Every Emmys Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 26 different winners.

Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie was previously known as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.

It has been Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie since 2015 and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie since 2021.

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by network; scroll sideways for the full run.

Hank Azaria'00

Brian Cox'01

Michael Moriarty'02

Ben Gazzara'03

Jeffrey Wright'04

Paul Newman'05

Jeremy Irons'06

Thomas Haden Church'07

Tom Wilkinson'08

Ken Howard'09

David Strathairn'10

Guy Pearce'11

Tom Berenger'12

James Cromwell'13

Martin Freeman'14

Bill Murray'15

Sterling K. Brown'16

Alexander Skarsgård'17

Jeff Daniels'18

Ben Whishaw'19

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II'20

Evan Peters'21

Murray Bartlett'22

Paul Walter Hauser'23

Lamorne Morris'24

Owen Cooper'25

Wins by network

HBO1350%
FX312%
Netflix28%
TNT28%
ABC14%
Amazon14%
Other415%

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Michael K. Williams3 noms
Alfred Molina2 noms
Bill Camp2 noms
Denis O'Hare2 noms
Finn Wittrock2 noms
Jesse Plemons2 noms

Most losses

Michael K. Williams3L · 0W
Alfred Molina2L · 0W
Bill Camp2L · 0W
Denis O'Hare2L · 0W
Finn Wittrock2L · 0W
Jesse Plemons2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Network
2025	Owen Cooper (Adolescence) beat 5 others Javier Bardem (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story) Bill Camp (Presumed Innocent) Rob Delaney (Dying for Sex) Peter Sarsgaard (Presumed Innocent) Ashley Walters (Adolescence)	Netflix
2024	Lamorne Morris (Fargo) beat 6 others Jonathan Bailey (Fellow Travelers) Robert Downey Jr. (The Sympathizer) Tom Goodman-Hill (Baby Reindeer) John Hawkes (True Detective: Night Country) Lewis Pullman (Lessons in Chemistry) Treat Williams (posthumously) (Feud: Capote vs. The Swans)	FX
2023	Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) beat 6 others Murray Bartlett (Welcome to Chippendales) Richard Jenkins (Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) Joseph Lee (Beef) Ray Liotta (posthumously) (Black Bird) Young Mazino (Beef) Jesse Plemons (Love & Death)	Apple TV+
2022	Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) beat 6 others Jake Lacy (The White Lotus) Will Poulter (Dopesick) Seth Rogen (Pam & Tommy) Peter Sarsgaard (Dopesick) Michael Stuhlbarg (Dopesick) Steve Zahn (The White Lotus)	HBO
2021	Evan Peters (Mare of Easttown) beat 5 others Thomas Brodie-Sangster (The Queen's Gambit) Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) Jonathan Groff (Hamilton) Anthony Ramos (Hamilton)	HBO
2020	Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) beat 5 others Jovan Adepo (Watchmen) Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend) Louis Gossett Jr. (Watchmen) Dylan McDermott (Hollywood) Jim Parsons (Hollywood)	HBO
2019	Ben Whishaw (A Very English Scandal) beat 5 others Asante Blackk (When They See Us) Paul Dano (Escape at Dannemora) John Leguizamo (When They See Us) Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl) Michael K. Williams (When They See Us)	Prime Video
2018	Jeff Daniels (Godless) beat 6 others Brandon Victor Dixon (Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert) John Leguizamo (Waco) Ricky Martin (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) Édgar Ramírez (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) Michael Stuhlbarg (The Looming Tower) Finn Wittrock (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)	Netflix
2017	Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies) beat 5 others Bill Camp (The Night Of) Alfred Molina (Feud: Bette and Joan) David Thewlis (Fargo) Stanley Tucci (Feud: Bette and Joan) Michael K. Williams (The Night Of)	HBO
2016	Sterling K. Brown (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story) beat 5 others Hugh Laurie (The Night Manager) Jesse Plemons (Fargo) David Schwimmer (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story) John Travolta (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story) Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo)	FX
2015	Bill Murray (Olive Kitteridge) beat 5 others Richard Cabral (American Crime) Damian Lewis (Wolf Hall) Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story: Freak Show) Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story: Freak Show) Michael K. Williams (Bessie)	HBO
2014	Martin Freeman (Sherlock: His Last Vow) beat 5 others Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart) Colin Hanks (Fargo) Joe Mantello (The Normal Heart) Alfred Molina (The Normal Heart) Jim Parsons (The Normal Heart)	PBS
2013	James Cromwell (American Horror Story: Asylum) beat 4 others Scott Bakula (Behind the Candelabra) John Benjamin Hickey (The Big C: Hereafter) Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake) Zachary Quinto (American Horror Story: Asylum)	FX
2012	Tom Berenger (Hatfields & McCoys) beat 4 others Martin Freeman (Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia) Ed Harris (Game Change) Denis O'Hare (American Horror Story) David Strathairn (Hemingway & Gellhorn)	History
2011	Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce) beat 4 others Paul Giamatti (Too Big to Fail) Brían F. O'Byrne (Mildred Pierce) Tom Wilkinson (The Kennedys) James Woods (Too Big to Fail)	HBO
2010	David Strathairn (Temple Grandin) beat 4 others Michael Gambon (Emma) John Goodman (You Don't Know Jack) Jonathan Pryce (Return to Cranford) Patrick Stewart (Hamlet)	HBO
2009	Ken Howard (Grey Gardens) beat 4 others Len Cariou (Into the Storm) Tom Courtenay (Little Dorrit) Bob Newhart (The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice) Andy Serkis (Little Dorrit)	HBO
2008	Tom Wilkinson (John Adams) beat 4 others Bob Balaban (Recount) Stephen Dillane (John Adams) Denis Leary (Recount) David Morse (John Adams)	HBO
2007	Thomas Haden Church (Broken Trail) beat 4 others Ed Asner (The Christmas Card) Joe Mantegna (The Starter Wife) Aidan Quinn (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee) August Schellenberg (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)	AMC
2006	Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I) beat 4 others Robert Carlyle (Human Trafficking) Clifton Collins, Jr. (Thief) Hugh Dancy (Elizabeth I) Denis Lawson (Bleak House)	HBO
2005	Paul Newman (Empire Falls) beat 4 others Brian Dennehy (Our Fathers) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Empire Falls) Christopher Plummer (Our Fathers) Randy Quaid (Elvis)	HBO
2004	Jeffrey Wright (Angels in America) beat 4 others Justin Kirk (Angels in America) William H. Macy (Stealing Sinatra) Ben Shenkman (Angels in America) Patrick Wilson (Angels in America)	HBO
2003	Ben Gazzara (Hysterical Blindness) beat 4 others Alan Arkin (The Pentagon Papers) Chris Cooper (My House in Umbria) John Malkovich (Napoleon) Peter O'Toole (Hitler: The Rise of Evil)	HBO
2002	Michael Moriarty (James Dean) beat 4 others Alec Baldwin (Path to War) Jim Broadbent (The Gathering Storm) Don Cheadle (Things Behind the Sun) Jon Voight (Uprising)	TNT
2001	Brian Cox (Nuremberg) beat 5 others Alan Alda (Club Land) Colin Firth (Conspiracy) Victor Garber (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) Ian Holm (The Last of the Blonde Bombshells) Stanley Tucci (Conspiracy)	TNT
2000	Hank Azaria (Tuesdays with Morrie) beat 4 others Klaus Maria Brandauer (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) James Cromwell (RKO 281) Danny Glover (Freedom Song) John Malkovich (RKO 281)	ABC

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