Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Currently held by	Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys (2011)
Official website	http://www.emmys.com/

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Award winners

1950s

• 1952: Thomas Mitchell
• 1953: no award
• 1954: Robert Cummings – 12 Angry Men
• 1955: Lloyd Nolan – Caine Mutiny Court Marshal
• 1956: Jack Palance – Requiem for a Heavyweight
• 1957: Peter Ustinov – The Life of Samuel Johnson
• 1958: no award
• 1959: Fred Astaire – An Evening With Fred Astaire

1960s

• 1960: Laurence Olivier – The Moon and Sixpence
• 1961: Maurice Evans – Macbeth
• 1962: Peter Falk – The Price of Tomatoes
• 1963: Trevor Howard – The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
• 1964: Jack Klugman – The Blacklist
• 1965: Alfred Lunt – The Magnificent Yankee
• 1966: Cliff Robertson – The Game
• 1967: Peter Ustinov – Barefoot in Athens
• 1968: Melvyn Douglas – Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
• 1969: Paul Scofield – Male of the Species

1970s

• 1970: Peter Ustinov – A Storm in Summer
• 1971: George C. Scott – The Price
• 1972: Keith Michell – The Six Wives of Henry VIII
• 1973: Laurence Olivier – Long Day's Journey into Night
• 1973: Anthony Murphy – Tom Brown's Schooldays
• 1974: Hal Holbrook – Pueblo
• 1974: William Holden – The Blue Knight
• 1975: Laurence Olivier – Love Among the Ruins
• 1975: Peter Falk – Columbo

• 1976 - TV Movie: Anthony Hopkins – The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
  • William Devane - Fear on Trial
  • Jack Lemmon - The Entertainer
  • Edward Herrmann - Eleanor and Franklin
  • Jason Robards - A Moon for the Misbegotten

• 1976 - Limited Series: Hal Holbrook – Sandburg's Lincoln
  • Nick Nolte - Rich Man, Poor Man
  • Peter Strauss - Rich Man, Poor Man
  • George Grizzard - The Adams Chronicles

• 1977 - TV Movie: Ed Flanders – Harry S. Truman Plain Speaking
  • Peter Boyle - Tail Gunner Joe
  • Peter Finch - Raid on Entebbe
  • Edward Herrmann - Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
  • George C. Scott - Beauty and the Beast

• 1977 - Limited Series: Christopher Plummer – The Moneychangers
  • Stanley Baker - How Green Was My Valley
  • Richard Jordan - Captains and the Kings
  • Steven Keats - Seventh Avenue

• 1978 - TV Movie: Fred Astaire – A Family Upside Down
  • Alan Alda - Kill Me If You Can
  • Hal Holbrook - Our Town
  • Martin Sheen - Taxi!!! - Hallmark Hall of Fame
  • James Stacy - Just a Little Inconvenience

• 1978 - Limited Series: Michael Moriarty – Holocaust
  • Hal Holbrook - The Awakening Land
  • Jason Robards - Washington: Behind Closed Doors
  • Fritz Weaver - Holocaust
  • Paul Winfield - King

• 1979: Peter Strauss – The Jericho Mile
  • Ned Beatty - Friendly Fire
  • Louis Gossett, Jr. - Backstairs at the White House
  • Kurt Russell - Elvis

1980s

• 1980: Powers Boothe – Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones as Jim Jones
  • Tony Curtis - Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War as David O. Selznick
  • Henry Fonda - Gideon's Trumpet as Clarence Earl Gideon
  • Jason Robards - F.D.R.: The Last Year as Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• 1981: Anthony Hopkins – The Bunker as Adolf Hitler
  • Richard Chamberlain - Shogun
  • Toshirō Mifune - Shogun
  • Peter O'Toole - Masada
  • Peter Strauss - Masada

• 1982: Mickey Rooney – Bill
  • Anthony Andrews - Brideshead Revisited
  • Philip Anglim - The Elephant Man
  • Anthony Hopkins - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Jeremy Irons - Brideshead Revisited

• 1983: Tommy Lee Jones – The Executioner's Song as Gary Gilmore
  • Robert Blake - Blood Feud as Jimmy Hoffa
  • Richard Chamberlain - The Thorn Birds
  • Alec Guinness - Smiley's People
  • Roger Rees - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

• 1984: Laurence Olivier – King Lear as King Lear
  • Ted Danson - Something About Amelia
  • Louis Gossett, Jr. - Sadat
  • Mickey Rooney - Bill: On His Own
  • Daniel J. Travanti - Adam as John Walsh

• 1985: Richard Crenna – The Rape of Richard Beck as Richard Beck
  • Richard Chamberlain - Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
  • James Garner - Heartsounds
  • Richard Kiley - Do You Remember Love
  • George C. Scott - A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge

• 1986: Dustin Hoffman – Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
  • Kirk Douglas - Amos
  • Ben Gazzara - An Early Frost
  • John Lithgow - Resting Place
  • Aidan Quinn - An Early Frost

• 1987: James Woods – Promise
  • Alan Arkin - Escape from Sobibor
  • James Garner - Promise
  • Louis Gossett, Jr. - A Gathering of Old Men
  • Randy Quaid - LBJ: The Early Years as Lyndon B. Johnson

• 1988: Jason Robards – Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
  • Hume Cronyn - Foxfire as Hector Nations
  • Danny Glover - Mandela as Nelson Mandela
  • Stacy Keach - Hemingway as Ernest Hemingway
  • Jack Lemmon - The Murder of Mary Phagan as Gov. John Marshall Slaton

• 1989: James Woods – My Name Is Bill W. as Bill Wilson
  • Robert Duvall - Lonesome Dove as Gus McCrae
  • John Gielgud - War and Remembrance as Aaron Jastrow
  • Tommy Lee Jones - Lonesome Dove as Woodrow F. Call
  • Ben Kingsley - Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Simon Wiesenthal

1990s

Year	Actor	Program	Role	Network
1989-1990 (42nd)
	Hume Cronyn	Age-Old Friends	Cooper	HBO
	Michael Caine	Jekyll & Hyde	Henry Jekyll/Harry Hyde	ABC
	Art Carney	Where Pigeons Go to Die	Da	NBC
	Albert Finney	The Image	Jason Cromwell	HBO
	Tom Hulce	Murder in Mississippi	Mickey Schwerner	NBC
1990-1991 (43rd)
	John Gielgud	Summer's Lease	Haverford Downs	PBS
	James Garner	Decoration Day	Albert Sidney Finch	NBC
	Dennis Hopper	Paris Trout	Paris Trout	Showtime
	Sidney Poitier	Separate But Equal	Thurgood Marshall	ABC
	Christopher Walken	Sarah, Plain and Tall	Jacob Witting	CBS
1991-1992 (44th)
	Beau Bridges	Without Warning: The James Brady Story	James Brady	HBO
	Rubén Blades	Crazy from the Heart	Ernesto Ontiveros	TNT
	Hume Cronyn	Christmas on Division Street	Cleveland Merriweather	CBS
	Brian Dennehy	To Catch a Killer	John Wayne Gacy	Syndication
	Maximilian Schell	Miss Rose White	Mordechai Weiss	NBC
1992-1993 (45th)
	Robert Morse	Tru	Truman Capote	PBS
	Robert Blake	Judgment Day: The John List Story	John List	CBS
	Robert Duvall	Stalin	Joseph Stalin	HBO
	James Garner	Barbarians at the Gate	F. Ross Johnson	HBO
	James Woods	Citizen Cohn	Roy Cohn	HBO
1993-1994 (46th)
	Hume Cronyn	To Dance with the White Dog	Sam Peek	CBS
	Michael Caine	World War II: When Lions Roared	Joseph Stalin	NBC
	James Garner	Breathing Lessons	Ira Moran	CBS
	Matthew Modine	And the Band Played On	Don Francis	HBO
	Sam Waterston	I'll Fly Away: Then and Now	Forrest Bedford	PBS
1994-1995 (47th)
	Raúl Juliá	The Burning Season	Chico Mendes	HBO
	Charles S. Dutton	The Piano Lesson	Boy Willie Charles	CBS
	John Goodman	Kingfish: The Story of Huey P. Long	Huey P. Long	TNT
	John Lithgow	My Brother's Keeper	Tom Bradley/Bob Bradley	CBS
	James Woods	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Danny Davis	HBO
1995-1996 (48th)
	Alan Rickman	Rasputin	Grigori Rasputin	HBO
	Alec Baldwin	A Streetcar Named Desire	Stanley Kowalski	CBS
	Beau Bridges	Kissinger and Nixon	Richard Nixon	TNT
	Laurence Fishburne	The Tuskegee Airmen	Hannibal Lee	HBO
	Gary Sinise	Truman	Harry Truman	HBO
1996-1997 (49th)
	Armand Assante	Gotti	John Gotti	HBO
	Beau Bridges	Hidden in America	Bill Januson	Showtime
	Robert Duvall	The Man Who Captured Eichmann	Adolf Eichmann	TNT
	Laurence Fishburne	Miss Evers' Boys	Caleb Humphries	HBO
	Sidney Poitier	Mandela and De Klerk	Nelson Mandela	Showtime
1997-1998 (50th)
	Gary Sinise	George Wallace	George Wallace	TNT
	Jack Lemmon	12 Angry Men	Juror #8	Showtime
	Sam Neill	Merlin	Merlin	NBC
	Ving Rhames	Don King: Only in America	Don King	HBO
	Patrick Stewart	Moby Dick	Captain Ahab	USA
1998-1999 (51st)
	Stanley Tucci	Winchell	Walter Winchell	HBO
	Don Cheadle	A Lesson Before Dying	Grant Wiggins	HBO
	Ian Holm	King Lear	King Lear	PBS
	Jack Lemmon	Inherit the Wind	Henry Drummond	Showtime
	Sam Shepard	Dash and Lilly	Dashiell Hammett	A&E

2000s

Year	Actor	Program	Role	Network
1999-2000 (52nd)
	Jack Lemmon	Tuesdays with Morrie	Morrie Schwartz	ABC
	Beau Bridges	P.T. Barnum	P.T. Barnum	A&E
	Brian Dennehy	Death of a Salesman	Willy Loman	Showtime
	William H. Macy	A Slight Case of Murder	Terry Thorpe	TNT
	Liev Schreiber	RKO 281	Orson Welles	HBO
2000-2001 (53rd)
	Kenneth Branagh	Conspiracy	Reinhard Heydrich	HBO
	Andy García	For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story	Arturo Sandoval	HBO
	Gregory Hines	Bojangles	Bill Robinson	Showtime
	Ben Kingsley	Anne Frank: The Whole Story	Otto Frank	ABC
	Barry Pepper	61*	Roger Maris	HBO
2001-2002 (54th)
	Albert Finney	The Gathering Storm	Winston Churchill	HBO
	Kenneth Branagh	Shackleton	Ernest Shackleton	A&E
	Beau Bridges	We Were the Mulvaneys	Michael Mulvaney	Lifetime
	James Franco	James Dean	James Dean	TNT
	Michael Gambon	Path to War	Lyndon B. Johnson	HBO
2002-2003 (55th)
	William H. Macy	Door to Door	Bill Porter	TNT
	Brad Garrett	Gleason	Jackie Gleason	CBS
	Paul Newman	Our Town	Stage Manager	Showtime
	Tom Wilkinson	Normal	Roy Applewood	HBO
	James Woods	Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story	Rudy Giuliani	USA
2003-2004 (56th)
	Al Pacino	Angels in America	Roy Cohn	HBO
	Antonio Banderas	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Pancho Villa	HBO
	James Brolin	The Reagans	Ronald Reagan	Showtime
	Mos Def	Something the Lord Made	Vivien Thomas	HBO
	Alan Rickman	Something the Lord Made	Dr. Alfred Blalock	HBO
2004-2005 (57th)
	Geoffrey Rush	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peter Sellers	HBO
	Kenneth Branagh	Warm Springs	Franklin D. Roosevelt	HBO
	Ed Harris	Empire Falls	Miles Roby	HBO
	William H. Macy	The Wool Cap	Gigot	TNT
	Jonathan Rhys Meyers	Elvis	Elvis Presley	CBS
2005-2006 (58th)
	Andre Braugher	Thief	Nick Atwater	FX
	Charles Dance	Bleak House	Mr. Tulkinghorn	PBS
	Ben Kingsley	Mrs. Harris	Herman Tarnower	HBO
	Donald Sutherland	Human Trafficking	Bill Meehan	Lifetime
	Jon Voight	Pope John Paul II	Pope John Paul II	CBS
2006-2007 (59th)
	Robert Duvall	Broken Trail	Prentice "Prent" Ritter	AMC
	Jim Broadbent	Longford	Lord Longford	HBO
	William H. Macy	Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King	Det. Clyde Umney / Sam Landry	TNT
	Matthew Perry	The Ron Clark Story	Ron Clark	TNT
	Tom Selleck	Jesse Stone: Sea Change	Det. Jesse Stone	CBS
2007-2008 (60th)
	Paul Giamatti	John Adams	John Adams	HBO
	Ralph Fiennes	Bernard and Doris	Bernard Lafferty	HBO
	Ricky Gervais	Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale	Andy Millman	HBO
	Kevin Spacey	Recount	Ron Klain	HBO
	Tom Wilkinson	Recount	James Baker	HBO
2008-2009 (61st)
	Brendan Gleeson	Into the Storm	Winston Churchill	HBO
	Kevin Bacon	Taking Chance	Michael Strobl	HBO
	Kenneth Branagh	Wallander: One Step Behind	Kurt Wallander	PBS
	Kevin Kline	Cyrano de Bergerac	Cyrano de Bergerac	PBS
	Ian McKellen	King Lear	King Lear	PBS
	Kiefer Sutherland	24: Redemption	Jack Bauer	Fox

2010s

Year	Actor	Program	Role	Network
2009-2010 (62nd)
	Al Pacino	You Don't Know Jack	Dr. Jack Kevorkian	HBO
	Jeff Bridges	A Dog Year	Jon Katz	HBO
	Ian McKellen	The Prisoner	Number Two / Curtis	AMC
	Dennis Quaid	The Special Relationship	Bill Clinton	HBO
	Michael Sheen	The Special Relationship	Tony Blair	HBO
2010-2011 (63rd)
	Barry Pepper	The Kennedys	Robert F. Kennedy	ReelzChannel
	Idris Elba	Luther	Det. John Luther	BBC One
	Laurence Fishburne	Thurgood	Thurgood Marshall	HBO
	William Hurt	Too Big to Fail	Hank Paulson	HBO
	Greg Kinnear	The Kennedys	John F. Kennedy	ReelzChannel
	Édgar Ramírez	Carlos	Ilich Ramírez Sánchez	Sundance Channel
2011-2012 (64th)
	Kevin Costner	Hatfields & McCoys	William "Devil Anse" Hatfield	History
	Benedict Cumberbatch	Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia	Sherlock Holmes	BBC One
	Idris Elba	Luther	Det. John Luther	BBC One
	Woody Harrelson	Game Change	Steve Schmidt	HBO
	Clive Owen	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Ernest Hemingway	HBO
	Bill Paxton	Hatfields & McCoys	Randall McCoy	History

Most wins

2 wins

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

4 wins

• Laurence Olivier

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Robert Blake
• Michael Caine
• Brian Dennehy
• Idris Elba
• Albert Finney
• Louis Gossett, Jr.
• Tommy Lee Jones
• Al Pacino
• Barry Pepper
• Sidney Poitier
• Alan Rickman
• Jason Robards
• Gary Sinise
• Tom Wilkinson

3 nominations

• Richard Chamberlain
• Laurence Fishburne
• Ben Kingsley

4 nominations

• Kenneth Branagh
• Hume Cronyn
• Robert Duvall
• Jack Lemmon
• William H. Macy

5 nominations

• Beau Bridges
• James Garner
• James Woods

See also

• Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie