Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.

Award winners and nominations

;1970s
*1972: Scott Jacoby - "That Certain Summer"
*1973: "no award"
*1974: "no award"
*1975: "no award"
*1976: "no award"
*1977: "no award"
*1978: "no award"
*1979: Marlon Brando - "

;1980s
*1980: George Grizzard - "The Oldest Living Graduate"
*1981: David Warner - "Masada
*1982: Laurence Olivier - "Brideshead Revisited
*1983: Richard Kiley - "The Thorn Birds
*1984: Art Carney - "Terrible Joe Moran
*1985: Karl Malden - "Fatal Vision
*1986: John Malkovich - "Death of a Salesman
*1987: Dabney Coleman - "Sworn to Silence
*1988: John Shea - "Baby M
*1989: Derek Jacobi - "The Tenth Man

;1990s
*1990: Vincent Gardenia - "Age-0ld Friends
*1991: James Earl Jones - "Heat Wave
*1992: Hume Cronyn - "Broadway Bound
*1993: Beau Bridges - "The Positively True Adventures...
*1994: Michael Goorjian - "David's Mother
*1995: Donald Sutherland - "Citizen X
*1996: Tom Hulce - "The Heidi Chronicles
*1997: Beau Bridges - "The Second Civil War
*1998: George C. Scott - "12 Angry Men
*1999: Peter O'Toole - "Joan of Arc

2000s

* 2000: Hank Azaria – "Tuesdays with Morrie"
** Klaus Maria Brandauer – "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge"
** James Cromwell – "RKO 281"
** Danny Glover – "Freedom Song"
** John Malkovich – "RKO 281"

* 2001: Brian Cox – "Nuremberg"
** Alan Alda – "Club Land"
** Colin Firth – "Conspiracy"
** Victor Garber – ""
** Ian Holm – "The Last of the Blonde Bombshells"
** Stanley Tucci – "Conspiracy"

* 2002: Michael Moriarty – "James Dean"
** Alec Baldwin – "Path to War"
** Jim Broadbent – "The Gathering Storm"
** Don Cheadle – "Things Behind the Sun"
** Jon Voight – "Uprising"

* 2003: Ben Gazzara – "Hysterical Blindness"
** Alan Arkin – "The Pentagon Papers"
** Chris Cooper – "My House in Umbria"
** John Malkovich – "Napoleon"
** Peter O'Toole – ""

* 2004: Jeffrey Wright – "Angels in America"
** Justin Kirk – "Angels in America"
** William H. Macy – "Stealing Sinatra"
** Ben Shenkman – "Angels in America"
** Patrick Wilson – "Angels in America"

* 2005: Paul Newman – "Empire Falls"
** Brian Dennehy – "Our Fathers"
** Philip Seymour Hoffman – "Empire Falls"
** Christopher Plummer – "Our Fathers"
** Randy Quaid – "Elvis"

* 2006: Jeremy Irons – "Elizabeth I"
** Robert Carlyle – "Human Trafficking"
** Clifton Collins, Jr. – "Thief"
** Hugh Dancy – "Elizabeth I"
** Denis Lawson – "Bleak House"

* 2007: Thomas Haden Church – "Broken Trail"
** Edward 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"

* 2008: Tom Wilkinson – "John Adams"
** Bob Balaban – "Recount"
** Stephen Dillane – "John Adams"
** Denis Leary – "Recount"
** David Morse – "John Adams"