The winner is given a "Rajat Kamal" (Silver Lotus) certificate and a cash prize of ₹2 lakh (US$2,400).[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).
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)
^The "Ref." cites the winner and the role played by them in the film. While there are some sources that are written in both English and Hindi, certain references are entirely in Hindi language.
^Atul Kulkarni played the role of a man who changes his name in later part of film.
^ ab"54th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 30–31. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
^ ab"53rd National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 32–33. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
^"32nd National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 14. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
^"33rd National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 26–27. Archived(PDF) from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^"34th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 28–29. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^"35th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 30–31. Archived(PDF) from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^"36th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 30–31. Archived(PDF) from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^"37th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 36–37. Archived(PDF) from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
^"38th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 30–31. Archived(PDF) from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^"39th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 40–41. Archived(PDF) from the original on 9 September 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
^"40th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 42–43. Archived(PDF) from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
^"41st National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 38–39. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
^"42nd National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 28–29. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
^"43rd National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 28–29. Archived(PDF) from the original on 24 April 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
^"44th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 26–27. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
^"45th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 28–29. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
^"46th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 28–29. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^"48th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 44–45. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
^"49th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 34–35. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
^"50th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 36–37. Archived(PDF) from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
^"51st National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 32–33. Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 January 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
^"52nd National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 32–33. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
^"55th National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. pp. 36–37. Archived(PDF) from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
^"61st National Film Awards"(PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. p. 3. Archived from the original(PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
^"65th National Film Awards"(PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. p. 21. Archived from the original(PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.