British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress

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

British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
Awarded for	Best Supporting Actress
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
First award	2008
Final award	2021
Currently held by	Vinette Robinson – Boiling Point (2020)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

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.

Olivia Colman is the only actress who has won this award more than once since its creations in 2008 with two wins while Kristin Scott Thomas and Julie Walters hold the record of most nominations in this category with three 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	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 Actress

Year	Actress	Film	Character
2008 (11th) [10][11]	Alexis Zegerman	Happy-Go-Lucky	Zoe
	Emma Thompson	Brideshead Revisited	Lady Marchmain
	Kristin Scott Thomas	Easy Virtue	Veronica Whittaker
	Hayley Atwell	The Duchess	Elizabeth "Bess" Foster
	Sienna Miller	The Edge of Love	Caitlin Thomas
2009 (12th) [12][13]	Anne-Marie Duff	Nowhere Boy	Julia Lennon
	Rosamund Pike	An Education	Helen
	Kerry Fox	Bright Star	Mrs. Brawne
	Kierston Wareing	Fish Tank	Joanne Williams
	Kristin Scott Thomas	Nowhere Boy	Mimi Smith

2010s

Year	Actress	Film	Character
2010 (13th) [14][15]	Helena Bonham Carter	The King's Speech	Queen Elizabeth
	Lesley Manville	Another Year	Mary Smith
	Rosamund Pike	Made in Dagenham	Lisa Hopkins
	Keira Knightley	Never Let Me Go	Ruth C
	Tamsin Greig	Tamara Drewe	Beth Hardiment
2011 (14th) [16][17]	Vanessa Redgrave	Coriolanus	Volumnia
	Felicity Jones	Albatross	Beth Fischer
	Carey Mulligan	Shame	Sissy Sullivan
	Sally Hawkins	Submarine	Jill Tate
	Kathy Burke	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Connie Sachs
2012 (15th) [18][19]	Olivia Colman	Hyde Park on Hudson	Queen Elizabeth
	Vanessa Redgrave	Song for Marion	Marion
	Maggie Smith	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	Muriel Donnelly
	Alice Englert	Ginger and Rosa	Rosa
	Eileen Davies	Sightseers	Carol
2013 (16th) [20][21]	Imogen Poots	The Look of Love	Debbie Raymond
	Kristin Scott Thomas	The Invisible Woman	Frances Ternan
	Mia Wasikowska	The Double	Hannah
	Shirley Henderson	Filth	Bunty Blades
	Siobhan Finneran	The Selfish Giant	Mrs. Swift
2014 (17th) [22][23]	Imelda Staunton	Pride	Hefina Headon
	Dorothy Atkinson	Mr. Turner	Hannah Danby
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	Frank	Clara
	Sally Hawkins	X+Y	Julie Ellis
	Sienna Guillory	The Goob	Janet Taylor
2015 (18th) [24][25]	Olivia Colman	The Lobster	The Hotel Manager
	Helena Bonham Carter	Suffragette	Edith Ellyn
	Anne-Marie Duff		Violet Miller
	Sienna Miller	High-Rise	Charlotte Melville
	Julie Walters	Brooklyn	Madge Kehoe
2016 (19th) [26][27]	Avin Manshadi	Under the Shadow	Dorsa
	Gemma Arterton	The Girl with All the Gifts	Helen Justineau
	Naomie Harris	Our Kind of Traitor	Gail Perkins
	Terry Pheto	A United Kingdom	Naledi Khama
	Shana Swash	My Feral Heart	Eve
2017 (20th) [28][29]	Patricia Clarkson	The Party	April
	Naomi Ackie	Lady Macbeth	Anna
	Kelly Macdonald	Goodbye Christopher Robin	Olive
	Andrea Riseborough	The Death of Stalin	Svetlana Stalin
	Julie Walters	Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool	Bella Turner
2018 (21st) [30][31]	Rachel Weisz	The Favourite	Lady Sarah
	Nina Arianda	Stan & Ollie	Ida Kitaeva Laurel
	Rachel McAdams	Disobedience	Esti Kuperman
	Emma Stone	The Favourite	Abigail
	Molly Wright	Apostasy	Alex
2019 (22nd) [32][33]	Ruthxjiah Bellenea	The Last Tree	Tope
	Jessica Barden	Scarborough	Beth
	Elizabeth Debicki	Vita and Virginia	Virginia Woolf
	Tilda Swinton	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Betsey Trotwood
	Julie Walters	Wild Rose	Marion Harlan

2020s

Year	Actress	Film	Character
2020 (23rd) [34][35]	Kosar Ali	Rocks	Sumaya
	Niamh Algar	Calm with Horses	Ursula
	Ashley Madekwe	County Lines	Tony
	Fiona Shaw	Kindred	Margaret
	Jennifer Ehle	Saint Maud	Amanda
2021 (24th) [36]	Vinette Robinson	Boiling Point	Carly
	Judi Dench	Belfast	Buddy's grandmother
	Jo Hartley	Sweetheart	Tina
	Nathalie Richard	After Love	Genevieve
	Tilda Swinton	The Souvenir Part II	Rosalind

Multiple nominations

3 nominations Kristin Scott Thomas Julie Walters

2 nominations Vanessa Redgrave Sally Hawkins Sienna Miller Anne-Marie Duff Helena Bonham Carter Rosamund Pike Olivia Colman

Multiple wins

2 wins Olivia Colman

See also

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
• BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• 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

References

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External links

• Official website