The National Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an honour presented annually at India's National Film Awards ceremony by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), an organisation set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A national panel appointed annually by the NFDC selects the actor who has given the best performance in a supporting role within Indian cinema. The award is presented by the President of India at a ceremony held in New Delhi. Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Actor in a Supporting Role".
The winner is given a "Rajat Kamal" (Silver Lotus) certificate and a cash prize of . Including ties and repeat winners, the government of India has presented a total of 43 Best Supporting Actor awards to 29 different actors. Although Indian cinema produces films in more than 20 languages, the actors whose performances have won awards have worked in one or more of seven major languages: Hindi (19 awards), Tamil (10 awards), Bengali (3 awards), Malayalam (5 awards), Marathi (3 awards), Telugu (1 award), Kannada (1 award).
The first recipient was Victor Banerjee, who was honoured at the 32nd National Film Awards for his performance in the Bengali film Ghare Baire (1984). As of the 2013 awards, three actors—Nana Patekar, Pankaj Kapur, and Atul Kulkarni—have been honoured twice. Patekar was awarded for the Hindi films (1989) and Agni Sakshi (1996). Kapur received the awards for his work in the Hindi films (1988) and Maqbool (2003). Kulkarni was awarded for his performances in the Tamil / Hindi film Hey Ram (1999) and the Hindi film Chandni Bar (2001). Paresh Rawal and Dilip Prabhavalkar have each won the award for two performances in a single year. Rawal received the award for his starring roles in the Hindi films Woh Chokri (1993) and Sir (1993) at the 41st National Film Awards, while Prabhavalkar won at the 54th National Film Awards for his performances in the Hindi film Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) and the Marathi film Shevri (2006). At the 42nd National Film Awards, the award was tied between Ashish Vidyarthi and Nagesh, winning for their roles in the Hindi film Drohkaal (1994) and the Tamil film Nammavar (1994), respectively. It is repeated at the 71st National Film Awards also, as the award tied between Vijayaraghavan and M. S. Bhaskar, winning for their roles in the Malayalam film Pookkaalam (2023) and the Tamil film Parking (2023) respectively. They also become most recent recipients of this award. Nana Patekar, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Prakash Raj and Manoj Bajpayee are the actors to receive honours in both acting categories: Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
List of recipients
Key Symbol MeaningIndicates a joint award for that yearIndicates that the winner won the award for two performances in that year
+List of award recipients, showing the year, role(s), film(s) and language(s)YearRecipient(s)Role(s)Film(s)Language(s) 1984 Victor Banerjee Ghare Baire Bengali 1985 Dipankar De Husband Parama Bengali 1986 Suresh Oberoi Mukhi Mirch Masala Hindi 1987 Thilakan Rithubhedam Malayalam 1988 Pankaj Kapur Inspector P. K. Hindi 1989 Nana Patekar Hindi 1990 Nedumudi Venu His Highness Abdullah Malayalam 1991 P. L. Narayana Yagnam Telugu 1992 Sunny Deol Damini – Lightning Hindi 1993 Paresh Rawal Velji Woh ChokriSir Hindi 1994 Ashish Vidyarthi Commander Bhadra Drohkaal Hindi Nagesh Nammavar Tamil 1995 Mithun Chakraborty Ramakrishna Swami Vivekananda Hindi 1996 Nana Patekar Vishwanath Agni Sakshi Hindi 1997 Prakash Raj Tamizhselvan Iruvar Tamil 1998 Manoj Bajpai Satya Hindi 1999 Atul Kulkarni Hey Ram Tamil 2000 H. G. Dattatreya Hasanabba Munnudi Kannada 2001 Atul Kulkarni Chandni Bar Hindi 2002 Chandrasekhar Lawrence Nanba Nanba Tamil 2003 Pankaj Kapur Maqbool Hindi 2004 Haradhan Bandopadhyay Krantikaal Bengali 2005 Naseeruddin Shah Mohit Iqbal Hindi 2006 Dilip Prabhavalkar Clerk Lage Raho Munna Bhai Shevri HindiMarathi 2007 Darshan Jariwala Gandhi, My Father Hindi 2008 Arjun Rampal Rock On!! Hindi 2009 Farooq Sheikh Lahore Hindi 2010 Thambi Ramaiah Ramaiah Mynaa Tamil 2011 Appukutty Azhagarsami Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai Tamil 2012 Annu Kapoor Vicky Donor Hindi 2013 Saurabh Shukla Jolly LLB Hindi 2014 Bobby Simha Assault Sethu Jigarthanda Tamil 2015 Samuthirakani Muthuvel Visaranai Tamil 2016 Manoj Joshi Keshav Dashakriya Marathi 2017 Fahadh Faasil Prasad Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum Malayalam 2018 Swanand Kirkire Prasanna Chumbak Marathi 2019 Vijay Sethupathi Shilpa (Manickam)Super DeluxeTamil 2020 Biju MenonSI Ayyappan Nair alias Mundoor MadanAyyappanum KoshiyumMalayalam 2021 Pankaj Tripathi Bhanu Pratap Pandey Mimi Hindi 2022 Pavan Malhotra Fouja Singh Fouja Haryanvi2023 Vijayaraghavan Ittoop Pookkaalam MalayalamM. S. Bhaskar S. Ilamparuthi Parking Tamil2024 Sanjay Mishra Baskar Sinha Bhakshak Hindi
See also List of Indian film actors
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References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives