title: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
text: This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Before 1975, supporting actors featured in a miniseries or movie were included in categories such as comedy or drama. From 1975 to 1978, the award was called Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special. Despite the category's name, actors appearing in many episodes of a miniseries were included. In 1979, the award was named Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Special. The award was renamed again in 1986, in Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special. By 1998, the award was renamed Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.
  
  Winners and nominations
  
  1970s
  
  1980s
  
  1990s
  
  2000s
  
  2010s
  
  2020s
  
  Programs with multiple nominations 
  
  6 nominations
   American Crime Story
  
  5 nominations
   American Horror Story
  
  4 nominations
   Angels in America
   Fargo
   The Normal Heart
  
  3 nominations
   And the Band Played On
   Baby M
   Dopesick
   Hamilton
   John Adams
   Roots: The Next Generations
   The Thorn Birds
   Watchmen
   When They See Us
   The White Lotus
  
  2 nominations
   12 Angry Men
   Backstairs at the White House
   Barbarians at the Gate
   Beef
   Black Bird
   Brideshead Revisited
   Broadway Bound
   Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
   Citizen X
   Conspiracy
   Death of a Salesman
   Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
   Elizabeth I
   Empire Falls
   Feud
   Hollywood
   The Josephine Baker Story
   Little Dorrit
   Masada
   Mildred Pierce
   Miss Evers' Boys
   The Night Of
   Our Fathers
   QB VII
   Raid on Entebbe
   The Rat Pack
   Recount
   RKO 281
   Sherlock
   Shōgun
   Too Big to Fail
  
  Performers with multiple wins 
  
  2 wins
   Beau Bridges
   Michael Moriarty
  
  Performers with multiple nominations 
  
  4 nominations
   Brian Dennehy
  
  3 nominations
   Beau Bridges
   John Gielgud
   John Malkovich
   Joe Mantegna
   Michael K. Williams
  
  2 nominations
   Alan Alda
   Murray Bartlett
   Ralph Bellamy
   Art Carney
   Don Cheadle
   Dabney Coleman
   James Cromwell
   Hume Cronyn
   Charles Durning
   Ed Flanders
   Martin Freeman
   Danny Glover
   John Glover
   John Goodman
   Harold Gould
   Derek Jacobi
   James Earl Jones
   Richard Kiley
  
   John Leguizamo
   Ian McKellen
   Burgess Meredith
   Alfred Molina
   Michael Moriarty
   Denis O'Hare
   Peter O'Toole
   Laurence Olivier
   Jim Parsons
   Jesse Plemons
   Christopher Plummer
   Jonathan Pryce
   Randy Quaid
   Anthony Quayle
   David Strathairn
   Michael Stuhlbarg
   Stanley Tucci
   Tom Wilkinson
   Finn Wittrock
  
  See also 
   TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
   Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries
   Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
   Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
  
  References 
  
  Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie
   
  Emmy Award