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
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	Colin Farrell – The Penguin (2024)
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.

In this category four actors have received two awards each, Paul Giamatti (John Adams, Too Big to Fail), Al Pacino (Angels in America, You Don't Know Jack), Gary Sinise (Truman, George Wallace), and Mark Ruffalo (The Normal Heart, I Know This Much Is True).

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner.

Gary Sinise won this award twice for Truman (1995) and George Wallace (1997).

Alan Rickman won for Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)

Christopher Reeve won for Rear Window (1998)

Jack Lemmon won for Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)

Ben Kingsley won for Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

Al Pacino won twice for Angels in America (2003), You Don't Know Jack (2010)

Geoffrey Rush won for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

Paul Newman won for Empire Falls (2005)

Jeremy Irons won for Elizabeth I (2006)

Kevin Kline won for As You Like It (2007)

Paul Giamatti won twice for John Adams (2008) and Too Big to Fail (2010)

Kevin Costner won for Hatfields & McCoys (2012)

Michael Douglas won for Behind the Candelabra (2013)

Idris Elba won for Luther (2015)

Bryan Cranston won for All the Way (2016)

Mark Ruffalo won for I Know This Much Is True (2020)

Michael Keaton won for Dopesick (2021)

Steven Yeun won for Beef (2023)

Colin Farrell won for The Penguin (2024).

1990s

Year	Actress	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
1994 (1st)	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 (2nd)	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 (3rd)	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 (4th)	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 (5th)	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 (6th)	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	Actress	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2000 (7th)	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 (8th)	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 (9th)	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 (10th)	Al Pacino	Angels in America	Roy Cohn
	Justin Kirk	Angels in America	Prior Walter / Man in Park
	Jeffrey Wright		Mr. Lies / Belize / Homeless Man / The Angel Europa
	Paul Newman	Our Town	Stage Manager
	Forest Whitaker	Deacons for Defense	Marcus Clay
2004 (11th)	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 (12th)	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 (13th)	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	Det. Clyde Umney / Sam Landry
	Matthew Perry	The Ron Clark Story	Ron Clark
2007 (14th)	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 (15th)	Paul Giamatti	John Adams	John Adams
	Tom Wilkinson	John Adams	Benjamin Franklin
	Ralph Fiennes	Bernard and Doris	Bernard Lafferty
	Kevin Spacey	Recount	Ron Klain
	Kiefer Sutherland	24: Redemption	Jack Bauer
2009 (16th)	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	Actress	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2010 (17th)	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 (18th)	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 (19th)	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 (20th)	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 (21st)	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 (22nd)	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 (23rd)	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 (24th)	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 (25th)	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 (26th)	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	Actress	Film	Role(s)	Ref.
2020 (27th)	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 (28th)	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
2022 (29th)	Sam Elliott	1883	Shea Brennan
	Steve Carell	The Patient	Alan Strauss
	Taron Egerton	Black Bird	James "Jimmy" Keane
	Paul Walter Hauser		Lawrence "Larry" Hall
	Evan Peters	Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story	Jeffrey Dahmer
2023 (30th)	Steven Yeun	Beef	Danny Cho
	Matt Bomer	Fellow Travelers	Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller
	Jon Hamm	Fargo	Roy Tillman
	David Oyelowo	Lawmen: Bass Reeves	Bass Reeves
	Tony Shalhoub	Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie	Adrian Monk
2024 (31st)	Colin Farrell	The Penguin	Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin
	Javier Bardem	Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story	José Menendez
	Richard Gadd	Baby Reindeer	Donny Dunn
	Kevin Kline	Disclaimer	Stephen Brigstocke
	Andrew Scott	Ripley	Tom Ripley
2025 (32nd)	Jason Bateman	Black Rabbit	Vince Friedken
	Owen Cooper	Adolescence	Jamie Miller
	Stephen Graham		Eddie Miller
	Charlie Hunnam	Monster: The Ed Gein Story	Ed Gein
	Matthew Rhys	The Beast in Me	Nile Jarvis

Actors with multiple awards

2 wins

• Paul Giamatti
• Al Pacino
• Gary Sinise
• Mark Ruffalo

Actors with multiple nominations

3 nominations

• James Garner
• Ed Harris
• Jeremy Irons
• Ben Kingsley
• Kevin Kline
• William H. Macy
• Al Pacino
• Gary Sinise
• John Turturro

2 nominations

• Alec Baldwin
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Robert Duvall
• Laurence Fishburne
• Paul Giamatti
• Hugh Grant
• Michael Keaton
• Jack Lemmon
• Ray Liotta
• Paul Newman
• Evan Peters
• Mark Ruffalo
• Geoffrey Rush
• George C. Scott
• Patrick Stewart
• Forest Whitaker
• Tom Wilkinson
• James Woods

Programs with multiple nominations

3 nominations

• American Crime Story (FX)
• Angels in America (HBO)

2 nominations

• 12 Angry Men (Showtime)
• Adolescence (Netflix)
• Behind the Candelabra (HBO)
• Black Bird (AppleTV+)
• Broken Trail (AMC)
• The Bronx Is Burning (ESPN)
• Empire Fall (HBO)
• Fargo (FX)
• John Adams (HBO)
• Game Change (HBO)
• Hatfields & McCoys (History)
• Monster (Netflix)
• The Night Of (HBO)
• Nuremberg (TNT)
• The Rockford Files (NBC)
• Sherlock (PBS)
• Too Big to Fail (HBO)
• Tuesdays with Morrie (ABC)
• You Don't Know Jack (HBO)

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

• SAG Awards official site