The British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor is a discontinued 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".
Winners and nominees
2000s Best Supporting Actor/Actress YearActor/ActressFilmCharacter 2003 Susan Lynch 16 Years of Alcohol Mary Shirley Henderson Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Alice Sophie Okonedo Dirty Pretty Things Juliette Adrian Rawlins Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself Harbour Benedict Wong Dirty Pretty Things Guo Yi 2004 Eddie Marsan Vera Drake Reg Paddy Considine My Summer of Love Phil Romola Garai Rory O'Shea Was Here Siobhán Samantha Morton Enduring Love Claire Gary Stretch Dead Man's Shoes Sonny 2005 Rosamund Pike The Libertine Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester Rob Brydon A Cock and Bull Story Captain Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon Tom Hollander The Libertine George Etherege Bill Nighy The Constant Gardener Sir Bernard Pellegrin Kelly Reilly Mrs Henderson Presents Maureen Ashford 2006 Leslie Phillips Venus Ian Martin Compston Red Road Stevie Joseph Gilgun This Is England Woody Stephen Graham Combo Vanessa Redgrave Venus Valerie 2007 Toby Kebbell Control Rob Gretton Cate Blanchett Notes on a Scandal Sheba Hart Colin Firth And When Did You Last See Your Father? Blake Morrison Samantha Morton Control Deborah Curtis Armin Mueller-Stahl Eastern Promises Vor Semyon
Best Supporting Actor YearActorFilmCharacter 2008 Eddie Marsan Happy-Go-Lucky Scott Liam Cunningham Hunger Father Dominic MoranRalph Fiennes The Duchess William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire In Bruges Harry Waters Daniel Mays Shifty Chris 2009 John Henshaw Looking for Eric Meatballs Jim Broadbent The Damned United Sam Longson Michael Fassbender Fish Tank Connor Tom Hollander In the Loop Simon Foster Alfred Molina An Education Jack Mellor
2010s YearActorFilmCharacter 2010 Geoffrey Rush The King's Speech Lionel Logue Andrew Garfield Never Let Me Go Tommy D Bob Hoskins Made in Dagenham Albert Passingham Kayvan Novak Four Lions Waj Guy Pearce The King's Speech King Edward VIII 2011 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 Rory Kinnear Broken Bob Oswald Billy Connolly Quartet Wilfred "Wilf" Bond Domhnall Gleeson Shadow Dancer Connor McVeigh Cillian Murphy Broken Mike Kiernan Tom Wilkinson The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Graham Dashwood 2013 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 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 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 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 Simon Russell Beale The Death of Stalin Lavrentiy Beria Steve Buscemi The Death of Stalin Nikita Khrushchev Woody Harrelson Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Bill Willoughby Ian Hart God's Own Country Martin Saxby Sam Rockwell Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jason Dixon 2018 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 Hugh Laurie The Personal History of David Copperfield Mr. Dick Chiwetel Ejiofor The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Trywell Kamkwamba Peter Mullan The Vanishing Thomas Marshall Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story Young Carlos Acosta Bluey Robinson Dirty God Naz
2020s YearActorFilmCharacter 2020 D'angelou Osei Kissiedu Rocks Emmanuel Omotoso Harris Dickinson County Lines Simon Barry Keoghan Calm with Horses Dymphna Alyy Khan Mogul Mowgli Bashir Merab Ninidze The Courier Oleg Penkovsky 2021 Talid Ariss After Love Solomon Richard Ayoade The Souvenir Part II Patrick Ciarán Hinds Belfast Pop Ray Panthaki Boiling Point Freeman Lucian River-Chauhan Encounter Jay Kahn
Multiple nominations
3 nominations Sean Harris Eddie Marsan
2 nominations Steve Buscemi Michael Fassbender Ralph Fiennes Domhnall Gleeson Barry Keoghan
See also Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
References
External links Official website