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Primetime Emmy Awards
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Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
2024
Jon Hamm
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Fargo
Tom Hollander
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Feud
Andrew Scott
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RIPLEY
Richard Gadd
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Baby Reindeer
Matt Bomer
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Fellow Travelers
2023
Steven Yeun
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BEEF
Evan Peters
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Monster (2022)
Michael Shannon
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George & Tammy
Taron Egerton
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Black Bird
Daniel Radcliffe
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Kumail Nanjiani
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Welcome to Chippendales
2022
Michael Keaton
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Dopesick
2021
Ewan McGregor
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Halston
2020
Hugh Jackman
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Bad Education
2019
Jharrel Jerome
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When They See Us
Hugh Grant
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A Very English Scandal
2018
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Patrick Melrose
Antonio Banderas
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Genius (2017)
2017
Riz Ahmed
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The Night Of
John Turturro
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The Night Of
2016
The Night Manager
2015
Timothy Hutton
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American Crime
Ricky Gervais
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Derek
Mark Rylance
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Wolf Hall
Richard Jenkins
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Olive Kitteridge
2014
Martin Freeman
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Fargo
Billy Bob Thornton
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Fargo
Mark Ruffalo
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The Normal Heart
2013
Toby Jones
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The Girl
2012
Clive Owen
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Woody Harrelson
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Game Change
Bill Paxton
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Hatfields & McCoys
2011
Greg Kinnear
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The Kennedys
2010
Ian McKellen
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The Prisoner (2009)
2009
Brendan Gleeson
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Into the Storm
2008
Paul Giamatti
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John Adams
Ralph Fiennes
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Bernard and Doris
2007
Tom Selleck
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Matthew Perry
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The Ron Clark Story
2006
Ben Kingsley
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Mrs. Harris
Andre Braugher
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Thief
2005
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Elvis (2005)
2004
Antonio Banderas
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
2002
Michael Gambon
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Path to War
2001
Barry Pepper
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61*
Ben Kingsley
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story
1999
Performance
Stanley Tucci
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Winchell
1998
Ving Rhames
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Don King: Only in America
Patrick Stewart
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Moby Dick
Sam Neill
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Merlin (1998)
1995
John Goodman
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Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long
1992
Brian Dennehy
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To Catch a Killer
1991
Dennis Hopper
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Paris Trout
1990
Robert Duvall
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Lonesome Dove
1989
Tommy Lee Jones
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Lonesome Dove
Ben Kingsley
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Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1988
Danny Glover
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Mandela
Jason Robards
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Inherit the Wind
1984
Mickey Rooney
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Bill: On His Own
1983
Alec Guinness
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Smiley's People
1982
Anthony Andrews
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Brideshead Revisited
Jeremy Irons
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Brideshead Revisited
Mickey Rooney
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Bill
1980
Jason Robards
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
Henry Fonda
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Gideon's Trumpet
1978
Fritz Weaver
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Holocaust
David Cassidy
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Police Story
Michael Moriarty
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Holocaust
John Rubinstein
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Family
Barnard Hughes
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Lou Grant
Jason Robards
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Washington: Behind Closed Doors
Paul Winfield
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King (1978)
1976
Hal Holbrook
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Sandburg's Lincoln
Nick Nolte
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Rich Man, Poor Man
Peter Strauss
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Rich Man, Poor Man
Ed Asner
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Rich Man, Poor Man
George Grizzard
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The Adams Chronicles
Bill Bixby
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The Streets of San Francisco
1975
Dennis Weaver
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McCloud
1974
Dennis Weaver
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McCloud
1972
Keith Michell
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1971
Richard Widmark
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Vanished (1971)
1968
Eli Wallach
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CBS Playhouse
Melvyn Douglas
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CBS Playhouse
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