BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role facts for kids

Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress
The 2024 recipient: Zoe Saldaña
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Location	United Kingdom
Currently held by	Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez (2024)

The Best Actress in a Supporting Role is a special award given out every year at the British Academy Film Awards. It's presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). This award celebrates an actress who has done an amazing job in a supporting role in a movie.

BAFTA is a British group that hosts big awards shows for movies, TV, kids' movies and TV, and online games. Since 1968, talented actresses have received the BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at a yearly ceremony.

About the Award

This award has been given out 53 times to 52 different actresses. In 1980, no award was given in this category. Also, in 1981, the award was changed for one year to a "Best Supporting Artist" award, which could be won by either a male or female actor.

The very first winner was Billie Whitelaw for her roles in Charlie Bubbles and Twisted Nerve. The most recent winner is Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her role in The Holdovers.

Record Holders

The actress with the most wins in this category is Judi Dench, who has won three times! Kate Winslet has won twice. Every other winner has won once.

Judi Dench also holds the record for the most nominations, with nine. This means she has been considered for the award more than anyone else.

At the 36th BAFTA Film Awards, Rohini Hattangadi and Maureen Stapleton both received the same number of votes. This meant they both won the award, which is the only time this has happened in this category!

Notable Winners

Here are some of the amazing actresses who have won this award:

Ingrid Bergman won for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

Jodie Foster won for Bugsy Malone and Taxi Driver (1976). She was only 13, making her the youngest winner in this category!

Jamie Lee Curtis won for Trading Places (1983).

Judi Dench has been nominated nine times and won a record three times for A Room with a View (1986), A Handful of Dust (1988), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Whoopi Goldberg won for Ghost (1990). She was the first black actress to win in this category.

Kristin Scott Thomas won for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).

Kate Winslet has won twice, for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Steve Jobs (2015).

Juliette Binoche won for The English Patient (1996).

Sigourney Weaver won for The Ice Storm (1997).

Jennifer Connelly won for A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Catherine Zeta-Jones won for Chicago (2002).

Cate Blanchett won for The Aviator (2004), where she played another famous BAFTA winner, Katharine Hepburn.

Thandiwe Newton won for Crash (2005).

Jennifer Hudson won for Dreamgirls (2006). This was her very first movie role!

Tilda Swinton won for Michael Clayton (2007).

Penélope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). She was the first Spanish actress to win in this category.

Mo'Nique won for Precious (2009).

Helena Bonham Carter won for The King's Speech (2010).

Octavia Spencer won for The Help (2011).

Anne Hathaway won for Les Misérables (2012).

Jennifer Lawrence won for American Hustle (2013).

Patricia Arquette won for Boyhood (2014).

Viola Davis won for Fences (2016).

Allison Janney won for I, Tonya (2017).

Rachel Weisz won for The Favourite (2018).

Laura Dern won for Marriage Story (2019).

Youn Yuh-jung won for Minari (2020). At 73, she is the oldest winner in this category.

Ariana DeBose won for West Side Story (2021). She was the first openly queer person of color to win.

Kerry Condon won for The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).

Da'Vine Joy Randolph won for The Holdovers (2023).

For a full list of all winners and nominees, you can check the main article about the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Superlatives

This section shows some interesting records for the award.

Actresses with Multiple Nominations

Some actresses have been nominated for this award many times:

9 nominations

• Judi Dench

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

Actresses with Multiple Wins

Here are the actresses who have won this award more than once:

3 wins

• Judi Dench

2 wins

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA a la mejor actriz de reparto para niños

• BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress
• 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