Satellite Awards / Television / Best Supporting Actor
With the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV movie are actors honored as supporting actor outstanding achievements have shown on television. In 2002 and 2003 , the award was given in three categories: drama series, comedy / musical series and mini series / television film.
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| Most frequently honored supporting actor | Neal McDonough for Boomtown and Justified (two awards) |
| Most frequently nominated leading actor | Peter Dinklage for Game of Thrones (four nominations) |
| Most frequently nominated leading actor without a win |
Brian Dennehy for Bloody Power , Thanks of a Grateful Nation and Our Fathers Jimmy Smits for Dexter and Sons of Anarchy Neil Patrick Harris for How I Met Your Mother (three nominations each) |
The supporting actors from the previous year are always honored.
Nominations and winners
Late 1990s
| year | Award winners | for the series / miniseries / the TV movie | Nominations |
| 1996 | Stanley Tucci | Murder One |
Brian Dennehy for Bloody Power Ian McKellen for Rasputin Anthony Quinn for The Fall of the Cosa Nostra Treat Williams for The Late Shift |
| 1997 | By Curtis-Hall | Don King: Only in America |
Jason Alexander for Cinderella Joe Don Baker for Wallace Michael Caine for Mandela and De Klerk - turning point Ossie Davis for Miss Evers' Boys |
| 1998 | David Clennon | From the Earth to the Moon |
Brian Dennehy for Thanks of a Grateful Nation Lance Henriksen for The Day Lincoln Was Shot Martin Short for Merlin Daniel Williams for With Your Back On The Wall |
| 1999 | Not awarded |