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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

American television award

Summary

American television award

Field	Value
name	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
image	Stephen_Graham_Springsteen-23_(cropped).jpg
awarded_for	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
presenter	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
country	United States
year	1955
holder	Stephen Graham,
Adolescence (2025)
website
caption	The 2025 recipient: Stephen Graham

Adolescence (2025)

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS). It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role on a television limited series or television movie for the primetime network season.

The award was first presented at the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards on March 7, 1955, to Robert Cummings, for his performance as Juror #8 on the Studio One episode "Twelve Angry Men". It has undergone several name changes, with the category split into two categories at the 25th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy; and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. By the 31st Primetime Emmy Awards, the categories were merged into one, and it has since undergone several name changes, leading to its current title.

Since its inception, the award has been given to 59 actors. Stephen Graham is the current recipient of the award, for his portrayal of Eddie Miller on Adolescence. Laurence Olivier has won the most awards in this category, with four, while Hal Holbrook has received the most nominations for the award, on seven occasions.

Winners and nominations

[[Lloyd Nolan]] won for ''[[Ford Star Jubilee]]'' (1956).

[[Jack Palance]] won for ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' (1957).

Omnibus]]'' (1958), ''[[Hallmark Hall of Fame]]'' (1967), and ''A Storm in Summer'' (1975).

[[Fred Astaire]] won twice for ''[[An Evening with Fred Astaire]]'' (1959) and ''[[A Family Upside Down]]'' (1978).

[[Peter Falk]] won twice for ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]'' (1962) and ''[[Columbo]]'' (1975).

[[Cliff Robertson]] won for ''[[Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre]]'' (1966).

[[Melvyn Douglas]] won for ''[[CBS Playhouse]]'' (1968).

[[Hal Holbrook]] won for ''Pueblo'' (1974) and ''Sandburg's Lincoln'' (1976).

[[Christopher Plummer]] won for ''[[The Moneychangers]]'' (1977).

[[Powers Boothe]] won for ''[[Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones]]'' (1980).

Promise]]'' (1986) and ''[[My Name Is Bill W.]]'' (1989).

[[Beau Bridges]] won for ''[[Without Warning: The James Brady Story]]'' (1992).

[[Alan Rickman]] won for ''[[Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny]]'' (1996).

[[Geoffrey Rush]] won for ''[[The Life and Death of Peter Sellers]]'' (2005).

[[Robert Duvall]] won for ''[[Broken Trail]]'' (2007).

[[Michael Douglas]] won for ''[[Behind the Candelabra]]'' (2013).

[[Courtney B. Vance]] won for ''[[The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story]]'' (2016).

[[Riz Ahmed]] won for ''[[The Night Of]]'' (2017).

[[Darren Criss]] won for ''[[The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story]]'' (2018).

1950s

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Episode
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
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
Ossie Davis	Charles Carter	Hallmark Hall of Fame	"Teacher, Teacher"	NBC
David McCallum	Hamilton Cade
Bill Travers	Crichton	"The Admirable Crichton"

1970s

Year	Actor	Role	Program
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)
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
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)
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
William Holden	Bumper Morgan	The Blue Knight	NBC
Peter Falk	Columbo	Columbo	NBC
Dennis Weaver	Sam McCloud	McCloud
1975
(27th)
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
Peter Falk	Columbo	Columbo	NBC
Dennis Weaver	Sam McCloud	McCloud	NBC
1976
(28th)
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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](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
2010
(62nd)
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)
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)
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)
Michael Douglas	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)
Benedict Cumberbatch	Sherlock Holmes	Sherlock: His Last Vow	PBS
Chiwetel Ejiofor	Louis Lester	Dancing on the Edge	Starz
Idris Elba	John Luther	Luther	BBC America
Martin Freeman	Lester Nygaard	Fargo	FX
Mark Ruffalo	Ned Weeks	The Normal Heart	HBO
Billy Bob Thornton	Lorne Malvo	Fargo	FX
2015
(67th)
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)
Courtney B. Vance	Johnnie Cochran	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	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: American Crime Story	FX
Tom Hiddleston	Jonathan Pine	The Night Manager	AMC
2017
(69th)
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
Ewan McGregor	Ray Stussy / Emmit Stussy	Fargo	FX
Geoffrey Rush	Albert Einstein	Genius	Nat Geo
John Turturro	John Stone	The Night Of	HBO
2018
(70th)
Darren Criss	Andrew Cunanan	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	FX
Antonio Banderas	Pablo Picasso	Genius: Picasso	Nat Geo
Benedict Cumberbatch	Patrick Melrose	Patrick Melrose	Showtime
Jeff Daniels	John O'Neill	The Looming Tower	Hulu
John Legend	Jesus Christ	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	NBC
Jesse Plemons	Captain Robert Daly	USS Callister (Black Mirror)	Netflix
2019
(71st)
Jharrel Jerome	Korey Wise	When They See Us	Netflix
Mahershala Ali	Wayne Hays	True Detective	HBO
Benicio del Toro	Richard Matt	Escape at Dannemora	Showtime
Hugh Grant	Jeremy Thorpe	A Very English Scandal	Prime Video
Jared Harris	Valery Legasov	Chernobyl	HBO
Sam Rockwell	Bob Fosse	Fosse/Verdon	FX

2020s

Year	Actor	Role	Program
2020
(72nd)
Mark Ruffalo	Dominick & Thomas Birdsey	I Know This Much Is True	HBO
Jeremy Irons	Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias	Watchmen	HBO
Hugh Jackman	Frank Tassone	Bad Education
Paul Mescal	Connell Waldron	Normal People	Hulu
Jeremy Pope	Archie Coleman	Hollywood	Netflix
2021
(73rd)
Ewan McGregor	Halston	Halston	Netflix
Paul Bettany	Vision	WandaVision	Disney+
Hugh Grant	Jonathan Fraser	The Undoing	HBO
Lin-Manuel Miranda	Alexander Hamilton	Hamilton	Disney+
Leslie Odom Jr.	Aaron Burr
2022
(74th)
Michael Keaton	Dr. Samuel Finnix	Dopesick	Hulu
Colin Firth	Michael Peterson	The Staircase	HBO Max
Andrew Garfield	Detective Jeb Pyre	Under the Banner of Heaven	FX
Oscar Isaac	Jonathan Levy	Scenes from a Marriage	HBO
Himesh Patel	Jeevan Chaudhary	Station Eleven	HBO Max
Sebastian Stan	Tommy Lee	Pam & Tommy	Hulu
2023
(75th)
Steven Yeun	Danny Cho	Beef	Netflix
Taron Egerton	Jimmy Keene	Black Bird	Apple TV+
Kumail Nanjiani	Somen "Steve" Banerjee	Welcome to Chippendales	Hulu
Evan Peters	Jeffrey Dahmer	Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story	Netflix
Daniel Radcliffe	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	Roku
Michael Shannon	George Jones	George & Tammy	Showtime
2024
(76th)
Richard Gadd	Donny Dunn	Baby Reindeer	Netflix
Matt Bomer	Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller	Fellow Travelers	Showtime
Jon Hamm	Sheriff Roy Tillman	Fargo	FX
Tom Hollander	Truman Capote	Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Andrew Scott	Tom Ripley	Ripley	Netflix
2025
(77th)
Stephen Graham	Eddie Miller	Adolescence	Netflix
Colin Farrell	Oswald "Oz" Cobb	The Penguin	HBO
Jake Gyllenhaal	Rusty Sabich	Presumed Innocent	Apple TV+
Brian Tyree Henry	Ray Driscoll	Dope Thief
Cooper Koch	Erik Menendez	Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story	Netflix

Programs with multiple wins

;2 wins

American Crime Story

Performers with multiple wins

;4 wins

Laurence Olivier

;3 wins

Peter Ustinov

;2 wins

Fred Astaire
Hume Cronyn
Peter Falk
Hal Holbrook
Anthony Hopkins
Al Pacino
James Woods

Programs with multiple nominations

;13 nominations

Hallmark Hall of Fame

;7 nominations

Playhouse 90

;4 nominations

Fargo
Luther
Sherlock

;3 nominations

American Crime Story
CBS Playhouse
The Dick Powell Theatre
Studio One

;2 nominations

An Early Frost
Behind the Candelabra
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Brian's Song
Brideshead Revisited
Columbo
The Defenders
Ford Star Jubilee
Genius
Hamilton
Hatfields & McCoys
Holocaust
The Kennedys
Lonesome Dove
Masada
McCloud
Monster
The Night Of
Producers' Showcase
Promise
Recount
Rich Man, Poor Man
Shōgun
Something the Lord Made
The Special Relationship
The United States Steel Hour

Performers with multiple nominations

;7 nominations

Hal Holbrook

;6 nominations

Benedict Cumberbatch
Laurence Olivier

;5 nominations

Beau Bridges
James Garner
Jack Lemmon
Jason Robards
Mickey Rooney
George C. Scott
James Woods

;4 nominations

Kenneth Branagh
Richard Chamberlain
Hume Cronyn
Robert Duvall
Idris Elba
William H. Macy

;3 nominations

Lee J. Cobb
Laurence Fishburne
Peter Falk
Henry Fonda
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Anthony Hopkins
Ben Kingsley
Fredric March
Al Pacino
Christopher Plummer
Peter Strauss
Peter Ustinov

;2 nominations

Alan Alda
Alan Arkin
Fred Astaire
Antonio Banderas
Robert Blake
Michael Caine
Brian Dennehy
William Devane
Melvyn Douglas
Albert Finney
Ricky Gervais
John Gielgud
Hugh Grant
Alec Guinness
Edward Herrmann
Trevor Howard
Jeremy Irons
Tommy Lee Jones
John Lithgow
Ewan McGregor
Ian McKellen
Barry Pepper
Sidney Poitier
Alan Rickman
Cliff Robertson
Mark Ruffalo
Geoffrey Rush
Martin Sheen
Gary Sinise
Rod Steiger
Dennis Weaver
Tom Wilkinson
Ed Wynn

References

"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].
"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]].

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