Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role. Although the awards started in 1953, awards for the best supporting actor category started only the following year.

Superlatives

Pran, Amrish Puri, Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, with 3 awards each, have more Best Supporting Actor awards at Filmfare than any other actor. Seven actors have won the award twice; in chronological order, they are Motilal, Nana Palsikar, Raaj Kumar, Amjad Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor.

Abhishek Bachchan also holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award thrice in a row from 2005 to 2007. Three other actors have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Danny Denzongpa (1992-93), Jackie Shroff (1995-96) and Amrish Puri (1997-98).

Only twice have siblings been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award during the same year: Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor in 1983 (Shammi ultimately won), and Salman Khan and Arbaaz Khan in 1999 (Salman ultimately won). Father and son Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan have been nominated for this award in a single year on three occasions for three consecutive years (2005-2007). In all three times, Abhishek won the award.

Pran and Amitabh Bachchan hold the record for the highest number of Best Supporting Actor nominations, with 9,...
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