Satellite Awards / Television / Best Actor in a Miniseries or a TV Movie

With the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV movie are actors honored as lead actor outstanding achievements have shown.

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Most frequently honored leading actor	William H. Macy for A Slight Case of Murder and From Tür zu Tür James Woods for Dirty Pictures and Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (two awards each)
Most frequently nominated leading actor	Benedict Cumberbatch , Idris Elba , Kenneth Branagh , Ted Danson and William Hurt (three nominations each)
Most frequently nominated leading actor without a win	Idris Elba , Kenneth Branagh , Ted Danson and William Hurt (three nominations each)

The performers from the previous year are always honored.

Nominations and winners

Late 1990s

year	Award winners	for the series	Nominations
1996	Alan Rickman	Rasputin	Beau Bridges for Between the Worlds Ted Danson for Gulliver's Travels Eric Roberts for Cold Blood James Woods for The Summer of Ben Tyler
1997	Gary Sinise	Wallace	Armand Assante for The Adventures of Odysseus Gabriel Byrne for In the Sog of Greed Sidney Poitier for Mandela and De Klerk - New Age Ving Rhames for Don King: Only in America
1998	Delroy Lindo	Fame and honor	Cary Elwes for The Pentagon Wars Laurence Fishburne for With your back on the wall Kevin Pollak for From the Earth to the Moon Patrick Stewart for Moby Dick
1999	William H. Macy	A Slight Case of Murder	Beau Bridges for PT Barnum Don Cheadle for A Lesson Before Dying Delroy Lindo for Strange Justice Brent Spiner for Rising Star

2000-2009

year	Award winners	for the series	Nominations
2000	James Woods	Dirty Pictures	Andy García for The Jazz Connection Louis Gossett Junior for The Color of Love: Jacey's Story Bob Hoskins for Noriega - God's Darling or Monster? Matthew Modine for Flowers for Algernon
2001	Richard Dreyfuss	The Day Reagan Was Shot	William Hurt for Varian's War - A Forgotten Hero Ben Kingsley for Anne Frank Damian Lewis for Band of Brothers - We were like brothers Jeffrey Wright for Boycott
2002	William H. Macy	From door to door	Ted Danson for Talking to Heaven Albert Finney for Churchill - The Gathering Storm Harry J. Lennix for Keep the Faith, Baby Patrick Stewart for King of Texas
2003	James Woods	Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story	Robert Carlyle for Hitler - Rise of Evil Troy Garity for Soldier's Girl Lee Pace for Soldier's Girl Al Pacino for Angels in America Tom Wilkinson for Normal
2004	Jamie Foxx	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Keith Carradine for Deadwood Mos Def for A Work of God Alan Rickman for A Work of God Geoffrey Rush for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2005	Jonathan Rhys Meyers	Elvis	Kenneth Branagh for Warm Springs Christian Campbell for Reefer Madness: The Musical Ted Danson for Our Fathers Rupert Everett for Sherlock Holmes - Ed Harris for Empire Falls
2006	Bill Nighy	Gideon's Daughter	Andre Braugher for Thief Charles Dance for Bleak House Hugh Dancy for Elizabeth I Ben Kingsley for Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles
2007	David Oyelowo	Five Days	Jim Broadbent for The Bog Murderess of Manchester Robert Lindsay for The Trial of Tony Blair Aidan Quinn for Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Tom Selleck for Jesse Stone: Old Wounds Toby Stephens for Jane Eyre
2008	Paul Giamatti	John Adams - Freedom for America	Benedict Cumberbatch for The Last Enemy Ralph Fiennes for Bernard and Doris Stellan Skarsgård for God on Trial Kevin Spacey for Recount Tom Wilkinson for Recount
2009	Brendan Gleeson	Into the storm	Kevin Bacon for Taking Chance Kenneth Branagh for Wallander William Hurt for Endgame Jeremy Irons for Georgia O'Keeffe Ian McKellen for number 6

Since 2010

year	Award winners	for the series	Nominations
2010	Al Pacino	You don't know Jack	Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock Idris Elba for Luther Ian McShane for Die Säulen der Erde Barry Pepper for When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story Dennis Quaid for The Special Relationship David Suchet for Agatha Christie's Poirot
2011	Jason Isaacs	Case histories	Hugh Bonneville for Downton Abbey Idris Elba for Luther Laurence Fishburne for Thurgood William Hurt for Too Big to Fail Bill Nighy for The Conspiracy
2012	Benedict Cumberbatch	Sherlock	Kenneth Branagh for Wallander Kevin Costner for Hatfields & McCoy Idris Elba for Luther Woody Harrelson for Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect Clive Owen for Hemingway & Gellhorn
2013	Michael Douglas	Liberace - Too much of a good thing is wonderful	Benedict Cumberbatch for Parade's End - The Last Gentleman Matt Damon for Liberace - Too much of a good thing is wonderful Chiwetel Ejiofor for Dancing on the Edge Matthew Goode for Dancing on the Edge Peter Mullan for Top of the Lake Al Pacino for Der Fall Phil Spector Dominic West for Burton & Taylor
2014	Mark Ruffalo	The normal heart	Dominic Cooper for Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond Richard Jenkins for Olive Kitteridge Stephen Rea for The Honorable Woman David Suchet for Agatha Christie's Poirot Kiefer Sutherland for 24: Live Another Day
2015	Mark Rylance	Wolves	Martin Clunes for Arthur & George Michael Gambon for The Casual Vacancy Oscar Isaac for Show Me a Hero Damian Lewis for Wolves Ben Mendelsohn for Bloodline David Oyelowo for Nightingale
2016	Bryan Cranston	The long way	Cuba Gooding junior for American Crime Story Tom Hiddleston for The Night Manager Anthony Hopkins for The Dresser Wendell Pierce for In Good Faith Courtney B. Vance for American Crime Story