BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role facts for kids
The BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress is a special prize given out every year. It's part of the British Academy Film Awards, which are like the UK's version of the Oscars! This award celebrates an amazing actress who plays a very important, but not the main, role in a movie.
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress |
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The 2025 recipient: Wunmi Mosaku
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Currently held by | Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners (2025) |
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About the BAFTA Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a famous British group. They host big awards shows each year. These shows celebrate the best in movies, TV shows, children's films and TV, and even video games. Since 1968, talented actresses have received the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. This happens at a special ceremony every year.
What is a Supporting Actress?
A supporting actress plays a key role that helps the main story. She might be a best friend, a family member, or even a villain. Her performance is crucial to the film, even if she isn't the main star.
A Look Back: History of the Award
The Best Supporting Actress award has been given out 53 times. It has gone to 52 different actresses. In 1980, no award was given in this category. The very first winner was Billie Whitelaw. She won for her roles in Charlie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve.
The actress who has won this award the most times is Judi Dench. She has won three times! Kate Winslet has won twice. Every other winner has received the award once. Judi Dench also holds the record for the most nominations, with nine. In 1982, Rohini Hattangadi and Maureen Stapleton both won. They received the same number of votes, making it the only tie in this award's history. The most recent winner is Wunmi Mosaku for her role in Sinners.
Amazing Actresses: Winners and Nominees
In the lists below, the names and film titles in bold with a gold background are the winners. The other names are the nominees. The years shown are when the films were released. The awards ceremony always takes place the following year.
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Jodie Foster, at age 13, won for Bugsy Malone and Taxi Driver (1976).
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Kristin Scott Thomas won for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
Jennifer Connelly won for A Beautiful Mind (2001).
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Helena Bonham Carter won for The King's Speech (2010).
Octavia Spencer won for The Help (2011).
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Zoe Saldaña won for Emilia Pérez (2024).
1960s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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(22nd) |
Billie Whitelaw | Charlie Bubbles | Lottie Bubbles | |
| Twisted Nerve | Joan Harper | |||
| Pat Heywood | Romeo and Juliet | The Nurse | ||
| Virginia Maskell | Interlude | Antonia | ||
| Simone Signoret | Games | Lisa Schindler | ||
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(23rd) |
Celia Johnson | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Miss Mackay | |
| Peggy Ashcroft | Three into Two Won't Go | Belle | ||
| Pamela Franklin | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Sandy | ||
| Mary Wimbush | Oh! What a Lovely War | Mary Smith |
1970s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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(24th) |
Susannah York | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Alice LeBlanc | |
| Evin Crowley | Ryan's Daughter | Maureen | ||
| Estelle Parsons | Watermelon Man | Althea Gerber | ||
| Maureen Stapleton | Airport | Inez Guerrero | ||
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(25th) |
Margaret Leighton | The Go-Between | Mrs. Maudsley | |
| Jane Asher | Deep End | Susan | ||
| Georgia Brown | The Raging Moon | Sarah Charles | ||
| Georgia Engel | Taking Off | Margot | ||
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(26th) |
Cloris Leachman † | The Last Picture Show | Ruth Popper | |
| Marisa Berenson | Cabaret | Natalia Landauer | ||
| Eileen Brennan | The Last Picture Show | Genevieve Morgan | ||
| Shelley Winters | The Poseidon Adventure | Belle Rosen | ||
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(27th) |
Valentina Cortese | Day for Night | Severine | |
| Rosemary Leach | That'll Be the Day | Mary Maclaine | ||
| Delphine Seyrig | The Day of the Jackal | Colette de Montpellier | ||
| Ingrid Thulin | Cries and Whispers | Karin | ||
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(28th) |
Ingrid Bergman † | Murder on the Orient Express | Greta Ohlsson | |
| Sylvia Sidney | Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams | Mrs. Pritchett | ||
| Sylvia Syms | The Tamarind Seed | Margaret Stephenson | ||
| Cindy Williams | American Graffiti | Laurie Henderson | ||
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(29th) |
Diane Ladd | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Flo Castleberry | |
| Ronee Blakley | Nashville | Barbara Jean | ||
| Lelia Goldoni | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Bea | ||
| Gwen Welles | Nashville | Sueleen Gay | ||
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(30th) |
Jodie Foster | Bugsy Malone | Tallulah | |
| Taxi Driver | Iris Steensma | |||
| Annette Crosbie | The Slipper and the Rose | The Fairy Godmother | ||
| Vivien Merchant | The Homecoming | Ruth | ||
| Billie Whitelaw | The Omen | Mrs. Baylock | ||
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(31st) |
Jenny Agutter | Equus | Julie Mason | |
| Geraldine Chaplin | Welcome to L.A. | Karen Hood | ||
| Joan Plowright | Equus | Dora Strang | ||
| Shelley Winters | Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Fay Lapinsky | ||
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(32nd) |
Geraldine Page | Interiors | Eve | |
| Angela Lansbury | Death on the Nile | Salome Otterbourne | ||
| Maggie Smith | Miss Bowers | |||
| Mona Washbourne | Stevie | Aunt | ||
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(33rd) |
Rachel Roberts | Yanks | Clarrie Moreton | |
| Lisa Eichhorn | The Europeans | Gertrude Wentworth | ||
| Mariel Hemingway | Manhattan | Tracy | ||
| Meryl Streep | Jill Davis |
1980s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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(34th) |
Not awarded | |||
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(35th) |
Not awarded | |||
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(36th) |
Rohini Hattangadi (TIE) | Gandhi | Kasturba Gandhi | |
| Maureen Stapleton † (TIE) | Reds | Emma Goldman | ||
| Candice Bergen | Gandhi | Margaret Bourke-White | ||
| Jane Fonda | On Golden Pond | Chelsea Thayer | ||
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(37th) |
Jamie Lee Curtis | Trading Places | Ophelia | |
| Teri Garr | Tootsie | Sandy Lester | ||
| Rosemary Harris | The Ploughman's Lunch | Ann Barrington | ||
| Maureen Lipman | Educating Rita | Trish | ||
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(38th) |
Liz Smith | A Private Function | Mrs. Chilvers | |
| Eileen Atkins | The Dresser | Madge | ||
| Cher | Silkwood | Dolly Pelliker | ||
| Tuesday Weld | Once Upon a Time in America | Carol | ||
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(39th) |
Rosanna Arquette | Desperately Seeking Susan | Roberta Glass | |
| Judi Dench | Wetherby | Marcia Pilborough | ||
| Anjelica Huston † | Prizzi's Honor | Maerose Prizzi | ||
| Tracey Ullman | Plenty | Alice Park | ||
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(40th) |
Judi Dench | A Room with a View | Eleanor Lavish | |
| Rosanna Arquette | After Hours | Marcy Franklin | ||
| Barbara Hershey | Hannah and Her Sisters | Lee | ||
| Rosemary Leach | A Room with a View | Mrs. Honeychurch | ||
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(41st) |
Susan Wooldridge | Hope and Glory | Molly | |
| Judi Dench | 84 Charing Cross Road | Nora Doel | ||
| Vanessa Redgrave | Prick up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | ||
| Dianne Wiest | Radio Days | Bea | ||
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(42nd) |
Judi Dench | A Handful of Dust | Mrs. Beaver | |
| Maria Aitken | A Fish Called Wanda | Wendy Leach | ||
| Anne Archer | Fatal Attraction | Beth Gallagher | ||
| Olympia Dukakis † | Moonstruck | Rose Castorini | ||
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(43rd) |
Michelle Pfeiffer | Dangerous Liaisons | Madame de Tourvel | |
| Peggy Ashcroft | Madame Sousatzka | Lady Emily | ||
| Laura San Giacomo | ..., Lies, and Videotape | Cynthia Bishop | ||
| Sigourney Weaver | Working Girl | Katharine Parker | ||
1990s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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(44th) |
Whoopi Goldberg † | Ghost | Oda Mae Brown | |
| Anjelica Huston | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Dolores Paley | ||
| Shirley MacLaine | Steel Magnolias | Ouiser Boudreaux | ||
| Billie Whitelaw | The Krays | Violet Kray | ||
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(45th) |
Kate Nelligan | Frankie and Johnny | Cora | |
| Annette Bening | The Grifters | Myra Langtry | ||
| Amanda Plummer | The Fisher King | Lydia | ||
| Julie Walters | Stepping Out | Vera | ||
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(46th) |
Miranda Richardson | Damage | Ingrid Fleming | |
| Kathy Bates | Fried Green Tomatoes | Evelyn Couch | ||
| Helena Bonham Carter | Howards End | Helen Schlegel | ||
| Miranda Richardson | The Crying Game | Jude | ||
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(47th) |
Miriam Margolyes | The Age of Innocence | Mrs. Mingott | |
| Holly Hunter | The Firm | Tammy Hemphill | ||
| Winona Ryder | The Age of Innocence | May Welland | ||
| Maggie Smith | The Secret Garden | Mrs. Medlock | ||
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(48th) |
Kristin Scott Thomas | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Fiona | |
| Charlotte Coleman | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Scarlet | ||
| Sally Field | Forrest Gump | Mrs. Gump | ||
| Anjelica Huston | Manhattan Murder Mystery | Marcia Fox | ||
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(49th) |
Kate Winslet | Sense and Sensibility | Marianne Dashwood | |
| Joan Allen | Nixon | Pat Nixon | ||
| Mira Sorvino † | Mighty Aphrodite | Linda Ash | ||
| Elizabeth Spriggs | Sense and Sensibility | Mrs. Jennings | ||
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(50th) |
Juliette Binoche † | The English Patient | Hana | |
| Lauren Bacall | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Hannah Morgan | ||
| Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Secrets & Lies | Hortense Cumberbatch | ||
| Lynn Redgrave | Shine | Gillian | ||
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(51st) |
Sigourney Weaver | The Ice Storm | Janey Carver | |
| Jennifer Ehle | Wilde | Constance Lloyd Wilde | ||
| Lesley Sharp | The Full Monty | Jeanette | ||
| Zoe Wanamaker | Wilde | Ada Leverson | ||
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(52nd) |
Judi Dench † | Shakespeare in Love | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| Kathy Bates | Primary Colors | Libby Holden | ||
| Brenda Blethyn | Little Voice | Mari Hoff | ||
| Lynn Redgrave | Gods and Monsters | Hanna | ||
| 1999 (53rd) |
Maggie Smith | Tea with Mussolini | Hester Random | |
| Thora Birch | American Beauty | Jane Burnham | ||
| Cate Blanchett | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Meredith Logue | ||
| Cameron Diaz | Being John Malkovich | Lotte Schwartz | ||
| Mena Suvari | American Beauty | Angela Hayes |
2000s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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| 2000 (54th) |
Julie Walters | Billy Elliot | Georgia Wilkinson | |
| Judi Dench | Chocolat | Armande Voizin | ||
| Frances McDormand | Almost Famous | Elaine Miller | ||
| Lena Olin | Chocolat | Josephine Muscat | ||
| Ziyi Zhang | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Jen Yu | ||
| 2001 (55th) |
Jennifer Connelly † | A Beautiful Mind | Alicia Nash | |
| Judi Dench | The Shipping News | Agnis Hamm | ||
| Helen Mirren | Gosford Park | Jane Wilson | ||
| Maggie Smith | Constance Trentham | |||
| Kate Winslet | Iris | Young Iris Murdoch | ||
| 2002 (56th) |
Catherine Zeta-Jones † | Chicago | Velma Kelly | |
| Toni Collette | About a Boy | Fiona Brewer | ||
| Julianne Moore | The Hours | Laura Brown | ||
| Queen Latifah | Chicago | Matron Mama Morton | ||
| Meryl Streep | Adaptation | Susan Orlean | ||
| 2003 (57th) |
Renée Zellweger † | Cold Mountain | Ruby Thewes | |
| Holly Hunter | Thirteen | Melanie Freeland | ||
| Laura Linney | Mystic River | Annabeth Markum | ||
| Judy Parfitt | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Maria Thins | ||
| Emma Thompson | Love Actually | Karen | ||
| 2004 (58th) |
Cate Blanchett † | The Aviator | Katharine Hepburn | |
| Julie Christie | Finding Neverland | Emma Wightwick du Maurier | ||
| Heather Craney | Vera Drake | Joyce Drake | ||
| Natalie Portman | Closer | Alice Ayres / Jane Jones | ||
| Meryl Streep | The Manchurian Candidate | Eleanor Shaw | ||
| 2005 (59th) |
Thandiwe Newton | Crash | Christine Thayer | |
| Brenda Blethyn | Pride & Prejudice | Mrs. Bennet | ||
| Catherine Keener | Capote | Harper Lee | ||
| Frances McDormand | North Country | Glory Dodge | ||
| Michelle Williams | Brokeback Mountain | Alma Beers Del Mar | ||
| 2006 (60th) |
Jennifer Hudson † | Dreamgirls | Effie White | |
| Emily Blunt | The Devil Wears Prada | Emily Charlton | ||
| Abigail Breslin | Little Miss Sunshine | Olive Hoover | ||
| Toni Collette | Sheryl Hoover | |||
| Frances de la Tour | The History Boys | Dorothy Lintott | ||
| 2007 (61st) |
Tilda Swinton † | Michael Clayton | Karen Crowder | |
| Cate Blanchett | I'm Not There | Jude Quinn | ||
| Kelly Macdonald | No Country for Old Men | Carla Jean Moss | ||
| Samantha Morton | Control | Deborah Woodruff Curtis | ||
| Saoirse Ronan | Atonement | Briony Tallis | ||
| 2008 (62nd) |
Penélope Cruz † | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | María Elena | |
| Amy Adams | Doubt | Sister James | ||
| Freida Pinto | Slumdog Millionaire | Latika | ||
| Tilda Swinton | Burn After Reading | Katie Cox | ||
| Marisa Tomei | The Wrestler | Cassidy / Pam | ||
| 2009 (63th) |
Mo'Nique † | Precious | Mary Lee Johnston | |
| Anne-Marie Duff | Nowhere Boy | Julia Lennon | ||
| Vera Farmiga | Up in the Air | Alex Goran | ||
| Anna Kendrick | Natalie Keener | |||
| Kristin Scott Thomas | Nowhere Boy | Mimi Smith |
2010s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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| 2010 (64th) |
Helena Bonham Carter | The King's Speech | Queen Elizabeth | |
| Amy Adams | The Fighter | Charlene Fleming | ||
| Barbara Hershey | Black Swan | Erica Sayers | ||
| Lesley Manville | Another Year | Mary Smith | ||
| Miranda Richardson | Made in Dagenham | Barbara Castle | ||
| 2011 (65th) |
Octavia Spencer † | The Help | Minny Jackson | |
| Jessica Chastain | The Help | Celia Foote | ||
| Judi Dench | My Week with Marilyn | Sybil Thorndike | ||
| Melissa McCarthy | Bridesmaids | Megan Price | ||
| Carey Mulligan | Drive | Irene | ||
| 2012 (66th) |
Anne Hathaway † | Les Misérables | Fantine | |
| Amy Adams | The Master | Peggy Dodd | ||
| Judi Dench | Skyfall | M | ||
| Sally Field | Lincoln | Mary Todd Lincoln | ||
| Helen Hunt | The Sessions | Cheryl Cohen-Greene | ||
| 2013 (67th) |
Jennifer Lawrence | American Hustle | Rosalyn Rosenfeld | |
| Sally Hawkins | Blue Jasmine | Ginger | ||
| Lupita Nyong'o † | 12 Years a Slave | Patsey | ||
| Julia Roberts | August: Osage County | Barbara Weston-Fordham | ||
| Oprah Winfrey | The Butler | Gloria Gaines | ||
| 2014 (68th) |
Patricia Arquette † | Boyhood | Olivia Evans | |
| Keira Knightley | The Imitation Game | Joan Clarke | ||
| Rene Russo | Nightcrawler | Nina Romina | ||
| Imelda Staunton | Pride | Hefina Headon | ||
| Emma Stone | Birdman | Sam Thomson | ||
| 2015 (69th) |
Kate Winslet | Steve Jobs | Joanna Hoffman | |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | The Hateful Eight | Daisy Domergue | ||
| Rooney Mara | Carol | Therese Belivet | ||
| Alicia Vikander | Ex Machina | Ava | ||
| Julie Walters | Brooklyn | Madge Kehoe | ||
| 2016 (70th) |
Viola Davis † | Fences | Rose Maxson | |
| Naomie Harris | Moonlight | Paula Harris | ||
| Nicole Kidman | Lion | Sue Brierley | ||
| Hayley Squires | I, Daniel Blake | Katie Morgan | ||
| Michelle Williams | Manchester by the Sea | Randi Chandler | ||
| 2017 (71st) |
Allison Janney † | I, Tonya | LaVona Golden | |
| Lesley Manville | Phantom Thread | Cyril Woodcock | ||
| Laurie Metcalf | Lady Bird | Marion McPherson | ||
| Kristin Scott Thomas | Darkest Hour | Clementine Churchill | ||
| Octavia Spencer | The Shape of Water | Zelda Fuller | ||
| 2018 (72nd) |
Rachel Weisz | The Favourite | Lady Sarah | |
| Amy Adams | Vice | Lynne Cheney | ||
| Claire Foy | First Man | Janet Shearon Armstrong | ||
| Margot Robbie | Mary Queen of Scots | Queen Elizabeth I | ||
| Emma Stone | The Favourite | Abigail | ||
| 2019 (73rd) |
Laura Dern † | Marriage Story | Nora Fanshaw | |
| Scarlett Johansson | Jojo Rabbit | Rosie Betzler | ||
| Florence Pugh | Little Women | Amy March | ||
| Margot Robbie | Bombshell | Kayla Pospisil | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Sharon Tate |
2020s Winners
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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| 2020 (74th) |
Youn Yuh-jung † | Minari | Soon-ja | |
| Niamh Algar | Calm with Horses | Ursula | ||
| Kosar Ali | Rocks | Sumaya | ||
| Maria Bakalova | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Tutar Sagdiyev | ||
| Dominique Fishback | Judas and the Black Messiah | Deborah Johnson | ||
| Ashley Madekwe | County Lines | Toni | ||
| 2021 (75th) |
Ariana DeBose † | West Side Story | Anita | |
| Caitríona Balfe | Belfast | Ma | ||
| Jessie Buckley | The Lost Daughter | Young Leda Caruso | ||
| Ann Dowd | Mass | Linda | ||
| Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor | King Richard | Oracene Price | ||
| Ruth Negga | Passing | Clare Bellew | ||
| 2022 (76th) |
Kerry Condon | The Banshees of Inisherin | Siobhán Súilleabháin | |
| Angela Bassett | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Queen Ramonda | ||
| Hong Chau | The Whale | Liz | ||
| Jamie Lee Curtis † | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Deirdre Beaubeirdre | ||
| Dolly de Leon | Triangle of Sadness | Abigail | ||
| Carey Mulligan | She Said | Megan Twohey | ||
| 2023 (77th) |
Da'Vine Joy Randolph † | The Holdovers | Mary Lamb | |
| Emily Blunt | Oppenheimer | Katherine Oppenheimer | ||
| Danielle Brooks | The Color Purple | Sofia | ||
| Claire Foy | All of Us Strangers | Mum | ||
| Sandra Huller | The Zone of Interest | Hedwig Höss | ||
| Rosamund Pike | Saltburn | Lady Elspeth Catton | ||
| 2024 (78th) |
Zoe Saldaña † | Emilia Pérez | Rita Mora Castro | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | The Last Showgirl | Annette | ||
| Selena Gomez | Emilia Pérez | Jessi Del Monte | ||
| Ariana Grande | Wicked | Galinda "Glinda" Upland | ||
| Felicity Jones | The Brutalist | Erzsébet Tóth | ||
| Isabella Rossellini | Conclave | Sister Agnes | ||
| 2025 (78th) |
Wunmi Mosaku | Sinners | Annie | |
| Odessa A'zion | Marty Supreme | Rachel Mizler | ||
| Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas | Sentimental Value | Agnes Borg Pettersen | ||
| Carey Mulligan | The Ballad of Wallis Island | Nell Mortimer | ||
| Teyana Taylor | One Battle After Another | Perfidia Beverly Hills | ||
| Emily Watson | Hamnet | Mary Shakespeare |
Record Holders
Here are some fun facts about the actresses who have won or been nominated for this award many times!
| Superlative | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Best Lead Actress | Overall (including Most Promising Newcomer) |
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| Actress with most awards | Judi Dench | 3 | Maggie Smith | 4 | Judi Dench | 6 |
| Actress with most nominations | Judi Dench | 9 | Meryl Streep | 12 | Judi Dench Meryl Streep |
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Actresses with Many Nominations
- 9 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
- 2 nominations
- Rosanna Arquette
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Kathy Bates
- Brenda Blethyn
- Emily Blunt
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Toni Collette
- Sally Field
- Claire Foy
- Barbara Hershey
- Holly Hunter
- Rosemary Leach
- Lesley Manville
- Frances McDormand
- Lynn Redgrave
- Octavia Spencer
- Maureen Stapleton
- Imelda Staunton
- Emma Stone
- Tilda Swinton
- Sigourney Weaver
- Michelle Williams
- Shelley Winters
Actresses with Multiple Wins
- 3 wins
- 2 wins
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA a la mejor actriz de reparto para niños
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
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