Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie - TheTVDB.com

2022

Michael Keaton / Dopesick

2021

Ewan McGregor / Halston

2020

Hugh Jackman / Bad Education

2019

Jharrel Jerome / When They See Us

Hugh Grant / A Very English Scandal

2018

Benedict Cumberbatch / Patrick Melrose

Antonio Banderas / Genius (2017)

2017

John Turturro / The Night Of

Riz Ahmed / The Night Of

2016

The Night Manager

2015

Richard Jenkins / Olive Kitteridge

Timothy Hutton / American Crime

Ricky Gervais / Derek

2014

Martin Freeman / Fargo

Billy Bob Thornton / Fargo

Mark Ruffalo / The Normal Heart

2013

Toby Jones / The Girl

2012

Clive Owen / Hemingway & Gellhorn

Bill Paxton / Hatfields & McCoys

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

Matthew Perry / The Ron Clark Story

Tom Selleck / Jesse Stone: Sea Change

2006

Andre Braugher / Thief

Ben Kingsley / Mrs. Harris

2005

Jonathan Rhys Meyers / Elvis (2005)

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

Stanley Tucci / Winchell

Performance

1998

Ving Rhames / Don King: Only in America

Sam Neill / Merlin (1998)

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

1990

Robert Duvall / Lonesome Dove

1989

Ben Kingsley / Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Tommy Lee Jones / Lonesome Dove

1988

Danny Glover / Mandela

Jason Robards / Inherit the Wind

1984

Mickey Rooney / Bill: On His Own

1983

Alec Guinness / Smiley's People

1982

Jeremy Irons / Brideshead Revisited

Anthony Andrews / Brideshead Revisited

Mickey Rooney / Bill

1980

Henry Fonda / Gideon's Trumpet

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

1978

Michael Moriarty / Holocaust

Paul Winfield / King (1978)

Jason Robards / Washington: Behind Closed Doors

Fritz Weaver / Holocaust

Barnard Hughes / Lou Grant

John Rubinstein / Family

David Cassidy / Police Story

1976

Hal Holbrook / Sandburg's Lincoln

Nick Nolte / Rich Man, Poor Man

Peter Strauss / Rich Man, Poor Man

Ed Asner / Rich Man, Poor Man

George Grizzard / The Adams Chronicles

Bill Bixby / The Streets of San Francisco

1975

Dennis Weaver / McCloud

1974

Dennis Weaver / McCloud

1972

Keith Michell / The Six Wives of Henry VIII

1971

Richard Widmark / Vanished

1968

Eli Wallach / CBS Playhouse

Melvyn Douglas / CBS Playhouse

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