# Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film is one of the categories of the annual Satellite Awards in film and television.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
| 1996 | Alan Rickman | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny | Grigori Rasputin | HBO |
| 1996 | Beau Bridges | Hidden in America | Bill Januson | Showtime |
| 1996 | Ted Danson | Gulliver's Travels | Lemuel Gulliver | NBC |
| 1996 | Eric Roberts | In Cold Blood | Perry Smith | CBS |
| 1996 | James Woods | The Summer of Ben Tyler | Temple Rayburn | CBS |
| 1997 | Gary Sinise | George Wallace | George C. Wallace | TNT |
| 1997 | Armand Assante | The Odyssey | Odysseus | NBC |
| 1997 | Gabriel Byrne | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Lionel Powers | HBO |
| 1997 | Ving Rhames | Don King: Only in America | Don King | HBO |
| 1997 | Sidney Poitier | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela | Showtime |
| 1998 | Delroy Lindo | Glory & Honor | Mathew Henson | TNT |
| 1998 | Cary Elwes | The Pentagon Wars | Lt. Colonel James Burton | HBO |
| 1998 | Laurence Fishburne | Always Outnumbered | Socrates Fortlow | HBO |
| 1998 | Kevin Pollak | From the Earth to the Moon | Joseph Francis Shea | HBO |
| 1998 | Patrick Stewart | Moby Dick | Captain Ahab | USA Network |
| 1999 | William H. Macy | A Slight Case of Murder | Terry Thorpe | TNT |
| 1999 | Beau Bridges | P. T. Barnum | P. T. Barnum | A&E |
| 1999 | Don Cheadle | A Lesson Before Dying | Grant Wiggins | HBO |
| 1999 | Brent Spiner | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Earl Mills | HBO |
| 1999 | Delroy Lindo | Strange Justice | Clarence Thomas | Showtime |

### 2000s

| Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
| 2000 | James Woods | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie | Showtime |
| 2000 | Andy García | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story | Arturo Sandoval | HBO |
| 2000 | Bob Hoskins | Noriega: God's Favorite | Manuel Noriega | Showtime |
| 2000 | Louis Gossett Jr. | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Lou Hastings | CBS |
| 2000 | Matthew Modine | Flowers for Algernon | Charlie Gordon | CBS |
| 2001 | Richard Dreyfuss | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | Showtime |
| 2001 | Ben Kingsley | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank | ABC |
| 2001 | William Hurt | Varian's War | Varian Fry | Showtime |
| 2001 | Damian Lewis | Band of Brothers | Major Richard "Dick" Winters | HBO |
| 2001 | Jeffrey Wright | Boycott | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | HBO |
| 2002 | William H. Macy | Door to Door | Bill Porter | TNT |
| 2002 | Ted Danson | Living with the Dead | James Van Praagh | CBS |
| 2002 | Albert Finney | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill | HBO |
| 2002 | Harry J. Lennix | Keep the Faith, Baby | Adam Clayton Powell Jr. | Showtime |
| 2002 | Patrick Stewart | King of Texas | John Lear | TNT |
| 2003 | James Woods | Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Rudy Giuliani | USA Network |
| 2003 | Robert Carlyle | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Adolf Hitler | CBS |
| 2003 | Troy Garity | Soldier's Girl | Barry Winchell | Showtime |
| 2003 | Lee Pace | Soldier's Girl | Scottie / Calpernia Addams | Showtime |
| 2003 | Al Pacino | Angels in America | Roy Cohn | HBO |
| 2003 | Tom Wilkinson | Normal | Roy Applewood | HBO |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | Stan "Tookie" Williams | FX |
| 2004 | Keith Carradine | Deadwood | Wild Bill Hickok | HBO |
| 2004 | Mos Def | Something the Lord Made | Vivien Thomas | HBO |
| 2004 | Alan Rickman | Something the Lord Made | Dr. Alfred Blalock | HBO |
| 2004 | Geoffrey Rush | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers | HBO |
| 2005 | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Elvis | Elvis Presley | CBS |
| 2005 | Ted Danson | Our Fathers | Mitchell Garabedian | Showtime |
| 2005 | Christian Campbell | Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | Jimmy Harper | Showtime |
| 2005 | Rupert Everett | Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking | Sherlock Holmes | BBC One |
| 2005 | Kenneth Branagh | Warm Springs | Franklin D. Roosevelt | HBO |
| 2005 | Ed Harris | Empire Falls | Miles Roby | HBO |
| 2006 | Bill Nighy | Gideon's Daughter | Gideon Warner | BBC America |
| 2006 | Andre Braugher | Thief | Nick Atwater | FX |
| 2006 | Hugh Dancy | Elizabeth I | Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex | HBO |
| 2006 | Ben Kingsley | Mrs. Harris | Herman Tarnower | HBO |
| 2006 | Charles Dance | Bleak House | Mr. Tulkinghorn | BBC One |
| 2007 | David Oyelowo | Five Days | Matt Wellings | HBO |
| 2007 | Robert Lindsay | The Trial of Tony Blair | Tony Blair | More4 |
| 2007 | Jim Broadbent | Longford | Frank Pakenham, Earl of Longford | HBO |
| 2007 | Aidan Quinn | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Henry L. Dawes | HBO |
| 2007 | Tom Selleck | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Jesse Stone | CBS |
| 2007 | Toby Stephens | Jane Eyre | Edward Fairfax Rochester | BBC One |
| 2008 | Paul Giamatti | John Adams | John Adams | HBO |
| 2008 | Benedict Cumberbatch | The Last Enemy | Stephen Ezard | BBC One |
| 2008 | Ralph Fiennes | Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty | HBO |
| 2008 | Kevin Spacey | Recount | Ron Klain | HBO |
| 2008 | Tom Wilkinson | Recount | James Baker | HBO |
| 2008 | Stellan Skarsgård | God on Trial | Baumgarten | PBS |
| 2009 | Brendan Gleeson | Into the Storm | Winston Churchill | HBO |
| 2009 | Kenneth Branagh | Wallander | Kurt Wallander | BBC One |
| 2009 | Kevin Bacon | Taking Chance | Michael Strobl | HBO |
| 2009 | William Hurt | Endgame | Will Esterhuyse | Channel 4 |
| 2009 | Jeremy Irons | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz | Lifetime |
| 2009 | Ian McKellen | The Prisoner | Number Two / Curtis | AMC |

### 2010s

| Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
| 2010 | Al Pacino | You Don't Know Jack | Dr. Jack Kevorkian | HBO |
| 2010 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
| 2010 | Idris Elba | Luther | Det. John Luther | BBC One |
| 2010 | Ian McShane | The Pillars of the Earth | Waleran Bigod | Starz |
| 2010 | Barry Pepper | When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story | Bill Wilson | CBS |
| 2010 | Dennis Quaid | The Special Relationship | Bill Clinton | HBO |
| 2010 | David Suchet | Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express | Hercule Poirot | ITV |
| 2011 | Jason Isaacs | Case Histories | Jackson Brodie | BBC One |
| 2011 | Hugh Bonneville | Downton Abbey | Robert Crawly, Earl of Grantham | PBS |
| 2011 | Idris Elba | Luther | Det. John Luther | BBC One |
| 2011 | Laurence Fishburne | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall | HBO |
| 2011 | William Hurt | Too Big to Fail | Henry Paulson | HBO |
| 2011 | Bill Nighy | Page Eight | Johnny Worricker | BBC Two |
| 2012 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
| 2012 | Woody Harrelson | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | HBO |
| 2012 | Clive Owen | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Ernest Hemingway | HBO |
| 2012 | Kenneth Branagh | Wallander | Kurt Wallander | BBC One |
| 2012 | Idris Elba | Luther | Det. John Luther | BBC One |
| 2012 | Kevin Costner | Hatfields & McCoys | Devil Anse Hatfield | HISTORY |
| 2013 | Michael Douglas | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | HBO |
| 2013 | Peter Mullan | Top of the Lake | Matt Mitcham | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Matthew Goode | Dancing on the Edge | Stanley Mitchell | BBC Two |
| 2013 | Matt Damon | Behind the Candelabra | Scott Thorson | HBO |
| 2013 | Al Pacino | Phil Spector | Phil Spector | HBO |
| 2013 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | HBO |
| 2013 | Dominic West | Burton & Taylor | Richard Burton | BBC Four |
| 2014 | Mark Ruffalo | The Normal Heart | Ned Weeks | HBO |
| 2014 | Dominic Cooper | Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond | Ian Fleming | BBC America |
| 2014 | Richard Jenkins | Olive Kitteridge | Henry Kitteridge | HBO |
| 2014 | Stephen Rea | The Honourable Woman | Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle | SundanceTV |
| 2014 | David Suchet | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Hercule Poirot | ITV |
| 2014 | Kiefer Sutherland | 24: Live Another Day | Jack Bauer | Fox |
| 2015 | Mark Rylance | Wolf Hall | Thomas Cromwell | BBC Two |
| 2015 | Martin Clunes | Arthur & George | Arthur Conan Doyle | ITV |
| 2015 | Michael Gambon | The Casual Vacancy | Howard Mollison | HBO |
| 2015 | Oscar Isaac | Show Me a Hero | Nick Wasicsko | HBO |
| 2015 | David Oyelowo | Nightingale | Peter Snowden | HBO |
| 2015 | Damian Lewis | Wolf Hall | Henry VIII of England | BBC Two |
| 2015 | Ben Mendelsohn | Bloodline | Danny Rayburn | Netflix |
| 2016 | Bryan Cranston | All the Way | Lyndon B. Johnson | HBO |
| 2016 | Cuba Gooding Jr. | The People v. O.J. Simpson | O. J. Simpson | FX |
| 2016 | Courtney B. Vance | The People v. O.J. Simpson | Johnnie Cochran | FX |
| 2016 | Wendell Pierce | Confirmation | Clarence Thomas | HBO |
| 2016 | Tom Hiddleston | The Night Manager | Jonathan Pine | AMC |
| 2016 | Anthony Hopkins | The Dresser | Sir | BBC Two |
| 2017 | Robert De Niro | The Wizard of Lies | Bernie Madoff | HBO |
| 2017 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
| 2017 | Jude Law | The Young Pope | Pope Pius XIII | HBO |
| 2017 | Ewan McGregor | Fargo | Emmit and Ray Stussy | FX |
| 2017 | Tim Pigott-Smith | King Charles III | King Charles III | BBC Two |
| 2018 | Darren Criss | The Assassination of Gianni Versace | Andrew Cunanan | FX |
| 2018 | Daniel Brühl | The Alienist | Dr. Laszlo Kreizler | TNT |
| 2018 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Patrick Melrose | Patrick Melrose | Showtime |
| 2018 | Jeff Daniels | The Looming Tower | John O'Neill | Hulu |
| 2018 | Hugh Grant | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe | BBC One |
| 2018 | Jared Harris | The Terror | Captain Francis Crozier | AMC |
| 2019 | Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | HBO |
| 2019 | Russell Crowe | The Loudest Voice | Roger Ailes | Showtime |
| 2019 | Jharrel Jerome | When They See Us | Korey Wise | Netflix |
| 2019 | Aaron Paul | El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Jesse Pinkman | Netflix |
| 2019 | Chris Pine | I Am the Night | Jay Singletary | TNT |
| 2019 | Sam Rockwell | Fosse/Verdon | Bob Fosse | FX |

### 2020s

| Year | Actress | Series | Role | Network |
| 2020 | Ethan Hawke | The Good Lord Bird | John Brown | Showtime |
| 2020 | John Boyega | Small Axe | Leroy Logan | BBC One/Prime Video |
| 2020 | Bryan Cranston | Your Honor | Michael Desiato | Showtime |
| 2020 | Hugh Grant | The Undoing | Jonathan Fraser | HBO |
| 2020 | Hugh Jackman | Bad Education | Frank Tassone | HBO |
| 2020 | Chris Rock | Fargo | Loy Cannon | FX |
| 2020 | Mark Ruffalo | I Know This Much Is True | Dominick and Thomas Birdsey | HBO |
| 2021 | Ewan McGregor | Halston | Halston | Netflix |
| 2021 | Colin Farrell | The North Water | Henry Drax | AMC+ |
| 2021 | Stephen Graham | Help | Tony | Channel 4 |
| 2021 | Michael Keaton | Dopesick | Dr. Samuel Finnix | Hulu |
| 2021 | Clive Owen | Impeachment: American Crime Story | President Bill Clinton | FX |
| 2021 | Andrew Scott | Oslo | Terje Rød-Larsen | HBO |
| 2022 | Evan Peters | Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | Jeffrey Dahmer | Netflix |
| 2022 | Jon Bernthal | We Own This City | Sergeant Wayne Jenkins | HBO |
| 2022 | Jeff Bridges | The Old Man | Dan Chase / Henry Dixon / Johnny Kohler | FX |
| 2022 | Andrew Garfield | Under the Banner of Heaven | Detective Jeb Pyre | FX on Hulu |
| 2022 | Jared Leto | WeCrashed | Adam Neumann | Apple TV+ |
| 2022 | Sean Penn | Gaslit | John N. Mitchell | Starz |
| 2023 | Guy Pearce | A Spy Among Friends | Kim Philby | MGM+ |
| 2023 | Matt Bomer | Fellow Travelers | Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller | Showtime |
| 2023 | Jon Hamm | Fargo | Sheriff Roy Tillman | FX |
| 2023 | Damian Lewis | A Spy Among Friends | Nicholas Elliott | MGM+ |
| 2023 | Bill Pullman | Murdaugh Murders: The Movie | Alex Murdaugh | Lifetime |
| 2023 | Steven Yeun | Beef | Danny Cho | Netflix |