Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television — Every Winner and Nominee

Every film recognised in the Golden Globes Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television category in CineRoll's records: 202 films across 42 years, 44 of them winners.

The most recent winner is Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2023); the earliest on record is Bill (1982).

The last three winners were Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2023), Dopesick (2022) and I Know This Much Is True (2021).

The list is newest first. Each year shows the winner at the top, then the other nominees; a year with enough nominees links to its own page.

Last updated August 12, 2026

2023

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story(2022)
Evan Peters
Winner
Black Bird(2022)
Taron Egerton
Pam & Tommy(2022)
Sebastian Stan
The Staircase(2022)
Colin Firth
Under the Banner of Heaven(2022)
Andrew Garfield

2022

Dopesick(2021)
Michael Keaton
Winner
Halston(2021)
Ewan McGregor
Scenes from a Marriage(2021)
The Serpent(2021)
Tahar Rahim
WandaVision(2021)
Paul Bettany

2021

I Know This Much Is True(2020)
Mark Ruffalo
Winner
The Comey Rule(2020)
Jeff Daniels
The Good Lord Bird(2020)
Ethan Hawke
The Undoing(2020)
Hugh Grant
Your Honor(2020)
Bryan Cranston

2020

The Loudest Voice(2019)
Russell Crowe
Winner
Catch-22(2019)
Christopher Abbott
Chernobyl(2019)
Jared Harris
Fosse/Verdon(2019)
Sam Rockwell
The Spy(2019)
Sacha Baron Cohen

2019

American Crime Story(2016)
Darren Criss
Winner
A Very English Scandal(2018)
Hugh Grant
Genius(2017)
Antonio Banderas
Patrick Melrose(2018)
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Alienist(2018)
Daniel Brühl

2018

Fargo(2014)
Ewan McGregor
Winner
Genius(2017)
The Wizard of Lies(2017)
Robert De Niro
The Young Pope(2016)
Jude Law
Twin Peaks The Return(2017)
Kyle MacLachlan

2017

The Night Manager(2016)
Tom Hiddleston
Winner
All the Way(2016)
Bryan Cranston
American Crime Story(2016)
Courtney Vance
The Night Of(2016)
Riz Ahmed
The Night Of(2016)
John Turturro

2016

Show Me a Hero(2015)
Oscar Isaac
Winner
Fargo(2014)
Patrick Wilson
Luther(2010)
Idris Elba
Nightingale(2015)
David Oyelowo
Wolf Hall(2015)
Mark Rylance

2015

Fargo(2014)
Billy Bob Thornton
Winner
Fargo(2014)
Martin Freeman
The Normal Heart(2014)
Mark Ruffalo
True Detective(2014)

2014

Behind the Candelabra(2013)
Michael Douglas
Winner
Behind the Candelabra(2013)
Matt Damon
Dancing on the Edge(2013)
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Luther(2010)
Idris Elba
Phil Spector(2013)
Al Pacino

2013

Hatfields & McCoys(2012)
Kevin Costner
Winner
Game Change(2012)
Woody Harrelson
Hemingway & Gellhorn(2012)
Clive Owen
Sherlock(2010)
Benedict Cumberbatch
The Girl(2012)
Toby Jones

2012

Luther(2010)
Idris Elba
Winner
Downton Abbey(2010)
Hugh Bonneville
Page Eight(2011)
Bill Nighy
The Hour(2011)
Dominic West
Too Big to Fail(2011)
William Hurt

2011

You Don't Know Jack(2010)
Al Pacino
Winner
Carlos(2010)
Édgar Ramírez
Luther(2010)
Idris Elba
The Pillars of the Earth(2010)
The Special Relationship(2010)
Dennis Quaid

2010

Taking Chance(2009)
Kevin Bacon
Winner
Endgame(2009)
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Georgia O'Keeffe(2009)
Jeremy Irons
Into the Storm(2009)
Brendan Gleeson
Wallander(2008)
Kenneth Branagh

2009

John Adams(2008)
Paul Giamatti
Winner
24(1964)
Bernard and Doris(2007)
Ralph Fiennes
Recount(2008)
Kevin Spacey
Recount(2008)
Tom Wilkinson

2008

Longford(2006)
Jim Broadbent
Winner
A Grandpa for Christmas(2007)
Ernest Borgnine
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee(2007)
Adam Beach
Jekyll(2007)
James Nesbitt
The State Within(2006)
Jason Isaacs

2007

Gideon's Daughter(2005)
Bill Nighy
Winner
Broken Trail(2006)
Robert Duvall
Mrs. Harris(2005)
Ben Kingsley
Sleeper Cell(2005)
Michael Ealy
The Ron Clark Story(2006)
Matthew Perry
Thief(2006)
Andre Braugher
Tsunami: The Aftermath(2006)
Chiwetel Ejiofor

2006

Elvis(2005)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Winner
Empire Falls(2005)
Ed Harris
Human Trafficking(2005)
Donald Sutherland
The Girl in the Café(2005)
Bill Nighy
Warm Springs(2005)
Kenneth Branagh

2005

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers(2004)
Geoffrey Rush
Winner
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story(2004)
Jamie Foxx
Something the Lord Made(2004)
Mos Def
The Lion in Winter(1968)
Patrick Stewart
The Lion in Winter(2004)
Patrick Stewart
The Wool Cap(2004)
William Macy

2004

Angels in America(2003)
Al Pacino
Winner
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself(2003)
Antonio Banderas
Normal(2003)
Tom Wilkinson
Soldier's Girl(2003)
Troy Garity
The Reagans(2003)
James Brolin

2003

The Gathering Storm(2002)
Albert Finney
Winner
Door to Door(2002)
William Macy
Live from Baghdad(2002)
Michael Keaton
Path to War(2002)
Michael Gambon
RFK(2002)
Linus Roache

2002

James Dean(2001)
James Franco
Winner
61*(2001)
Barry Pepper
Anne Frank: The Whole Story(2001)
Ben Kingsley
Band of Brothers(2001)
Damian Lewis
Conspiracy(2001)
Kenneth Branagh

2001

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman(2000)
Brian Dennehy
Winner
Dirty Pictures(2000)
James Woods
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story(2000)
Andy Garcia
Nuremberg(2000)
Alec Baldwin
Nuremberg(2000)
Brian Cox

2000

Inherit the Wind(1999)
Jack Lemmon
Winner
Dash and Lilly(1999)
Sam Shepard
RKO 281(1999)
Liev Schreiber
Tuesdays with Morrie(1999)
Jack Lemmon
Witness Protection(1999)
Tom Sizemore

1999

Winchell(1998)
Stanley Tucci
Winner
A Bright Shining Lie(1998)
Bill Paxton
Merlin(1998)
Sam Neill
Moby Dick(1998)
Patrick Stewart
Rear Window(1998)
Christopher Reeve
The Tempest(1998)
Peter Fonda

1998

Don King: Only in America(1997)
Ving Rhames
Winner
12 Angry Men(1997)
Jack Lemmon
George Wallace(1997)
Gary Sinise
George Wallace(1997)
Gary Sinise
The Odyssey(1997)
Armand Assante
What the Deaf Man Heard(1997)
Matthew Modine

1997

Rasputin(1996)
Alan Rickman
Winner
Crime of the Century(1996)
Stephen Rea
Gotti(1996)
Armand Assante
Losing Chase(1996)
Beau Bridges
The Summer of Ben Tyler(1996)
James Woods

1996

Truman(1995)
Gary Sinise
Winner
A Streetcar Named Desire(1984)
A Streetcar Named Desire(1995)
Alec Baldwin
Indictment: The McMartin Trial(1995)
James Woods
The Piano Lesson(1995)
Charles S. Dutton
The Tuskegee Airmen(1995)
Laurence Fishburne

1995

The Burning Season(1994)
Raul Julia
Winner
Against the Wall(1994)
Samuel L. Jackson
Breathing Lessons(1994)
James Garner
Fatherland(1994)
Rutger Hauer
White Mile(1994)
Alan Alda

1994

Barbarians at the Gate(1993)
James Garner
Winner
A Life in the Theatre(1993)
Jack Lemmon
And the Band Played On(1993)
Matthew Modine
Columbo(1971)
Peter Falk

1993

Stalin(1992)
Robert Duvall
Winner
Citizen Cohn(1992)
James Woods
Jewels (Danielle Steel's Jewels)(1992)
Anthony Andrews
Sinatra(1992)
Philip Casnoff
The Last of His Tribe(1992)
Jon Voight

1992

Without Warning: The James Brady Story(1991)
Beau Bridges
Winner
Columbo(1971)
Peter Falk
Conagher(1991)
Sam Elliott
One Against the Wind(1991)
Sam Neill
Separate but Equal(1991)
Sidney Poitier

1991

Decoration Day(1990)
James Garner
Winner
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story(1990)
Steven Bauer
Jekyll & Hyde(1990)
Michael Caine
Murder in Mississippi(1990)
Tom Hulce
The Phantom of the Opera(1990)
Burt Lancaster
The Stranger Within(1990)
Ricky/Rick Schroder

1990

Lonesome Dove(1989)
Robert Duvall
Winner
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story(1989)
Ben Kingsley
My Name Is Bill W.(1989)
James Woods
The Final Days(1989)
Lane Smith
War and Remembrance(1988)
John Gielgud

1989

Hemingway(1988)
Stacy Keach
Winner
Jack the Ripper(1988)
Michael Caine
Winner
The Bourne Identity(1988)
Richard Chamberlain
The Murder of Mary Phagan(1988)
Jack Lemmon
The Tenth Man(1988)
Anthony Hopkins

1988

LBJ: The Early Years(1987)
Randy Quaid
Winner
After the Promise(1987)
Mark Harmon
Billionaire Boys Club(1987)
Judd Nelson
Escape from Sobibor(1987)
Alan Arkin
In Love and War(1987)
James Woods
Long Day's Journey Into Night(1987)
Jack Lemmon

1987

Promise(1986)
James Garner
Winner
Promise(1986)
James Woods
Winner
Peter the Great(1986)
Jan Niklas
The Deliberate Stranger(1986)
Mark Harmon
Unnatural Causes(1986)
John Ritter

1986

Death of a Salesman(1985)
Dustin Hoffman
Winner
Amos(1985)
Kirk Douglas
Kane & Abel(1985)
Peter Strauss
The Rape of Richard Beck(1985)
Richard Crenna
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story(1985)
Richard Chamberlain

1985

Something About Amelia(1984)
Ted Danson
Winner
A Streetcar Named Desire(1984)
Treat Williams
Heartsounds(1984)
James Garner
Reilly: Ace of Spies(1983)
Sam Neill
Sakharov(1984)
Jason Robards Jr.

1984

The Thorn Birds(1983)
Richard Chamberlain
Winner
Blood Feud(1983)
Robert Blake
Heart of Steel(1983)
Peter Strauss
Kennedy(1983)
Martin Sheen
Sadat(1983)
Louis Gossett Jr.

1983

Brideshead Revisited(1981)
Anthony Andrews
Winner
Brideshead Revisited(1981)
Jeremy Irons
Oppenheimer(1980)
Sam Waterston
The Elephant Man(1980)
Philip Anglim
The Elephant Man(1982)
Philip Anglim
Two of a Kind(1982)
Robby Benson

1982

Bill(1981)
Winner
A Long Way Home(1981)
Timothy Hutton
Masada(1981)
Peter O’Toole
Masada(1981)
Peter Strauss
Skokie(1981)
Danny Kaye
The Ordeal of Bill Carney(1981)
Ray Sharkey
The Patricia Neal Story(1981)
Dirk Bogarde

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