Golden Globe Award / Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Movie
Golden Globe Award : Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Movie
Winners and nominees in the category Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV-Film ( Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television ), which honors the most outstanding acting performances of the past calendar year. The category was launched in 1982.
In 1995 Raúl Juliá ( Flames of Resistance ) received the award posthumously. Three years later, Ving Rhames ( Don King: Only in America ) received the Golden Globe Award, but presented it to his inferior colleague Jack Lemmon ( The 12 Jurors ) .
As the only actor from the German-speaking area so far, the German Jan Niklas received a nomination in 1987 for his role as the young tsar in Peter the Great .
statistics | Surname | number | year |
---|---|---|---|
Most frequent awards | James Garner | 3 | 1987, 1991, 1994 |
Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
James Woods | 7th | 1987 *, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2001 |
Most frequent nominations without a win | Peter Strauss | 4th | 1982, 1984, 1986, 1994 |
In the list below, the winners are listed according to the year in which they were awarded. The mini-series or films listed are given with their German title (if identifiable), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1980s
1982
- Dirk Bogarde - Triumph of Love ( The Patricia Neal Story )
- Timothy Hutton - The Long Way Home ( A Long Way Home )
- Danny Kaye - Cross of Violence ( Skokie )
- Peter O'Toole - Masada
- Ray Sharkey - Hell of Bill Carney ( The Ordeal of Bill Carney )
- Peter Strauss - Masada
1983
Anthony Andrews - Brideshead Revisited
- Philip Anglim - The Elephant Man
- Robby Benson - Two of a Kind
- Jeremy Irons - Brideshead Revisited
- Sam Waterston - Oppenheimer
1984
Richard Chamberlain - The Thorn Birds ( The Thorn Birds )
- Robert Blake - Pursued to the Death ( Blood Feud )
- Louis Gossett junior - Sadat
- Martin Sheen - Kennedy
- Peter Strauss - The Last Shift ( Heart of Steel )
1985
Ted Danson - Something About Amelia
- James Garner - Heartsounds
- Sam Neill - Reilly: Ace of Spies
- Jason Robards - Sakharov
- Treat Williams - Endstation Sehnsucht ( A Streetcar Named Desire )
Dustin Hoffman - Death of a Salesman ( Death of a Salesman )
- Richard Chamberlain - Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
- Richard Crenna - Rape of Richard Beck ( The Rape of Richard Beck )
- Kirk Douglas - Amos
- Peter Strauss - Kane & Abel
James Garner and James Woods - Hallmark Hall of Fame , Episode: Promise
- Mark Harmon - nightmare of horror ( The Deliberate Stranger )
- Jan Niklas - Peter the Great ( Peter the Great )
- John Ritter - Cause of Death - Agent Orange ( Unnatural Causes )
Randy Quaid - Johnson's Walk to the White House (LBJ: The Early Years)
- Alan Arkin - Escape from Sobibor ( Escape from Sobibor )
- Mark Harmon - The Promise of Elmer Jackson ( After the Promise )
- Jack Lemmon - Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Judd Nelson - Beverly Hills Boys Club
- James Woods - POW - Prisoner of War ( In Love and War )
Michael Caine - Jack the Ripper - The Monster of London
Stacy Keach - Hemingway
- Richard Chamberlain - Agent Without a Name ( The Bourne Identity )
- Anthony Hopkins - Hallmark Hall of Fame , episode: The Tenth Man
- Jack Lemmon - Der Fall Mary Phagan ( The Murder of Mary Phagan )
1990s
Robert Duvall - The Call of the Eagle ( Lonesome Dove )
- John Gielgud - Firestorm and Ashes ( War and Remembrance )
- Ben Kingsley - Right, Not Vengeance ( Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story )
- James Woods - Hallmark Hall of Fame , episode: My Name Is Bill W.
- Lane Smith - Der Fall Nixon ( The Final Days )
James Garner - The Purple Heart - The Hero's Hour ( Decoration Day )
- Steven Bauer - The Camarena Plot ( Drug Wars: The Camarena Story )
- Michael Caine - Jekyll and Hyde ( Jekyll & Hyde )
- Tom Hulce - Murder in Mississippi ( Murder in Mississippi )
- Burt Lancaster - The Phantom of the Opera ( The Phantom of the Opera )
- Ricky Schroder - Stranger - return from the past ( The Stranger Within )
Beau Bridges - Without Warning: The James Brady Story
- Sam Elliott - Conagher
- Peter Falk - Columbo , episode: Tödliche Liebe ( Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star )
- Sam Neill - One Against the Wind ( One Against the Wind )
- Sidney Poitier - Equality knows no color ( Separate But Equal )
- Anthony Andrews - Jewels
- Philip Casnoff - Frank Sinatra - The Way to the Top ( Sinatra )
- Jon Voight - The Last of His Tribe
- James Woods - Citizen Cohn - Henchmen of Death ( Citizen Cohn )
James Garner - The Group ( Barbarians at the Gate )
- Peter Falk - Columbo , episode: The Dead in the Electric Blanket ( It's All in the Game )
- Jack Lemmon - A Life in the Theater
- Matthew Modine - ... and life goes on ( And the Band Played On )
- Peter Strauss - The Beaten Man ( Men Don't Tell )
Raúl Juliá - Flames of Resistance (The Burning Season) (awarded posthumously)
- Alan Alda - Raging Current - Rafting Trips to Doom ( White Mile )
- James Garner - Breathing Lessons
- Rutger Hauer - Vaterland ( Fatherland )
- Samuel L. Jackson - Against the Wall
Gary Sinise - Truman - The Man Who Made History ( Truman )
- Alec Baldwin - Endstation Sehnsucht ( A Streetcar Named Desire )
- Charles S. Dutton - The Piano Lesson
- Laurence Fishburne - The Honor to Fly ( The Tuskegee Airmen )
- James Woods - Under Indictment - The McMartin Case ( Indictment: The McMartin Trial )
- Armand Assante - The Fall of the Cosa Nostra ( Gotti )
- Beau Bridges - Farewell to Chase ( Losing Chase )
- Stephen Rea - Crime of the Century
- James Woods - The Summer of Ben Tyler
Ving Rhames - Don King: Only in America
- Armand Assante - The Adventures of Odysseus ( The Odyssey )
- Jack Lemmon - The 12 Jurors ( 12 Angry Men )
- Matthew Modine - Explosion of Silence ( What the Deaf Man Heard )
- Gary Sinise - George Wallace
Stanley Tucci - Winchell - Passionate Reporter ( Winchell )
- Peter Fonda - Storm Over Mississippi ( The Tempest )
- Sam Neill - Merlin
- Bill Paxton - A Bright Shining Lie ( A Bright Shining Lie )
- Christopher Reeve - Rear Window ( Rear Window )
- Patrick Stewart - Moby Dick
2000s
Jack Lemmon - Who Sows Storm ( Inherit The Wind )
- Jack Lemmon - Tuesdays with Morrie ( Tuesdays with Morrie )
- Liev Schreiber - Citizen Kane - The Hollywood Legend ( RKO 281 )
- Sam Shepard - Dash and Lilly
- Tom Sizemore - Witness Protection
Brian Dennehy - Arthur Miller's Death Of a Salesman
- Alec Baldwin - Nuremberg - In the Name of Humanity ( Nuremberg )
- Brian Cox - Nürnberg - In the Name of Humanity ( Nuremberg )
- Andy García - Die Jazz Connection ( For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story )
- James Woods - Dirty Pictures
- Kenneth Branagh - The Wannsee Conference ( Conspiracy )
- Ben Kingsley - Anne Frank ( Anne Frank: The Whole Story )
- Damian Lewis - Band of Brothers - We Were Like Brothers ( Band of Brothers )
- Barry Pepper - 61 *
Albert Finney - Churchill - The Gathering Storm (The Gathering Storm)
- Michael Gambon - Path to War
- Michael Keaton - Live aus Baghdad ( Live from Baghdad )
- William H. Macy - Door to Door ( Door to Door )
- Linus Roache - RFK
Al Pacino - Angels in America ( Angels in America )
- Antonio Banderas - Pancho Villa - Mexican Outlaw ( And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself )
- James Brolin - The Reagans
- Troy Garity - Soldier's Girl
- Tom Wilkinson - A Matter of Love ( Normal )
Geoffrey Rush - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
- Mos Def - Ein Werk Gottes ( Something the Lord Made )
- Jamie Foxx - Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
- William H. Macy - The Guardian Angel ( The Wool Cap )
- Patrick Stewart - The Lion in Winter - Fight for the King's Crown ( The Lion in Winter )
- Kenneth Branagh - Warm Springs
- Ed Harris - Empire Falls
- Bill Nighy - G8 on cloud nine ( The Girl in the Café )
- Donald Sutherland - Human trafficking - trafficking ( Human Trafficking )
Bill Nighy - Gideon's Daughter
- Andre Braugher - Thief
- Robert Duvall - Broken Trail
- Michael Ealy - Sleeper Cell
- Chiwetel Ejiofor - Tsunami - The Killer Wave ( Tsunami: The Aftermath )
- Ben Kingsley - Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles ( Mrs. Harris )
- Matthew Perry - The Ron Clark Story
Jim Broadbent - The Manchester Moor Murderer
- Adam Beach - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Ernest Borgnine - A Grandpa for Christmas
- Jason Isaacs - The State Within ( The State Within )
- James Nesbitt - Jekyll
- Ralph Fiennes - Bernard and Doris
- Kevin Spacey - Recount
- Kiefer Sutherland - 24: Redemption
- Tom Wilkinson - Recount
2010s
- Kenneth Branagh - Commissioner Wallander ( Wallander )
- Chiwetel Ejiofor - Endgame
- Brendan Gleeson - Blood, Sweat and Tears (Into the Storm)
- Jeremy Irons - Georgia O'Keeffe
Al Pacino - You Don't Know Jack
- Idris Elba - Luther
- Ian McShane - The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth)
- Dennis Quaid - The Special Relationship
- Édgar Ramírez - Carlos - The Jackal (Carlos)
- Hugh Bonneville - Downton Abbey
- William Hurt - Too Big to Fail - Too Big to Fail
- Bill Nighy - The Conspiracy - High-Level Treason (Page Eight)
- Dominic West - The Hour
Kevin Costner - Hatfields & McCoys
- Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock
- Woody Harrelson - Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect
- Toby Jones - The Girl
- Clive Owen - Hemingway & Gellhorn
Michael Douglas - Liberace - Too much of a good is wonderful (Behind the Candelabra)
- Matt Damon - Liberace - Too Much of a Good is Wonderful (Behind the Candelabra)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dancing on the Edge
- Idris Elba - Luther
- Al Pacino - The Case of Phil Spector (Phil Spector)
- Martin Freeman - Fargo
- Woody Harrelson - True Detective
- Matthew McConaughey - True Detective
- Mark Ruffalo - The Normal Heart
- Patrick Wilson - Fargo
- Idris Elba - Luther
- David Oyelowo - Nightingale (Nightingale)
- Mark Rylance - Wolves (Wolf Hall)
Tom Hiddleston - The Night Manager
- Riz Ahmed - The Night Of - The truth of a night (The Night Of)
- Bryan Cranston - The Long Way (All the Way)
- John Turturro - The Night Of - The truth of a night (The Night Of)
- Courtney B. Vance - American Crime Story (The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story)
- Robert De Niro - The Wizard of Lies - Das Lügengenie (The Wizard of Lies)
- Jude Law - The Young Pope
- Kyle MacLachlan - Twin Peaks
- Geoffrey Rush - Genius
Darren Criss - American Crime Story
- Antonio Banderas - Genius: Picasso
- Daniel Brühl - The Alienist - Die Einkreisung (The Alienist)
- Benedict Cumberbatch - Patrick Melrose
- Hugh Grant - A Very English Scandal