# Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries

The Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television is one of the award categories presented annually by the Critics' Choice Television Awards to recognize the work done by television actors. It was introduced in 2012. The winners are selected by a group of television critics that are part of the Broadcast Television Critics Association.

## Winners and nominees
### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Series | Character | Network |
| 2012 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
| 2012 | Kevin Costner | Hatfields & McCoys | Devil Anse Hatfield | History |
| 2012 | Idris Elba | Luther | John Luther | BBC America |
| 2012 | Dominic West | The Hour | Hector Madden | BBC America |
| 2012 | Woody Harrelson | Game Change | Steve Schmidt | HBO |
| 2012 | Bill Nighy | Page Eight | Johnny Worricker | PBS |
| 2013 | Michael Douglas | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace | HBO |
| 2013 | Dominic West | The Hour | Hector Madden | BBC America |
| 2013 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Parade's End | Christopher Tietjens | HBO |
| 2013 | Matt Damon | Behind the Candelabra | Scott Thorson | HBO |
| 2013 | Toby Jones | The Girl | Alfred Hitchcock | HBO |
| 2013 | Al Pacino | Phil Spector | Phil Spector | HBO |
| 2014 | Billy Bob Thornton | Fargo | Lorne Malvo | FX |
| 2014 | David Bradley | An Adventure in Space and Time | William Hartnell | BBC America |
| 2014 | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock: His Last Vow | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
| 2014 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Dancing on the Edge | Louis Lester | Starz |
| 2014 | Martin Freeman | Fargo | Lester Nygaard | FX |
| 2014 | Mark Ruffalo | The Normal Heart | Ned Weeks | HBO |
| 2015 | David Oyelowo | Nightingale | Peter Snowden | HBO |
| 2015 | James Nesbitt | The Missing | Tony Hughes | Starz |
| 2015 | Michael Gambon | The Casual Vacancy | Howard Mollison | HBO |
| 2015 | Richard Jenkins | Olive Kitteridge | Henry Kitteridge | HBO |
| 2015 | Mark Rylance | Wolf Hall | Thomas Cromwell | PBS |
| 2015 | Kiefer Sutherland | 24: Live Another Day | Jack Bauer | Fox |
| 2016 (1) | Idris Elba | Luther | John Luther | BBC America |
| 2016 (1) | Wes Bentley | American Horror Story: Hotel | John Lowe | FX |
| 2016 (1) | Patrick Wilson | Fargo | State Trooper Lou Solverson | FX |
| 2016 (1) | Martin Clunes | Arthur & George | Arthur Conan Doyle | PBS |
| 2016 (1) | Oscar Isaac | Show Me a Hero | Nick Wasicsko | HBO |
| 2016 (1) | Vincent Kartheiser | Saints & Strangers | William Bradford | Nat Geo |
| 2016 (2) | Courtney B. Vance | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Johnnie Cochran | FX |
| 2016 (2) | Bryan Cranston | All the Way | Lyndon B. Johnson | HBO |
| 2016 (2) | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | Sherlock Holmes | PBS |
| 2016 (2) | Cuba Gooding Jr. | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | O. J. Simpson | FX |
| 2016 (2) | Tom Hiddleston | The Night Manager | Jonathan Pine | AMC |
| 2016 (2) | Tim Matheson | Killing Reagan | Ronald Reagan | Nat Geo |
| 2018 | Ewan McGregor | Fargo | Emmit and Ray Stussy | FX |
| 2018 | Jeff Daniels | Godless | Frank Griffin | Netflix |
| 2018 | Jack O’Connell | Godless | Roy Goode | Netflix |
| 2018 | Jimmy Tatro | American Vandal | Dylan Maxwell | Netflix |
| 2018 | Robert De Niro | The Wizard of Lies | Bernard Madoff | HBO |
| 2018 | Evan Peters | American Horror Story: Cult | Kai Anderson | FX |
| 2018 | Bill Pullman | The Sinner | Detective Harry Ambrose | USA |
| 2019 | Darren Criss | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | Andrew Cunanan | FX |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Genius: Picasso | Pablo Picasso | Nat Geo |
| 2019 | Paul Dano | Escape at Dannemora | David Sweat | Showtime |
| 2019 | Benicio del Toro | Escape at Dannemora | Richard Matt | Showtime |
| 2019 | Hugh Grant | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe | Prime Video |
| 2019 | John Legend | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert | Jesus Christ | NBC |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Series | Character | Network |
| 2020 | Jharrel Jerome | When They See Us | Korey Wise | Netflix |
| 2020 | Christopher Abbott | Catch-22 | Capt. John Yossarian | Hulu |
| 2020 | Mahershala Ali | True Detective | Wayne Hays | HBO |
| 2020 | Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | HBO |
| 2020 | Russell Crowe | The Loudest Voice | Roger Ailes | Showtime |
| 2020 | Sam Rockwell | Fosse/Verdon | Bob Fosse | FX |
| 2020 | Noah Wyle | The Red Line | Daniel Calder | CBS |
| 2021 | John Boyega | Small Axe | Leroy Logan | Prime Video |
| 2021 | Hugh Grant | The Undoing | Jonathan Fraser | HBO |
| 2021 | Mark Ruffalo | I Know This Much Is True | Dominick and Thomas Birdsey | HBO |
| 2021 | Morgan Spector | The Plot Against America | Herman Levin | HBO |
| 2021 | Paul Mescal | Normal People | Connell Waldron | Hulu |
| 2021 | Chris Rock | Fargo | Loy Cannon | FX |
| 2022 | Michael Keaton | Dopesick | Dr. Samuel Finnix | Hulu |
| 2022 | Olly Alexander | It's a Sin | Ritchie Tozer | Channel 4 |
| 2022 | Paul Bettany | WandaVision | Vision | Disney+ |
| 2022 | William Jackson Harper | Love Life | Marcus Watkins | HBO Max |
| 2022 | Joshua Jackson | Dr. Death | Christopher Duntsch | Peacock |
| 2022 | Hamish Linklater | Midnight Mass | Father Paul Hill | Netflix |
| 2023 | Daniel Radcliffe | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | "Weird Al" Yankovic | The Roku Channel |
| 2023 | Ben Foster | The Survivor | Harry Haft | HBO |
| 2023 | Andrew Garfield | Under the Banner of Heaven | Detective Jeb Pyre | FX |
| 2023 | Samuel L. Jackson | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey | Ptolemy Grey | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 | Sebastian Stan | Pam & Tommy | Tommy Lee | Hulu |
| 2023 | Ben Whishaw | This Is Going to Hurt | Adam Kay | AMC+ |
| 2024 | Steven Yeun | Beef | Daniel "Danny" Cho | Netflix |
| 2024 | Matt Bomer | Fellow Travelers | Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller | Showtime |
| 2024 | Tom Holland | The Crowded Room | Danny Sullivan | Apple TV+ |
| 2024 | David Oyelowo | Lawmen: Bass Reeves | Bass Reeves | Paramount+ |
| 2024 | Tony Shalhoub | Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie | Adrian Monk | Peacock |
| 2024 | Kiefer Sutherland | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Lieutenant Commander Queeg | Showtime |
| 2025 | Colin Farrell | The Penguin | Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin | HBO |
| 2025 | Richard Gadd | Baby Reindeer | Donny Dunn | Netflix |
| 2025 | Tom Hollander | Feud: Capote vs. the Swans | Truman Capote | FX |
| 2025 | Kevin Kline | Disclaimer | Stephen Brigstocke | Apple TV+ |
| 2025 | Ewan McGregor | A Gentleman in Moscow | Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov | Paramount+ |
| 2025 | Andrew Scott | Ripley | Tom Ripley | Netflix |

## Multiple nominations
### 4 nominations

* Benedict Cumberbatch

### 2 nominations

* Idris Elba
* Hugh Grant
* David Oyelowo
* Mark Ruffalo
* Kiefer Sutherland
* Dominic West