Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Primetime Emmy Award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
First awarded | 1952 |
Currently held by | Ewan McGregor, Halston (2021) |
Website | emmys |
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (called the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie prior to 2015).
Winners and nominations[]
Indicates the winner |
1950s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Episode | Network |
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1955 (7th) | |||||
Robert Cummings | Juror #8 | Studio One | "Twelve Angry Men" | CBS | |
Frank Lovejoy | Walter Neff | Lux Video Theatre | "Double Indemnity" | CBS | |
Fredric March | Tony Cavendish | The Best of Broadway | "The Royal Family" | ||
Ebenezer Scrooge | Shower of Stars | "A Christmas Carol" | |||
Thomas Mitchell | Father Devlin | Ford Theatre | "The Good of His Soul" | NBC | |
David Niven | Deacon | Four Star Playhouse | "The Answer" | CBS | |
1956 (8th) | |||||
Lloyd Nolan | Capt. Queeg | Ford Star Jubilee | "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" | CBS | |
Ralph Bellamy | Father | The United States Steel Hour | "The Fearful Decision" | CBS | |
José Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | Producers' Showcase | "Cyrano de Bergerac" | NBC | |
Everett Sloane | President | Kraft Television Theatre | "Patterns" | ||
Barry Sullivan | Defense Attorney Greenwald | Ford Star Jubilee | "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" | CBS | |
1957 (9th) | |||||
Jack Palance | Harlan "Mountain" McClintock | Playhouse 90 | "Requiem for a Heavyweight" | CBS | |
Lloyd Bridges | Alec Beggs | The Alcoa Hour | "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" | NBC | |
Fredric March | Sam Dodsworth | Producers' Showcase | "Dodsworth" | ||
Sal Mineo | Dino Minetta | Studio One | "Dino" | CBS | |
Red Skelton | Buddy McCoy | Playhouse 90 | "The Big Slide" | ||
1958 (10th) | |||||
Peter Ustinov | Dr. Samuel Johnson | Omnibus | "The Life of Samuel Johnson" | NBC | |
Lee J. Cobb | Dr. Joseph Pearson | Studio One | "No Deadly Medicine" | CBS | |
Mickey Rooney | Sammy Hogarth | Playhouse 90 | "The Comedian" | ||
David Wayne | James Mennick | Suspicion | "Heartbeat" | NBC | |
Ed Wynn | Gramps Northrup | On Borrowed Time | |||
1959 (11th) | |||||
Fred Astaire | Himself | An Evening with Fred Astaire | NBC | ||
Robert L. Crawford, Jr. | Tanguy | Playhouse 90 | "Child of Our Time" | CBS | |
Paul Muni | Sam Arlen | "Last Clear Chance" | |||
Christopher Plummer | Kenneth Boyd | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Little Moon of Alban" | NBC | |
Mickey Rooney | Eddie | Alcoa Theatre | "Eddie" | ||
Rod Steiger | Harvey Denton | Playhouse 90 | "A Town Has Turned to Dust" | CBS |
1960s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Episode | Network |
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1960 (12th) | |||||
Laurence Olivier | Charles Strickland | The Moon and Sixpence | NBC | ||
Lee J. Cobb | Dr. Lawrence Doner | Playhouse 90 | "Project Immortality" | CBS | |
Alec Guinness | Jebal Deeks | Startime | "The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks" | NBC | |
1961 (13th) | |||||
Maurice Evans | Macbeth | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Macbeth" | NBC | |
Cliff Robertson | Charlie Gordon | The United States Steel Hour | "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon" | CBS | |
Ed Wynn | Himself | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | "The Man in the Funny Suit" | ||
1962 (14th) | |||||
Peter Falk | Aristede Fresco | The Dick Powell Theatre | "The Price of Tomatoes" | NBC | |
Milton Berle | Eddie Doyle | The Dick Powell Theatre | "Doyle Against the House" | NBC | |
James Donald | Albert, Prince Consort | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Victoria Regina" | ||
Lee Marvin | Hughes | Alcoa Premiere | "People Need People" | ABC | |
Mickey Rooney | Augie Miller | The Dick Powell Theatre | "Somebody's Waiting" | NBC | |
1963 (15th) | |||||
Trevor Howard | Benjamin Disraeli | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Invincible Mr. Disraeli" | NBC | |
Bradford Dillman | Charlie Pont | Premiere, Presented by Fred Astaire | "The Voice of Charlie Pont" | ABC | |
Don Gordon | Joey Tassili | The Defenders | "The Madman" | CBS | |
Walter Matthau | Meredith | The DuPont Show of the Week | "Big Deal in Laredo" | NBC | |
Joseph Schildkraut | Rabbi Gottlieb | Sam Benedict | "Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells" | ||
1964 (16th) | |||||
Jack Klugman | Joe Larch | The Defenders | "Blacklist" | CBS | |
James Earl Jones | Joe | East Side/West Side | "Who Do You Kill?" | CBS | |
Roddy McDowall | Paul LeDoux | Arrest and Trial | "Journey Into Darkness" | ABC | |
Jason Robards | Abraham Lincoln | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" | NBC | |
Rod Steiger | Mike Kirsch | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "A Slow Fade to Black" | NBC | |
Harold J. Stone | Elihu Kaminsky | The Doctors and the Nurses | "Nurse Is a Feminine Noun" | CBS | |
1965 (17th) | |||||
Alfred Lunt | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Magnificent Yankee" | NBC | |
1966 (18th) | |||||
Cliff Robertson | Quincey Parke | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "The Game" | NBC | |
Ed Begley | Matthew Harrison Brady | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Inherit the Wind" | NBC | |
Melvyn Douglas | Henry Drummond | ||||
Trevor Howard | Napoleon | "Eagle in a Cage" | |||
Christopher Plummer | Hamlet | Hamlet | Syndicated | ||
1967 (19th) | |||||
Peter Ustinov | Socrates | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Barefoot in Athens" | NBC | |
Alan Arkin | Barney Kempinski | ABC Stage 67 | "The Love Song of Barney Kempinski" | ABC | |
Lee J. Cobb | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman | CBS | ||
Ivan Dixon | Olly Winter | CBS Playhouse | "The Final War of Olly Winter" | ||
Hal Holbrook | Mark Twain | Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! | |||
1968 (20th) | |||||
Melvyn Douglas | Peter Schermann | CBS Playhouse | "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" | CBS | |
Raymond Burr | Robert T. Ironside | Ironside | "Pilot" | NBC | |
Van Heflin | Robert Sloane | A Case of Libel | ABC | ||
George C. Scott | John Proctor | The Crucible | CBS | ||
Eli Wallach | Douglas Lambert | CBS Playhouse | "Dear Friends" | ||
1969 (21st) | |||||
Paul Scofield | Emlyn Bowen | Prudiential's On Stage | "Male of the Species" | NBC | |
Bill Travers | Crichton | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Admirable Crichton" | NBC | |
Ossie Davis | Charles Carter | "Teacher, Teacher" | |||
David McCallum | Hamilton Cade |
1970s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
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1970 (22nd) | ||||
Peter Ustinov | Abel Shaddick | A Storm in Summer | NBC | |
Al Freeman, Jr. | Charles Roberts | My Sweet Charlie | NBC | |
Laurence Olivier | Mr. Creakle | David Copperfield | ||
1971 (23rd) | ||||
George C. Scott | Victor Franz | The Price | NBC | |
Jack Cassidy | Otis Baker | The Andersonville Trial | PBS | |
Hal Holbrook | Hays Stowe | A Clear and Present Danger | NBC | |
Richard Widmark | Paul Roudebush | Vanished | ||
Gig Young | Jones | The Neon Ceiling | ||
1972 (24th) | ||||
Keith Michell | Henry VIII | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | CBS | |
James Caan | Brian Piccolo | Brian's Song | ABC | |
Richard Harris | Philip Rhayadar | The Snow Goose | NBC | |
George C. Scott | Edward Rochester | Jane Eyre | ||
Billy Dee Williams | Gale Sayers | Brian's Song | ABC | |
1973 (25th) | ||||
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | ||||
Laurence Olivier | James Tyrone, Sr. | Long Day's Journey Into Night | ABC | |
Henry Fonda | Carl Tiflin | The Red Pony | NBC | |
Hal Holbrook | Doug Salter | That Certain Summer | ABC | |
Telly Savalas | Theo Kojak | Kojak: The Marcus-Nelson Murders | CBS | |
Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Drama/Comedy - Limited Episodes) | ||||
Anthony Murphy | Tom Brown | Tom Brown's Schooldays | PBS | |
John Abineri | Chingachgook | The Last of the Mohicans | PBS | |
Philippe Leroy | Leonardo da Vinci | The Life of Leonardo da Vinci | CBS | |
1974 (26th) |
Best Lead Actor in a Drama | |||
Hal Holbrook | Lloyd Bucher | Pueblo | ABC | |
Alan Alda | Paul Friedman | 6 Rms Riv Vu | CBS | |
Laurence Olivier | Shylock | The Merchant of Venice | ABC | |
Martin Sheen | Eddie Slovik | The Execution of Private Slovik | NBC | |
Dick Van Dyke | Charlie Lester | The Morning After | ABC | |
Best Lead Actor in a Limited Series | ||||
William Holden | Bumper Morgan | The Blue Knight | NBC | |
Peter Falk | Columbo | Columbo | NBC | |
Dennis Weaver | Sam McCloud | McCloud | NBC | |
1975 (27th) |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy | |||
Laurence Olivier | Arthur Glanville-Jones | Love Among the Ruins | ABC | |
Richard Chamberlain | Edmond Dantès | The Count of Monte Cristo | NBC | |
William Devane | John F. Kennedy | The Missiles of October | ABC | |
Charles Durning | Al Green | Queen of the Stardust Ballroom | CBS | |
Henry Fonda | Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow | NBC | |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series | ||||
Peter Falk | Columbo | Columbo | NBC | |
Dennis Weaver | Sam McCloud | McCloud | NBC | |
1976 (28th) |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy | |||
Anthony Hopkins | Richard Hauptmann | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | NBC | |
William Devane | John Henry Faulk | Fear on Trial | CBS | |
Edward Herrmann | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Eleanor and Franklin | ABC | |
Jack Lemmon | Archie Rice | The Entertainer | NBC | |
Jason Robards | James Tyrone, Jr. | A Moon for the Misbegotten | ABC | |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series | ||||
Hal Holbrook | Abraham Lincoln | Sandburg's Lincoln | NBC | |
George Grizzard | John Adams | The Adams Chronicles | PBS | |
Nick Nolte | Thomas Jordache | Rich Man, Poor Man | ABC | |
Peter Strauss | Rudolph Jordache | |||
1977 (29th) |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy | |||
Ed Flanders | Harry S. Truman | Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking | PBS | |
Peter Boyle | Joseph McCarthy | Tail Gunner Joe | NBC | |
Peter Finch (post-humously) | Yitzhak Rabin | Raid on Entebbe | ||
Edward Herrmann | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | ABC | |
George C. Scott | The Beast | Beauty and the Beast | NBC | |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series | ||||
Christopher Plummer | Roscoe Heyward | The Moneychangers | NBC | |
Stanley Baker | Gwilym Morgan | How Green Was My Valley | PBS | |
Richard Jordan | Joseph Armagh | Captains and the Kings | NBC | |
Steven Keats | Jay Blackman | Seventh Avenue | ||
1978 (30th) |
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special | |||
Fred Astaire | Ted Long | A Family Upside Down | NBC | |
Alan Alda | Caryl Chessman | Kill Me If You Can | NBC | |
Hal Holbrook | Stage Manager | Our Town | ||
Martin Sheen | Taxi Driver | Taxi!!! | ||
James Stacy | Kenny Briggs | Just a Little Inconvenience | ||
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series | ||||
Michael Moriarty | Erik Dorf | Holocaust | NBC | |
Hal Holbrook | Portius Wheeler | The Awakening Land | NBC | |
Jason Robards | Richard Monckton | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | ABC | |
Fritz Weaver | Josef Weiss | Holocaust | NBC | |
Paul Winfield | Martin Luther King, Jr. | King | ||
1979 (31st) | ||||
Peter Strauss | Larry Murphy | The Jericho Mile | ABC | |
Ned Beatty | Gene Mullen | Friendly Fire | ABC | |
Louis Gossett, Jr. | Levi Mercer | Backstairs at the White House | NBC | |
Kurt Russell | Elvis Presley | Elvis | ABC |
1980s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
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1980 (32nd) | ||||
Powers Boothe | Jim Jones | Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones | CBS | |
Tony Curtis | David O. Selznick | The Scarlett O'Hara War | NBC | |
Henry Fonda | Clarence Earl Gideon | Gideon's Trumpet | CBS | |
Jason Robards | Franklin D. Roosevelt | F.D.R.: The Last Year | NBC | |
1981 (33rd) | ||||
Anthony Hopkins | Adolf Hitler | The Bunker | CBS | |
Richard Chamberlain | John Blackthorne / "Anjin-san" | Shōgun | NBC | |
Toshiro Mifune | Lord Yoshi Toranaga | |||
Peter O'Toole | Cornelius Flavius Silva | Masada | ABC | |
Peter Strauss | Eleazar Ben Yair | |||
1982 (34th) [1] | ||||
Mickey Rooney | Bill Sackter | Bill | CBS | |
Anthony Andrews | Sebastian Flyte | Brideshead Revisited | PBS | |
Philip Anglim | John Merrick | The Elephant Man | ABC | |
Anthony Hopkins | Quasimodo | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | CBS | |
Jeremy Irons | Charles Ryder | Brideshead Revisited | PBS | |
1983 (35th) [2] | ||||
Tommy Lee Jones | Gary Gilmore | The Executioner's Song | NBC | |
Robert Blake | Jimmy Hoffa | Blood Feud | OPT | |
Richard Chamberlain | Ralph de Bricassart | The Thorn Birds | ABC | |
Alec Guinness | George Smiley | Smiley's People | Syndicated | |
Roger Rees | Nicholas Nickleby | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | ||
1984 (36th) | ||||
Laurence Olivier | King Lear | King Lear | Syndicated | |
Ted Danson | Steven Bennett | Something About Amelia | ABC | |
Louis Gossett, Jr. | Anwar al-Sadat | Sadat | OPT | |
Mickey Rooney | Bill Sackter | Bill: On His Own | CBS | |
Daniel J. Travanti | John Walsh | Adam | NBC | |
1985 (37th) | ||||
Richard Crenna | Richard Beck | The Rape of Richard Beck | ABC | |
Richard Chamberlain | Raoul Wallenberg | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story | NBC | |
James Garner | Harold Lear | Heartsounds | ABC | |
Richard Kiley | George Hollis | Do You Remember Love | CBS | |
George C. Scott | Ebenezer Scrooge | A Christmas Carol | ||
1986 (38th) | ||||
Dustin Hoffman | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman | CBS | |
Kirk Douglas | Amos Lasher | Amos | CBS | |
Ben Gazzara | Nick Pierson | An Early Frost | NBC | |
John Lithgow | Maj. Kendall Laird | Resting Place | CBS | |
Aidan Quinn | Michael Pierson | An Early Frost | NBC | |
1987 (39th) | ||||
James Woods | D. J. | Promise | CBS | |
Alan Arkin | Leon Feldhendler | Escape from Sobibor | CBS | |
James Garner | Bob Beuhler | Promise | ||
Louis Gossett, Jr. | Mathu | A Gathering of Old Men | ||
Randy Quaid | Lyndon B. Johnson | LBJ: The Early Years | NBC | |
1988 (40th) | ||||
Jason Robards | Henry Drummond | Inherit the Wind | NBC | |
Hume Cronyn | Hector Nations | Foxfire | CBS | |
Danny Glover | Nelson Mandela | Mandela | HBO | |
Stacy Keach | Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway | Syndicated | |
Jack Lemmon | John M. Slaton | The Murder of Mary Phagan | NBC | |
1989 (41st) | ||||
James Woods | Bill Wilson | My Name Is Bill W. | ABC | |
Robert Duvall | Gus McCrae | Lonesome Dove | CBS | |
John Gielgud | Aaron Jastrow | War and Remembrance | ABC | |
Tommy Lee Jones | Woodrow F. Call | Lonesome Dove | CBS | |
Ben Kingsley | Simon Wiesenthal | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | HBO |
1990s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
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1990 (42nd) | ||||
Hume Cronyn | Cooper | Age-Old Friends | HBO | |
Michael Caine | Dr. Henry Jekyll / Harry Hyde | Jekyll & Hyde | ABC | |
Art Carney | The Father | Where Pigeons Go to Die | NBC | |
Albert Finney | Jason Cromwell | The Image | HBO | |
Tom Hulce | Michael Schwerner | Murder in Mississippi | NBC | |
1991 (43rd) | ||||
John Gielgud | Haverford Downs | Summer's Lease | PBS | |
James Garner | Albert Sidney Finch | Decoration Day | NBC | |
Dennis Hopper | Paris Trout | Paris Trout | Showtime | |
Sidney Poitier | Thurgood Marshall | Separate but Equal | ABC | |
Christopher Walken | Jacob Witting | Sarah, Plain and Tall | CBS | |
1992 (44th) [3] | ||||
Beau Bridges | James Brady | Without Warning: The James Brady Story | HBO | |
Rubén Blades | Ernesto Ontiveros | Crazy from the Heart | TNT | |
Hume Cronyn | Cleveland Merriweather | Christmas on Division Street | CBS | |
Brian Dennehy | John Wayne Gacy | To Catch a Killer | Syndicated | |
Maximilian Schell | Mordechai Weiss | Miss Rose White | NBC | |
1993 (45th) | ||||
Robert Morse | Truman Capote | Tru | PBS | |
Robert Blake | John List | Judgment Day: The John List Story | CBS | |
Robert Duvall | Joseph Stalin | Stalin | HBO | |
James Garner | F. Ross Johnson | Barbarians at the Gate | ||
James Woods | Roy Cohn | Citizen Cohn | ||
1994 (46th) | ||||
Hume Cronyn | Sam Peek | To Dance with the White Dog | CBS | |
Michael Caine | Joseph Stalin | World War II: When Lions Roared | NBC | |
James Garner | Ira Moran | Breathing Lessons | CBS | |
Matthew Modine | Don Francis | And the Band Played On | HBO | |
Sam Waterston | Forrest Bedford | I'll Fly Away: Then and Now | PBS | |
1995 (47th) | ||||
Raul Julia (post-humously) | Chico Mendes | The Burning Season | HBO | |
Charles S. Dutton | Boy Willie Charles | The Piano Lesson | CBS | |
John Goodman | Huey P. Long | Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long | TNT | |
John Lithgow | Tom Bradley / Bob Bradley | My Brother's Keeper | CBS | |
James Woods | Danny Davis | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | HBO | |
1996 (48th) | ||||
Alan Rickman | Grigori Rasputin | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny | HBO | |
Alec Baldwin | Stanley Kowalski | A Streetcar Named Desire | CBS | |
Beau Bridges | Richard Nixon | Kissinger and Nixon | TNT | |
Laurence Fishburne | Hannibal Lee | The Tuskegee Airmen | HBO | |
Gary Sinise | Harry S. Truman | Truman | ||
1997 (49th) | ||||
Armand Assante | John Gotti | Gotti | HBO | |
Beau Bridges | Bill Januson | Hidden in America | Showtime | |
Robert Duvall | Adolf Eichmann | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | TNT | |
Laurence Fishburne | Caleb Humphries | Miss Evers' Boys | HBO | |
Sidney Poitier | Nelson Mandela | Mandela and de Klerk | Showtime | |
1998 (50th) [4] | ||||
Gary Sinise | George Wallace | George Wallace | TNT | |
Jack Lemmon | Juror #8 | 12 Angry Men | Showtime | |
Sam Neill | Merlin | Merlin | NBC | |
Ving Rhames | Don King | Don King: Only in America | HBO | |
Patrick Stewart | Captain Ahab | Moby Dick | USA | |
1999 (51st) | ||||
Stanley Tucci | Walter Winchell | Winchell | HBO | |
Don Cheadle | Grant Wiggins | A Lesson Before Dying | HBO | |
Ian Holm | King Lear | King Lear | PBS | |
Jack Lemmon | Henry Drummond | Inherit the Wind | Showtime | |
Sam Shepard | Dashiell Hammett | Dash and Lilly | A&E |
2000s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 (52nd) | ||||
Jack Lemmon | Morrie Schwartz | Tuesdays with Morrie | ABC | |
Beau Bridges | P. T. Barnum | P. T. Barnum | A&E | |
Brian Dennehy | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman | Showtime | |
William H. Macy | Terry Thorpe | A Slight Case of Murder | TNT | |
Liev Schreiber | Orson Welles | RKO 281 | HBO | |
2001 (53rd) | ||||
Kenneth Branagh | Reinhard Heydrich | Conspiracy | HBO | |
Andy García | Arturo Sandoval | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story | HBO | |
Gregory Hines | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | Bojangles | Showtime | |
Ben Kingsley | Otto Frank | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | ABC | |
Barry Pepper | Roger Maris | 61* | HBO | |
2002 (54th) | ||||
Albert Finney | Winston Churchill | The Gathering Storm | HBO | |
Kenneth Branagh | Ernest Shackleton | Shackleton | A&E | |
Beau Bridges | Michael Mulvaney | We Were the Mulvaneys | Lifetime | |
James Franco | James Dean | James Dean | TNT | |
Michael Gambon | Lyndon B. Johnson | Path to War | HBO | |
2003 (55th) | ||||
William H. Macy | Bill Porter | Door to Door | TNT | |
Brad Garrett | Jackie Gleason | Gleason | CBS | |
Paul Newman | Stage Manager | Our Town | Showtime | |
Tom Wilkinson | Roy Applewood | Normal | HBO | |
James Woods | Rudy Giuliani | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | USA | |
2004 (56th) | ||||
Al Pacino | Roy Cohn | Angels in America | HBO | |
Antonio Banderas | Pancho Villa | And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | HBO | |
James Brolin | Ronald Reagan | The Reagans | Showtime | |
Mos Def | Vivien Thomas | Something the Lord Made | HBO | |
Alan Rickman | Dr. Alfred Blalock | |||
2005 (57th) | ||||
Geoffrey Rush | Peter Sellers | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | HBO | |
Kenneth Branagh | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Warm Springs | HBO | |
Ed Harris | Miles Roby | Empire Falls | ||
William H. Macy | Charles Gigot | The Wool Cap | TNT | |
Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Elvis Presley | Elvis | CBS | |
2006 (58th) | ||||
Andre Braugher | Nick Atwater | Thief | FX | |
Charles Dance | Mr. Tulkinghorn | Bleak House | PBS | |
Ben Kingsley | Dr. Herman Tarnower | Mrs. Harris | HBO | |
Donald Sutherland | Bill Meehan | Human Trafficking | Lifetime | |
Jon Voight | Pope John Paul II | Pope John Paul II | CBS | |
2007 (59th) | ||||
Robert Duvall | Prentice "Prent" Ritter | Broken Trail | AMC | |
Jim Broadbent | Lord Longford | Longford | HBO | |
William H. Macy | Det. Clyde Umney / Sam Landry | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King: Umney's Last Case | TNT | |
Matthew Perry | Ron Clark | The Ron Clark Story | ||
Tom Selleck | Jesse Stone | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | CBS | |
2008 (60th) | ||||
Paul Giamatti | John Adams | John Adams | HBO | |
Ralph Fiennes | Bernard Lafferty | Bernard and Doris | HBO | |
Ricky Gervais | Andy Millman | Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale | ||
Kevin Spacey | Ron Klain | Recount | ||
Tom Wilkinson | James Baker | |||
2009 (61st) | ||||
Brendan Gleeson | Winston Churchill | Into the Storm | HBO | |
Kevin Bacon | Michael Strobl | Taking Chance | HBO | |
Kenneth Branagh | Kurt Wallander | Wallander: One Step Behind | PBS | |
Kevin Kline | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | ||
Ian McKellen | King Lear | King Lear | ||
Kiefer Sutherland | Jack Bauer | 24: Redemption | Fox |
2010s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
---|---|---|---|---|
2010 (62nd) [5] | ||||
Al Pacino | Dr. Jack Kevorkian | You Don't Know Jack | HBO | |
Jeff Bridges | Jon Katz | A Dog Year | HBO | |
Ian McKellen | Number Two / Curtis | The Prisoner | AMC | |
Dennis Quaid | Bill Clinton | The Special Relationship | HBO | |
Michael Sheen | Tony Blair | |||
2011 (63rd) [6] | ||||
Barry Pepper | Robert F. Kennedy | The Kennedys | Reelz | |
Idris Elba | John Luther | Luther | BBC America | |
Laurence Fishburne | Thurgood Marshall | Thurgood | HBO | |
William Hurt | Henry Paulson | Too Big to Fail | ||
Greg Kinnear | John F. Kennedy | The Kennedys | Reelz | |
Édgar Ramírez | Ilich Ramírez Sánchez | Carlos | Sundance | |
2012 (64th) [7] | ||||
Kevin Costner | Devil Anse Hatfield | Hatfields & McCoys | History | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia | PBS | |
Idris Elba | John Luther | Luther | BBC America | |
Woody Harrelson | Steve Schmidt | Game Change | HBO | |
Clive Owen | Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway & Gellhorn | ||
Bill Paxton | Randolph McCoy | Hatfields & McCoys | History | |
2013 (65th) [8] | ||||
Michael Douglas | Władziu Valentino Liberace | Behind the Candelabra | HBO | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Christopher Tietjens | Parade's End | HBO | |
Matt Damon | Scott Thorson | Behind the Candelabra | ||
Toby Jones | Alfred Hitchcock | The Girl | ||
Al Pacino | Phil Spector | Phil Spector | ||
2014 (66th) [9] | ||||
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock: His Last Vow | PBS | |
Chiwetel Ejiofor | Louis Lester | Dancing on the Edge | Starz | |
Mark Ruffalo | Ned Weeks | The Normal Heart | HBO | |
Martin Freeman | Lester Nygaard | Fargo | FX | |
Billy Bob Thornton | Lorne Malvo | |||
Idris Elba | John Luther | Luther | BBC America | |
2015 (67th) [10] | ||||
Richard Jenkins | Henry Kitteridge | Olive Kitteridge | HBO | |
Adrien Brody | Harry Houdini | Houdini | History | |
Ricky Gervais | Derek Noakes | Derek: The Special | Netflix | |
Timothy Hutton | Russ Skokie | American Crime | ABC | |
David Oyelowo | Peter Snowden | Nightingale | HBO | |
Mark Rylance | Thomas Cromwell | Wolf Hall | PBS | |
2016 (68th) [11] | ||||
Courtney B. Vance | Johnnie Cochran | The People v. O. J. Simpson | FX | |
Bryan Cranston | Lyndon B. Johnson | All the Way | HBO | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | PBS | |
Idris Elba | John Luther | Luther | BBC America | |
Cuba Gooding, Jr. | O. J. Simpson | The People v. O. J. Simpson | FX | |
Tom Hiddleston | Jonathan Pine | The Night Manager | AMC | |
2017 (69th) [12] | ||||
Riz Ahmed | Nasir "Naz" Khan | The Night Of | HBO | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock: The Lying Detective | PBS | |
Robert De Niro | Bernie Madoff | The Wizard of Lies | HBO | |
John Turturro | John Stone | The Night Of | ||
Ewan McGregor | Ray Stussy and Emmit Stussy | Fargo | FX | |
Geoffrey Rush | Albert Einstein | Genius | Nat Geo | |
2018 (70th) [13] | ||||
Darren Criss | Andrew Cunanan | The Assassination of Gianni Versace | FX | |
Antonio Banderas | Pablo Picasso | Genius: Picasso | Nat Geo | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Patrick Melrose | Patrick Melrose | Showtime | |
Jesse Plemons | Captain Robert Daly | USS Callister (Black Mirror) | Netflix | |
Jeff Daniels | John O. Neill | The Looming Tower | Hulu | |
John Legend | Jesus Christ | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert | NBC | |
2019 (71st) | ||||
Jharrel Jerome | Korey Wise | When They See Us | Netflix | |
Mahershala Ali | Wayne Hays | True Detective | HBO | |
Jared Harris | Valery Legasov | Chernobyl | ||
Benicio del Toro | Richard Matt | Escape at Dannemora | Showtime | |
Hugh Grant | Jeremy Thorpe | A Very English Scandal | Amazon | |
Sam Rockwell | Bob Fosse | Fosse/Verdon | FX |
2020s[]
Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
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2020 (72nd) [14] | ||||
Mark Ruffalo | Dominick & Thomas Birdsey | I Know This Much Is True | HBO | |
Jeremy Pope | Archie Coleman | Hollywood | Netflix | |
Jeremy Irons | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias | Watchmen | HBO | |
Hugh Jackman | Frank Tassone | Bad Education | ||
Paul Mescal | Connell Waldron | Normal People | Hulu | |
2021 (73rd) [15] | ||||
Ewan McGregor | Halston | Halston | Netflix | |
Hugh Grant | Jonathan Fraser | The Undoing | HBO | |
Lin-Manuel Miranda | Alexander Hamilton | Hamilton | Disney+ | |
Leslie Odom, Jr. | Aaron Burr | |||
Paul Bettany | Vision | WandaVision |
Programs with multiple wins[]
- 2 wins
- American Crime Story
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See also[]
- TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
References[]
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ "Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
Categories:
- Primetime Emmy Awards
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners
- Television awards for Best Actor