Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Primetime Emmy Awards · 249 nominations across 53 ceremonies · 52 wins
78th Emmys · 2026
- Nominee Charles Melton · Beef
- Nominee Richard Gadd · Half Man
- Nominee David Harbour · DTF St. Louis
- Nominee Nick Offerman · Death by Lightning
- Nominee Jason Bateman · DTF St. Louis
- Nominee Richard Jenkins · DTF St. Louis
77th Emmys · 2025
- Winner Owen Cooper · Adolescence
- Nominee Javier Bardem · Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
- Nominee Rob Delaney · Dying for Sex
- Nominee Peter Sarsgaard · Presumed Innocent
- Nominee Bill Camp · Presumed Innocent
- Nominee Ashley Walters · Adolescence
76th Emmys · 2024
- Winner Lamorne Morris · Fargo
- Nominee Lewis Pullman · Lessons in Chemistry
- Nominee Robert Downey Jr. · The Sympathizer
- Nominee Jonathan Bailey · Fellow Travelers
- Nominee John Hawkes · True Detective: Night Country
- Nominee Treat Williams · Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
- Nominee Tom Goodman-Hill · Baby Reindeer
75th Emmys · 2023
- Winner Paul Walter Hauser · Black Bird
- Nominee Joseph Lee · Beef
- Nominee Jesse Plemons · Love & Death
- Nominee Richard Jenkins · Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
- Nominee Young Mazino · Beef
- Nominee Murray Bartlett · Welcome to Chippendales
- Nominee Ray Liotta · Black Bird
74th Emmys · 2022
- Winner Murray Bartlett · The White Lotus
- Nominee Peter Sarsgaard · Dopesick
- Nominee Seth Rogen · Pam & Tommy
- Nominee Jake Lacy · The White Lotus
- Nominee Michael Stuhlbarg · Dopesick
- Nominee Will Poulter · Dopesick
- Nominee Steve Zahn · The White Lotus
73rd Emmys · 2021
- Winner Evan Peters · Mare of Easttown
- Nominee Thomas Brodie-Sangster · The Queen's Gambit
- Nominee Jonathan Groff, Jonathan Groff · Hamilton
- Nominee Daveed Diggs · Hamilton
- Nominee Paapa Essiedu · I May Destroy You
- Nominee Anthony Ramos · Hamilton
72nd Emmys · 2020
- Winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II · Watchmen
71st Emmys · 2019
- Winner Ben Whishaw · A Very English Scandal
70th Emmys · 2018
- Winner Jeff Daniels · Godless
69th Emmys · 2017
- Winner Alexander Skarsgård · Big Little Lies
68th Emmys · 2016
67th Emmys · 2015
- Winner Bill Murray · Olive Kitteridge
66th Emmys · 2014
- Winner Martin Freeman · Sherlock: His Last Vow
- Nominee Colin Hanks · Fargo
- Nominee Alfred Molina · The Normal Heart
- Nominee Joe Mantello · The Normal Heart
- Nominee Matt Bomer · The Normal Heart
- Nominee Jim Parsons · The Normal Heart
65th Emmys · 2013
- Winner James Cromwell · American Horror Story: Asylum
- Nominee Scott Bakula · Behind the Candelabra
- Nominee Zachary Quinto · American Horror Story: Asylum
- Nominee John Benjamin Hickey · The Big C
- Nominee Peter Mullan · Top of the Lake
64th Emmys · 2012
- Winner Tom Berenger · Hatfields & McCoys
- Nominee Denis O'Hare · American Horror Story: Murder House
- Nominee Martin Freeman · Sherlock
- Nominee David Strathairn · Hemingway & Gellhorn
- Nominee Martin Freeman · Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
- Nominee Ed Harris · Game Change
63rd Emmys · 2011
- Winner Guy Pearce · Mildred Pierce
- Nominee Tom Wilkinson · The Kennedys
- Nominee Brían F. O'Byrne · Mildred Pierce
- Nominee James Woods · Too Big to Fail
- Nominee Paul Giamatti · Too Big to Fail
62nd Emmys · 2010
- Winner David Strathairn · Temple Grandin
- Nominee John Goodman · You Don't Know Jack
- Nominee Michael Gambon · Emma
- Nominee Jonathan Pryce · Return to Cranford
- Nominee Patrick Stewart · Hamlet
61st Emmys · 2009
- Winner Ken Howard · Grey Gardens
- Nominee Andy Serkis · Little Dorrit
- Nominee Bob Newhart · The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice
- Nominee Tom Courtenay · Little Dorrit
- Nominee Len Cariou · Into the Storm
60th Emmys · 2008
- Winner Tom Wilkinson · John Adams
- Nominee Denis Leary · Recount
- Nominee Bob Balaban · Recount
- Nominee Stephen Dillane · John Adams
- Nominee David Morse · John Adams
59th Emmys · 2007
- Winner Thomas Haden Church · Broken Trail
- Nominee Aidan Quinn · Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Nominee August Schellenberg · Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Nominee Joe Mantegna · The Starter Wife
- Nominee Ed Asner · The Christmas Card
58th Emmys · 2006
- Winner Jeremy Irons · Elizabeth I
- Nominee Denis Lawson · Masterpiece
- Nominee Clifton Collins Jr. · Thief
- Nominee Hugh Dancy · Elizabeth I
- Nominee Denis Lawson · Bleak House
- Nominee Robert Carlyle · Human Trafficking
57th Emmys · 2005
- Winner Paul Newman · Empire Falls
- Nominee Brian Dennehy · Our Fathers
- Nominee Randy Quaid · Elvis
- Nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman · Empire Falls
- Nominee Christopher Plummer · Our Fathers
56th Emmys · 2004
- Winner Jeffrey Wright · Angels in America
- Nominee Justin Kirk · Angels in America
- Nominee Ben Shenkman · Angels in America
- Nominee William H. Macy · Stealing Sinatra
- Nominee Patrick Wilson · Angels in America
55th Emmys · 2003
- Winner Ben Gazzara · Hysterical Blindness
- Nominee John Malkovich · Napoléon
- Nominee Chris Cooper · My House in Umbria
- Nominee Alan Arkin · The Pentagon Papers
- Nominee Peter O'Toole · Hitler: The Rise of Evil
54th Emmys · 2002
- Winner Michael Moriarty · James Dean
- Nominee Jim Broadbent · The Gathering Storm
- Nominee Alec Baldwin · Path to War
- Nominee Don Cheadle · Things Behind the Sun
- Nominee Jon Voight · Uprising
53rd Emmys · 2001
- Winner Brian Cox · Nuremberg
- Nominee Stanley Tucci · Conspiracy
- Nominee Colin Firth · Conspiracy
- Nominee Ian Holm · The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
- Nominee Victor Garber · Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
- Nominee Alan Alda · Club Land
52nd Emmys · 2000
- Winner Hank Azaria · Tuesdays with Morrie
- Nominee James Cromwell · RKO 281
- Nominee John Malkovich · RKO 281
- Nominee Klaus Maria Brandauer · Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
- Nominee Danny Glover · Freedom Song
51st Emmys · 1999
- Winner Peter O'Toole · Joan of Arc
- Nominee Peter Fonda · The Passion of Ayn Rand
- Nominee Don Cheadle · The Rat Pack
- Nominee Joe Mantegna · The Rat Pack
- Nominee Beau Bridges · Inherit the Wind
50th Emmys · 1998
- Winner George C. Scott · 12 Angry Men
- Nominee Hume Cronyn · 12 Angry Men
- Nominee Martin Short · Merlin
- Nominee J. T. Walsh · Hope
- Nominee Gregory Peck · Moby Dick
49th Emmys · 1997
- Winner The Second Civil War
- Nominee Michael Caine · Mandela and de Klerk
- Nominee Joe Mantegna · The Last Don
- Nominee Obba Babatundé · Miss Evers' Boys
- Nominee Ossie Davis · Miss Evers' Boys
48th Emmys · 1996
- Winner Tom Hulce · The Heidi Chronicles
- Nominee John Goodman · A Streetcar Named Desire
- Nominee Ian McKellen · Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
- Nominee Treat Williams · The Late Shift
- Nominee The Tuskegee Airmen
47th Emmys · 1995
- Winner Donald Sutherland · Citizen X
- Nominee Ben Kingsley · Joseph
- Nominee Jeffrey DeMunn · Citizen X
- Nominee Sam Elliott · Buffalo Girls
- Nominee Edward James Olmos · The Burning Season
46th Emmys · 1994
- Winner Michael A. Goorjian · David's Mother
- Nominee Ian McKellen · And the Band Played On
- Nominee Richard Gere · And the Band Played On
- Nominee Alan Alda · And the Band Played On
- Nominee Matthew Broderick · A Life in the Theatre
45th Emmys · 1993
- Winner Beau Bridges · The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
- Nominee Maximilian Schell · Stalin
- Nominee Jonathan Pryce · Barbarians at the Gate
- Nominee Peter Riegert · Barbarians at the Gate
- Nominee Brian Dennehy · Murder in the Heartland
44th Emmys · 1992
- Winner Broadway Bound
- Nominee Héctor Elizondo · Mrs. Cage
- Nominee Ben Vereen · Intruders
- Nominee The Burden of Proof
43rd Emmys · 1991
- Winner James Earl Jones · Heat Wave
- Nominee Leon Russom · Long Road Home
- Nominee David Dukes · The Josephine Baker Story
- Nominee Richard Kiley · Separate But Equal
- Nominee Rubén Blades · The Josephine Baker Story
42nd Emmys · 1990
- Winner Vincent Gardenia · Age-Old Friends
- Nominee Max von Sydow · Red King, White Knight
- Nominee Brian Dennehy · A Killing in a Small Town
- Nominee Anthony Hopkins · Great Expectations
- Nominee Ned Beatty · Last Train Home
- Nominee James Earl Jones · By Dawn's Early Light
41st Emmys · 1989
- Winner Derek Jacobi · The Tenth Man
- Nominee Danny Glover · Lonesome Dove
- Nominee James Garner · Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Nominee Armand Assante · Jack the Ripper
- Nominee James Garner · My Name Is Bill W.
- Nominee Corin Nemec · I Know My First Name is Steven
40th Emmys · 1988
- Winner John Shea · Baby M Case
- Nominee Ron Silver · Billionaire Boys Club
- Nominee Anthony Quinn · Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
- Nominee Baby M Case
39th Emmys · 1987
- Winner Dabney Coleman · Sworn to Silence
- Nominee Stephen Collins · The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
- Nominee Eli Wallach
- Nominee John Glover · Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder
- Nominee Laurence Olivier · Lost Empires
38th Emmys · 1986
- Winner John Malkovich · Death of a Salesman
- Nominee Harold Gould · Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
- Nominee Pat Morita · Amos
- Nominee Charles Durning · Death of a Salesman
- Nominee John Glover · An Early Frost
37th Emmys · 1985
- Winner Karl Malden · Fatal Vision
- Nominee Rip Torn · The Atlanta Child Murders
- Nominee Richard Burton · Ellis Island
- Nominee John Gielgud · Romance on the Orient Express
- Nominee Richard Masur · The Burning Bed
36th Emmys · 1984
- Winner Art Carney · Terrible Joe Moran
- Nominee John Lithgow · The Day After
- Nominee John Gielgud · The Master of Ballantrae
- Nominee Randy Quaid · A Streetcar Named Desire
- Nominee Keith Carradine · Chiefs
- Nominee David Ogden Stiers · The First Olympics: Athens 1896
35th Emmys · 1983
- Winner Richard Kiley · The Thorn Birds
- Nominee Bryan Brown · The Thorn Birds
- Nominee David Threlfall · The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Nominee Ralph Bellamy · The Winds of War
- Nominee Christopher Plummer · The Thorn Birds
34th Emmys · 1982
- Winner Laurence Olivier · Brideshead Revisited
- Nominee Leonard Nimoy · A Woman Called Golda
- Nominee John Gielgud · Brideshead Revisited
- Nominee Jack Albertson · My Body, My Child
- Nominee Derek Jacobi · Inside the Third Reich
33rd Emmys · 1981
- Winner David Warner · Masada
- Nominee Anthony Quayle · Masada
- Nominee Yūki Meguro · Shōgun
- Nominee John Rhys-Davies · Shōgun
- Nominee Andy Griffith · Murder in Texas
32nd Emmys · 1980
- Winner George Grizzard · The Oldest Living Graduate
- Nominee Ernest Borgnine · Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Nominee Charles Durning · Attica
- Nominee Ernest Borgnine · All Quiet on the Western Front
- Nominee John Cassavetes · Flesh and Blood
- Nominee Harold Gould · Moviola
31st Emmys · 1979
- Winner Marlon Brando · Roots: The Next Generations
- Nominee Robert Vaughn · Backstairs at the White House
- Nominee Ed Flanders · Backstairs at the White House
- Nominee Al Freeman, Jr. · Roots: The Next Generations
- Nominee Paul Winfield · Roots: The Next Generations
30th Emmys · 1978
- Winner Howard da Silva · Verna: USO Girl
- Nominee Donald Pleasence · The Defection of Simas Kudirka
- Nominee Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. · A Family Upside Down
- Nominee Burgess Meredith · The Last Hurrah
- Nominee James Farentino · Jesus of Nazareth
29th Emmys · 1977
- Winner Burgess Meredith · Tail Gunner Joe
- Nominee Mark Harmon · Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
- Nominee Walter McGinn · Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
- Nominee Yaphet Kotto · Raid on Entebbe
- Nominee Martin Balsam · Raid on Entebbe
28th Emmys · 1976
- Winner Ed Flanders · A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Nominee Art Carney · Katherine
- Nominee Ray Bolger · The Entertainer
27th Emmys · 1975
- Winner Anthony Quayle · QB VII
- Nominee Jack Hawkins · QB VII
- Nominee Ralph Bellamy · The Missiles of October
- Nominee Trevor Howard · The Count of Monte Cristo
26th Emmys · 1974
- Winner William Holden · The Blue Knight