Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

2021

Ewan McGregor / Halston

2020

Hugh Jackman / Bad Education

2019

Hugh Grant / A Very English Scandal

Jharrel Jerome / When They See Us

2018

Antonio Banderas / Genius (2017)

Benedict Cumberbatch / Patrick Melrose

2017

John Turturro / The Night Of

Riz Ahmed / The Night Of

2016

The Night Manager

2015

Timothy Hutton / American Crime

Ricky Gervais / Derek

Richard Jenkins / Olive Kitteridge

2014

Billy Bob Thornton / Fargo

Martin Freeman / Fargo

Mark Ruffalo / The Normal Heart

2013

Toby Jones / The Girl

2012

Bill Paxton / Hatfields & McCoys

Clive Owen / Hemingway & Gellhorn

Woody Harrelson / Game Change

2011

Greg Kinnear / The Kennedys

2010

Ian McKellen / The Prisoner (2009)

2009

Brendan Gleeson / Into the Storm

2008

Ralph Fiennes / Bernard and Doris

Paul Giamatti / John Adams

2007

Tom Selleck / Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Matthew Perry / The Ron Clark Story

2006

Andre Braugher / Thief

Ben Kingsley / Mrs. Harris

2005

Jonathan Rhys Meyers / Elvis

2004

Antonio Banderas / And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

2002

Michael Gambon / Path to War

2001

Ben Kingsley / Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Barry Pepper / 61*

1999

Performance

Stanley Tucci / Winchell

1998

Ving Rhames / Don King: Only in America

Sam Neill / Merlin

Patrick Stewart / Moby Dick

1995

John Goodman / Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long

1992

Brian Dennehy / To Catch a Killer

1991

Dennis Hopper / Paris Trout

1989

Ben Kingsley / Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Tommy Lee Jones / Lonesome Dove

1988

Jason Robards / Inherit the Wind

Danny Glover / Mandela

1984

Mickey Rooney / Bill: On His Own

1982

Jeremy Irons / Brideshead Revisited

Mickey Rooney / Bill

1980

Jason Robards / F.D.R.: The Last Year

Henry Fonda / Gideon's Trumpet

1978

Jason Robards / Washington: Behind Closed Doors

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