Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film is one of the categories of the annual Satellite Awards in film and television.
Winners and nominees 1990s Year Actress Series Role Network 1996 Alan Rickman Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny Grigori Rasputin HBOBeau Bridges Hidden in America Bill Januson ShowtimeTed Danson Gulliver's Travels Lemuel Gulliver NBCEric Roberts In Cold Blood Perry Smith CBSJames Woods The Summer of Ben Tyler Temple Rayburn 1997 Gary Sinise George Wallace George C. Wallace TNTArmand Assante The Odyssey Odysseus NBCGabriel Byrne Weapons of Mass Distraction Lionel Powers HBOVing Rhames Don King: Only in America Don KingSidney Poitier Mandela and de Klerk Nelson Mandela Showtime 1998 Delroy Lindo Glory & Honor Mathew Henson TNTCary Elwes The Pentagon Wars Lt. Colonel James Burton HBOLaurence Fishburne Always Outnumbered Socrates Fortlow Kevin Pollak From the Earth to the Moon Joseph Francis SheaPatrick Stewart Moby Dick Captain Ahab USA Network 1999 William H. Macy A Slight Case of Murder Terry Thorpe TNTBeau Bridges P. T. Barnum P. T. Barnum A&EDon Cheadle A Lesson Before Dying Grant Wiggins HBOBrent Spiner Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Earl MillsDelroy Lindo Strange Justice Clarence Thomas Showtime
2000s Year Actress Series Role Network 2000 James Woods Dirty Pictures Dennis Barrie ShowtimeAndy García For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story Arturo Sandoval HBOBob Hoskins Noriega: God's Favorite Manuel Noriega ShowtimeLouis Gossett Jr. The Color of Love: Jacey's Story Lou Hastings CBSMatthew Modine Flowers for Algernon Charlie Gordon 2001 Richard DreyfussThe Day Reagan Was Shot Alexander Haig ShowtimeBen Kingsley Anne Frank: The Whole Story Otto Frank ABCWilliam Hurt Varian's War Varian Fry ShowtimeDamian Lewis Band of Brothers Major Richard "Dick" Winters HBOJeffrey Wright Boycott Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 2002 William H. Macy Door to Door Bill Porter TNTTed Danson Living with the Dead James Van Praagh CBSAlbert Finney The Gathering Storm Winston Churchill HBOHarry J. Lennix Keep the Faith, Baby Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ShowtimePatrick Stewart King of Texas John Lear TNT 2003 James Woods Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story Rudy Giuliani USA NetworkRobert Carlyle Hitler: The Rise of Evil Adolf Hitler CBSTroy Garity Soldier's Girl Barry Winchell ShowtimeLee Pace Scottie / Calpernia AddamsAl Pacino Angels in America Roy Cohn HBOTom Wilkinson Normal Roy Applewood 2004 Jamie Foxx Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story Stan "Tookie" Williams FXKeith Carradine Deadwood Wild Bill Hickok HBOMos Def Something the Lord Made Vivien ThomasAlan Rickman Dr. Alfred BlalockGeoffrey Rush The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Peter Sellers 2005 Jonathan Rhys Meyers Elvis Elvis Presley CBSTed Danson Our Fathers Mitchell Garabedian ShowtimeChristian Campbell Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical Jimmy HarperRupert Everett Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes BBC OneKenneth Branagh Warm Springs Franklin D. Roosevelt HBOEd Harris Empire Falls Miles Roby 2006 Bill Nighy Gideon's Daughter Gideon Warner BBC AmericaAndre Braugher Thief Nick Atwater FXHugh Dancy Elizabeth I Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex HBOBen Kingsley Mrs. Harris Herman TarnowerCharles Dance Bleak House Mr. Tulkinghorn BBC One 2007 David Oyelowo Five Days Matt Wellings HBORobert Lindsay The Trial of Tony Blair Tony Blair More4Jim Broadbent Longford Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford HBOAidan Quinn Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Henry L. Dawes Tom Selleck Jesse Stone: Sea Change Jesse Stone CBSToby Stephens Jane Eyre Edward Fairfax Rochester BBC One 2008 Paul Giamatti John Adams John Adams HBOBenedict Cumberbatch The Last Enemy Stephen Ezard BBC OneRalph Fiennes Bernard and Doris Bernard Lafferty HBOKevin Spacey Recount Ron KlainTom Wilkinson James BakerStellan Skarsgård God on Trial Baumgarten PBS 2009 Brendan Gleeson Into the Storm Winston Churchill HBOKenneth Branagh Wallander Kurt Wallander BBC OneKevin Bacon Taking Chance Michael Strobl HBOWilliam Hurt Endgame Will Esterhuyse Channel 4Jeremy Irons Georgia O'Keeffe Alfred Stieglitz LifetimeIan McKellen The Prisoner Number Two / Curtis AMC
2010s Year Actress Series Role Network 2010 Al Pacino You Don't Know Jack Dr. Jack Kevorkian HBOBenedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Sherlock Holmes PBSIdris Elba Luther Det. John Luther BBC OneIan McShane The Pillars of the Earth Waleran Bigod StarzBarry Pepper When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story Bill Wilson CBSDennis Quaid The Special Relationship Bill Clinton HBODavid Suchet Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express Hercule Poirot ITV 2011 Jason Isaacs Case Histories Jackson Brodie BBC OneHugh Bonneville Downton Abbey Robert Crawly, Earl of Grantham PBSIdris Elba Luther Det. John Luther BBC OneLaurence Fishburne Thurgood Thurgood Marshall HBOWilliam Hurt Too Big to Fail Henry PaulsonBill Nighy Page Eight Johnny Worricker BBC Two 2012 Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Sherlock Holmes PBSWoody Harrelson Game Change Steve Schmidt HBOClive Owen Hemingway & Gellhorn Ernest HemingwayKenneth Branagh Wallander Kurt Wallander BBC OneIdris Elba Luther Det. John LutherKevin Costner Hatfields & McCoys Devil Anse Hatfield HISTORY 2013 Michael Douglas Behind the Candelabra Liberace HBOPeter Mullan Top of the Lake Matt Mitcham BBC TwoChiwetel Ejiofor Dancing on the Edge Louis LesterMatthew Goode Stanley MitchellMatt Damon Behind the Candelabra Scott Thorson HBOAl Pacino Phil Spector Phil SpectorBenedict Cumberbatch Parade's End Christopher TietjensDominic West Burton & Taylor Richard Burton BBC Four 2014 Mark Ruffalo The Normal Heart Ned Weeks HBODominic Cooper Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond Ian Fleming BBC AmericaRichard Jenkins Olive Kitteridge Henry Kitteridge HBOStephen Rea The Honourable Woman Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle SundanceTVDavid Suchet Agatha Christie's Poirot Hercule Poirot ITVKiefer Sutherland 24: Live Another Day Jack Bauer Fox 2015 Mark Rylance Wolf Hall Thomas Cromwell BBC TwoMartin Clunes Arthur & George Arthur Conan Doyle ITVMichael Gambon The Casual Vacancy Howard Mollison HBOOscar Isaac Show Me a Hero Nick WasicskoDavid Oyelowo Nightingale Peter SnowdenDamian Lewis Wolf Hall Henry VIII of England BBC TwoBen Mendelsohn Bloodline Danny Rayburn Netflix 2016 Bryan Cranston All the Way Lyndon B. Johnson HBOCuba Gooding Jr. The People v. O.J. Simpson O. J. Simpson FXCourtney B. Vance Johnnie CochranWendell Pierce Confirmation Clarence Thomas HBOTom Hiddleston The Night Manager Jonathan Pine AMCAnthony Hopkins The Dresser Sir BBC Two 2017 Robert De Niro The Wizard of Lies Bernie Madoff HBOBenedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Sherlock Holmes PBSJude Law The Young Pope Pope Pius XIII HBOEwan McGregor Fargo Emmit and Ray Stussy FXTim Pigott-Smith King Charles III King Charles III BBC Two 2018 Darren Criss The Assassination of Gianni Versace Andrew Cunanan FXDaniel Brühl The Alienist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler TNTBenedict Cumberbatch Patrick Melrose Patrick Melrose ShowtimeJeff Daniels The Looming Tower John O'Neill HuluHugh Grant A Very English Scandal Jeremy Thorpe BBC OneJared Harris The Terror Captain Francis Crozier AMC 2019 Jared Harris Chernobyl Valery Legasov HBO Russell Crowe The Loudest Voice Roger Ailes Showtime Jharrel Jerome When They See Us Korey Wise Netflix Aaron Paul El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Jesse Pinkman Chris Pine I Am the Night Jay Singletary TNT Sam Rockwell Fosse/Verdon Bob Fosse FX
2020s Year Actress Series Role Network 2020 Ethan Hawke The Good Lord BirdJohn Brown Showtime John Boyega Small Axe Leroy Logan BBC One/Prime Video Bryan Cranston Your Honor Michael Desiato Showtime Hugh Grant The Undoing Jonathan Fraser HBO Hugh Jackman Bad Education Frank Tassone Chris Rock Fargo Loy Cannon FX Mark Ruffalo I Know This Much Is True Dominick and Thomas Birdsey HBO 2021 Ewan McGregor HalstonHalston Netflix Colin Farrell The North Water Henry Drax AMC+ Stephen Graham Help Tony Channel 4 Michael Keaton Dopesick Dr. Samuel Finnix Hulu Clive Owen Impeachment: American Crime Story President Bill Clinton FX Andrew Scott Oslo Terje Rød-Larsen HBO 2022 Evan Peters Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story Jeffrey Dahmer NetflixJon Bernthal We Own This City Sergeant Wayne Jenkins HBOJeff Bridges The Old Man Dan Chase / Henry Dixon / Johnny Kohler FXAndrew Garfield Under the Banner of Heaven Detective Jeb Pyre FX on HuluJared Leto WeCrashed Adam Neumann Apple TV+Sean Penn Gaslit John N. Mitchell Starz 2023 Guy Pearce A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby MGM+Matt Bomer Fellow Travelers Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller ShowtimeJon Hamm Fargo Sheriff Roy Tillman FXDamian Lewis A Spy Among Friends Nicholas Elliott MGM+Bill Pullman Murdaugh Murders: The Movie Alex Murdaugh LifetimeSteven Yeun Beef Danny Cho Netflix
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