Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film | |
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Awarded for | Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film |
Country | United States |
Presented by | International Press Academy |
First awarded | 1996 |
Currently held by | Ethan Hawke – The Good Lord Bird (2020) |
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film is one of the categories of the annual Satellite Awards in film and television. Many of the recipients have also been awarded or nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards.
Winners and nominees[]
- "†" indicates a Primetime Emmy Award–winning performance.
- "‡" indicates a Primetime Emmy Award-nominated performance.
1990s[]
Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
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1996 | Alan Rickman † | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny | Grigori Rasputin | HBO |
Beau Bridges ‡ | Hidden in America | Bill Januson | Showtime | |
Ted Danson | Gulliver's Travels | Lemuel Gulliver | NBC | |
Eric Roberts | In Cold Blood | Perry Smith | CBS | |
James Woods | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn | ||
1997 | Gary Sinise † | George Wallace | George C. Wallace | TNT |
Armand Assante | The Odyssey | Odysseus | NBC | |
Gabriel Byrne | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | HBO | |
Ving Rhames ‡ | Don King: Only in America | Don King | ||
Sidney Poitier ‡ | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | Showtime | |
1998 | Delroy Lindo | Glory & Honor | Mathew Henson | TNT |
Cary Elwes | The Pentagon Wars | Lt. Colonel James Burton | HBO | |
Laurence Fishburne | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | ||
Kevin Pollak | From the Earth to the Moon | Joseph Francis Shea | ||
Patrick Stewart ‡ | Moby Dick | Captain Ahab | USA Network | |
1999 | William H. Macy ‡ | A Slight Case of Murder | Terry Thorpe | TNT |
Beau Bridges ‡ | P. T. Barnum | P. T. Barnum | A&E | |
Don Cheadle ‡ | A Lesson Before Dying | Grant Wiggins | HBO | |
Brent Spiner | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Earl Mills | ||
Delroy Lindo | Strange Justice | Clarence Thomas | Showtime |
2000s[]
Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
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2000 | James Woods | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | Showtime |
Andy García ‡ | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story | Arturo Sandoval | HBO | |
Bob Hoskins | Noriega: God's Favorite | Manuel Noriega | Showtime | |
Louis Gossett Jr. | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Lou Hastings | CBS | |
Matthew Modine | Flowers for Algernon | Charlie Gordon | ||
2001 | Richard Dreyfuss | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | Showtime |
Ben Kingsley ‡ | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank | ABC | |
William Hurt | Varian's War | Varian Fry | Showtime | |
Damian Lewis | Band of Brothers | Major Richard "Dick" Winters | HBO | |
Jeffrey Wright | Boycott | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
2002 | William H. Macy † | Door to Door | Bill Porter | TNT |
Ted Danson | Living with the Dead | James Van Praagh | CBS | |
Albert Finney † | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | HBO | |
Harry J. Lennix | Keep the Faith, Baby | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. | Showtime | |
Patrick Stewart | King of Texas | John Lear | TNT | |
2003 | James Woods | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story ‡ | Rudy Giuliani | USA Network |
Robert Carlyle | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Adolf Hitler | CBS | |
Troy Garity | Soldier's Girl | Barry Winchell | Showtime | |
Lee Pace | Scottie / Calpernia Addams | |||
Al Pacino † | Angels in America | Roy Cohn | HBO | |
Tom Wilkinson ‡ | Normal | Roy Applewood | ||
2004 | Jamie Foxx | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | Stan "Tookie" Williams | FX |
Keith Carradine | Deadwood | Wild Bill Hickok | HBO | |
Mos Def ‡ | Something the Lord Made | Vivien Thomas | ||
Alan Rickman ‡ | Dr. Alfred Blalock | |||
Geoffrey Rush † | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers | ||
2005 | Jonathan Rhys Meyers ‡ | Elvis | Elvis Presley | CBS |
Ted Danson | Our Fathers | Mitchell Garabedian | Showtime | |
Christian Campbell | Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | Jimmy Harper | ||
Rupert Everett | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | Sherlock Holmes | BBC One | |
Kenneth Branagh ‡ | Warm Springs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | HBO | |
Ed Harris ‡ | Empire Falls | Miles Roby | ||
2006 | Bill Nighy | Gideon's Daughter | Gideon Warner | BBC America |
Andre Braugher † | Thief | Nick Atwater | FX | |
Hugh Dancy ‡ | Elizabeth I | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | HBO | |
Ben Kingsley ‡ | Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | ||
Charles Dance ‡ | Bleak House | Mr. Tulkinghorn | BBC One | |
2007 | David Oyelowo | Five Days | Matt Wellings | HBO |
Robert Lindsay | The Trial of Tony Blair | Tony Blair | More4 | |
Jim Broadbent ‡ | Longford | Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford | HBO | |
Aidan Quinn | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Henry L. Dawes | ||
Tom Selleck ‡ | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Jesse Stone | CBS | |
Toby Stephens | Jane Eyre | Edward Fairfax Rochester | BBC One | |
2008 | Paul Giamatti † | John Adams | John Adams | HBO |
Benedict Cumberbatch | The Last Enemy | Stephen Ezard | BBC One | |
Ralph Fiennes ‡ | Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty | HBO | |
Kevin Spacey ‡ | Recount | Ron Klain | ||
Tom Wilkinson ‡ | James Baker | |||
Stellan Skarsgård | God on Trial | Baumgarten | PBS | |
2009 | Brendan Gleeson † | Into the Storm | Winston Churchill | HBO |
Kenneth Branagh ‡ | Wallander | Kurt Wallander | BBC One | |
Kevin Bacon ‡ | Taking Chance | Michael Strobl | HBO | |
William Hurt | Endgame | Will Esterhuyse | Channel 4 | |
Jeremy Irons | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz | Lifetime | |
Ian McKellen ‡ | The Prisoner | Number Two / Curtis | AMC |
2010s[]
Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
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2010 | Al Pacino † | You Don't Know Jack | Dr. Jack Kevorkian | HBO |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS | |
Idris Elba ‡ | Luther | Det. John Luther | BBC One | |
Ian McShane | The Pillars of the Earth | Waleran Bigod | Starz | |
Barry Pepper | When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story | Bill Wilson | CBS | |
Dennis Quaid ‡ | The Special Relationship | Bill Clinton | HBO | |
David Suchet | Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | ITV | |
2011 | Jason Isaacs | Case Histories | Jackson Brodie | BBC One |
Hugh Bonneville | Downton Abbey | Robert Crawly, Earl of Grantham | PBS | |
Idris Elba ‡ | Luther | Det. John Luther | BBC One | |
Laurence Fishburne ‡ | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | HBO | |
William Hurt ‡ | Too Big to Fail | Henry Paulson | ||
Bill Nighy | Page Eight | Johnny Worricker | BBC Two | |
2012 | Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
Woody Harrelson ‡ | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | HBO | |
Clive Owen ‡ | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Ernest Hemingway | ||
Kenneth Branagh | Wallander | Kurt Wallander | BBC One | |
Idris Elba ‡ | Luther | Det. John Luther | ||
Kevin Costner † | Hatfields & McCoys | Devil Anse Hatfield | HISTORY | |
2013 | Michael Douglas † | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | HBO |
Peter Mullan ‡ | Top of the Lake | Matt Mitcham | BBC Two | |
Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡ | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | ||
Matthew Goode | Stanley Mitchell | |||
Matt Damon ‡ | Behind the Candelabra | Scott Thorson | HBO | |
Al Pacino ‡ | Phil Spector | Phil Spector | ||
Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | ||
Dominic West | Burton & Taylor | Richard Burton | BBC Four | |
2014 | Mark Ruffalo ‡ | The Normal Heart | Ned Weeks | HBO |
Dominic Cooper | Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | Ian Fleming | BBC America | |
Richard Jenkins † | Olive Kitteridge | Henry Kitteridge | HBO | |
Stephen Rea | The Honourable Woman | Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle | SundanceTV | |
David Suchet | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot | ITV | |
Kiefer Sutherland | 24: Live Another Day | Jack Bauer | Fox | |
2015 | Mark Rylance ‡ | Wolf Hall | Thomas Cromwell | BBC Two |
Martin Clunes | Arthur & George | Arthur Conan Doyle | ITV | |
Michael Gambon | The Casual Vacancy | Howard Mollison | HBO | |
Oscar Isaac | Show Me a Hero | Nick Wasicsko | ||
David Oyelowo ‡ | Nightingale | Peter Snowden | ||
Damian Lewis ‡ | Wolf Hall | Henry VIII of England | BBC Two | |
Ben Mendelsohn ‡ | Bloodline | Danny Rayburn | Netflix | |
2016 | Bryan Cranston ‡ | All the Way | Lyndon B. Johnson | HBO |
Cuba Gooding Jr. ‡ | The People v. O.J. Simpson | O. J. Simpson | FX | |
Courtney B. Vance † | Johnnie Cochran | |||
Wendell Pierce | Confirmation | Clarence Thomas | HBO | |
Tom Hiddleston ‡ | The Night Manager | Jonathan Pine | AMC | |
Anthony Hopkins | The Dresser | Sir | BBC Two | |
2017 [1][2] |
Robert De Niro ‡ | The Wizard of Lies | Bernie Madoff | HBO |
Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS | |
Jude Law | The Young Pope | Pope Pius XIII | HBO | |
Ewan McGregor ‡ | Fargo | Emmit and Ray Stussy | FX | |
Tim Pigott-Smith | King Charles III | King Charles III | BBC Two | |
2018 [3] |
Darren Criss † | The Assassination of Gianni Versace | Andrew Cunanan | FX |
Daniel Brühl | The Alienist | Dr. Laszlo Kreizler | TNT | |
Benedict Cumberbatch ‡ | Patrick Melrose | Patrick Melrose | Showtime | |
Jeff Daniels ‡ | The Looming Tower | John O'Neill | Hulu | |
Hugh Grant ‡ | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe | BBC One | |
Jared Harris | The Terror | Captain Francis Crozier | AMC | |
2019 [4] |
Jared Harris ‡ | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | HBO |
Russell Crowe | The Loudest Voice | Roger Ailes | Showtime | |
Jharrel Jerome † | When They See Us | Korey Wise | Netflix | |
Aaron Paul | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Jesse Pinkman | ||
Chris Pine | I Am the Night | Jay Singletary | TNT | |
Sam Rockwell ‡ | Fosse/Verdon | Bob Fosse | FX |
2020s[]
Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
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2020 [5][6] |
Ethan Hawke | The Good Lord Bird | John Brown | Showtime |
John Boyega | Small Axe | Leroy Logan | BBC One/Prime Video | |
Bryan Cranston | Your Honor | Michael Desiato | Showtime | |
Hugh Grant ‡ | The Undoing | Jonathan Fraser | HBO | |
Mark Ruffalo † | I Know This Much Is True | Dominick and Thomas Birdsey | ||
Hugh Jackman | Bad Education | Frank Tassone | ||
Chris Rock | Fargo | Loy Cannon | FX |
References[]
- ^ "'Dunkirk,' 'The Shape of Water' Lead Satellite Award Nominations". TheWrap. November 30, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ "Satellite Awards 2017". International Press Academy. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "Satellite Awards 2018". International Press Academy. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "Satellite Awards 2019". International Press Academy. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "'One Night in Miami' and 'Nomadland' Lead Nominations for 25th Satellite Awards". Vimooz. February 1, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ Anderson, Erik (February 15, 2021). "Satellite Awards winners: 'Nomadland,' 'Forty-Year Old Version' top film prizes; 'Schitt's Creek,' 'Better Call Saul' take TV". Awards Watch. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
External links[]
Categories:
- Satellite Awards
- Television awards for Best Actor