsi – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Circuit (Sarkeshwar)
 * Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Samarjit 'Sam' Talwar ‡
 * Abhishek Bachchan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Rishi Talwar †
 * Atul Kulkarni – Rang De Basanti as Laxman Pandey / Ramprasad Bismil
 * Kunal Kapoor – Rang De Basanti as Aslam / Ashfaqullah Khan ‡
 * 2008 Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty †
 * Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar Pandey (Majnu) ‡
 * Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devkar Chaudhary
 * Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik Dasgupta ‡
 * Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani
 * 2009 Arjun Rampal – Rock On!! as Joe Mascarenhas †
 * Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar Raj as Shankar Nagare ‡
 * Irrfan Khan – Mumbai Meri Jaan as Thomas
 * Sonu Sood – Jodhaa Akbar as Rajkumar Sujamal ‡
 * Vinay Pathak – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Balwinder "Bobby" Khosla ‡

2010s

 * 2010 Sharman Joshi – 3 Idiots as Raju Rastogi ‡
 * Abhimanyu Singh – Gulaal as Rananjay Singh "Ransa"
 * Abhishek Bachchan – Paa as Amol Arte
 * Irrfan Khan – New York as Roshan
 * R. Madhavan – 3 Idiots as Farhan Qureshi ‡
 * Rishi Kapoor – Love Aaj Kal as Veer Singh
 * 2011 Arjun Rampal – Raajneeti as Prithviraj Pratap ‡
 * Arshad Warsi – Ishqiya as Razzak Hussain ‡
 * Emraan Hashmi – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Shoaib Khan ‡
 * Manoj Bajpayee – Raajneeti as Virendra Pratap ‡
 * Mithun Chakraborty – Golmaal 3 as Pritam
 * 2012 Farhan Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Imran †
 * Abhay Deol – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Kabir ‡
 * Emraan Hashmi – The Dirty Picture as Abraham
 * Naseeruddin Shah – The Dirty Picture as Suryakant ‡
 * Randeep Hooda – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Lalit/Babloo
 * 2013 Annu Kapoor – Vicky Donor as Dr. Baldev Chaddha †
 * Akshay Kumar – OMG – Oh My God! as Krishna Vasudev Yadav ‡
 * Mithun Chakraborty – OMG – Oh My God! as Leeladhar Swamy
 * Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 as Faizal Khan
 * Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Talaash: The Answer Lies Within as Taimur ‡
 * Saurabh Shukla – Barfi! as Sudhanshu Dutta
 * 2014 Aditya Roy Kapur – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Avinash "Avi" Arora ‡
 * Anupam Kher – Special 26 as P.K. Sharma ‡
 * Nawazuddin Siddiqui – The Lunchbox as Shaikh †
 * Pawan Malhotra – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Hawaldar (Constable) Gurudev Singh
 * Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB as Justice Tripathi
 * 2015 Riteish Deshmukh – Ek Villain as Rakesh Mahadkar ‡
 * Inaamulhaq – Filmistaan as Aftab
 * Kay Kay Menon – Haider as Khurram Meer †
 * Naseeruddin Shah – Finding Fanny as Ferdinand "Ferdie" Pinto
 * Randeep Hooda – Kick as Himanshu Tyagi
 * Ronit Roy – 2 States as Vikram Malhotra (Krish's father) ‡
 * 2016 Anil Kapoor – Dil Dhadakne Do as Kamal Mehra †
 * Deepak Dobriyal – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Pappi ‡
 * Farhan Akhtar – Dil Dhadakne Do as Sunny Gill
 * Irrfan Khan – Piku as Rana Chaudhary
 * Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Chand Nawab
 * 2017 Anupam Kher – M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story as Pan Singh
 * Amitabh Bachchan – Wazir as Pandit Omkar Nath Dar
 * Rajat Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons as Harsh Kapoor ‡
 * Rajkummar Rao – Aligarh as Deepu Sebastian ‡
 * Rishi Kapoor – Kapoor & Sons as Amarjeet Kapoor †
 * 2018 Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Mom as Daya Shankar "DK" Kapoor ‡
 * Deepak Dobriyal – Hindi Medium as Shyamprakash Kori ‡
 * Pankaj Tripathi – Newton as Assistant Commandant Aatma Singh ‡
 * Rajkummar Rao – Bareilly Ki Barfi as Pritam Vidrohi †
 * Vijay Maurya – Tumhari Sulu as Pankaj Rai Baaghi
 * 2019 Vicky Kaushal – Sanju as Kamlesh Kanhaiyalal Kapasi †
 * Anil Kapoor – Race 3 as Shamsher Singh
 * Jim Sarbh – Padmaavat as Malik Kafur ‡
 * Manoj Pahwa – Mulk as Bilaal Ali Mohammed ‡
 * Pankaj Tripathi – Stree as Rudra ‡

2020s

 * 2022 Pankaj Tripathi – Ludo as Satyendra "Sattu Bhaiya" Tripathi
 * Jiiva – 83 as Krishnamachari Srikkanth
 * Kumud Mishra – Thappad as Sachin Sandhu
 * Pankaj Tripathi – 83 as PR Man Singh
 * Saif Ali Khan – Tanhaji as Udaybhan Singh Rathore