Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Kannada

The Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award is and award presented annually by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Kannada films. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the Kannada film industry. Although the awards for Kannada films started in 1970, awards for the best supporting actress category started only in 2007. At the 54th Filmfare Awards South ceremony held in 2007, Leelavathi was the first winner of this award for his role in Kannadada Kanda.

Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Kannada
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	Leelavathi Kannadada Kanda (2007)
Currently held by	Sudha Belawadi, Kousalya Supraja Rama (2023)
Website	Filmfare Awards

Since its inception, the award has been given to ten different actresses. With three nominations including one win, Tara has been the most nominated. As of the 2017 ceremony, Bhavani Prakash is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Bobby in Urvi.

Superlatives

Superlative	Actor	Record
Actress with most awards	Umashree	2 wins
Actress with most nominations	Umashree Tara	3 nominations
Oldest winner	Leelavathi	69 years
Oldest nominee
Youngest nominee	Harshika Poonacha	17 years

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Filmfare convention, and generally correspond to the year of film's theatrical release; the ceremonies are always held the following year.

Leelavathi – The first recipient

Table key

‡	Indicates the winner

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2006 (54th)	Leelavathi ‡	Kannadada Kanda
2007 (55th)	Tara ‡	Ee Bandhana	Sukanya
2008 (56th)	Shubha Poonja ‡	Moggina Manasu	Renuka Devi
	Anu Prabhakar	Mussanjemaatu	Shwetha
	Bhavana Rao	Gaalipata	Pavani
	Neethu	Gaalipata	Radha
	Padmaja Rao	Taj Mahal	Shruti's mother
2009 (57th)	Tulasi ‡	Josh	Sharadamma
	Anjana Sukhani	Maleyali Jotheyali	Sandhya
	Nithya Menen	Josh	Meera
	Suman Ranganathan	Savari
	Yagna Shetty	Love Guru
2010 (58th)	Umashree ‡	Krishnan Love Story
	Harshika Poonacha	Jackie	Yashoda
	Lakshmi Gopalaswamy	Aptharakshaka	Saraswathi
	Ramya Barna	Pancharangi	Latha
	Tara	Modalasala	Deepu's mother
2011 (59th)	Shruti ‡	Puttakkana Highway	Puttakka	[1]
	Abhinaya	Hudugaru	Pavithra
	Aindrita Ray	Paramathma	Saanvi
	Ramya Barna	Hudugaru	Sushma
	Veena Sundar	Olave Mandara	Nanji
2012 (60th)	Suman Ranganathan ‡	Sidlingu	Aandalamma	[2] [3]
	Catherine Tresa	Godfather	Vani
	Jaya Prada	Sangolli Rayanna	Kittur Chennamma
	Sindhu Lokanath	Drama	Chandrika
	Umashree	Alemari
2013 (61st)	Kalyani Raju ‡	Jayammana Maga	Jayamma	[4] [5]
	Milana Nagaraj	Brindavana	Madhu
	Parul Yadav	Bachchan	Anjali
	Rukmini Vijayakumar	Bhajarangi	Krishne
	Tara	Shravani Subramanya	Anuradha
2014 (62nd)	Samyukta Hornad ‡	Oggarane	Meghana	[6] [7]
	Asha Sarath	Drishya	IGP Roopa Chandrashekhar
	Malavika Avinash	Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari	Sudha
	Padmaja Rao	Ugramm	Agastya's mother
	Sumithra	Shivajinagara
2015 (63rd)	Sudharani ‡	Vaastu Prakaara	Vandana	[8]
	Avantika Shetty	RangiTaranga	Sandhya Bhargav
	Chandrika	Kendasampige	Shakuntala Shetty
	Madhoo	Ranna	Saraswathi
	Paavana Gowda	Aatagara	Anu
2016 (64th)	Samyuktha Hegde ‡	Kirik Party	Aarya	[9]
	Aindrita Ray	Niruttara	Shravya
	Meghashree Bhagavatar	Last Bus	Seethakka
	Sonu	Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu	Nagamma
	Suman Ranganathan	Neer Dose	Sharada Mani
2017 (65th)	Bhavani Prakash ‡	Urvi	Bobby	[10] [11]
	Aruna Balraj	Operation Alamelamma	Alamelamma
	Samyukta Hornad	Dayavittu Gamanisi
	Usha Bhandary	Ondu Motteya Kathe
	Veena Sundar	Kaafi Thota	Meera
2018 (66th)	Sharanya‡	Nathicharami	Suma	[12] [13]
	Shreya Anchan	Katheyondu Shuruvagide	Swarna
	Sudharani	Life Jothe Ondh Selfie	Thulasi
	Sumalatha	Thayige Thakka Maga	Parvathi
	Suman Nagarkar	Jeerjimbe
2020–21 (67th)	Umashree ‡	Rathnan Prapancha	Saroja Bai	[14]
	Aarohi Narayan	Shivaji Surathkal	Dr. Anjali
	Amrutha Iyengar	Love Mocktail	Joshitha
	Meghashree	Mugilpete
	Sparsha Rekha	Popcorn Monkey Tiger	Padma
	Usha Ravishankar	Salaga	Vijay's mother
2022 (68th)	Mangala N‡	Taledanda	Kethamma	[15]
	Aditi Sagar	Vedha	Kanaka
	Archana Jois	KGF: Chapter 2	Shanthamma
	Manasi Sudhir	Kantara	Kamala
	Umashree	Vedha	Shankri
2023 (69th)	Sudha Belawadi‡	Kousalya Supraja Rama	Kousalya	[16]
	Gunjalamma	Pinky Elli
	M. D. Pallavi	19.20.21
	Shruti	Kaatera	Kumari
	Tara	Tagaru Palya	Shantha

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