Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Kannada

The Filmfare Best Supporting Actress 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 actress 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 actress category started only in 2007. At the 54th Filmfare Awards South ceremony held in 2007, Leelavathi was the first winner of this award for his role in Kannadada Kanda.

Since its inception, the award has been given to nine different actresses. With three nominations including one win, Tara has been the most nominated. As of the 2015 ceremony, Samyukta Hornad is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Meghana in Oggarane.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Filmfare convention, and generally correspond to the year of film's theatrical release; the ceremonies are always held the following year.

Umashree won for her performance in Krishnan Love Story (2010), and was nominated for Alemari (2012).

Ramya Barna has been nominated twice, and in consecutive years, for Pancharangi (2010) and Hudugaru (2011).

Suman Ranganathan won for her performance in 2013's Sidlingu.

Table key

Indicates the winner

Year	Actor	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2006 (54th)	Leelavathi	Kannadada Kanda
2007 (55th)	Tara	Ee Bandhana	Narayana Ullagaddi's wife
2008 (56th)	Shubha Poonja	Moggina Manasu	Renuka Devi
	Anu Prabhakar	Mussanjemaatu
	Neethu	Gaalipata	Radha
	Bhavana Rao	Gaalipata	Pavani
	Padmaja Rao	Taj Mahal
2009 (57th)	Tulasi	Josh
	Anjana Sukhani	Maleyali Jotheyali	Sandhya
	Nithya Menen	Josh	Meera
	Suman Ranganathan	Savaari
	Yagna Shetty	Love Guru
2010 (58th)	Umashree	Krishnan Love Story
	Harshika Poonacha	Jackie	Yashoda
	Ramya Barna	Pancharangi	Latha
	Lakshmi Gopalaswamy	Aptharakshaka	Saraswathi
	Tara	Modalasala	Deepu's mother
2011 (59th)	Shruti	Puttakkana Highway		[1]
	Abhinaya	Hudugaru	Pavithra
	Aindrita Ray	Paramathma	Saanvi
	Ramya Barna	Hudugaru	Sushma
	Veena Sundar	Olave Mandara	Nanji
2012 (60th)	Suman Ranganathan	Sidlingu		[2][3]
	Jaya Prada	Sangolli Rayanna	Kittur Chennamma
	Catherine Tresa	Godfather	Vani
	Sindhu Lokanath	Drama	Chandrika
	Umashree	Alemari
2013 (61st)	Kalyani Raju	Jayammana Maga	Jayammana	[4][5]
	Milana Nagaraj	Brindavana	Madhu
	Parul Yadav	Bachchan	Anjali
	Rukmini Vijayakumar	Bhajarangi	Krishne
	Tara	Shravani Subramanya	Anuradha
2014 (62nd)	Samyukta Hornad	Oggarane	Meghana	[6][7]
	Padmaja Rao	Ugramm	Agastya's mother
	Asha Sarath	Drishya	IGP Roopa Chandrashekhar
	Malavika Avinash	Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari	Sudha
	Sumithra	Shivajinagara
2015 (63rd)	Sudharani	Vaastu Prakaara	Vandana	[8]
	Avantika Shetty	RangiTaranga	Sandhya Bhargav
	Chandrika	Kendasampige	Shakuntala Shetty
	Madhoo	Ranna	Saraswathi
	Pavana Gowda	Aatagara	Anu

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