Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Kannada

Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Kannada
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	Rangayana Raghu, Cyanide (2006)
Currently held by	Saikumar, RangiTaranga (2015)
Official website	Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Best Supporting Actor 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 actor 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 actor category started only in 2007. At the 54th Filmfare Awards South ceremony held in 2007, Rangayana Raghu was the first winner of this award for his role in Cyanide. Since its inception, the award has been given to 7 actors. Achyuth Kumar has received the most awards in this category with three awards.

Superlatives

Superlative	Actor	Record
Actor with most awards	Achyuth Kumar	3
Actor with most nominations	Rangayana Raghu	5
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	Anant Nag	3
Actor with most nominations in a single year	Anant Nag (2008)	2
Oldest winner	Avinash	51
Oldest nominee	H. G. Dattatreya	69
Youngest winner	Yash	22
Youngest nominee	Yash	22

Winners and nominees

Table key

Indicates the winner

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2006 (54th)	Rangayana Raghu	Cyanide	Ranganath
2007 (55th)	Sharath Lohitashwa	Aa Dinagalu	Kotwal Ramachandra
2008 (56th)	Yash	Moggina Manasu	Rahul
	Anant Nag	Taj Mahal
	Anant Nag	Aramane	Rajashekhara Aras
	Diganth	Gaalipata	Diganth
	Rajesh Krishnan	Gaalipata	Kitty
2009 (57th)	Achyuth Kumar	Josh
	Dilip Raj	Love Guru	Abhi
	Sharan	Josh
	Rangayana Raghu	Raam	Krishna Murthy
	Tabla Nani	Eddelu Manjunatha	Nani
2010 (58th)	Avinash	Aptharakshaka	Ramachandra Acharya
	Achyuth Kumar	Naanu Nanna Kanasu	Brijesh Patel
	Ambareesh	Veera Parampare	Varadegowda
	Vaijanath Biradar	Kanasemba Kudureyaneri	Irya
	Rangayana Raghu	Modalasala
2011 (59th)	P. Ravi Shankar	Kempegowda	Armugam	[1]
	H. G. Dattatreya	Bettada Jeeva	Gopalaiah
	Rangayana Raghu	Olave Mandara	Ratna
	Sharath Lohitashwa	Saarathi
	Yogesh	Hudugaru	Siddesh
2012 (60th)	Atul Kulkarni	Edegarike	Sridhar Murthy	[2][3]
	Sai Kumar	Kalpana	Kalpana
	Ravi Kale	Dandupalya	Hanuma
	Sharan	Parijatha
	Shivakumar	Sangolli Rayanna
2013 (61st)	Achyuth Kumar	Lucia	Shankaranna	[4][5]
	Ambareesh	Bulbul	Amarnath
	Sai Kumar	Brindavana
	Rangayana Raghu	Jayammana Maga
	Sharath Lohitashwa	Kaddipudi	Shankarappa
2014 (62nd)	Achyuth Kumar	Drishya	Surya Prakash	[6][7]
	Harish Raj	Power***	Shastry
	Kishore	Ulidavaru Kandanthe	Munna
	Thilak	Ugramm	Bala
	V. Ravichandran	Maanikya	Adishesha
2015 (63rd)	Saikumar Pudipeddi	RangiTaranga	Thenkabail Ravindra "Kalinga" Bhat	[8]
	Anant Nag	Vaastu Prakaara	Anantha Krishna
	Ramakrishna	Raja Rajendra
	P. Ravi Shankar	Aatagara	Ravi Gowda
	Sundar	Naanu Avanalla...Avalu

References

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2. "60th Idea Filmfare Awards 2013 (South) Nominations". 4 July 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
3. "List of Winners at the 60th Idea Filmfare Awards (South)". Filmfare. filmfare.com. 21 July 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
4. "61st Idea Filmfare Awards (South) Nomination list". 8 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
5. "Winners of 61st Idea Filmfare Awards South". Filmfare. filmfare.com. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
6. "Nominations for the 62nd Britannia Filmfare Awards (South)". 3 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
7. "Winners of 62nd Britannia Filmfare Awards South". Filmfare. filmfare.com. 29 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
8. "Winners: 63rd Filmfare South Awards". 19 June 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.