Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

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.

Programs with multiple nominations

 * 6 nominations
 * American Crime Story


 * 5 nominations
 * American Horror Story
 * Fargo


 * 4 nominations
 * Angels in America
 * The Normal Heart


 * 3 nominations
 * And the Band Played On
 * Baby M
 * Dopesick
 * Feud
 * 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
 * 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
 * Treat Williams
 * Finn Wittrock