# Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Miniseries or Television Movie.
In this category four actors have received two awards each, Paul Giamatti (John Adams, Too Big to Fail), Al Pacino (Angels in America, You Don't Know Jack), Gary Sinise (Truman, George Wallace), and Mark Ruffalo (The Normal Heart, I Know This Much Is True).

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
| 1994 (1st) | Raúl Juliá (posthumous) | The Burning Season | Chico Mendes |
| 1994 (1st) | James Garner | The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. | Jim Rockford |
| 1994 (1st) | John Malkovich | Heart of Darkness | Colonel Kurtz |
| 1994 (1st) | Gary Sinise | The Stand | Stu Redman |
| 1994 (1st) | Forest Whitaker | The Enemy Within | Colonel MacKenzie "Mac" Casey |
| 1995 (2nd) | Gary Sinise | Truman | Harry S. Truman |
| 1995 (2nd) | Alec Baldwin | A Streetcar Named Desire | Stanley Kowalski |
| 1995 (2nd) | Laurence Fishburne | The Tuskegee Airmen | Hannibal Lee |
| 1995 (2nd) | James Garner | The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise | Jim Rockford |
| 1995 (2nd) | Tommy Lee Jones | The Good Old Boys | Hewey Calloway |
| 1996 (3rd) | Alan Rickman | Rasputin | Grigori Rasputin |
| 1996 (3rd) | Armand Assante | Gotti | John Gotti |
| 1996 (3rd) | Beau Bridges | Hidden in America | Bill Januson |
| 1996 (3rd) | Robert Duvall | The Man Who Captured Eichmann | Adolf Eichmann |
| 1996 (3rd) | Ed Harris | Riders of the Purple Sage | Jim Lassiter |
| 1997 (4th) | Gary Sinise | George Wallace | George Wallace |
| 1997 (4th) | Jack Lemmon | 12 Angry Men | Juror #8 |
| 1997 (4th) | Sidney Poitier | Mandela and de Klerk | Nelson Mandela |
| 1997 (4th) | Ving Rhames | Don King: Only in America | Don King |
| 1997 (4th) | George C. Scott | 12 Angry Men | Juror #3 |
| 1998 (5th) | Christopher Reeve | Rear Window | Jason Kemp |
| 1998 (5th) | Charles S. Dutton | Blind Faith | Charles Williams |
| 1998 (5th) | James Garner | Legalese | Norman Keane |
| 1998 (5th) | Ben Kingsley | The Tale of Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd |
| 1998 (5th) | Ray Liotta | The Rat Pack | Frank Sinatra |
| 1998 (5th) | Stanley Tucci | Winchell | Walter Winchell |
| 1999 (6th) | Jack Lemmon | Tuesdays with Morrie | Morris "Morrie" Schwartz |
| 1999 (6th) | Hank Azaria | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom |
| 1999 (6th) | Peter Fonda | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Frank O’Connor |
| 1999 (6th) | George C. Scott (posthumous) | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady |
| 1999 (6th) | Patrick Stewart | A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge |

### 2000s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
| 2000 (7th) | Brian Dennehy | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman |
| 2000 (7th) | Alec Baldwin | Nuremberg | Justice Robert H. Jackson |
| 2000 (7th) | Brian Cox | Nuremberg | Hermann Göring |
| 2000 (7th) | Danny Glover | Freedom Song | Will Walker |
| 2000 (7th) | John Lithgow | Don Quixote | Don Quixote |
| 2000 (7th) | James Woods | Dirty Pictures | Dennis Barrie |
| 2001 (8th) | Ben Kingsley | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Otto Frank |
| 2001 (8th) | Alan Alda | Club Land | Willie Walters |
| 2001 (8th) | Richard Dreyfuss | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig |
| 2001 (8th) | James Franco | James Dean | James Dean |
| 2001 (8th) | Gregory Hines | Bojangles | Bill "Bojangles" Robinson |
| 2002 (9th) | William H. Macy | Door to Door | Bill Porter |
| 2002 (9th) | Albert Finney | The Gathering Storm | Winston Churchill |
| 2002 (9th) | Brad Garrett | Gleason | Jackie Gleason |
| 2002 (9th) | Sean Hayes | Martin and Lewis | Jerry Lewis |
| 2002 (9th) | John Turturro | Monday Night Mayhem | Howard Cosell |
| 2003 (10th) | Al Pacino | Angels in America | Roy Cohn |
| 2003 (10th) | Justin Kirk | Angels in America | Prior Walter / Man in Park |
| 2003 (10th) | Jeffrey Wright | Angels in America | Mr. Lies / Belize / Homeless Man / The Angel Europa |
| 2003 (10th) | Paul Newman | Our Town | Stage Manager |
| 2003 (10th) | Forest Whitaker | Deacons for Defense | Marcus Clay |
| 2004 (11th) | Geoffrey Rush | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peter Sellers |
| 2004 (11th) | Jamie Foxx | Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story | Stan "Tookie" Williams |
| 2004 (11th) | William H. Macy | The Wool Cap | Charlie Gigot |
| 2004 (11th) | Barry Pepper | 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story | Dale Earnhardt |
| 2004 (11th) | Jon Voight | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Eddie |
| 2005 (12th) | Paul Newman | Empire Falls | Max Roby |
| 2005 (12th) | Kenneth Branagh | Warm Springs | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| 2005 (12th) | Ted Danson | Knights of the South Bronx | David MacEnulty |
| 2005 (12th) | Ed Harris | Empire Falls | Miles Roby |
| 2005 (12th) | Christopher Plummer | Our Fathers | Cardinal Bernard Law |
| 2006 (13th) | Jeremy Irons | Elizabeth I | Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester |
| 2006 (13th) | Thomas Haden Church | Broken Trail | Tom Harte |
| 2006 (13th) | Robert Duvall | Broken Trail | Prentice Ritter |
| 2006 (13th) | William H. Macy | Nightmares & Dreamscapes | Det. Clyde Umney / Sam Landry |
| 2006 (13th) | Matthew Perry | The Ron Clark Story | Ron Clark |
| 2007 (14th) | Kevin Kline | As You Like It | Jacques |
| 2007 (14th) | Michael Keaton | The Company | James Jesus Angleton |
| 2007 (14th) | Oliver Platt | The Bronx Is Burning | George Steinbrenner |
| 2007 (14th) | Sam Shepard | Ruffian | Frank Whiteley |
| 2007 (14th) | John Turturro | The Bronx Is Burning | Billy Martin |
| 2008 (15th) | Paul Giamatti | John Adams | John Adams |
| 2008 (15th) | Tom Wilkinson | John Adams | Benjamin Franklin |
| 2008 (15th) | Ralph Fiennes | Bernard and Doris | Bernard Lafferty |
| 2008 (15th) | Kevin Spacey | Recount | Ron Klain |
| 2008 (15th) | Kiefer Sutherland | 24: Redemption | Jack Bauer |
| 2009 (16th) | Kevin Bacon | Taking Chance | Michael Strobl |
| 2009 (16th) | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story | Ben Carson |
| 2009 (16th) | Jeremy Irons | Georgia O'Keeffe | Alfred Stieglitz |
| 2009 (16th) | Kevin Kline | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| 2009 (16th) | Tom Wilkinson | A Number | Salter |

### 2010s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
| 2010 (17th) | Al Pacino | You Don't Know Jack | Dr. Jack Kevorkian |
| 2010 (17th) | John Goodman | You Don't Know Jack | Neal Nicol |
| 2010 (17th) | Dennis Quaid | The Special Relationship | Bill Clinton |
| 2010 (17th) | Édgar Ramírez | Carlos | Ilich Ramírez Sánchez / Carlos the Jackal |
| 2010 (17th) | Patrick Stewart | Macbeth | Macbeth |
| 2011 (18th) | Paul Giamatti | Too Big to Fail | Ben Bernanke |
| 2011 (18th) | Laurence Fishburne | Thurgood | Thurgood Marshall |
| 2011 (18th) | Greg Kinnear | The Kennedys | John F. Kennedy |
| 2011 (18th) | Guy Pearce | Mildred Pierce | Monty Beragon |
| 2011 (18th) | James Woods | Too Big to Fail | Richard S. Fuld Jr. |
| 2012 (19th) | Kevin Costner | Hatfields & McCoys | Devil Anse Hatfield |
| 2012 (19th) | Woody Harrelson | Game Change | Steve Schmidt |
| 2012 (19th) | Ed Harris | Game Change | John McCain |
| 2012 (19th) | Clive Owen | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Ernest Hemingway |
| 2012 (19th) | Bill Paxton | Hatfields & McCoys | Randolph McCoy |
| 2013 (20th) | Michael Douglas | Behind the Candelabra | Liberace |
| 2013 (20th) | Matt Damon | Behind the Candelabra | Scott Thorson |
| 2013 (20th) | Jeremy Irons | The Hollow Crown | King Henry IV |
| 2013 (20th) | Rob Lowe | Killing Kennedy | John F. Kennedy |
| 2013 (20th) | Al Pacino | Phil Spector | Phil Spector |
| 2014 (21st) | Mark Ruffalo | The Normal Heart | Ned Weeks |
| 2014 (21st) | Adrien Brody | Houdini | Harry Houdini |
| 2014 (21st) | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock: His Last Vow | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2014 (21st) | Richard Jenkins | Olive Kitteridge | Henry Kitteridge |
| 2014 (21st) | Billy Bob Thornton | Fargo | Lorne Malvo |
| 2015 (22nd) | Idris Elba | Luther | John Luther |
| 2015 (22nd) | Ben Kingsley | Tut | Ay, the Grand Vizier |
| 2015 (22nd) | Ray Liotta | Texas Rising | Lorca / Tom Mitchell |
| 2015 (22nd) | Bill Murray | A Very Murray Christmas | Himself |
| 2015 (22nd) | Mark Rylance | Wolf Hall | Thomas Cromwell |
| 2016 (23rd) | Bryan Cranston | All the Way | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 2016 (23rd) | Riz Ahmed | The Night Of | Nasir "Naz" Khan |
| 2016 (23rd) | Sterling K. Brown | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Christopher Darden |
| 2016 (23rd) | John Turturro | The Night Of | John Stone |
| 2016 (23rd) | Courtney B. Vance | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Johnnie Cochran |
| 2017 (24th) | Alexander Skarsgård | Big Little Lies | Perry Wright |
| 2017 (24th) | Benedict Cumberbatch | Sherlock: The Lying Detective | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2017 (24th) | Jeff Daniels | Godless | Frank Griffen |
| 2017 (24th) | Robert De Niro | The Wizard of Lies | Bernie Madoff |
| 2017 (24th) | Geoffrey Rush | Genius | Albert Einstein |
| 2018 (25th) | Darren Criss | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | Andrew Cunanan |
| 2018 (25th) | Antonio Banderas | Genius: Picasso | Pablo Picasso |
| 2018 (25th) | Hugh Grant | A Very English Scandal | Jeremy Thorpe |
| 2018 (25th) | Anthony Hopkins | King Lear | King Lear |
| 2018 (25th) | Bill Pullman | The Sinner | Detective Harry Ambrose |
| 2019 (26th) | Sam Rockwell | Fosse/Verdon | Bob Fosse |
| 2019 (26th) | Mahershala Ali | True Detective | Wayne Hays |
| 2019 (26th) | Russell Crowe | The Loudest Voice | Roger Ailes |
| 2019 (26th) | Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov |
| 2019 (26th) | Jharrel Jerome | When They See Us | Korey Wise |

### 2020s

| Year | Actress | Film | Role(s) |
| 2020 (27th) | Mark Ruffalo | I Know This Much Is True | Dominick and Thomas Birdsey |
| 2020 (27th) | Bill Camp | The Queen's Gambit | William Shaibel |
| 2020 (27th) | Daveed Diggs | Hamilton | Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson |
| 2020 (27th) | Hugh Grant | The Undoing | Jonathan Fraser |
| 2020 (27th) | Ethan Hawke | The Good Lord Bird | John Brown |
| 2021 (28th) | Michael Keaton | Dopesick | Dr. Samuel Finnix |
| 2021 (28th) | Murray Bartlett | The White Lotus | Armond |
| 2021 (28th) | Oscar Isaac | Scenes from a Marriage | Jonathan Levy |
| 2021 (28th) | Ewan McGregor | Halston | Halston |
| 2021 (28th) | Evan Peters | Mare of Easttown | Colin Zabel |
| 2022 (29th) | Sam Elliott | 1883 | Shea Brennan |
| 2022 (29th) | Steve Carell | The Patient | Alan Strauss |
| 2022 (29th) | Taron Egerton | Black Bird | James "Jimmy" Keane |
| 2022 (29th) | Paul Walter Hauser | Black Bird | Lawrence "Larry" Hall |
| 2022 (29th) | Evan Peters | Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | Jeffrey Dahmer |
| 2023 (30th) | Steven Yeun | Beef | Danny Cho |
| 2023 (30th) | Matt Bomer | Fellow Travelers | Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller |
| 2023 (30th) | Jon Hamm | Fargo | Roy Tillman |
| 2023 (30th) | David Oyelowo | Lawmen: Bass Reeves | Bass Reeves |
| 2023 (30th) | Tony Shalhoub | Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie | Adrian Monk |
| 2024 (31st) | Colin Farrell | The Penguin | Oswald "Oz" Cobb / The Penguin |
| 2024 (31st) | Javier Bardem | Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | José Menendez |
| 2024 (31st) | Richard Gadd | Baby Reindeer | Donny Dunn |
| 2024 (31st) | Kevin Kline | Disclaimer | Stephen Brigstocke |
| 2024 (31st) | Andrew Scott | Ripley | Tom Ripley |

## Trivia
### Multiple winners
#### 2 wins

* Paul Giamatti (John Adams, Too Big to Fail)
* Al Pacino (Angels in America, You Don't Know Jack)
* Gary Sinise (Truman, George Wallace)
* Mark Ruffalo (The Normal Heart, I Know This Much Is True)

### Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

#### 2 nominations

* Alec Baldwin (A Streetcar Named Desire, Nuremberg )
* Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock: His Last Vow, Sherlock: The Lying Detective)
* Robert Duvall (Broken Trail, The Man Who Captured Eichmann)
* Laurence Fishburne (The Tuskegee Airmen, Thurgood)
* Paul Giamatti (John Adams, Too Big to Fail)
* Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal, The Undoing)
* Michael Keaton (The Company, Dopesick)
* Jack Lemmon (12 Angry Men, Tuesdays with Morrie)
* Ray Liotta (The Rat Pack, Texas Rising)
* Paul Newman (Empire Falls, Our Town)
* Evan Peters (Mare of Easttown, Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
* Mark Ruffalo (The Normal Heart, I Know This Much Is True)
* Geoffrey Rush (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Genius)
* George C. Scott (12 Angry Men, Inherit the Wind)
* Patrick Stewart (A Christmas Carol, Macbeth)
* Forest Whitaker (Deacons for Defense, The Enemy Within)
* Tom Wilkinson (John Adams, A Number)
* James Woods (Dirty Pictures, Too Big To Fail)

#### 3 nominations

* James Garner (Legalese, The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise, The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.)
* Ed Harris (Riders of the Purple Sage, Empire Falls, Game Change)
* Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I, Georgia O'Keeffe, The Hollow Crown)
* Ben Kingsley (Anne Frank: The Whole Story, The Tale of Sweeney Todd, Tut)
* Kevin Kline (As You Like It, Great Performances: Cyrano de Bergerac, Disclaimer)
* William H. Macy (Door to Door, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Wool Cap)
* Al Pacino (Angels in America, You Don't Know Jack, Phil Spector)
* Gary Sinise (The Stand, Truman, George Wallace)
* John Turturro (The Bronx Is Burning, Monday Night Mayhem, The Night Of)