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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Country	United States
Currently held by	Barry Pepper, The Kennedys (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.

Contents

1 Award winners
- 1.1 1950s
- 1.2 1960s
- 1.3 1970s
- 1.4 1980s
- 1.5 1990s
- 1.6 2000s
- 1.7 2010s
2 Most wins
3 Multiple nominations

[edit] Award winners

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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, Poort Man
- Peter Strauss - Rich Man, Poort 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 1990s

1990: Hume Cronyn – Age-Old Friends as Cooper
- Michael Caine - Jekyll & Hyde as Henry Jekyll/Harry Hyde
- Art Carney - Where Pigeons Go to Die as Da
- Albert Finney - The Image as Jason Cromwell
- Tom Hulce - Murder in Mississippi as Mickey Schwerner

1991: John Gielgud – Summer's Lease as Haverford Downs
- James Garner - Decoration Day as Albert Sidney Finch
- Dennis Hopper - Paris Trout as Paris Trout
- Sidney Poitier - Separate But Equal as Thurgood Marshall
- Christopher Walken - Sarah, Plain and Tall as Jacob Witting

1992: Beau Bridges – Without Warning: The James Brady Story as James Brady
- Ruben Blades - Crazy from the Heart as Ernesto Ontiveros
- Hume Cronyn - Christmas on Division Street as Cleveland Merriweather
- Brian Dennehy - To Catch a Killer as John Wayne Gacy
- Maximilian Schell - Miss Rose White as Mordechai Weiss

1993: Robert Morse – Tru as Truman Capote
- Robert Blake - Judgment Day: The John List Story as John List
- Robert Duvall - Stalin as Joseph Stalin
- James Garner - Barbarians at the Gate as Ross Johnson
- James Woods - Citizen Cohn as Roy Cohn

1994: Hume Cronyn – To Dance with the White Dog as Sam Peek
- Michael Caine - World War II: When Lions Roared as Joseph Stalin
- James Garner - Breathing Lessons as Ira Moran
- Matthew Modine - And the Band Played On as Dr. Don Francis
- Sam Waterston - I'll Fly Away: Then and Now as D.A. Forrest Bedford

1995: Raul Julia – The Burning Season as Chico Mendes
- Charles S. Dutton - The Piano Lesson as Boy Willie Charles
- John Goodman - Kingfish: The Story of Huey P. Long as Huey P. Long
- John Lithgow - My Brother's Keeper as Tom Bradley/Bob Bradley
- James Woods - Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Danny Davis

1996: Alan Rickman – Rasputin as Grigori Rasputin
- Alec Baldwin - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski
- Beau Bridges - Kissinger and Nixon as Richard Nixon
- Laurence Fishburne - The Tuskegee Airmen as Hannibal Lee
- Gary Sinise - Truman as Harry Truman

1997: Armand Assante – Gotti as John Gotti
- Beau Bridges - Hidden in America as Bill Januson
- Robert Duvall - The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Adolf Eichmann
- Laurence Fishburne - Miss Evers' Boys as Caleb Humphries
- Sidney Poitier - Mandela and De Klerk as Nelson Mandela

1998: Gary Sinise – George Wallace as George Wallace
- Jack Lemmon - 12 Angry Men as Juror #8
- Sam Neill - Merlin as Merlin
- Ving Rhames - Don King: Only in America as Don King
- Patrick Stewart - Moby Dick as Captain Ahab

1999: Stanley Tucci – Winchell as Walter Winchell
- Don Cheadle - A Lesson Before Dying as Grant Wiggins
- Ian Holm - King Lear as King Lear
- Jack Lemmon - Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond
- Sam Shepard - Dash and Lilly as Dashiell Hammett

[edit] 2000s

2000: Jack Lemmon – Tuesdays with Morrie as Morrie Schwartz
- Beau Bridges – P. T. Barnum as P.T. Barnum
- Brian Dennehy – Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
- William H. Macy – A Slight Case of Murder as Terry Thorpe
- Liev Schreiber – RKO 281 as Orson Welles

2001: Kenneth Branagh – Conspiracy as Heydrich
- Andy García – For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story as Arturo Sandoval
- Gregory Hines – Bojangles as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
- Ben Kingsley – Anne Frank as Otto Frank
- Barry Pepper – 61* as Roger Maris

2002: Albert Finney – The Gathering Storm as Winston Churchill
- Kenneth Branagh – Shackleton as Ernest Shackleton
- Beau Bridges – We Were the Mulvaneys as Michael Mulvaney
- James Franco – James Dean as James Dean
- Michael Gambon – Path to War as Lyndon B. Johnson

2003: William H. Macy – Door to Door as Bill Porter
- Brad Garrett – Gleason as Jackie Gleason
- Paul Newman – Our Town as Stage Manager
- Tom Wilkinson – Normal as Roy
- James Woods – Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story as Rudy Giuliani

2004: Al Pacino – Angels in America as Roy Cohn
- Antonio Banderas – And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself as Pancho Villa
- James Brolin – The Reagans as Ronald Reagan
- Mos Def – Something the Lord Made as Vivien Thomas
- Alan Rickman – Something the Lord Made as Alfred Blalock

2005: Geoffrey Rush – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Peter Sellers
- Kenneth Branagh – Warm Springs as Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Ed Harris – Empire Falls as Miles Roby
- William H. Macy – The Wool Cap as Gigot
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers – Elvis as Elvis Presley

2006: Andre Braugher – Thief as Nick Atwater
- Charles Dance – Bleak House as Mr. Tulkinghorn
- Ben Kingsley – Mrs. Harris as Herman Tarnower
- Donald Sutherland – Human Trafficking as Bill Meehan
- Jon Voight – Pope John Paul II as Pope John Paul II

2007: Robert Duvall – Broken Trail as Prentice "Prent" Ritter
- Jim Broadbent – Longford as Lord Longford
- William H. Macy – Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King as Clyde Umney/Sam Landry
- Matthew Perry – The Ron Clark Story as Ron Clark
- Tom Selleck – Jesse Stone: Sea Change as Jesse Stone

2008: Paul Giamatti – John Adams as John Adams
- Ralph Fiennes – Bernard and Doris as Bernard Lafferty
- Ricky Gervais – Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale as Andy Millman
- Kevin Spacey – Recount as Ron Klain
- Tom Wilkinson – Recount as James Baker

2009: Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm as Winston Churchill
- Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance as Michael Strobl
- Kenneth Branagh – Wallander: One Step Behind as Kurt Wallander
- Kevin Kline – Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano de Bergerac
- Ian McKellen – King Lear as King Lear
- Kiefer Sutherland – 24: Redemption as Jack Bauer

[edit] 2010s

2010: Al Pacino – You Don't Know Jack as Jack Kevorkian
- Jeff Bridges – A Dog Year as Jon Katz
- Ian McKellen – The Prisoner as Two
- Dennis Quaid – The Special Relationship as Bill Clinton
- Michael Sheen – The Special Relationship as Tony Blair

2011: Barry Pepper – The Kennedys as Robert F. Kennedy
- Idris Elba – Luther as John Luther
- Laurence Fishburne – Thurgood as Thurgood Marshall
- William Hurt – Too Big to Fail as Hank Paulson
- Greg Kinnear – The Kennedys as John F. Kennedy
- Edgar Ramirez – Carlos as Carlos the Jackal

[edit] Most wins

2 wins

4 wins

Laurence Olivier

[edit] Multiple nominations

2 nominations

3 nominations

4 nominations

5 nominations

v d e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

1952–1975	Thomas Mitchell (1952) · Robert Cummings (1954) · Lloyd Nolan (1955) · Jack Palance (1956) · Peter Ustinov (1957) · Fred Astaire (1959) · Laurence Olivier (1960) · Maurice Evans (1961) · Peter Falk (1962) · Trevor Howard (1963) · Jack Klugman (1964) · Alfred Lunt (1965) · Cliff Robertson (1966) · Peter Ustinov (1967) · Melvyn Douglas (1968) · Paul Scofield (1969) · Peter Ustinov (1970) · George C. Scott (1971) · Keith Michell (1972) · Laurence Olivier (1973) · Anthony Murphy (1973) · Hal Holbrook (1974) · William Holden (1974) · Laurence Olivier (1975) · Peter Falk (1975)

1976–2000	Anthony Hopkins (1976) · Hal Holbrook (1976) · Ed Flanders (1977) · Christopher Plummer (1977) · Fred Astaire (1978) · Michael Moriarty (1978) · Peter Strauss (1979) · Powers Boothe (1980) · Anthony Hopkins (1981) · Mickey Rooney (1982) · Tommy Lee Jones (1983) · Laurence Olivier (1984) · Richard Crenna (1985) · Dustin Hoffman (1986) · James Woods (1987) · Jason Robards (1988) · James Woods (1989) · Hume Cronyn (1990) · John Gielgud (1991) · Beau Bridges (1992) · Robert Morse (1993) · Hume Cronyn (1994) · Raúl Juliá (1995) · Alan Rickman (1996) · Armand Assante (1997) · Gary Sinise (1998) · Stanley Tucci (1999) · Jack Lemmon (2000)

2001–present	Kenneth Branagh (2001) · Albert Finney (2002) · William H. Macy (2003) · Al Pacino (2004) · Geoffrey Rush (2005) · Andre Braugher (2006) · Robert Duvall (2007) · Paul Giamatti (2008) · Brendan Gleeson (2009) · Al Pacino (2010) · Barry Pepper (2011)

Complete list · (1952–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025)

v d e Primetime Emmy Award categories

Programming	Comedy Series · Drama Series · Variety, Music or Comedy Series · Miniseries · Made for TV Movie · Variety, Music or Comedy Special · Directing – Comedy Series · Directing – Drama Series · Directing – Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special · Writing – Comedy Series · Writing – Drama Series · Writing – Variety, Music or Comedy Program · Writing – Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special · Reality Program · Reality-Competition Program

Performance	Lead Actor – Comedy Series · Lead Actor – Drama Series · Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie · Lead Actress – Comedy Series · Lead Actress – Drama Series · Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie · Supporting Actor – Comedy Series · Supporting Actor – Drama Series · Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie · Supporting Actress – Comedy Series · Supporting Actress – Drama Series · Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie · Guest Actor – Comedy Series · Guest Actor – Drama Series · Guest Actress – Comedy Series · Guest Actress – Drama Series · Host – Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Creative Arts	Animated Program – Less Than One Hour · Animated Program – More Than One Hour · Voice-Over Performance · Casting – Comedy Series · Casting – Drama Series · Casting – Miniseries, Movie or a Special · Choreography · Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series · Cinematography for a One Hour Series · Costumes for a Series · Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special · Main Title Design · Main Title Theme Music · Music Composition for a Series · Picture Editing for a Comedy Series · Picture Editing for a Drama Series · Visual Effects for a Series · Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or Special

Retired	Actor of the Year · Actress of the Year · Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program · Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series · Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series ·

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