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

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Currently held by	Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge (2015)
Official website	http://www.emmys.com/

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. Before 1975, supporting actors featured in a miniseries or movie were included in categories such as comedy or drama. From 1975 to 1978, the award was called Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special. Despite the category's name, actors appearing in many episodes of a miniseries were included. In 1979, the award was named Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special. The award was renamed again in 1986 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special. By 1998, the award was renamed Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.

Award winners and nominations

1970s

1975: Anthony Quayle – QB VII Ralph Bellamy – The Missiles of October Jack Hawkins – QB VII Trevor Howard – The Count of Monte Cristo 1976: Ed Flanders – A Moon for the Misbegotten Ray Bolger – The Entertainer Art Carney – Katherine 1977: Burgess Meredith – Tail Gunner Joe Martin Balsam – Raid on Entebbe Mark Harmon – Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years Yaphet Kotto – Raid on Entebbe Walter McGinn – Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

1978: Howard Da Silva – Verna: USO Girl James Farentino – Jesus of Nazareth Burgess Meredith – The Last Hurrah Donald Pleasence – The Defection of Simas Kudirka Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. – A Family Upside Down 1979: Marlon Brando – Roots: The Next Generations Ed Flanders – Backstairs at the White House Al Freeman, Jr. – Roots: The Next Generations Robert Vaughn – Backstairs at the White House Paul Winfield – Roots: The Next Generations

1980s

1980: George Grizzard – The Oldest Living Graduate Ernest Borgnine – All Quiet on the Western Front John Cassavetes – Flesh & Blood Charles Durning – Attica Harold Gould – Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War 1981: David Warner – Masada Andy Griffith – Murder in Texas Yuki Meguro – Shogun Anthony Quayle – Masada John Rhys-Davies – Shogun 1982: Laurence Olivier – Brideshead Revisited Jack Albertson – My Body, My Child (posthumously) John Gielgud – Brideshead Revisisted Derek Jacobi – Inside the Third Reich Leonard Nimoy – A Woman Called Golda 1983: Richard Kiley – The Thorn Birds Ralph Bellamy – The Winds of War Bryan Brown – The Thorn Birds Christopher Plummer – The Thorn Birds David Threlfall – The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1984: Art Carney – Terrible Joe Moran Keith Carradine – Chiefs John Gielgud – The Master of Ballantrae John Lithgow – The Day After Randy Quaid – A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold Mitchell David Ogden Stiers – The First Olympics - Athens 1896

1985: Karl Malden – Fatal Vision Richard Burton – Ellis Island (posthumously) John Gielgud – Romance on the Orient Express Richard Masur – The Burning Bed Rip Torn – The Atlanta Child Murders 1986: John Malkovich – Death of a Salesman as Biff Loman Charles Durning – Death of a Salesman John Glover – An Early Frost Harold Gould – Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry Pat Morita – Amos 1987: Dabney Coleman – Sworn to Silence Stephen Collins – The Two Mrs. Grenvilles John Glover – Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder Laurence Olivier – Lost Empires Eli Wallach – Something in Common 1988: John Shea – Baby M Dabney Coleman – Baby M Anthony Quinn – Onassis: The Richest Man in the World Ron Silver – Billionaire Boys Club Bruce Weitz – Baby M 1989: Derek Jacobi – The Tenth Man Armand Assante – Jack the Ripper James Garner – My Name is Bill W. Danny Glover – Lonesome Dove Corin Nemec – I Know My First Name is Steven

1990s

1990: Vincent Gardenia – Age-Old Friends as Aylott Ned Beatty – Last Train Home as Cornelius Van Horne Brian Dennehy – A Killing in a Small Town as Ed Reivers Anthony Hopkins – Great Expectations as Magwitch James Earl Jones – By Dawn's Early Light as Alice Max von Sydow – Red King, White Knight as Szaz 1991: James Earl Jones – Heat Wave as Junius Jackson Ruben Blades – The Josephine Baker Story as Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino David Dukes – The Josephine Baker Story as Jo Bouillon Richard Kiley – Separate but Equal as Earl Warren Leon Russom – Long Road Home as Titus Wardlow 1992: Hume Cronyn – Broadway Bound as Ben Brian Dennehy – The Burden of Proof as Dixon Hartnell Hector Elizondo – Mrs. Cage as Lieutenant Angel Jerry Orbach – Broadway Bound as Jack Ben Vereen – Intruders as Gene Randall 1993: Beau Bridges – The Positively True Adventures... as Terry Harper Brian Dennehy – Murder in the Heartland as John McArthur Jonathan Pryce – Barbarians at the Gate as Henry Kravis Peter Riegert – Barbarians at the Gate as Peter Cohen Maximilian Schell – Stalin as Vladimir Lenin 1994: Michael Goorjian – David's Mother as David Goodson Alan Alda – And the Band Played On as Dr. Robert Gallo Matthew Broderick – A Life in the Theatre as John Richard Gere – And the Band Played On as The Choreographer Ian McKellen – And the Band Played On as Bill Kraus

1995: Donald Sutherland – Citizen X as Fetisov Jeffrey DeMunn – Citizen X as Chikatillo Sam Elliott – Buffalo Girls as Wild Bill Hickok Ben Kingsley – Joseph as Potiphar Edward James Olmos – The Burning Season as Wilson Pinheiro 1996: Tom Hulce – The Heidi Chronicles as Peter Patrone Andre Braugher – The Tuskegee Airmen as Benjamin O. Davis John Goodman – A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold Mitchell Ian McKellen – Rasputin as Nicholas Treat Williams – The Late Shift as Michael Ovitz 1997: Beau Bridges – The Second Civil War as Jim Farley Obba Babatundé – Miss Evers' Boys as Willie Johnson Michael Caine – Mandela and De Klerk as F.W. de Klerk Ossie Davis – Miss Evers' Boys as Mr. Evers Joe Mantegna – The Last Don as Pippi De Lena 1998: George C. Scott – 12 Angry Men as Juror #3 Hume Cronyn – 12 Angry Men as Juror #9 Gregory Peck – Moby Dick as Father Mapple Martin Short – Merlin as Frik J.T. Walsh – Hope as Ray Percy (posthumously) 1999: Peter O'Toole – Joan of Arc as Bishop Cauchon Beau Bridges – Inherit the Wind as E.K. Hornbeck Don Cheadle – The Rat Pack as Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Fonda – The Passion of Ayn Rand as Frank O'Connor Joe Mantegna – The Rat Pack as Dean Martin

2000s

2000: Hank Azaria – Tuesdays with Morrie as Mitch Albom Klaus Maria Brandauer – Introducing Dorothy Dandridge as Otto Preminger James Cromwell – RKO 281 as William Randolph Hearst Danny Glover – Freedom Song as Will Walker John Malkovich – RKO 281 as Herman Mankiewicz 2001: Brian Cox – Nuremberg as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring Alan Alda – Club Land as Willie Walters Colin Firth – Conspiracy as Stuckart Victor Garber – Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows as Sidney Luft Ian Holm – The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Patrick Stanley Tucci – Conspiracy as Adolf Eichmann 2002: Michael Moriarty – James Dean as Winton Dean Alec Baldwin – Path to War as Robert McNamara Jim Broadbent – The Gathering Storm as Desmond Morton Don Cheadle – Things Behind the Sun as Chuck Jon Voight – Uprising as Jürgen Stroop 2003: Ben Gazzara – Hysterical Blindness as Nick Piccolo Alan Arkin – The Pentagon Papers as Harry Rowen Chris Cooper – My House in Umbria as Thomas Riversmith John Malkovich – Napoleon as Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Peter O'Toole – Hitler: The Rise of Evil as Paul von Hindenburg 2004: Jeffrey Wright – Angels in America as Mr. Lies / Norman "Belize" Ariaga / Homeless Man / The Angel Europa / The Antarctic Eskimo Justin Kirk – Angels in America as Prior Walter / Leatherman in Park William H. Macy – Stealing Sinatra as John Irwin Ben Shenkman – Angels in America as Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania Patrick Wilson – Angels in America as Joe Pitt

2005: Paul Newman – Empire Falls as Max Roby Brian Dennehy – Our Fathers as Father Dominic Spagnolia Philip Seymour Hoffman – Empire Falls as C.B. Whiting / Charlie Mayne Christopher Plummer – Our Fathers as Cardinal Bernard Law Randy Quaid – Elvis as Colonel Tom Parker 2006: Jeremy Irons – Elizabeth I as Earl of Leicester Robert Carlyle – Human Trafficking as Sergei Karpovich Clifton Collins, Jr. – Thief as Jack "Bump" Hill Hugh Dancy – Elizabeth I as Earl of Essex Denis Lawson – Bleak House as John Jarndyce 2007: Thomas Haden Church – Broken Trail as Tom Harte Edward Asner – The Christmas Card as Luke Spelman Joe Mantegna – The Starter Wife as Lou Manahan Aidan Quinn – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as Senator Dawes August Schellenberg – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as Sitting Bull 2008: Tom Wilkinson – John Adams as Benjamin Franklin Bob Balaban – Recount as Ben Ginsberg Stephen Dillane – John Adams as Thomas Jefferson Denis Leary – Recount as Michael Whouley David Morse – John Adams as George Washington 2009: Ken Howard – Grey Gardens as Phelan Beale Len Cariou – Into the Storm as Franklin D. Roosevelt Tom Courtenay – Little Dorrit as William Dorrit Bob Newhart – The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice as Judson Andy Serkis – Little Dorrit as Rigaud / Blandois

2010s

Year	Actor	Program	Role	Episode submitted to voters	Network
2009–2010 (62nd)
	David Strathairn	Temple Grandin	Dr. Carlock	N/A	HBO
	Michael Gambon	Emma	Mr. Woodhouse	N/A	PBS
	John Goodman	You Don’t Know Jack	Neal Nicol	N/A	HBO
	Jonathan Pryce	Return to Cranford	Mr. Buxton	N/A	PBS
	Patrick Stewart	Hamlet	King Claudius / Ghost	N/A
2010–2011 (63rd)
	Guy Pearce	Mildred Pierce	Monty Beragon	N/A	HBO
	Paul Giamatti	Too Big to Fail	Ben Bernanke	N/A	HBO
	Brían F. O’Byrne	Mildred Pierce	Bert Pierce	N/A
	Tom Wilkinson	The Kennedys	Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.	N/A	ReelzChannel
	James Woods	Too Big to Fail	Richard “Dick” Fuld, Jr.	N/A	HBO
2011–2012 (64th)
	Tom Berenger	Hatfields & McCoys	Jim Vance	N/A	History
	Martin Freeman	Sherlock: “A Scandal in Belgravia”	Dr. John Watson	N/A	PBS
	Ed Harris	Game Change	John McCain	N/A	HBO
	Denis O’Hare	American Horror Story	Larry Harvey	N/A	FX
	David Strathairn	Hemingway & Gellhorn	John Dos Passos	N/A	HBO
2012–2013 (65th)
	James Cromwell	American Horror Story: Asylum	Dr. Arthur Arden	N/A	FX
	Scott Bakula	Behind the Candelabra	Bob Black	N/A	HBO
	John Benjamin Hickey	The Big C: Hereafter	Sean Jameson	N/A	Showtime
	Peter Mullan	Top of the Lake	Matt Mitcham	N/A	Sundance Channel
	Zachary Quinto	American Horror Story: Asylum	Dr. Oliver Thredson	N/A	FX
2013–2014 (66th)
	Martin Freeman	Sherlock: “His Last Vow”	Dr. John Watson	N/A	PBS
	Matt Bomer	The Normal Heart	Felix Turner	N/A	HBO
	Colin Hanks	Fargo	Officer Gus Grimly	N/A	FX
	Joe Mantello	The Normal Heart	Mickey Marcus	N/A	HBO
	Alfred Molina		Ben Weeks	N/A
	Jim Parsons		Tommy Boatwright	N/A
2014–2015 (67th)
	Bill Murray	Olive Kitteridge	Jack Kennison	“Security”	HBO
	Richard Cabral	American Crime	Hector Tontz	“Episode Ten”	ABC
	Damian Lewis	Wolf Hall	Henry VIII of England	“Crows”	PBS
	Denis O’Hare	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Stanley	“Pink Cupcakes”	FX
	Michael K. Williams	Bessie	Jack Gee	N/A	HBO
	Finn Wittrock	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Daniel “Dandy” Mott	“Bullseye”	FX

Most wins

2 wins

• Beau Bridges

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Alan Alda
• Ralph Bellamy
• Art Carney
• Don Cheadle
• Dabney Coleman
• James Cromwell
• Hume Cronyn
• Charles Durning
• Ed Flanders
• Martin Freeman
• Danny Glover
• John Glover
• John Goodman
• Derek Jacobi
• James Earl Jones
• Richard Kiley
• Burgess Meredith
• Denis O'Hare
• Peter O'Toole
• Laurence Olivier
• Christopher Plummer
• Jonathan Pryce
• Randy Quaid
• Anthony Quayle
• David Strathairn
• Tom Wilkinson

3 nominations

• Beau Bridges
• John Gielgud
• John Malkovich
• Joe Mantegna

4 nominations

• Brian Dennehy

See also

• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film