National Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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 Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.^[1] A national panel appointed annually by the NFDC selects the actor who has given the best performance in a supporting role within Indian cinema.^[1] The award is presented by the President of India at a ceremony held in New Delhi.^[2] Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Actor in a Supporting Role".^[3]

National Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
National award for contributions to Indian cinema
The 2022 recipient: Pavan Malhotra
Awarded for	Best performance by an actor in a supporting role
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor (1984–2021)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1984
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Pavan Malhotra, Fouja
Highlights
Most wins	Atul Kulkarni, Nana Patekar and Pankaj Kapur (2)
Total awarded	37
First winner	Victor Banerjee
Website	https://dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6

The winner is given a "Rajat Kamal" (Silver Lotus) certificate and a cash prize of ₹2 lakh (US$2,300).^[a] Including ties and repeat winners, the government of India has presented a total of 32 Best Supporting Actor awards to 29 different actors. Although Indian cinema produces films in more than 20 languages,^[6] the actors whose performances have won awards have worked in one or more of seven major languages: Hindi (18 awards), Tamil (9 awards), Bengali (3 awards), Malayalam (4 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).^[7] 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 Parinda (1989)^[b] and Agni Sakshi (1996).^[8] Kapur received the awards for his work in the Hindi films Raakh (1988) and Maqbool (2003).^[9] Kulkarni was awarded for his performances in the Tamil / Hindi film Hey Ram (1999) and the Hindi film Chandni Bar (2001).^[10] 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).^[11] 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.^[12] The most recent recipient of the award is Pavan Malhotra, who was honoured at the 70th National Film Awards ceremony for his performance in the film Fouja (2022). Nana Patekar, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, Prakash Raj and Manoj Bajpayee are the actors to receive honours in both acting categories: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

List of recipients

Victor Banerjee is the first-ever recipient of the Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Bengali film Ghare Baire in 1984.

Nana Patekar (top), Pankaj Kapur (middle), and Atul Kulkarni (bottom) are the three actors to win the honour twice.

Ashish Vidyarthi (top) and Nagesh (bottom) tied the award in 1994 for their roles in Drohkaal and Nammavar respectively.

Paresh Rawal (top) and Dilip Prabhavalkar (bottom) are the two actors who won the award for different films in a single year for different award ceremonies. Rawal was awarded in 1993 & Prabhavalkar in 2006.

Key

Symbol	Meaning
†	Indicates a joint award for that year
‡	Indicates 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)

Year[b]	Recipient(s)	Role(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Ref.[c]
1984 (32nd)	Victor Banerjee	Nikhilesh Choudhury	Ghare Baire	Bengali	[13]
1985 (33rd)	Dipankar De	Husband	Parama	Bengali	[14]
1986 (34th)	Suresh Oberoi	Mukhi	Mirch Masala	Hindi	[15]
1987 (35th)	Thilakan	Neduvancheril Achunni Nair (Mooppil Nair)	Rithubhedam	Malayalam	[16]
1988 (36th)	Pankaj Kapur	Inspector P. K.	Raakh	Hindi	[17]
1989 (37th)	Nana Patekar	Anna Seth	Parinda	Hindi	[18]
1990 (38th)	Nedumudi Venu	Maharaja Udayavarma Thampuran	His Highness Abdullah	Malayalam	[19]
1991 (39th)	P. L. Narayana	Appala Nayudu	Yagnam	Telugu	[20]
1992 (40th)	Sunny Deol	Govind Srivatsav	Damini – Lightning	Hindi	[21]
1993 (41st) ‡	Paresh Rawal	• Lalitram Mohan Roy  • Velji	• Woh Chokri  • Sir	Hindi	[22]
1994 (42nd) †	Ashish Vidyarthi	Commander Bhadra	Drohkaal	Hindi	[23]
	Nagesh	Prabhakar Rao	Nammavar	Tamil
1995 (43rd)	Mithun Chakraborty	Ramakrishna	Swami Vivekananda	Hindi	[24]
1996 (44th)	Nana Patekar	Vishwanath	Agni Sakshi	Hindi	[25]
1997 (45th)	Prakash Raj	Tamizhselvan	Iruvar	Tamil	[26]
1998 (46th)	Manoj Bajpai	Bhiku Mhatre	Satya	Hindi	[27]
1999 (47th)	Atul Kulkarni	Shriram Abhyankar/ (Ramakrishna Pandey)[d]	Hey Ram	Tamil	[28]
2000 (48th)	H. G. Dattatreya	Hasanabba	Munnudi	Kannada	[29]
2001 (49th)	Atul Kulkarni	Pothya Sawant	Chandni Bar	Hindi	[30]
2002 (50th)	Chandrasekhar	Lawrence [e]	Nanba Nanba	Tamil	[32]
2003 (51st)	Pankaj Kapur	Jahangir Khan (Abbaji)	Maqbool	Hindi	[33]
2004 (52nd)	Haradhan Bandopadhyay	Haradhan Bandopadhyay	Krantikaal	Bengali	[34]
2005 (53rd)	Naseeruddin Shah	Mohit	Iqbal	Hindi	[5]
2006 (54th) ‡	Dilip Prabhavalkar	• Mahatma Gandhi [f]  • Clerk	• Lage Raho Munna Bhai  • Shevri	• Hindi  • Marathi	[4]
2007 (55th)	Darshan Jariwala	Mahatma Gandhi	Gandhi, My Father	Hindi	[36]
2008 (56th)	Arjun Rampal	Joseph Mascarenhas (Joe)	Rock On!!	Hindi	[37]
2009 (57th)	Farooq Sheikh	S. K. Rao	Lahore	Hindi	[38]
2010 (58th)	Thambi Ramaiah	Ramaiah	Mynaa	Tamil	[39]
2011 (59th)	Appukutty	Azhagarsami	Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai	Tamil	[40]
2012 (60th)	Annu Kapoor	Dr. Baldev Chaddha	Vicky Donor	Hindi	[41]
2013 (61st)	Saurabh Shukla	Justice Sunderlal Tripathi	Jolly LLB	Hindi	[42]
2014 (62nd)	Bobby Simha	Assault Sethu	Jigarthanda	Tamil	[43]
2015 (63rd)	Samuthirakani	Muthuvel	Visaranai	Tamil	[44]
2016 (64th)	Manoj Joshi	Keshav	Dashakriya	Marathi	[45]
2017 (65th)	Fahadh Faasil	Prasad	Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum	Malayalam	[46]
2018 (66th)	Swanand Kirkire	Prasanna	Chumbak	Marathi	[47]
2019 (67th)	Vijay Sethupathi	Shilpa (Manickam)[g]	Super Deluxe	Tamil	[48]
2020 (68th)	Biju Menon	SI Ayyappan Nair alias Mundoor Madan	Ayyappanum Koshiyum	Malayalam
2021 (69th)	Pankaj Tripathi	Bhanu Pratap Pandey	Mimi	Hindi
2022 (70th)	Pavan Malhotra		Fouja	Haryanvi

See also

• List of Indian film actors