César Award for Best Supporting Actress
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César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
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| Awarded for | Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First awarded | 1976 |
| Currently held by | Sidse Babett Knudsen for Courted (2016) |
| Official website | academie-cinema |
The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle) is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding performance in a supporting role of an actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie.
As of 2016, 127 actresses have been nominated in the category, with a total of 32 different winners. The average age at first nomination is 41 and the average age of winners at first win is 39.
With three wins (1991, 1993, 1999), Dominique Blanc holds the record of most César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Seven actresses have won the César twice: Marie-France Pisier (1976, 1977), Nathalie Baye (1981, 1982), Suzanne Flon (1984, 1990), Annie Girardot (1996, 2002), Valérie Lemercier (1994, 2007), Julie Depardieu (2004, 2008) and Anne Alvaro (2001, 2011).
Marie-France Pisier and Nathalie Baye have won their two awards in consecutive years. Along with Adèle Haenel, they are the only three performers to have won two competitive acting César in a row. Including her Best Actress César won in 1983, Nathalie Baye is also the only performer to have won an acting César in three consecutive years, in 1981, 1982 and 1983.
Noémie Lvovsky holds the record of most nominations with 6. With only two nomination for Best Supporting Actress but 13 nominations for Best Actress, Isabelle Huppert has been nominated a total of 16 times, which makes her the overall most-nominated female performer.
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