Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In early Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre, or even gender, specific. Beginning with the 22nd Primetime Emmy Awards, supporting actors in drama have competed alone. However, these dramatic performances often included actors from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:
# – Indicates a performance in a Miniseries or Television film, prior to the category's creation
§ – Indicates a performance as a guest performer, prior to the category's creation
FOX is the only one of the Big Four networks to not win this category, with only one nomination.
Winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Programs with multiple wins
4 wins
Game of Thrones (2 consecutive)
L.A. Law (3 consecutive)
The West Wing (3 consecutive)
3 wins
The Andy Griffith Show (consecutive)
Breaking Bad
Hill Street Blues (2 consecutive)
Picket Fences (consecutive)
2 wins
Caesar's Hour
The Crown
The Jackie Gleason Show
Gunsmoke
Lost
The Rockford Files (consecutive)
The Sopranos (consecutive)
Programs with multiple nominations
16 nominations
Hill Street Blues
15 nominations
L.A. Law
14 nominations
The West Wing
12 nominations
Game of Thrones
10 nominations
Succession
9 nominations
The Sopranos
8 nominations
ER
Lost
7 nominations
Breaking Bad
St. Elsewhere
6 nominations
Better Call Saul
Boston Legal
Lou Grant
The Rockford Files
The Waltons
5 nominations
Chicago Hope
Downton Abbey
The Handmaid's Tale
I Love Lucy
Mad Men
NYPD Blue
Picket Fences
thirtysomething
4 nominations
Damages
The Good Wife
Homeland
House of Cards
Magnum, P.I.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Northern Exposure
The Practice
Quantum Leap
The White Lotus
3 nominations
Alias
The Andy Griffith Show
Caesar's Hour
Cagney & Lacey
The Crown
Gunsmoke
The Jackie Gleason Show
Law & Order
Mission: Impossible
The Morning Show
Star Trek
The Streets of San Francisco
This Is Us
2 nominations
Ben Casey
Bloodline
Dragnet
The Glass Menagerie
Holocaust
Huff
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Men of a Certain Age
Miami Vice
Perry Mason
The Phil Silvers Show
Ray Donovan
Rich Man, Poor Man
Severance
Squid Game
Stranger Things
Westworld
Performers with multiple wins
4 wins
Peter Dinklage (2 consecutive)
3 wins
Art Carney (consecutive)
Don Knotts (consecutive)
Aaron Paul
2 wins
Michael Conrad (consecutive)
Larry Drake (consecutive)
Stuart Margolin (consecutive)
Carl Reiner (consecutive)
Ray Walston (consecutive)
Performers with multiple nominations
8 nominations
Peter Dinklage
6 nominations
Jonathan Banks
Ed Begley Jr.
Will Geer
Michael Imperioli
Jimmy Smits
Bruce Weitz
5 nominations
William Frawley
Aaron Paul
William Shatner
John Spencer
Bradley Whitford
Noah Wyle
4 nominations
James Brolin
Timothy Busfield
Art Carney
Jim Carter
Michael Conrad
Richard Dysart
Héctor Elizondo
Michael Emerson
Giancarlo Esposito
John Hillerman
Michael Kelly
Mandy Patinkin
Carl Reiner
John Slattery
Dean Stockwell
3 nominations
Mason Adams
Noah Beery Jr.
Nicholas Braun
Michael Douglas
Larry Drake
Paul Ford
Victor Garber
John Karlen
Don Knotts
Eriq La Salle
Matthew Macfadyen
Greg Morris
Leonard Nimoy
Terry O'Quinn
Richard Schiff
Robert Walden
Ray Walston
2 nominations
Alan Alda
Ben Alexander
Michael Badalucco
Andre Braugher
David Burns
Leo G. Carroll
Josh Charles
Dominic Chianese
Gordon Clapp
Barry Corbin
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Billy Crudup
Kieran Culkin
Alan Cumming
Fyvush Finkel
Charles Haid
David Harbour
Steve Harris
Steven Hill
John Lithgow
Stuart Margolin
Ben Mendelsohn
Edward James Olmos
Oliver Platt
Chris Sullivan
Nicholas Turturro
Jon Voight
Dennis Weaver
Jeffrey Wright
See also
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Notes
References
Supporting Actor - Drama Series
Emmy Award