# Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Before 1975, supporting actors featured in a mini series or movie were included in categories such as comedy or drama. From 1975 to 1978, the award was called Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special. Despite the category's name, actors appearing in many episodes of a miniseries were included. In 1979, the award was named Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special. The award was renamed again in 1986, in Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special. By 1998, the award was renamed Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.

## Winners and nominations
### 1970s

| Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
| Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special |||||
| 1975 (27th) |
| 1975 (27th) | Anthony Quayle | Tom Banniester | QB VII | ABC |
| 1975 (27th) | Ralph Bellamy | Adlai Stevenson | The Missiles of October | ABC |
| 1975 (27th) | Jack Hawkins (posthumously) | Justice Gilroy | QB VII | ABC |
| 1975 (27th) | Trevor Howard | Abbé Faria | The Count of Monte Cristo | NBC |
| 1976 (28th) |
| 1976 (28th) | Ed Flanders | Phil Hogan | A Moon for the Misbegotten | ABC |
| 1976 (28th) | Ray Bolger | Billy Rice | The Entertainer | NBC |
| 1976 (28th) | Art Carney | Thornton Alman | Katherine | ABC |
| 1977 (29th) |
| 1977 (29th) | Burgess Meredith | Joseph N. Welch | Tail Gunner Joe | NBC |
| 1977 (29th) | Martin Balsam | Daniel Cooper | Raid on Entebbe | ABC |
| 1977 (29th) | Mark Harmon | Robert Hugo Dunlap | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | ABC |
| 1977 (29th) | Yaphet Kotto | Idi Amin | Raid on Entebbe | ABC |
| 1977 (29th) | Walter McGinn (posthumously) | Louis Howe | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | ABC |
| 1978 (30th) |
| 1978 (30th) | Howard da Silva | Eddie | Verna: USO Girl | PBS |
| 1978 (30th) | James Farentino | Simon Peter | Jesus of Nazareth | NBC |
| 1978 (30th) | Burgess Meredith | Cardinal Burke | The Last Hurrah | NBC |
| 1978 (30th) | Donald Pleasence | Vladimir Popov | The Defection of Simas Kudirka | CBS |
| 1978 (30th) | Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. | Mike Long | A Family Upside Down | NBC |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special |||||
| 1979 (31st) |
| 1979 (31st) | Marlon Brando | George Lincoln Rockwell | Roots: The Next Generations | ABC |
| 1979 (31st) | Ed Flanders | Calvin Coolidge | Backstairs at the White House | NBC |
| 1979 (31st) | Al Freeman, Jr. | Malcolm X | Roots: The Next Generations | ABC |
| 1979 (31st) | Robert Vaughn | Woodrow Wilson | Backstairs at the White House | NBC |
| 1979 (31st) | Paul Winfield | Dr. Horace Huguley | Roots: The Next Generations | ABC |

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special |||||
| 1980 (32nd) |
| 1980 (32nd) | George Grizzard | Floyd Kincaid | The Oldest Living Graduate | NBC |
| 1980 (32nd) | Ernest Borgnine | Stanislaus Katczinsky | All Quiet on the Western Front | CBS |
| 1980 (32nd) | John Cassavetes | Gus Caputo | Flesh & Blood | CBS |
| 1980 (32nd) | Charles Durning | Commissioner Russell Oswald | Attica | ABC |
| 1980 (32nd) | Harold Gould | Louis B. Mayer | The Scarlett O'Hara War | NBC |
| 1981 (33rd) |
| 1981 (33rd) | David Warner | Pomponius Falco | Masada | ABC |
| 1981 (33rd) | Andy Griffith | Ash Robinson | Murder in Texas | NBC |
| 1981 (33rd) | Yūki Meguro | Omi | Shōgun | NBC |
| 1981 (33rd) | Anthony Quayle | Rubrius Gallus | Masada | ABC |
| 1981 (33rd) | John Rhys-Davies | Vasco Rodrigues | Shōgun | NBC |
| 1982 (34th) |
| 1982 (34th) | Laurence Olivier | Lord Marchmain | Brideshead Revisited | PBS |
| 1982 (34th) | Jack Albertson (posthumously) | Poppa MacMahon | My Body, My Child | ABC |
| 1982 (34th) | John Gielgud | Edward Ryder | Brideshead Revisited | PBS |
| 1982 (34th) | Derek Jacobi | Adolf Hitler | Inside the Third Reich | ABC |
| 1982 (34th) | Leonard Nimoy | Morris Meyerson | A Woman Called Golda | Syndicated |
| 1983 (35th) |
| 1983 (35th) | Richard Kiley | Paddy Cleary | The Thorn Birds | ABC |
| 1983 (35th) | Ralph Bellamy | Franklin D. Roosevelt | The Winds of War | ABC |
| 1983 (35th) | Bryan Brown | Luke O'Neill | The Thorn Birds | ABC |
| 1983 (35th) | Christopher Plummer | Archbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese | The Thorn Birds | ABC |
| 1983 (35th) | David Threlfall | Smike | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Syndicated |
| 1984 (36th) |
| 1984 (36th) | Art Carney | Tony | Terrible Joe Moran | CBS |
| 1984 (36th) | Keith Carradine | Foxy Funderburke | Chiefs | CBS |
| 1984 (36th) | John Gielgud | Lord Durrisdeer | The Master of Ballantrae | CBS |
| 1984 (36th) | John Lithgow | Joe Huxley | The Day After | ABC |
| 1984 (36th) | Randy Quaid | Harold "Mitch" Mitchell | A Streetcar Named Desire | ABC |
| 1984 (36th) | David Ogden Stiers | William Milligan Sloane | The First Olympics: Athens 1896 | NBC |
| 1985 (37th) |
| 1985 (37th) | Karl Malden | Freddy Kassab | Fatal Vision | NBC |
| 1985 (37th) | Richard Burton (posthumously) | Phipps Ogden | Ellis Island | CBS |
| 1985 (37th) | John Gielgud | Theodore Woodward | Romance on the Orient Express | NBC |
| 1985 (37th) | Richard Masur | Aryon Greydanus | The Burning Bed | NBC |
| 1985 (37th) | Rip Torn | Lewis Slaton | The Atlanta Child Murders | CBS |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special |||||
| 1986 (38th) |
| 1986 (38th) | John Malkovich | Biff Loman | Death of a Salesman | CBS |
| 1986 (38th) | Charles Durning | Charley | Death of a Salesman | CBS |
| 1986 (38th) | John Glover | Victor DiMato | An Early Frost | NBC |
| 1986 (38th) | Harold Gould | Dr. Marvin Elias | Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry | CBS |
| 1986 (38th) | Pat Morita | Tommy Tanaka | Amos | CBS |
| 1987 (39th) |
| 1987 (39th) | Dabney Coleman | Martin Costigan | Sworn to Silence | ABC |
| 1987 (39th) | Stephen Collins | Billy Grenville, Jr. | The Two Mrs. Grenvilles | NBC |
| 1987 (39th) | John Glover | Richard Behrens | Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder | NBC |
| 1987 (39th) | Laurence Olivier | Harry Burrard | Lost Empires | PBS |
| 1987 (39th) | Eli Wallach | Norman Voss | Something in Common | CBS |
| 1988 (40th) |
| 1988 (40th) | John Shea | Bill Stern | Baby M | ABC |
| 1988 (40th) | Dabney Coleman | Gary Skoloff | Baby M | ABC |
| 1988 (40th) | Anthony Quinn | Socrates Onassis | Onassis: The Richest Man in the World | ABC |
| 1988 (40th) | Ron Silver | Ron Levin | Billionaire Boys Club | NBC |
| 1988 (40th) | Bruce Weitz | Rick Whitehead | Baby M | ABC |
| 1989 (41st) |
| 1989 (41st) | Derek Jacobi | The Imposter | The Tenth Man | CBS |
| 1989 (41st) | Armand Assante | Richard Mansfield | Jack the Ripper | CBS |
| 1989 (41st) | James Garner | Bob Smith | My Name Is Bill W. | CBS |
| 1989 (41st) | Danny Glover | Joshua Deets | Lonesome Dove | CBS |
| 1989 (41st) | Corin Nemec | Steven Stayner | I Know My First Name is Steven | NBC |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special |||||
| 1990 (42nd) |
| 1990 (42nd) | Vincent Gardenia | Michael Aylott | Age-Old Friends | HBO |
| 1990 (42nd) | Ned Beatty | Cornelius Van Horne | Last Train Home | Family |
| 1990 (42nd) | Brian Dennehy | Ed Reivers | A Killing in a Small Town | CBS |
| 1990 (42nd) | Anthony Hopkins | Abel Magwitch | Great Expectations | Disney |
| 1990 (42nd) | James Earl Jones | Alice | By Dawn's Early Light | HBO |
| 1990 (42nd) | Max von Sydow | Szaz | Red King, White Knight | HBO |
| 1991 (43rd) |
| 1991 (43rd) | James Earl Jones | Junius Jackson | Heat Wave | TNT |
| 1991 (43rd) | Ruben Blades | Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino | The Josephine Baker Story | HBO |
| 1991 (43rd) | David Dukes | Jo Bouillon | The Josephine Baker Story | HBO |
| 1991 (43rd) | Richard Kiley | Earl Warren | Separate But Equal | ABC |
| 1991 (43rd) | Leon Russom | Titus Wardlow | Long Road Home | NBC |
| 1992 (44th) |
| 1992 (44th) | Hume Cronyn | Ben | Broadway Bound | ABC |
| 1992 (44th) | Brian Dennehy | Dixon Hartnell | The Burden of Proof | ABC |
| 1992 (44th) | Héctor Elizondo | Lieutenant Angel | Mrs. Cage | PBS |
| 1992 (44th) | Jerry Orbach | Jack | Broadway Bound | ABC |
| 1992 (44th) | Ben Vereen | Randall | Intruders | CBS |
| 1993 (45th) |
| 1993 (45th) | Beau Bridges | Terry Harper | The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | HBO |
| 1993 (45th) | Brian Dennehy | John McArthur | Murder in the Heartland | ABC |
| 1993 (45th) | Jonathan Pryce | Henry Kravis | Barbarians at the Gate | HBO |
| 1993 (45th) | Peter Riegert | Peter A. Cohen | Barbarians at the Gate | HBO |
| 1993 (45th) | Maximilian Schell | Vladimir Lenin | Stalin | HBO |
| 1994 (46th) |
| 1994 (46th) | Michael A. Goorjian | David Goodson | David's Mother | CBS |
| 1994 (46th) | Alan Alda | Dr. Robert Gallo | And the Band Played On | HBO |
| 1994 (46th) | Matthew Broderick | John | A Life in the Theatre | TNT |
| 1994 (46th) | Richard Gere | The Choreographer | And the Band Played On | HBO |
| 1994 (46th) | Ian McKellen | Bill Kraus | And the Band Played On | HBO |
| 1995 (47th) |
| 1995 (47th) | Donald Sutherland | Mikhail Fetisov | Citizen X | HBO |
| 1995 (47th) | Jeffrey DeMunn | Andrei Chikatilo | Citizen X | HBO |
| 1995 (47th) | Sam Elliott | "Wild Bill" Hickok | Buffalo Girls | CBS |
| 1995 (47th) | Ben Kingsley | Potiphar | Joseph | TNT |
| 1995 (47th) | Edward James Olmos | Wilson Pinheiro | The Burning Season | HBO |
| 1996 (48th) |
| 1996 (48th) | Tom Hulce | Peter Patrone | The Heidi Chronicles | TNT |
| 1996 (48th) | Andre Braugher | Benjamin O. Davis | The Tuskegee Airmen | HBO |
| 1996 (48th) | John Goodman | Harold "Mitch" Mitchell | A Streetcar Named Desire | CBS |
| 1996 (48th) | Ian McKellen | Tsar Nicholas II | Rasputin | HBO |
| 1996 (48th) | Treat Williams | Michael Ovitz | The Late Shift | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) |
| 1997 (49th) | Beau Bridges | James Farley | The Second Civil War | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) | Obba Babatundé | Willie Johnson | Miss Evers' Boys | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) | Michael Caine | F. W. de Klerk | Mandela and de Klerk | Showtime |
| 1997 (49th) | Ossie Davis | Mr. Evers | Miss Evers' Boys | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) | Joe Mantegna | Pippi De Lena | The Last Don | CBS |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie |||||
| 1998 (50th) |
| 1998 (50th) | George C. Scott | Juror #3 | 12 Angry Men | Showtime |
| 1998 (50th) | Hume Cronyn | Juror #9 | 12 Angry Men | Showtime |
| 1998 (50th) | Gregory Peck | Father Mapple | Moby Dick | USA |
| 1998 (50th) | Martin Short | Frik | Merlin | NBC |
| 1998 (50th) | J. T. Walsh (posthumously) | Ray Percy | Hope | TNT |
| 1999 (51st) |
| 1999 (51st) | Peter O'Toole | Bishop Pierre Cauchon | Joan of Arc | CBS |
| 1999 (51st) | Beau Bridges | E. K. Hornbeck | Inherit the Wind | Showtime |
| 1999 (51st) | Don Cheadle | Sammy Davis, Jr. | The Rat Pack | HBO |
| 1999 (51st) | Peter Fonda | Frank O'Connor | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Showtime |
| 1999 (51st) | Joe Mantegna | Dean Martin | The Rat Pack | HBO |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie |||||
| 2000 (52nd) |
| 2000 (52nd) | Hank Azaria | Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie | ABC |
| 2000 (52nd) | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Otto Preminger | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | HBO |
| 2000 (52nd) | James Cromwell | William Randolph Hearst | RKO 281 | HBO |
| 2000 (52nd) | Danny Glover | Will Walker | Freedom Song | Showtime |
| 2000 (52nd) | John Malkovich | Herman Mankiewicz | RKO 281 | HBO |
| 2001 (53rd) |
| 2001 (53rd) | Brian Cox | Hermann Göring | Nuremberg | TNT |
| 2001 (53rd) | Alan Alda | Willie Walters | Club Land | Showtime |
| 2001 (53rd) | Colin Firth | Wilhelm Stuckart | Conspiracy | HBO |
| 2001 (53rd) | Victor Garber | Sidney Luft | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | ABC |
| 2001 (53rd) | Ian Holm | Patrick | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | HBO |
| 2001 (53rd) | Stanley Tucci | Adolf Eichmann | Conspiracy | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) |
| 2002 (54th) | Michael Moriarty | Winton Dean | James Dean | TNT |
| 2002 (54th) | Alec Baldwin | Robert McNamara | Path to War | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) | Jim Broadbent | Desmond Morton | The Gathering Storm | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) | Don Cheadle | Chuck | Things Behind the Sun | Showtime |
| 2002 (54th) | Jon Voight | Jürgen Stroop | Uprising | NBC |
| 2003 (55th) |
| 2003 (55th) | Ben Gazzara | Nick Piccolo | Hysterical Blindness | HBO |
| 2003 (55th) | Alan Arkin | Harry Rowen | The Pentagon Papers | FX |
| 2003 (55th) | Chris Cooper | Thomas Riversmith | My House in Umbria | HBO |
| 2003 (55th) | John Malkovich | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord | Napoleon | A&E |
| 2003 (55th) | Peter O'Toole | Paul von Hindenburg | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | CBS |
| 2004 (56th) |
| 2004 (56th) | Jeffrey Wright | Mr. Lies / Norman "Belize" Arriaga / Homeless Man / The Angel Europa / The Antarctic Eskimo | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) | Justin Kirk | Prior Walter / Leatherman in Park | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) | William H. Macy | John Irwin | Stealing Sinatra | Showtime |
| 2004 (56th) | Ben Shenkman | Louis Ironson / The Angel Oceania | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) | Patrick Wilson | Joe Pitt | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2005 (57th) |
| 2005 (57th) | Paul Newman | Max Roby | Empire Falls | HBO |
| 2005 (57th) | Brian Dennehy | Father Dominic Spagnolia | Our Fathers | Showtime |
| 2005 (57th) | Philip Seymour Hoffman | C.B. Whiting / Charlie Mayne | Empire Falls | HBO |
| 2005 (57th) | Christopher Plummer | Cardinal Bernard Law | Our Fathers | Showtime |
| 2005 (57th) | Randy Quaid | Colonel Tom Parker | Elvis | CBS |
| 2006 (58th) |
| 2006 (58th) | Jeremy Irons | Earl of Leicester | Elizabeth I | HBO |
| 2006 (58th) | Robert Carlyle | Sergei Karpovich | Human Trafficking | Lifetime |
| 2006 (58th) | Clifton Collins, Jr. | Jack Hill | Thief | FX |
| 2006 (58th) | Hugh Dancy | Earl of Essex | Elizabeth I | HBO |
| 2006 (58th) | Denis Lawson | John Jarndyce | Bleak House | PBS |
| 2007 (59th) |
| 2007 (59th) | Thomas Haden Church | Tom Harte | Broken Trail | AMC |
| 2007 (59th) | Ed Asner | Luke Spelman | The Christmas Card | Hallmark |
| 2007 (59th) | Joe Mantegna | Lou Manahan | The Starter Wife | USA |
| 2007 (59th) | Aidan Quinn | Henry L. Dawes | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | HBO |
| 2007 (59th) | August Schellenberg | Sitting Bull | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | HBO |
| 2008 (60th) |
| 2008 (60th) | Tom Wilkinson | Benjamin Franklin | John Adams | HBO |
| 2008 (60th) | Bob Balaban | Ben Ginsberg | Recount | HBO |
| 2008 (60th) | Stephen Dillane | Thomas Jefferson | John Adams | HBO |
| 2008 (60th) | Denis Leary | Michael Whouley | Recount | HBO |
| 2008 (60th) | David Morse | George Washington | John Adams | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) |
| 2009 (61st) | Ken Howard | Phelan Beale | Grey Gardens | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) | Len Cariou | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Into the Storm | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) | Tom Courtenay | William Dorrit | Little Dorrit | PBS |
| 2009 (61st) | Bob Newhart | Judson | The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice | TNT |
| 2009 (61st) | Andy Serkis | Rigaud / Blandois | Little Dorrit | PBS |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie |||||
| 2010 (62nd) |
| 2010 (62nd) | David Strathairn | William Carlock | Temple Grandin | HBO |
| 2010 (62nd) | Michael Gambon | Mr. Woodhouse | Emma | PBS |
| 2010 (62nd) | John Goodman | Neal Nicol | You Don't Know Jack | HBO |
| 2010 (62nd) | Jonathan Pryce | Mr. Buxton | Return to Cranford | PBS |
| 2010 (62nd) | Patrick Stewart | King Claudius / Ghost | Hamlet | PBS |
| 2011 (63rd) |
| 2011 (63rd) | Guy Pearce | Monty Beragon | Mildred Pierce | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) | Paul Giamatti | Ben Bernanke | Too Big to Fail | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) | Brían F. O'Byrne | Bert Pierce | Mildred Pierce | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) | Tom Wilkinson | Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. | The Kennedys | Reelz |
| 2011 (63rd) | James Woods | Richard Fuld, Jr. | Too Big to Fail | HBO |
| 2012 (64th) |
| 2012 (64th) | Tom Berenger | Jim Vance | Hatfields & McCoys | History |
| 2012 (64th) | Martin Freeman | John Watson | Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia | PBS |
| 2012 (64th) | Ed Harris | John McCain | Game Change | HBO |
| 2012 (64th) | Denis O'Hare | Larry Harvey | American Horror Story | FX |
| 2012 (64th) | David Strathairn | John Dos Passos | Hemingway & Gellhorn | HBO |
| 2013 (65th) |
| 2013 (65th) | James Cromwell | Dr. Arthur Arden | American Horror Story: Asylum | FX |
| 2013 (65th) | Scott Bakula | Bob Black | Behind the Candelabra | HBO |
| 2013 (65th) | John Benjamin Hickey | Sean Tolkey | The Big C: Hereafter | Showtime |
| 2013 (65th) | Peter Mullan | Matt Mitcham | Top of the Lake | Sundance |
| 2013 (65th) | Zachary Quinto | Dr. Oliver Thredson | American Horror Story: Asylum | FX |
| 2014 (66th) |
| 2014 (66th) | Martin Freeman | John Watson | Sherlock: His Last Vow | PBS |
| 2014 (66th) | Matt Bomer | Felix Turner | The Normal Heart | HBO |
| 2014 (66th) | Colin Hanks | Officer Gus Grimly | Fargo | FX |
| 2014 (66th) | Joe Mantello | Mickey Marcus | The Normal Heart | HBO |
| 2014 (66th) | Alfred Molina | Ben Weeks | The Normal Heart | HBO |
| 2014 (66th) | Jim Parsons | Tommy Boatwright | The Normal Heart | HBO |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie |||||
| 2015 (67th) |
| 2015 (67th) | Bill Murray | Jack Kennison | Olive Kitteridge | HBO |
| 2015 (67th) | Richard Cabral | Hector Tontz | American Crime | ABC |
| 2015 (67th) | Damian Lewis | Henry VIII | Wolf Hall | PBS |
| 2015 (67th) | Denis O'Hare | Stanley | American Horror Story: Freak Show | FX |
| 2015 (67th) | Finn Wittrock | Dandy Mott | American Horror Story: Freak Show | FX |
| 2015 (67th) | Michael K. Williams | Jack Gee | Bessie | HBO |
| 2016 (68th) |
| 2016 (68th) | Sterling K. Brown | Christopher Darden | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | FX |
| 2016 (68th) | Hugh Laurie | Richard Onslow Roper | The Night Manager | AMC |
| 2016 (68th) | Jesse Plemons | Ed Blumquist | Fargo | FX |
| 2016 (68th) | David Schwimmer | Robert Kardashian | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | FX |
| 2016 (68th) | John Travolta | Robert Shapiro | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | FX |
| 2016 (68th) | Bokeem Woodbine | Mike Milligan | Fargo | FX |
| 2017 (69th) |
| 2017 (69th) | Alexander Skarsgård | Perry Wright | Big Little Lies | HBO |
| 2017 (69th) | Bill Camp | Dennis Box | The Night Of | HBO |
| 2017 (69th) | Alfred Molina | Robert Aldrich | Feud: Bette and Joan | FX |
| 2017 (69th) | David Thewlis | V. M. Varga | Fargo | FX |
| 2017 (69th) | Stanley Tucci | Jack L. Warner | Feud: Bette and Joan | FX |
| 2017 (69th) | Michael K. Williams | Freddy Knight | The Night Of | HBO |
| 2018 (70th) |
| 2018 (70th) | Jeff Daniels | Frank Griffin | Godless | Netflix |
| 2018 (70th) | Brandon Victor Dixon | Judas Iscariot | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert | NBC |
| 2018 (70th) | John Leguizamo | Jacob Vazquez | Waco | Paramount |
| 2018 (70th) | Ricky Martin | Antonio D'Amico | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | FX |
| 2018 (70th) | Édgar Ramírez | Gianni Versace | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | FX |
| 2018 (70th) | Michael Stuhlbarg | Richard Clarke | The Looming Tower | Hulu |
| 2018 (70th) | Finn Wittrock | Jeffrey Trail | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | FX |
| 2019 (71st) |
| 2019 (71st) | Ben Whishaw | Norman Josiffe / Norman Scott | A Very English Scandal | Prime Video |
| 2019 (71st) | Asante Blackk | Kevin Richardson | When They See Us | Netflix |
| 2019 (71st) | Paul Dano | David Sweat | Escape at Dannemora | Showtime |
| 2019 (71st) | John Leguizamo | Raymond Santana Sr. | When They See Us | Netflix |
| 2019 (71st) | Stellan Skarsgård | Boris Shcherbina | Chernobyl | HBO |
| 2019 (71st) | Michael K. Williams | Bobby McCray | When They See Us | Netflix |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie |||||
| 2020 (72nd) |
| 2020 (72nd) | Yahya Abdul-Mateen II | Calvin "Cal" Abar / Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan | Watchmen | HBO |
| 2020 (72nd) | Jovan Adepo | Young Will Reeves / Hooded Justice | Watchmen | HBO |
| 2020 (72nd) | Tituss Burgess | Titus Andromedon | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend | Netflix |
| 2020 (72nd) | Louis Gossett, Jr. | Will Reeves / Hooded Justice | Watchmen | HBO |
| 2020 (72nd) | Dylan McDermott | Ernest "Ernie" West | Hollywood | Netflix |
| 2020 (72nd) | Jim Parsons | Henry Willson | Hollywood | Netflix |
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |||||
| 2021 (73rd) |
| 2021 (73rd) | Evan Peters | Detective Colin Zabel | Mare of Easttown | HBO |
| 2021 (73rd) | Thomas Brodie-Sangster | Benny Watts | The Queen's Gambit | Netflix |
| 2021 (73rd) | Daveed Diggs | Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson | Hamilton | Disney+ |
| 2021 (73rd) | Paapa Essiedu | Kwame | I May Destroy You | HBO |
| 2021 (73rd) | Jonathan Groff | King George III | Hamilton | Disney+ |
| 2021 (73rd) | Anthony Ramos | John Laurens / Philip Hamilton | Hamilton | Disney+ |
| 2022 (74th) |
| 2022 (74th) | Murray Bartlett | Armond | The White Lotus | HBO |
| 2022 (74th) | Jake Lacy | Shane Patton | The White Lotus | HBO |
| 2022 (74th) | Will Poulter | Billy Cutler | Dopesick | Hulu |
| 2022 (74th) | Seth Rogen | Rand Gauthier | Pam & Tommy | Hulu |
| 2022 (74th) | Peter Sarsgaard | Rick Mountcastle | Dopesick | Hulu |
| 2022 (74th) | Michael Stuhlbarg | Richard Sackler | Dopesick | Hulu |
| 2022 (74th) | Steve Zahn | Mark Mossbacher | The White Lotus | HBO |
| 2023 (75th) |
| 2023 (75th) | Paul Walter Hauser | Larry Hall | Black Bird | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 (75th) | Murray Bartlett | Nick De Noia | Welcome to Chippendales | Hulu |
| 2023 (75th) | Richard Jenkins | Lionel Dahmer | Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | Netflix |
| 2023 (75th) | Joseph Lee | George Nakai | Beef | Netflix |
| 2023 (75th) | Ray Liotta (posthumously) | James "Big Jim" Keene | Black Bird | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 (75th) | Young Mazino | Paul Cho | Beef | Netflix |
| 2023 (75th) | Jesse Plemons | Allan Gore | Love & Death | HBO Max |
| 2024 (76th) |
| 2024 (76th) | Lamorne Morris | North Dakota Deputy Whitley "Witt" Farr | Fargo | FX |
| 2024 (76th) | Jonathan Bailey | Timothy "Tim" Laughlin | Fellow Travelers | Showtime |
| 2024 (76th) | Robert Downey Jr. | Claude, The Congressman/Ned Godwin, The Professor/Robert Hammer, The Auteur/Nicos Damianos, The Priest/Captain's Father | The Sympathizer | HBO |
| 2024 (76th) | Tom Goodman-Hill | Darrien O'Connor | Baby Reindeer | Netflix |
| 2024 (76th) | John Hawkes | Captain Hank Prior | True Detective: Night Country | HBO |
| 2024 (76th) | Lewis Pullman | Calvin Evans | Lessons in Chemistry | Apple TV+ |
| 2024 (76th) | Treat Williams (posthumously) | Bill Paley | Feud: Capote vs. The Swans | FX |

## Performers with multiple wins
### 2 wins

* Beau Bridges
* Michael Moriarty