AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1974.
Previous winners
| Year | Film | Subject | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
1970s | |||
1974 | Barry Humphries | The Great Macarthy | Colonel Ball-Miller |
1975 | Reg Lye | Sunday Too Far Away | Old Garth |
1976 | Drew Forsythe | Caddie | Sonny |
Jonathan Hardy | The Devil's Playground | Brother Arnold | |
Thomas Keneally | Father Marshall | ||
| Tony Llewellyn-Jones | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Tom | |
1977 | John Ewart | The Picture Show Man | Freddie |
John Ewart | Let the Balloon Go | Constable Baird | |
Bill Hunter | Mad Dog Morgan | Sergeant Smith | |
| Christopher Pate | Raw Deal | Dick | |
1978 | Ray Barrett | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Farrell |
Peter Carroll | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | McCready | |
Don Crosby | Newsfront | A.G. Marwood | |
Chris Haywood | Chris Hewitt | ||
1979 | Alwyn Kurts | Tim | Ron Melville |
| Michael Duffield | The Last of the Knucklemen | Methuselah | |
Robert Grubb | My Brilliant Career | Frank Hawdon | |
Hugh Keays-Byrne | Mad Max | Toecutter | |
1980s | |||
1980 | Bryan Brown | Breaker Morant | Lt. Peter Handcock |
Lewis Fitz-Gerald | Breaker Morant | Lt. George Ramsdale Witton | |
Dennis Miller | Stir | Redford | |
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell | Breaker Morant | Lt. Col. Denny | |
1981 | Bill Hunter | Gallipoli | Major Barton |
Max Cullen | Hoodwink | Buster | |
Harold Hopkins | The Club | Danny Rowe | |
Bill Kerr | Gallipoli | Redford | |
1982 | Warren Mitchell | Norman Loves Rose | Morris |
David Argue | Going Down | Greg / Trixie | |
John Bell | Far East | Peter Reeves | |
Garry McDonald | The Pirate Movie | Sergeant / Inspector | |
1983 | John Hargreaves | Careful, He Might Hear You | Logan |
| Simon Chilvers | Buddies | Alfred | |
John Meillon | The Wild Duck | Old Ackland | |
Martin Vaughan | The Winds of Jarrah | Ben | |
1984 | Steve Bisley | Silver City | Victor |
David Argue | BMX Bandits | Whitey | |
Steve Bisley | Fast Talking | Redback | |
Peter Hehir | Ralph Carson | ||
1985 | Nique Needles | The Boy Who Had Everything | Graham Cummerford |
Bryan Brown | Rebel | Tiger | |
Jon Ewing | Bliss | Aldo | |
Mark Little | An Indecent Obsession | Benedict Maynard | |
1986 | John Hargreaves | Malcolm | Frank Baker |
Maurie Fields | Death of a Soldier | Det. Sgt. Martin | |
Mark Little | Short Changed | Curly | |
John Walton | Kangaroo | Jack Calcott | |
1987 | Ben Mendelsohn | The Year My Voice Broke | Trevor Leishman |
Donald Pleasence | Ground Zero | Prosper Gaffney | |
| Bobby Smith | Initiation | Kulu | |
Steven Vidler | The Umbrella Woman | Sugar Hills | |
1988 | Kim Gyngell | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Ian McKenzie |
Bruno Lawrence | Grievous Bodily Harm | Mick | |
Paul Livingston | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey | Martin | |
John Meillon | The Everlasting Secret Family | Judge | |
1989 | Chris Haywood | Emerald City | Mike |
| John Darling | Sweetie | Gordon | |
Kym Gyngell | Heaven Tonight | Martin | |
| Bogdan Koca | Ghosts… of the Civil Dead | Waychek | |
1990s | |||
1990 | Steve Bisley | The Big Steal | Gordon Farkas |
John Polson | Blood Oath | Pvt. Jimmy Fenton | |
| Bartholomew Rose | Flirting | 'Gilby' Fryer | |
| Toshi Shioya | Blood Oath | Lt. Tanaka | |
1991 | Russell Crowe | Proof | Andy |
Chris Haywood | Aya | Mac | |
Alwyn Kurts | Spotswood | Mr. Ball | |
| John Moore | Deadly | Eddie | |
1992 | Barry Otto | Strictly Ballroom | Doug Hastings |
Bill Hunter | The Last Days of Chez Nous | Beth's Father | |
Daniel Pollock | Romper Stomper | Davey | |
August Schellenberg | Black Robe | Chomina | |
1993 | David Ngoombujarra | Blackfellas | Floyd "Pretty Boy" Davies |
Nico Lathouris | The Heartbreak Kid | George | |
Sam Neill | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | |
Barry Otto | The Custodian | Ferguson | |
1994 | Max Cullen | Spider & Rose | Jack |
Bill Hunter | Muriel's Wedding | Bill Heslop | |
| Kiet Lam | Traps | Tuan | |
John Polson | The Sum of Us | Greg | |
1995 | Ray Barrett | Hotel Sorrento | Wal Moynihan |
Ben Mendelsohn | Metal Skin | Dazey | |
Noah Taylor | Dad and Dave: On Our Selection | Joe Rudd | |
| Ben Thomas | Hotel Sorrento | Troy Moynihan | |
1996 | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Shine | Peter |
Ray Barrett | Brilliant Lies | Brian Connor | |
Robert Morgan | Life | Snakey | |
Barry Otto | Cosi | Roy | |
1997 | Andrew S. Gilbert | Kiss or Kill | Detective Crean |
Chris Haywood | Kiss or Kill | Detective Inspector Hummer | |
Simon Lyndon | Blackrock | Ricko | |
Charles 'Bud' Tingwell | The Castle | Lawrence Hammill QC | |
1998 | John Polson | The Boys | Glenn Sprague |
Paul Capsis | Head On | Johnny/Tula | |
Anthony Hayes | The Boys | Stevie Sprague | |
Geoffrey Rush | A Little Bit of Soul | Godfrey Usher | |
1999 | Bryan Brown | Two Hands | Pando |
Roy Billing | Siam Sunset | Bill Leach | |
Mitchell Butel | Strange Fits of Passion | Jimmy | |
Andrew S. Gilbert | Paperback Hero | Hamish | |
2000s | |||
2000 | Simon Lyndon | Chopper | Jimmy Loughnan |
Martin Henderson | Kick | Tom Bradshaw | |
Sam Neill | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | |
Terry Norris | Innocence | John | |
2001 | Vince Colosimo | Lantana | Nik D'Amato |
Alex Dimitriades | La Spagnola | Stefano | |
Andrew S. Gilbert | Mullet | Peter Maloney | |
Richard Roxburgh | Moulin Rouge! | The Duke of Monroth | |
2002 | Nathaniel Dean | Walking on Water | Simon |
Luke Carroll | Australian Rules | Dumby Red | |
Joel Edgerton | The Hard Word | Shane Twentyman | |
David Gulpilil | Rabbit-Proof Fence | Moodoo the Tracker | |
2003 | David Ngoombujarra | Black and White | Young Max Stuart |
Orlando Bloom | Ned Kelly | Joe Byrne | |
Tony Bonner | Liquid Bridge | Bob McCallum | |
Mitchell Butel | Gettin' Square | Con Katsakis | |
David Field | Arnie DeViers | ||
2004 | Erik Thomson | Somersault | Richard |
Nathaniel Dean | Somersault | Stuart | |
Dan Spielman | Tom White | Matt | |
Hugo Weaving | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Rubicondo the dentist | |
2005 | Anthony Hayes | Look Both Ways | Andy Walker |
Martin Henderson | Little Fish | Ray Heart | |
John Hurt | The Proposition | Jellon Lamb | |
Robert Menzies | Three Dollars | Nick | |
2006 | Anthony Hayes | Suburban Mayhem | Kenny |
Tom Budge | Last Train to Freo | Trev | |
| Ronald Jacobson | Kenny | Bill Smyth | |
Geoffrey Rush | Candy | Casper | |
2007 | Marton Csokas | Romulus, My Father | Hora |
Russell Dykstra | Romulus, My Father | Mitru | |
Frankie J. Holden | Clubland | John Maitland | |
Richard Wilson | Mark | ||
2008 | Luke Ford | The Black Balloon | Charlie Mollison |
Joel Edgerton | The Square | Billy | |
Anthony Hayes | Greg "Smithy" Smith | ||
Erik Thomson | The Black Balloon | Simon Mollison | |
2009 | Oscar Isaac | Balibo | José Ramos-Horta |
Bryan Brown | Beautiful Kate | Bruce Kendall | |
Damon Gameau | Balibo | Greg Shackleton | |
Brandon Walters | Australia | Nullah | |
2010s | |||
2010 | Joel Edgerton | Animal Kingdom | Barry 'Baz' Brown |
Guy Pearce | Animal Kingdom | Nathan Leckie | |
Kodi Smit-McPhee | Matching Jack | Finn | |
Sullivan Stapleton | Animal Kingdom | Craig Cody | |
AACTA Awards | |||
2011 (1st) | Hugo Weaving | Oranges and Sunshine | Jack |
John Gaden | The Eye of the Storm | Arnold Wyburd | |
Sam Neill | The Hunter | Jack Mindy | |
Robert Rabiah | Face to Face | Hakim Slimon | |
2012 (2nd) | Antony Starr | Wish You Were Here | Jeremy King |
Ryan Corr | Not Suitable for Children | Gus | |
Liev Schreiber | Mental | Trevor Blundell | |
| Gary Waddell | The King is Dead | King | |
2013 (3rd) | Joel Edgerton | The Great Gatsby | Tom Buchanan |
Marton Csokas | Dead Europe | Nico | |
Suthep Po-ngam | The Rocket | Purple | |
Angus Sampson | 100 Bloody Acres | Lindsay Morgan | |
2014 (4th) | Yılmaz Erdoğan | The Water Diviner | Major Hasan |
Patrick Brammall | The Little Death | Richard | |
Robert Pattinson | The Rover | Reynolds | |
| T.J. Power | The Little Death | Sam | |
2015 (5th) | Hugo Weaving | The Dressmaker | Sergeant Farrat |
Mark Coles Smith | Last Cab to Darwin | Tilly | |
Alex Dimitriades | Ruben Guthrie | Damian | |
Anthony LaPaglia | Holding the Man | Bob Caleo | |
2016 (6th) | Hugo Weaving | Hacksaw Ridge | Tom Doss |
Mark Coles Smith | Pawno | Pauly | |
Damon Herriman | Down Under | Jason | |
Sam Neill | The Daughter | Walter | |
2017 (7th) | Dev Patel | Lion | Saroo Brierley |
Don Hany | Ali's Wedding | Mehdi | |
Jack Thompson | Don't Tell | Bob Myers | |
Hugo Weaving | Jasper Jones | Mad Jack Lionel | |
2018 (8th) | Simon Baker | Breath | Sando |
| Fayssal Bazzi | The Merger | Sayyid | |
Russell Crowe | Boy Erased | Marshall Eamons | |
Joel Edgerton | Victor Sykes | ||
| Josh McConville | 1% | Skink | |
References
- Afi.org.au — AFI Award Winners
