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)

Best Actress 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 actress 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 actresses have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Actress 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 Actress award has been presented a total of 53 times to 52 different actresses. 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 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. The record for most wins is three, held by Judi Dench. Kate Winslet has won two times, while each other recipient has only won once in this category. Dench also holds the record for most nominations, with nine. At the 36th BAFTA Film Awards, Rohini Hattangadi and Maureen Stapleton received the same number of votes and thus both shared the award in this category's only tie.

Winners and nominees

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

Jodie Foster won a joint award for Bugsy Malone / Taxi Driver (1976); at age 13, this category's youngest winner.

Jamie Lee Curtis won for Trading Places (1983).

Judi Dench received a leading nine nominations in this category, winning 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); first black winner in this category.

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

Kate Winslet 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, portraying a real-life BAFTA winner, for The Aviator (2004).

Thandiwe Newton won for Crash (2005).

Jennifer Hudson won, in her acting debut, for Dreamgirls (2006).

Tilda Swinton won for Michael Clayton (2007).

Penélope Cruz won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); first Spanish winner 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); this category's oldest winner, at age 73.

Ariana DeBose won for West Side Story (2021); first openly queer POC to win.

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

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

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Superlatives

Multiple nominations

9 nominations

• Judi Dench

4 nominations

3 nominations

2 nominations

Multiple wins

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