BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The following is a complete list of the winners and nominees for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Awarded annually, actors of all nationalities are eligible to receive the award.

Winner and nominees

*1969 - Ian Holm - "The Bofors Gun" - as Flynn
**Anthony Hopkins – "The Lion in Winter"- as Richard
**George Segal – "No Way to Treat a Lady" - as Morris Brummel
**John McEnery – "Romeo and Juliet" - as Mercutio

*1970 - Laurence Olivier - "Oh! What a Lovely War" - as Field Marshal Sir John French
**Robert Vaughn – "Bullitt" - as Chalmers
**Jack Nicholson – "Easy Rider" - as George Hanson
**Jack Klugman – "Goodbye, Columbus" - as Ben Patimkin

*1971 - Colin Welland - "Kes" - as Mr Farthing
**Bernard Cribbins – "The Railway Children" - as Albert Perks
**John Mills – "Ryan's Daughter" - as Michael
**Gig Young – "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" - as Rocky

*1972 - Edward Fox - "The Go-Between" - as Hugh Trimingham
**John Hurt – "10 Rillington Place" - as Timothy Evans
**Ian Hendry – "Get Carter" - as Eric
**Michael Gough – "The Go-Between" - as Mr Maudsley

*1973 - Ben Johnson - "The Last Picture Show" - as Sam the Lion
**Robert Duvall - "The Godfather" - as Tom Hagen
**Max Adrian - "The Boy Friend" - as Mr Max / Lord Hubert Brockhurst
**Ralph Richardson - "Lady Caroline Lamb" - as King George IV

*1974 - Arthur Lowe - "O Lucky Man!" - as Mr Duff
**Michael Lonsdale – "The Day of the Jackal" - as Lebel
**Denholm Elliott – "A Doll's House" - as Krogstad
**Ian Bannen – "The Offence" - as Kenneth Baxter

*1975 - John Gielgud - "Murder on the Orient Express" - as Mr Beddoes
**John Huston – "Chinatown" - as Noah Cross
**Randy Quaid – "The Last Detail" - as Seaman Larry Meadows
**Adam Faith – "Stardust" - as Mike

*1976 - Fred Astaire - "The Towering Inferno" - as Harlee Claiborne
**Burgess Meredith – "The Day of the Locust" - as Harry Greener
**Jack Warden – "Shampoo" - as Lester Carp
**Martin Balsam – "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" - as Harold Longman

*1977 - Brad Dourif - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - as Billy Bibbit
**Jason Robards - "All the President's Men" - as Ben Bradlee
**Martin Balsam - "All the President's Men" - as Howard Simons
**Michael Hordern - "The Slipper and the Rose" - as The King

*1978 - Edward Fox - "A Bridge Too Far" - as Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
**Robert Duvall - "Network" - as Frank Hackett
**Zero Mostel - "The Front" - as Hecky Brown
**Colin Blakely - "Equus" - as Frank Strang

*1979 - John Hurt - "Midnight Express" - as Max
**François Truffaut - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" - as Claude Lacombe
**Gene Hackman - "Superman" - as Lex Luthor
**Jason Robards - "Julia" - as Dashiell Hammett

*1980 - Robert Duvall - "Apocalypse Now" - as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
**John Hurt - "Alien" - as Kane
**Christopher Walken - "The Deer Hunter" - as Nick
**Denholm Elliott - "Saint Jack" - as William Leigh

*1982 - Ian Holm - "Chariots of Fire" - as Sam Mussabini
**John Gielgud – "Arthur" - as Hobson
**Nigel Havers – "Chariots of Fire" - as Lord Andrew Lindsay
**Denholm Elliott – "Raiders of the Lost Ark" - Dr. Marcus Brody

*1983 - Jack Nicholson - "Reds" - as Eugene O'Neill
**Edward Fox – "Gandhi" - as General Reginald Dyer
**Roshan Seth – "Gandhi" - as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
**Frank Finlay – "The Return of the Soldier" - as William Grey

*1984 - Denholm Elliott - "Trading Places" - as Coleman
**Bob Hoskins – "The Honorary Consul" - as Colonel Perez
**Jerry Lewis – "The King of Comedy" - as Jerry Langford
**Burt Lancaster – "Local Hero" - as Felix Happer

*1985 - Denholm Elliott - "A Private Function" - as Dr. Charles Swaby
**Michael Elphick – "Gorky Park" - as Pasha
**Ian Holm – "" - as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
**Ralph Richardson – "" - The Earl of Greystoke

*1986 - Denholm Elliott - "Defence of the Realm" - as Vernon Bayliss
**Saeed Jaffrey – "My Beautiful Laundrette" - as Nasser
**James Fox – "A Passage to India" - as Richard Fielding
**John Gielgud – "Plenty" - as Sir Leonard Darwin

*1987 - Ray McAnally - "The Mission" - as Altamirano
**Klaus Maria Brandauer – "Out of Africa" - as Bror Blixen
**Simon Callow – "A Room with a View" - as Rev. Arthur Beebe
**Denholm Elliott – "A Room with a View" - as Mr Emerson

*1988 - Daniel Auteuil - "Jean de Florette" - as Ugolin
**John Thaw – "Cry Freedom" - as Kruger
**Ian Bannen - "Hope and Glory" – as Grandfather George
**Sean Connery - "The Untouchables" – as Jimmy Malone

*1989 - Michael Palin - "A Fish Called Wanda" - as Ken Pile
**Peter O'Toole – "The Last Emperor" - as Reginald Johnston
**Joss Ackland – "White Mischief" - as Sir Jock Delves Broughton
**David Suchet – "A World Apart" - as Muller

*1990 - Ray McAnally - "My Left Foot" - as Mr. Brown
**Jack Nicholson – "Batman" - as The Joker
**Sean Connery – "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" - as Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.
**Marlon Brando – "A Dry White Season" - as Ian McKenzie

*1991 - Salvatore Cascio - "Nuovo cinema Paradiso" - as (child) Salvatore
**Alan Alda – "Crimes and Misdemeanors" - as Lester
**Al Pacino – "Dick Tracy" - as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
**John Hurt – "The Field" - as The 'Bird' O'Donnell

*1992 - Alan Rickman - "" - as Sheriff of Nottingham
**Andrew Strong – "The Commitments" - as Deco Cuffe
**Derek Jacobi – "Dead Again" - as Franklyn Madson
**Alan Bates – "Hamlet" - as Claudius

*1993 - Gene Hackman - "Unforgiven" - as Little Bill Daggett
**Jaye Davidson – "The Crying Game" - as Dil
**Samuel West – "Howards End" - as Leonard Bast
**Tommy Lee Jones – "JFK" - as Clay Shaw

*1994 - Ralph Fiennes - "Schindler's List" - as Amon Göth
**Ben Kingsley – "Schindler's List" - as Itzhak Stern
**John Malkovich – "In the Line of Fire" - as Mitch Leary
**Tommy Lee Jones – "The Fugitive" - as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard

*1995 - Samuel L. Jackson - "Pulp Fiction" - as Jules Winnfield
**Paul Scofield – "Quiz Show" - as Mark Van Doren
**John Hannah – "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - as Matthew
**Simon Callow – "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - as Gareth

*1996 - Tim Roth - "Rob Roy" - as Archibald Cunningham
**Alan Rickman – "Sense and Sensibility" - as Colonel Christopher Brandon
**Ian Holm – "The Madness of King George" - as Dr. Willis
**Martin Landau – "Ed Wood" - as Bela Lugosi

*1997 - Paul Scofield - "The Crucible" - as Judge Thomas Danforth
**Edward Norton – "Primal Fear" - as Aaron Stampler
**John Gielgud – "Shine" - as Cecil Parkes
**Alan Rickman – "Michael Collins" - as Éamon de Valera

*1998 - Tom Wilkinson - "The Full Monty" - as Gerald
**Burt Reynolds – "Boogie Nights" - as Jack Horner
**Rupert Everett – "My Best Friend's Wedding" - as George Downes
**Mark Addy – "The Full Monty" - as Dave

*1999 - Geoffrey Rush - "Elizabeth" - as Sir Francis Walsingham
**Geoffrey Rush – "Shakespeare in Love" - as Philip Henslowe
**Tom Wilkinson – "Shakespeare in Love" - as Hugh Fennyman
**Ed Harris – "The Truman Show" - as Christof

*2000 - Jude Law - "The Talented Mr. Ripley" - as Dickie Greenleaf
**Michael Caine – "The Cider House Rules" - as Dr. Wilbur Larch
**Wes Bentley – "American Beauty" - as Ricky Fitts
**Rhys Ifans – "Notting Hill" - as Spike
**Timothy Spall – "Topsy-Turvy" - as Richard Temple

*2001 - Benicio del Toro - "Traffic" - as Javier Rodriguez
**Gary Lewis – "Billy Elliot" - as Mr Elliot
**Albert Finney – "Erin Brockovich" - as Ed Masry
**Joaquin Phoenix – "Gladiator" - as Commodus
**Oliver Reed – "Gladiator" - as Proximo

*2002 - Jim Broadbent - "Moulin Rouge!" - as Harold Zidler
**Eddie Murphy – "Shrek" - as Donkey
**Colin Firth – "Bridget Jones's Diary" - as Mark Darcy
**Robbie Coltrane – "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" - as Rubeus Hagrid
**Hugh Bonneville – "Iris" - as John Bayley

*2003 - Christopher Walken - "Catch Me If You Can" - as Frank Abagnale
**Alfred Molina – "Frida" - as Diego Rivera
**Ed Harris – "The Hours" - as Richard Brown
**Paul Newman – "Road to Perdition" - as John Rooney
**Chris Cooper – "Adaptation." - as John Laroche

*2004 - Bill Nighy - "Love Actually" - as Billy Mack
**Albert Finney – "Big Fish" - as Older Ed Bloom
**Ian McKellen – "" - as Gandalf
**Tim Robbins – "Mystic River" - as Dave Boyle
**Paul Bettany – "" - as Stephen Maturin

*2005 - Clive Owen - "Closer" - as Larry
**Alan Alda – "The Aviator" - as Senator Ralph Owen Brewster
**Jamie Foxx – "Collateral" - as Max
**Rodrigo de la Serna – "Diários de motocicleta" - as Alberto Granado
**Phil Davis – "Vera Drake" - as Stan

*2006 - Jake Gyllenhaal - "Brokeback Mountain" - as Jack Twist
**Don Cheadle – "Crash" - as Graham Waters
**Matt Dillon – "Crash" - as Officer John Ryan
**George Clooney – "Good Night, and Good Luck." - as Fred Friendly
**George Clooney – "Syriana" - as Bob Barnes

*2007 - Alan Arkin - "Little Miss Sunshine" - as Edwin Hoover
**Jack Nicholson – "The Departed" - as Frank Costello
**James McAvoy – "The Last King of Scotland" - as Dr. Nicholas Garrigan
**Michael Sheen – "The Queen" - as Tony Blair
**Leslie Phillips – "Venus" - as Ian

*2008 - Javier Bardem – "No Country for Old Men" - as Anton Chigurh
**Paul Dano – "There Will Be Blood" - as Eli Sunday
**Tommy Lee Jones – "No Country for Old Men" - as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
**Philip Seymour Hoffman – "Charlie Wilson's War" - as Gust Avrakotos
**Tom Wilkinson – "Michael Clayton" - as Arthur Edens