Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

The Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
The 2024 recipient: Robert Downey Jr.
Awarded for	Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Robert Downey Jr. – The Sympathizer (2024)

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Actor	Series	Role	Network
1996	Stanley Tucci	Murder One	Richard Cross	ABC
	Ian McKellen	Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny	Tsar Nicholas II	HBO
	Anthony Quinn	Gotti	Aniello Dellacroce
	Treat Williams	The Late Shift	Michael Ovitz
	Brian Dennehy	A Season in Purgatory	Gerald Bradley	CBS
1997	Vondie Curtis-Hall	Don King: Only in America	Lloyd Price	HBO
	Jason Alexander	Cinderella	Lionel	ABC
	Joe Don Baker	George Wallace	Big Jim Folsom	TNT
	Ossie Davis	Miss Evers' Boys	Mr. Evers	HBO
	Michael Caine	Mandela and de Klerk	F. W. de Klerk	Showtime
1998	David Clennon	From the Earth to the Moon	Leon Silver	HBO
	Brian Dennehy	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Senator Riegle	Showtime
	Lance Henriksen	The Day Lincoln Was Shot	Abraham Lincoln	TNT
	Martin Short	Merlin	Frik	NBC
	Daniel Williams	Always Outnumbered	Darryl	HBO
1999	Not presented

2000s

Year	Actor	Series	Role	Network
2000	Not presented
2001	David Schwimmer	Band of Brothers	Captain Herbert Sobel	HBO
	Billy Campbell	Further Tales of the City	Dr. Jon Fielding	Showtime
	Colin Firth	Conspiracy	Wilhelm Stuckart	HBO
	Stanley Tucci		Adolf Eichmann
	Cary Elwes	Uprising	Dr. Fritz Hippler	NBC
2002	Linus Roache	The Gathering Storm	Ralph Wigram	HBO
	Roy Scheider	King of Texas	Henry Westover	TNT
	Jim Broadbent	The Gathering Storm	Desmond Morton	HBO
	Jeremy Davies	The Laramie Project	Jedadiah Schultz
	Terry Kinney		Dennis Shepard
2003	Justin Kirk	Angels in America	Prior Walter / Leatherman in park	HBO
	Shawn Hatosy	Soldier's Girl	Justin Fisher	Showtime
	Patrick Wilson	Angels in America	Joe Pitt	HBO
	Jeffrey Wright		Mr. Lies / Norman "Belize" Arriaga / Homeless man / The Angel Europa
	Chris Cooper	My House in Umbria	Thomas Riversmith
	Eion Bailey	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Frank N. Thayer
2004	Bill Nighy	The Lost Prince	Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham	BBC One
	Brad Dourif	Deadwood	Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran	HBO
	Balthazar Getty	Traffic	Ben Edmonds	USA Network
	William H. Macy	Stealing Sinatra	John Irwin	Showtime
	Keith McErlean	The Blackwater Lightship	Declan Breen	CBS
2005	Randy Quaid	Elvis	Colonel Tom Parker	CBS
	Brian Dennehy	Our Fathers	Father Dominic Spagnolia	Showtime
	Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Joe Starks	ABC
	William Shatner	Boston Legal	Denny Crane
	Tim Blake Nelson	Warm Springs	Tom Loyless	HBO
	Paul Newman	Empire Falls	Max Roby
2006	Tony Plana	Ugly Betty	Ignacio Suarez	ABC
	Philip Baker Hall	The Loop	Russ McDonald	Fox
	Robert Knepper	Prison Break	Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell
	Michael Emerson	Lost	Ben Linus	ABC
	Jeremy Piven	Entourage	Ari Gold	HBO
	Forest Whitaker	The Shield	Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh	FX
2007	David Zayas	Dexter	Angel Batista	Showtime
	Harry Dean Stanton	Big Love	Roman Grant	HBO
	Andy Serkis	Longford	Ian Brady
	Michael Emerson	Lost	Ben Linus	ABC
	T. R. Knight	Grey's Anatomy	George O'Malley
	Justin Kirk	Weeds	Andy Botwin	Showtime
	Masi Oka	Heroes	Hiro Nakamura	NBC
2008	Nelsan Ellis	True Blood	Lafayette Reynolds	HBO
	Željko Ivanek	Damages	Ray Fiske	FX
	Harvey Keitel	Life on Mars	Gene Hunt	ABC
	Jimmy Smits	Dexter	Miguel Prado	Showtime
	John Noble	Fringe	Dr Walter Bishop	Fox
	John Slattery	Mad Men	Roger Sterling	AMC
2009	John Lithgow	Dexter	Arthur Mitchell	Showtime
	Tom Courtenay	Little Dorrit	William Dorrit	PBS
	Neil Patrick Harris	How I Met Your Mother	Barney Stinson	CBS
	John Noble	Fringe	Dr Walter Bishop	Fox
	Chris Colfer	Glee	Kurt Hummel
	Harry Dean Stanton	Big Love	Roman Grant	HBO

2010s

Year	Actor	Series	Role	Network
2010	David Strathairn	Temple Grandin	Dr. Carlock	HBO
	Ty Burrell	Modern Family	Phil Dunphy	ABC
	Bruce Campbell	Burn Notice	Sam Axe	USA Network
	Chris Colfer	Glee	Kurt Hummel	Fox
	Alan Cumming	The Good Wife	Eli Gold	CBS
	Neil Patrick Harris	How I Met Your Mother	Barney Stinson
	Aaron Paul	Breaking Bad	Jesse Pinkman	AMC
	Martin Short	Damages	Leonard Winstone	FX
	Rainn Wilson	The Office	Dwight Schrute	NBC
2011	Peter Dinklage	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	HBO
	Ryan Hurst	Sons of Anarchy	Harry "Opie" Winston	FX
	Ty Burrell	Modern Family	Phil Dunphy	ABC
	Donald Glover	Community	Troy Barnes	NBC
	Walton Goggins	Justified	Boyd Crowder	FX
	Neil Patrick Harris	How I Met Your Mother	Barney Stinson	CBS
	Guy Pearce	Mildred Pierce	Monty Beragon	HBO
	James Woods	Too Big to Fail	Richard S. Fuld Jr.
2012	Neal McDonough	Justified	Robert Quarles	FX
	Powers Boothe	Nashville	Lamar Wyatt	ABC
	Jim Carter	Downton Abbey	Charles "Charlie" Carson	PBS
	Peter Dinklage	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	HBO
	Giancarlo Esposito	Breaking Bad	Gus Fring	AMC
	Evan Peters	American Horror Story: Asylum	Kit Walker	FX
2013	Aaron Paul	Breaking Bad	Jesse Pinkman	AMC
	Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	Game of Thrones	Jaime Lannister	HBO
	William Hurt	Bonnie & Clyde	Frank Hamer	Lifetime
	James Wolk	Mad Men	Bob Benson	AMC
	Peter Sarsgaard	The Killing	Ray Seward
	Jimmy Smits	Sons of Anarchy	Nero Padilla	FX
	Corey Stoll	House of Cards	Peter Russo	Netflix
2014	Rory Kinnear	Penny Dreadful	The Creature	Showtime
	Peter Dinklage	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	HBO
	Matt Bomer	The Normal Heart	Felix Turner
	Christopher Eccleston	The Leftovers	Matt Jamison
	Andre Holland	The Knick	Dr. Algernon C. Edwards	Cinemax
	Jimmy Smits	Sons of Anarchy	Nero Padilla	FX
2015	Christian Slater	Mr. Robot	Mr. Robot	USA Network
	Jonathan Banks	Better Call Saul	Mike Ehrmantraut	AMC
	Peter Dinklage	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	HBO
	Michael K. Williams	Bessie	Jack Gee
	Elvis Nolasco	American Crime	Carter Nix	ABC
2016	Ben Mendelsohn	Bloodline	Danny Rayburn	Netflix
	Jonathan Banks	Better Call Saul	Mike Ehrmantraut	AMC
	Hugh Laurie	The Night Manager	Richard "Dicky" Onslow Roper
	Andre Braugher	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Raymond Holt	Fox
	Michael Kelly	House of Cards	Douglas "Doug" Stamper	Netflix
	Jared Harris	The Crown	King George VI
2017 [1][2]	Michael McKean	Better Call Saul	Chuck McGill	AMC
	Louie Anderson	Baskets	Christine Baskets	FX
	Stanley Tucci	Feud: Bette and Joan	Jack L. Warner
	Christopher Eccleston	The Leftovers	Matt Jamison	HBO
	Alexander Skarsgård	Big Little Lies	Perry Wright
	Lakeith Stanfield	War Machine	Corporal Billy Cole	Netflix
2018 [3]	Hugo Weaving	Patrick Melrose	David Melrose	Showtime
	Mark Duplass	Goliath	Tom Wyatt	Prime Video
	Ben Whishaw	A Very English Scandal	Norman Josiffe/Norman Scott
	John Macmillan	King Lear	Edmund	BBC Two
	Édgar Ramírez	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Gianni Versace	FX
	Paul Ready	The Terror	Assistant Surgeon Harry Goodsir	AMC
2019 [4]	Jeremy Strong	Succession	Kendall Roy	HBO
	Alan Arkin	The Kominsky Method	Norman Newlander	Netflix
	Stellan Skarsgård	Chernobyl	Boris Shcherbina	HBO
	Walton Goggins	The Righteous Gemstones	"Baby" Billy Freeman
	Dennis Quaid	Goliath	Wade Blackwood	Prime Video
	Andrew Scott	Fleabag	The Priest
	Tony Shalhoub	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Abraham "Abe" Weissman

2020s

Year	Actor	Series	Role	Network
2020 [5][6]	Jeff Wilbusch	Unorthodox	Moishe Lefkovitch	Netflix
	Joshua Caleb Johnson	The Good Lord Bird	Henry "Onion" Shackleford	Showtime
	Josh O'Connor	The Crown	Charles, Prince of Wales	Netflix
	Tom Pelphrey	Ozark	Ben Davis
	Donald Sutherland	The Undoing	Franklin Reinhardt	HBO
	Ben Whishaw	Fargo	Rabbi Milligan	FX
2021 [7][8][9]	Evan Peters	Mare of Easttown	Detective Colin Zabel	HBO
	Bobby Cannavale	Nine Perfect Strangers	Tony Hogburn	Hulu
	John Carroll Lynch	Big Sky	Rick Legarski	ABC
	Paul Reiser	The Kominsky Method	Martin	Netflix
	Michael Shannon	Nine Perfect Strangers	Napoleon Marconi	Hulu
2022 [10][11]	John Lithgow	The Old Man	Harold Harper	FX
	Giancarlo Esposito	Better Call Saul	Gus Fring	AMC
	Walton Goggins	The Righteous Gemstones	Baby Billy Freeman	HBO
	Richard Jenkins	Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story	Lionel Dahmer	Netflix
	Shea Whigham	Gaslit	G. Gordon Liddy	Starz
	Sam Worthington	Under the Banner of Heaven	Ron Lafferty	Hulu
2023 [12][13]	Jonathan Bailey	Fellow Travelers	Tim Laughlin	Showtime
	Khalid Abdalla	The Crown	Dodi Fayed	Netflix
	Murray Bartlett	The Last of Us	Frank	HBO
	James Cromwell	Succession	Ewan Roy
	Jon Gries	The White Lotus	Greg Hunt
	Lamar Johnson	The Last of Us	Henry Burrell
2024	Robert Downey Jr.	The Sympathizer	Claude/Nicos Damianos/Professor Hammer/Ned Godwin/Priest	HBO
	Tadanobu Asano	Shōgun	Kashigi Yabushige	FX Network/Hulu
	Walton Goggins	Fallout	Ghoul (Cooper Howard)	Amazon Prime Video
	Ebon Moss-Bachrach	The Bear	Richard "Richie" Jerimovich	FX Network/Hulu
	Chris Perfetti	Abbott Elementary	Jacob Hill	ABC
	Benny Safdie	The Curse	Dougie Schecter	Paramount+