Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film explained

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film
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Awarded For:	Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film
Presenter:	International Press Academy
Country:	United States
Year:	1996
Holder:	Guy Pearce – A Spy Among Friends (2023)

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
	Alan Rickman		Grigori Rasputin	HBO
		Hidden in America	Bill Januson	Showtime
		Gulliver's Travels		NBC
		In Cold Blood	Perry Smith	CBS
		The Summer of Ben Tyler	Temple Rayburn
	Gary Sinise	George Wallace	George C. Wallace	TNT
		The Odyssey		NBC
		Weapons of Mass Distraction	Lionel Powers	HBO
			Don King
		Mandela and de Klerk		Showtime
	Delroy Lindo	Glory & Honor	Mathew Henson	TNT
		The Pentagon Wars	Lt. Colonel James Burton	HBO
		Always Outnumbered	Socrates Fortlow
		From the Earth to the Moon	Joseph Francis Shea
		Moby Dick		USA Network
	William H. Macy	A Slight Case of Murder	Terry Thorpe	TNT
		P. T. Barnum		A&E
		A Lesson Before Dying	Grant Wiggins	HBO
		Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Earl Mills
		Strange Justice		Showtime

2000s

Year	Actress	Series	Role	Network
	James Woods	Dirty Pictures	Dennis Barrie	Showtime
			Arturo Sandoval	HBO
				Showtime
			Lou Hastings	CBS
		Flowers for Algernon	Charlie Gordon
	Richard Dreyfuss	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Alexander Haig	Showtime
				ABC
		Varian's War		Showtime
		Band of Brothers		HBO
		Boycott	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
	William H. Macy	Door to Door	Bill Porter	TNT
		Living with the Dead		CBS
		The Gathering Storm		HBO
		Keep the Faith, Baby		Showtime
		King of Texas	John Lear	TNT
	James Woods		Rudy Giuliani	USA Network
				CBS
		Soldier's Girl		Showtime
			Scottie / Calpernia Addams
		Angels in America		HBO
		Normal	Roy Applewood
	Jamie Foxx		Stan "Tookie" Williams	FX
		Deadwood		HBO
		Something the Lord Made	Vivien Thomas
			Dr. Alfred Blalock
		The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peter Sellers
	Jonathan Rhys Meyers	Elvis	Elvis Presley	CBS
		Our Fathers	Mitchell Garabedian	Showtime
			Jimmy Harper
		Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking	Sherlock Holmes	BBC One
		Warm Springs		HBO
		Empire Falls	Miles Roby
	Bill Nighy	Gideon's Daughter	Gideon Warner	BBC America
		Thief	Nick Atwater	FX
		Elizabeth I		HBO
		Mrs. Harris	Herman Tarnower
		Bleak House	Mr. Tulkinghorn	BBC One
	David Oyelowo	Five Days	Matt Wellings	HBO
		The Trial of Tony Blair		More4
		Longford		HBO
		Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
			Jesse Stone	CBS
		Jane Eyre	Edward Fairfax Rochester	BBC One
	Paul Giamatti	John Adams	John Adams	HBO
		The Last Enemy	Stephen Ezard	BBC One
		Bernard and Doris	Bernard Lafferty	HBO
		Recount	Ron Klain
			James Baker
		God on Trial	Baumgarten	PBS
	Brendan Gleeson	Into the Storm	Winston Churchill	HBO
		Wallander		BBC One
		Taking Chance		HBO
		Endgame	Will Esterhuyse	Channel 4
		Georgia O'Keeffe		Lifetime
		The Prisoner	Number Two / Curtis	AMC

2010s

Year	Actress	Series	Role	Network
	Al Pacino	You Don't Know Jack	Dr. Jack Kevorkian	HBO
		Sherlock		PBS
		Luther	Det. John Luther	BBC One
		The Pillars of the Earth	Waleran Bigod	Starz
				CBS
		The Special Relationship		HBO
		Agatha Christie's Poirot Murder on the Orient Express		ITV
	Jason Isaacs	Case Histories	Jackson Brodie	BBC One
		Downton Abbey	Robert Crawly, Earl of Grantham	PBS
		Luther	Det. John Luther	BBC One
		Thurgood		HBO
		Too Big to Fail	Henry Paulson
		Page Eight	Johnny Worricker	BBC Two
	Benedict Cumberbatch	Sherlock	Sherlock Holmes	PBS
		Game Change		HBO
		Hemingway & Gellhorn	Ernest Hemingway
		Wallander		BBC One
		Luther	Det. John Luther
		Hatfields & McCoys		HISTORY
	Michael Douglas	Behind the Candelabra	Liberace	HBO
		Top of the Lake	Matt Mitcham	BBC Two
		Dancing on the Edge	Louis Lester
			Stanley Mitchell
		Behind the Candelabra		HBO
		Phil Spector	Phil Spector
		Parade's End	Christopher Tietjens
		Burton & Taylor		BBC Four
	Mark Ruffalo	The Normal Heart	Ned Weeks	HBO
				BBC America
		Olive Kitteridge	Henry Kitteridge	HBO
		The Honourable Woman	Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle	SundanceTV
		Agatha Christie's Poirot		ITV
				Fox
	Mark Rylance	Wolf Hall	Thomas Cromwell	BBC Two
		Arthur & George		ITV
		The Casual Vacancy	Howard Mollison	HBO
		Show Me a Hero	Nick Wasicsko
		Nightingale	Peter Snowden
		Wolf Hall		BBC Two
		Bloodline	Danny Rayburn	Netflix
	Bryan Cranston	All the Way	Lyndon B. Johnson	HBO
		The People v. O.J. Simpson		FX
			Johnnie Cochran
		Confirmation		HBO
		The Night Manager	Jonathan Pine	AMC
		The Dresser	Sir	BBC Two
2017 ^[1] ^[2]	Robert De Niro	The Wizard of Lies	Bernie Madoff	HBO
		Sherlock		PBS
		The Young Pope	Pope Pius XIII	HBO
		Fargo	Emmit and Ray Stussy	FX
		King Charles III		BBC Two
2018 ^[3]	Darren Criss	The Assassination of Gianni Versace	Andrew Cunanan	FX
		The Alienist	Dr. Laszlo Kreizler	TNT
		Patrick Melrose	Patrick Melrose	Showtime
		The Looming Tower		Hulu
		A Very English Scandal		BBC One
		The Terror		AMC
2019 ^[4]	Jared Harris	Chernobyl	Valery Legasov	HBO
		The Loudest Voice		Showtime
		When They See Us		Netflix
			Jesse Pinkman
		I Am the Night	Jay Singletary	TNT
		Fosse/Verdon		FX

2020s

Year	Actress	Series	Role	Network
2020 ^[5] ^[6]	Ethan Hawke	The Good Lord Bird	John Brown	Showtime
		Small Axe		BBC One/Prime Video
		Your Honor	Michael Desiato	Showtime
		The Undoing	Jonathan Fraser	HBO
		Bad Education	Frank Tassone
		Fargo	Loy Cannon	FX
		I Know This Much Is True	Dominick and Thomas Birdsey	HBO
	Ewan McGregor	Halston	Halston	Netflix
		The North Water		AMC+
		Help	Tony	Channel 4
		Dopesick	Dr. Samuel Finnix	Hulu
				FX
		Oslo		HBO
	Evan Peters		Jeffrey Dahmer	Netflix
		We Own This City	Sergeant Wayne Jenkins	HBO
		The Old Man	Dan Chase / Henry Dixon / Johnny Kohler	FX
		Under the Banner of Heaven	Detective Jeb Pyre	FX on Hulu
		WeCrashed		Apple TV+
		Gaslit		Starz
2023 ^[7] ^[8]	Guy Pearce	A Spy Among Friends	Kim Philby	MGM+
		Fellow Travelers	Hawkins "Hawk" Fuller	Showtime
		Fargo	Sheriff Roy Tillman	FX
		A Spy Among Friends		MGM+
		Murdaugh Murders: The Movie	Alex Murdaugh	Lifetime
		Beef	Danny Cho	Netflix

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘The Shape of Water’ Lead Satellite Award Nominations. TheWrap. December 1, 2017. November 30, 2017.
2. Web site: Satellite Awards 2017. International Press Academy. October 27, 2021.
3. Web site: Satellite Awards 2018. International Press Academy. October 27, 2021.
4. Web site: Satellite Awards 2019. International Press Academy. October 27, 2021.
5. Web site: ‘One Night in Miami’ and ‘Nomadland’ Lead Nominations for 25th Satellite Awards. Vimooz. February 1, 2021. October 27, 2021.
6. Web site: Satellite Awards winners: ‘Nomadland,’ ‘Forty-Year Old Version’ top film prizes; ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Better Call Saul’ take TV. Awards Watch. Erik. Anderson. February 15, 2021. October 27, 2021.
7. Web site: IPA Reveals Nominations for the 28th Satellite Awards . . December 18, 2023 . March 26, 2024.
8. Web site: The International Press Academy Announces Winners for the 28th Annual SATELLITE Awards . International Press Academy . March 26, 2024 . March 3, 2024.