Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series |
Location | Los Angeles, California |
Presented by | SAG-AFTRA |
Currently held by | Michael Keaton for Dopesick (2021) |
Website | sagawards.org |
The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Miniseries or Television Movie.
Winners and nominees[]
indicates the winner.
1990s[]
Year | Nominee | Miniseries or Movie | Role(s) |
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1994 | Raúl Juliá (posthumous) | The Burning Season | Chico Mendes |
James Garner | The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. | Jim Rockford | |
John Malkovich | Heart of Darkness | Colonel Kurtz | |
Gary Sinise | The Stand | Stu Redman | |
Forest Whitaker | The Enemy Within | Colonel MacKenzie "Mac" Casey | |
1995 | Gary Sinise | Truman | Harry S. Truman |
Alec Baldwin | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski | |
Laurence Fishburne | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee | |
James Garner | The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise | Jim Rockford | |
Tommy Lee Jones | The Good Old Boys | Hewey Calloway | |
1996 | Alan Rickman | Rasputin | Grigori Rasputin |
Armand Assante | Gotti | John Gotti | |
Beau Bridges | Hidden in America | Bill Januson | |
Robert Duvall | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | Adolf Eichmann | |
Ed Harris | Riders of the Purple Sage | Jim Lassiter | |
1997 | Gary Sinise | George Wallace | George Wallace |
Jack Lemmon | 12 Angry Men | Juror #8 | |
Sidney Poitier | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | |
Ving Rhames | Don King: Only in America | Don King | |
George C. Scott | 12 Angry Men | Juror #3 | |
1998 | Christopher Reeve | Rear Window | Jason Kemp |
Charles S. Dutton | Blind Faith | Charles Williams | |
James Garner | Legalese | Norman Keane | |
Ben Kingsley | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | |
Ray Liotta | The Rat Pack | Frank Sinatra | |
Stanley Tucci | Winchell | Walter Winchell | |
1999 | Jack Lemmon | Tuesdays with Morrie | Morris "Morrie" Schwartz |
Hank Azaria | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | |
Peter Fonda | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Frank O’Connor | |
George C. Scott (posthumous) | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | |
Patrick Stewart | A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge |
2000s[]
Year | Nominee | Miniseries or Movie | Role(s) |
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2000 | Brian Dennehy | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman |
Alec Baldwin | Nuremberg | Justice Robert H. Jackson | |
Brian Cox | Hermann Göring | ||
Danny Glover | Freedom Song | Will Walker | |
John Lithgow | Don Quixote | Don Quixote | |
James Woods | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | |
2001 | Ben Kingsley | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank |
Alan Alda | Club Land | Willie Walters | |
Richard Dreyfuss | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | |
James Franco | James Dean | James Dean | |
Gregory Hines | Bojangles | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | |
2002 | William H. Macy | Door to Door | Bill Porter |
Albert Finney | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | |
Brad Garrett | Gleason | Jackie Gleason | |
Sean Hayes | Martin and Lewis | Jerry Lewis | |
John Turturro | Monday Night Mayhem | Howard Cosell | |
2003 | Al Pacino | Angels in America | Roy Cohn |
Justin Kirk | Angels in America | Prior Walter / Leatherman in Park | |
Paul Newman | Our Town | Stage Manager | |
Forest Whitaker | Deacons for Defense | Marcus Clay | |
Jeffrey Wright | Angels in America | Various Characters | |
2004 | Geoffrey Rush | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers |
Jamie Foxx | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | Stan "Tookie" Williams | |
William H. Macy | The Wool Cap | Charlie Gigot | |
Barry Pepper | 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story | Dale Earnhardt | |
Jon Voight | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Eddie | |
2005 | Paul Newman | Empire Falls | Max Roby |
Kenneth Branagh | Warm Springs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
Ted Danson | Knights of the South Bronx | David MacEnulty | |
Ed Harris | Empire Falls | Miles Roby | |
Christopher Plummer | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law | |
2006 | Jeremy Irons | Elizabeth I | Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester |
Thomas Haden Church | Broken Trail | Tom Harte | |
Robert Duvall | Prentice Ritter | ||
William H. Macy | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | Det. Clyde Umney / Sam Landry | |
Matthew Perry | The Ron Clark Story | Ron Clark | |
2007 | Kevin Kline | As You Like It | Jacques |
Michael Keaton | The Company | James Jesus Angleton | |
Oliver Platt | The Bronx Is Burning | George Steinbrenner | |
Sam Shepard | Ruffian | Frank Whiteley | |
John Turturro | The Bronx Is Burning | Billy Martin | |
2008 | Paul Giamatti | John Adams | John Adams |
Ralph Fiennes | Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty | |
Kevin Spacey | Recount | Ron Klain | |
Kiefer Sutherland | 24: Redemption | Jack Bauer | |
Tom Wilkinson | John Adams | Benjamin Franklin | |
2009 | Kevin Bacon | Taking Chance | Michael Strobl |
Cuba Gooding Jr. | Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story | Ben Carson | |
Jeremy Irons | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz | |
Kevin Kline | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | |
Tom Wilkinson | A Number | Salter |
2010s[]
Year | Nominee | Miniseries or Movie | Role(s) |
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2010 | Al Pacino | You Don't Know Jack | Dr. Jack Kevorkian |
John Goodman | You Don't Know Jack | Neal Nicol | |
Dennis Quaid | The Special Relationship | Bill Clinton | |
Édgar Ramírez | Carlos | Ilich Ramírez Sánchez / Carlos the Jackal | |
Patrick Stewart | Macbeth | Macbeth | |
2011 | Paul Giamatti | Too Big to Fail | Ben Bernanke |
Laurence Fishburne | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | |
Greg Kinnear | The Kennedys | John F. Kennedy | |
Guy Pearce | Mildred Pierce | Monty Beragon | |
James Woods | Too Big to Fail | Richard S. Fuld Jr. | |
2012 | Kevin Costner | Hatfields & McCoys | Devil Anse Hatfield |
Woody Harrelson | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | |
Ed Harris | John McCain | ||
Clive Owen | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Ernest Hemingway | |
Bill Paxton | Hatfields & McCoys | Randolph McCoy | |
2013 | Michael Douglas | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace |
Matt Damon | Behind the Candelabra | Scott Thorson | |
Jeremy Irons | The Hollow Crown | King Henry IV | |
Rob Lowe | Killing Kennedy | John F. Kennedy | |
Al Pacino | Phil Spector | Phil Spector | |
2014 | Mark Ruffalo | The Normal Heart | Ned Weeks |
Adrien Brody | Houdini | Harry Houdini | |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock: His Last Vow | Sherlock Holmes | |
Richard Jenkins | Olive Kitteridge | Henry Kitteridge | |
Billy Bob Thornton | Fargo | Lorne Malvo | |
2015 | Idris Elba | Luther | John Luther |
Ben Kingsley | Tut | Ay, the Grand Vizier | |
Ray Liotta | Texas Rising | Lorca / Tom Mitchell | |
Bill Murray | A Very Murray Christmas | Himself | |
Mark Rylance | Wolf Hall | Thomas Cromwell | |
2016 | Bryan Cranston | All the Way | Lyndon B. Johnson |
Riz Ahmed | The Night Of | Nasir "Naz" Khan | |
Sterling K. Brown | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Christopher Darden | |
John Turturro | The Night Of | John Stone | |
Courtney B. Vance | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Johnnie Cochran | |
2017 | Alexander Skarsgård | Big Little Lies | Perry Wright |
Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock: The Lying Detective | Sherlock Holmes | |
Jeff Daniels | Godless | Frank Griffen | |
Robert De Niro | The Wizard of Lies | Bernie Madoff | |
Geoffrey Rush | Genius | Albert Einstein | |
2018 | Darren Criss | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | Andrew Cunanan |
Antonio Banderas | Genius: Picasso | Pablo Picasso | |
Hugh Grant | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe | |
Anthony Hopkins | King Lear | King Lear | |
Bill Pullman | The Sinner | Detective Harry Ambrose | |
2019 | Sam Rockwell | Fosse/Verdon | Bob Fosse |
Mahershala Ali | True Detective | Wayne Hays | |
Russell Crowe | The Loudest Voice | Roger Ailes | |
Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | |
Jharrel Jerome | When They See Us | Korey Wise |
2020s[]
Year | Nominee | Miniseries or Movie | Role(s) |
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2020 | Mark Ruffalo | I Know This Much Is True | Dominick and Thomas Birdsey |
Bill Camp | The Queen's Gambit | William Shaibel | |
Daveed Diggs | Hamilton | Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson | |
Hugh Grant | The Undoing | Jonathan Fraser | |
Ethan Hawke | The Good Lord Bird | John Brown | |
2021 | Michael Keaton | Dopesick | Dr. Samuel Finnix |
Murray Bartlett | The White Lotus | Armond | |
Oscar Isaac | Scenes from a Marriage | Jonathan Levy | |
Ewan McGregor | Halston | Halston | |
Evan Peters | Mare of Easttown | Colin Zabel |
Trivia[]
Multiple winners[]
- 2 wins
- Paul Giamatti (John Adams, Too Big to Fail)
- Al Pacino (Angels in America, You Don't Know Jack)
- Gary Sinise (Truman, George Wallace)
- Mark Ruffalo (The Normal Heart, I Know This Much Is True)
Multiple nominees[]
Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.
- 2 nominations
- Alec Baldwin (A Streetcar Named Desire, Nuremberg )
- Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock: His Last Vow, Sherlock: The Lying Detective)
- Robert Duvall (Broken Trail, The Man Who Captured Eichmann)
- Laurence Fishburne (The Tuskegee Airmen, Thurgood)
- Paul Giamatti (John Adams, Too Big to Fail)
- Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal, The Undoing)
- Kevin Kline (As You Like It, Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac)
- Jack Lemmon (12 Angry Men, Tuesdays with Morrie)
- Ray Liotta (The Rat Pack, Texas Rising)
- Paul Newman (Empire Falls, Our Town)
- Mark Ruffalo (The Normal Heart, I Know This Much Is True)
- Geoffrey Rush (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Genius)
- George C. Scott (12 Angry Men, Inherit the Wind)
- Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, Macbeth)
- Forest Whitaker (Deacons for Defense, The Enemy Within)
- Tom Wilkinson (John Adams, A Number)
- James Woods (Dirty Pictures, Too Big To Fail)
- 3 nominations
- James Garner (Legalese, The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise, The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.)
- Ed Harris (Riders of the Purple Sage, Empire Falls, Game Change)
- Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I, Georgia O'Keeffe, The Hollow Crown)
- Ben Kingsley (Anne Frank: The Whole Story, The Tale of Sweeney Todd, Tut)
- William H. Macy (Door to Door, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Wool Cap)
- Al Pacino (Angels in America, You Don't Know Jack, Phil Spector)
- Gary Sinise (The Stand, Truman, George Wallace)
- John Turturro (The Bronx Is Burning, Monday Night Mayhem, The Night Of)
See also[]
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries
- Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries
External links[]
Categories:
- Screen Actors Guild Awards
- Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Television awards for Best Actor