British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
Awarded forBest Supporting Actor
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBIFA
First awarded2008
Last awarded2021
Currently held byTalid Ariss – After Love (2021)
Websitewww.bifa.org.uk

The British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best supporting performance by an actor in a British independent film.

From 2003 to 2007, only one award was presented for supporting performances named Best Supporting Actor/Actress. Since 2008, two categories named Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress are presented.

Actors Eddie Marsan and Sean Harris are the most nominated actors in this category since its creation in 2008 with three nominations each.

In July 2022, it was announced that the performance categories would be replaced with gender-neutral categories, with both Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress merging into the Best Lead Performance category. Additionally, a category named Best Joint Lead Performance was created for "two (or exceptionally three) performances that are the joint focus of the film, especially where performances share a large number of scenes and screen time".[1]

Winners and nominees

2000s

Best Supporting Actor/Actress
Year Actor/Actress Film Character
2003
(6th)
[2][3]		 Susan Lynch 16 Years of Alcohol Mary
Benedict Wong Dirty Pretty Things Guo Yi
Sophie Okonedo Juliette
Adrian Rawlins Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Harbour
Shirley Henderson Alice
2004
(7th)
[4]		 Eddie Marsan Vera Drake Reg
Gary Stretch Dead Man's Shoes Sonny
Samantha Morton Enduring Love Claire
Romola Garai Rory O'Shea Was Here Siobhán
Paddy Considine My Summer of Love Phil
2005
(8th)
[5]		 Rosamund Pike The Libertine Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester
Bill Nighy The Constant Gardener Sir Bernard Pellegrin
Tom Hollander The Libertine George Etherege
Kelly Reilly Mrs Henderson Presents Maureen Ashford
Rob Brydon A Cock and Bull Story Captain Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon
2006
(9th)
[6][7]		 Leslie Phillips Venus Ian
Martin Compston Red Road Stevie
Joseph Gilgun as Woody This Is England Woody
Stephen Graham Combo
Vanessa Redgrave Venus Valerie
2007
(10th)
[8][9]		 Toby Kebbell Control Rob Gretton
Colin Firth And When Did You Last See Your Father? Blake Morrison
Samantha Morton Control Deborah Curtis
Armin Mueller-Stahl Eastern Promises Vor Semyon
Cate Blanchett Notes on a Scandal Sheba Hart
Best Supporting Actor
Year Actor Film Character
2008
(11th)
[10][11]		 Eddie Marsan Happy-Go-Lucky Scott
Liam Cunningham Hunger Father Dominic Moran
Ralph Fiennes In Bruges Harry Waters
The Duchess William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Daniel Mays Shifty Chris
2009
(12th)
[12][13]		 John Henshaw Looking for Eric Meatballs
Alfred Molina An Education Jack Mellor
Tom Hollander In the Loop Simon Foster
Michael Fassbender Fish Tank Connor
Jim Broadbent The Damned United Sam Longson

2010s

Year Actor Film Character
2010
(13th)
[14][15]		 Geoffrey Rush The King's Speech Lionel Logue
Kayvan Novak Four Lions Waj
Bob Hoskins Made in Dagenham Albert Passingham
Andrew Garfield Never Let Me Go Tommy D
Guy Pearce The King's Speech King Edward VIII
2011
(14th)
[16][17]		 Michael Smiley Kill List Gal
Benedict Cumberbatch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Peter Guilliam
Tom Hardy Ricki Tarr
Eddie Marsan Tyrannosaur James
Ezra Miller We Need to Talk about Kevin Kevin Khatchadourian
2012
(15th)
[18][19]		 Rory Kinnear Broken Bob Oswald
Billy Connolly Quartet Wilfred "Wilf" Bond
Cillian Murphy Broken Mike Kiernan
Tom Wilkinson The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Graham Dashwood
Domhnall Gleeson Shadow Dancer Connor McVeigh
2013
(16th)
[20][21]		 Ben Mendelsohn Starred Up Neville Love
John Arcilla Metro Manila Douglas Ong
Rupert Friend Starred Up Oliver Baumer
Jeff Goldblum Le Week-End Morgan
Eddie Marsan Filth Clifford Blades
2014
(17th)
[22][23]		 Andrew Scott Pride Gethin Roberts
Michael Fassbender Frank Frank
Sean Harris '71 Captain Sandy Brown
Ben Schnetzer Pride Mark Ashton
Rafe Spall X+Y Martin Humphreys
2015
(18th)
[24][25]		 Brendan Gleeson Suffragette Arthur Steed
Luke Evans High-Rise Richard Wilder
Domhnall Gleeson Brooklyn Jim Farrell
Sean Harris Macbeth Macduff
Ben Whishaw The Lobster The Limping Man
2016
(19th)
[26][27]		 Brett Goldstein Adult Life Skills Brendan
Jamie Dornan Anthropoid Jan Kubiš
Sean Harris Trespass Against Us Gordon Bennett
Arinze Kene The Pass Ade
Christopher Lloyd I Am Not a Serial Killer Bill Crowley
2017
(20th)
[28][29]		 Simon Russell Beale The Death of Stalin Lavrentiy Beria
Woody Harrelson Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Bill Willoughby
Sam Rockwell Jason Dixon
Ian Hart God's Own Country Martin Saxby
Steve Buscemi The Death of Stalin Nikita Khrushchev
2018
(21st)
[30][31]		 Alessandro Nivola Disobedience Dovid Kuperman
Steve Buscemi Lean on Pete Del Montgomery
Barry Keoghan American Animals Spencer Reinhard
Evan Peters Warren Lipka
Dominic West Colette Henry Gauthier-Villars
2019
(22nd)
[32][33]		 Hugh Laurie The Personal History of David Copperfield Mr. Dick
Chiwetel Ejiofor The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Trywell Kamkwamba
Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story Young Carlos Acosta
Peter Mullan The Vanishing Thomas Marshall
Bluey Robinson Dirty God Naz

2020s

Year Actor Film Character
2020
(23rd)
[34][35]		 D'angelou Osei Kissiedu Rocks Emmanuel Omotoso
Barry Keoghan Calm with Horses Dymphna
Harris Dickinson County Lines Simon
Merab Ninidze The Courier Oleg Penkovsky
Alyy Khan Mogul Mowgli Bashir
2021
(24th)
[36]		 Talid Ariss After Love Solomon
Richard Ayoade The Souvenir Part II Patrick
Lucian River-Chauhan Encounter Jay Kahn
Ciarán Hinds Belfast Pop
Ray Panthaki Boiling Point Freeman

Multiple nominations

See also

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