Zlatni globus za najboljeg glumca u miniseriji ili televizijskom filmu
Nagrade i nominacije
uredi1980-e
uredi1981: Mickey Rooney – Bill
- Dirk Bogarde – The Patricia Neal Story u ulozi: Roald Dahl
- Timothy Hutton – A Long Way Home
- Danny Kaye – Skokie
- Peter O'Toole – Masada
- Ray Sharkey – The Ordeal of Bill Carney u ulozi: Bill Carney
- Peter Strauss – Masada
1982: Anthony Andrews – Brideshead Revisited
- Philip Anglim – The Elephant Man u ulozi: John Merrick
- Robby Benson – Two of a Kind
- Jeremy Irons – Brideshead Revisited
- Sam Waterston – Oppenheimer
1983: Richard Chamberlain – The Thorn Birds
- Robert Blake – Blood Feud
- Louis Gossett, Jr. – Sadat
- Martin Sheen – Kennedy u ulozi: John F. Kennedy
- Peter Strauss – Heart of Steel
1984: Ted Danson – Something About Amelia
- James Garner – Heartsounds
- Sam Neill – Reilly: Ace of Spies
- Jason Robards – Sakharov
- Treat Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire u ulozi: Stanley Kowalski
1985: Dustin Hoffman – Death of a Salesman u ulozi: Willy Loman
- Richard Chamberlain – Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
- Richard Crenna – The Rape of Richard Beck u ulozi: Richard Beck
- Kirk Douglas – Amos
- Peter Strauss – Kane & Abel
1986: James Woods – Promise
- James Garner – Promise
- Mark Harmon – The Deliberate Stranger
- Jan Niklas – Peter the Great u ulozi: Peter the Great
- John Ritter – Unnatural Causes
1987: Randy Quaid – LBJ: The Early Years u ulozi: Lyndon B. Johnson
- Alan Arkin – Escape from Sobibor
- Mark Harmon – After the Promise
- Jack Lemmon – Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Judd Nelson – Billionaire Boys Club
- James Woods – In Love and War
1988: Michael Caine – Jack the Ripper / Stacy Keach – Hemingway u ulozi: Ernest Hemingway
- Richard Chamberlain – The Bourne Identity u ulozi: Jason Bourne
- Anthony Hopkins – The Tenth Man
- Jack Lemmon – The Murder of Mary Phagan
1989: Robert Duvall – Lonesome Dove
- John Gielgud – War and Remembrance
- Ben Kingsley – Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story u ulozi: Simon Wiesenthal
- Lane Smith – The Final Days
- James Woods – My Name is Bill W.
1990-e
uredi1990: James Garner – Decoration Day
- Steven Bauer – Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
- Michael Caine – Jekyll & Hyde
- Tom Hulce – Murder in Mississippi
- Burt Lancaster – The Phantom of the Opera
- Rick Schroder – The Stranger Within
1991: Beau Bridges – Without Warning: The James Brady Story u ulozi: James Brady
- Sam Elliott – Conagher
- Peter Falk – Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
- Sam Neill – One Against the Wind
- Sidney Poitier – Separate But Equal
1992: Robert Duvall – Stalin u ulozi: Joseph Stalin
- Anthony Andrews – Jewels
- Philip Casnoff – Sinatra u ulozi: Frank Sinatra
- Jon Voight – The Last of His Tribe
- James Woods – Citizen Cohn u ulozi: Roy Cohn
1993: James Garner – Barbarians at the Gate
- Peter Falk – Columbo: It's All in the Game
- Jack Lemmon – A Life in the Theatre
- Matthew Modine – And the Band Played On
- Peter Strauss – Men Don't Tell
1994: Raúl Juliá – The Burning Season
- Alan Alda – White Mile
- James Garner – Breathing Lessons
- Rutger Hauer – Fatherland
- Samuel L. Jackson – Against the Wall
1995: Gary Sinise – Truman u ulozi: Harry Truman
- Alec Baldwin – A Streetcar Named Desire u ulozi: Stanley Kowalski
- Charles S. Dutton – The Piano Lesson
- Laurence Fishburne – The Tuskegee Airmen
- James Woods – Indictment: The McMartin Trial
1996: Alan Rickman – Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny u ulozi: Grigori Rasputin
- Armand Assante – Gotti u ulozi: John Gotti
- Beau Bridges – Losing Chase u ulozi: Richard Phillips
- Stephen Rea – Crime of the Century u ulozi: Bruno Hauptmann
- James Woods – The Summer of Ben Tyler u ulozi: Temple Rayburn
1997: Ving Rhames – Don King: Only in America u ulozi: Don King *
- Armand Assante – The Odyssey u ulozi: Odysseus
- Jack Lemmon – 12 Angry Men u ulozi: Juror #8
- Matthew Modine – What the Deaf Man Heard u ulozi: Sammy Ayers
- Gary Sinise – George Wallace u ulozi: George C. Wallace
1998: Stanley Tucci – Winchell u ulozi: Walter Winchell
- Peter Fonda – The Tempest u ulozi: Gideon Prosper
- Sam Neill – Merlin u ulozi: Merlin
- Bill Paxton – A Bright Shining Lie u ulozi: John Paul Vann
- Christopher Reeve – Rear Window u ulozi: Jason Kemp
- Patrick Stewart – Moby-Dick u ulozi: Captain Ahab
1999: Jack Lemmon – Inherit the Wind u ulozi: Henry Drummond
- Jack Lemmon – Tuesdays with Morrie u ulozi: Morris "Morrie" Schwartz
- Liev Schreiber – RKO 281 u ulozi: Orson Welles
- Sam Shepard – Dash and Lilly u ulozi: Dashiell Hammett
- Tom Sizemore – Witness Protection u ulozi: Bobby Batton
2000-e
uredi2000: Brian Dennehy – Death of a Salesman u ulozi: Willy Loman
- Alec Baldwin – Nuremberg u ulozi: Robert H. Jackson
- Brian Cox – Nuremberg u ulozi: Hermann Göring
- Andy Garcia – For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story u ulozi: Arturo Sandoval
- James Woods – Dirty Pictures u ulozi: Dennis Barrie
2001: James Franco – James Dean u ulozi: James Dean
- Kenneth Branagh – Conspiracy u ulozi: Reinhard Heydrich
- Ben Kingsley – Anne Frank: The Whole Story u ulozi: Otto Frank
- Damian Lewis – Band of Brothers u ulozi: Richard Winters
- Barry Pepper – 61* u ulozi: Roger Maris
2002: Albert Finney – The Gathering Storm u ulozi: Winston Churchill
- Michael Gambon – Path to War u ulozi: Lyndon B. Johnson
- Michael Keaton – Live from Baghdad u ulozi: Robert Weiner
- William H. Macy – Door to Door u ulozi: Bill Porter
- Linus Roache – RFK u ulozi: Robert F. Kennedy
2003: Al Pacino – Angels in America u ulozi: Roy Cohn
- Antonio Banderas – And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself u ulozi: Pancho Villa
- James Brolin – The Reagans u ulozi: Ronald Reagan
- Troy Garity – Soldier's Girl u ulozi: Barry Winchell
- Tom Wilkinson – Normal u ulozi: Roy "Ruth" Applewood
2004: Geoffrey Rush – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers u ulozi: Peter Sellers
- Mos Def – Something the Lord Made u ulozi: Vivien Thomas
- Jamie Foxx – Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story u ulozi: Stanley Tookie Williams
- William H. Macy – The Wool Cap u ulozi: Gigot
- Patrick Stewart – The Lion in Winter u ulozi: King Henry II
2005: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers – Elvis u ulozi: Elvis Presley
- Kenneth Branagh – Warm Springs u ulozi: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Ed Harris – Empire Falls u ulozi: Miles Roby
- Bill Nighy – The Girl in the Café u ulozi: Lawrence
- Donald Sutherland – Human Trafficking u ulozi: Bill Meehan
2006: Bill Nighy – Gideon's Daughter u ulozi: Gideon Warner
- Andre Braugher – Thief u ulozi: Nick Atwater
- Robert Duvall – Broken Trail u ulozi: Prentice "Print" Ritter
- Michael Ealy – Sleeper Cell u ulozi: Darwyn al-Sayeed
- Chiwetel Ejiofor – Tsunami: The Aftermath u ulozi: Ian Carter
- Ben Kingsley – Mrs. Harris u ulozi: Herman Tarnower
- Matthew Perry – The Ron Clark Story u ulozi: Ron Clark
2007: Jim Broadbent – Longford u ulozi: Lord Longford
- Adam Beach – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee u ulozi: Charles Eastman
- Ernest Borgnine – A Grandpa for Christmas u ulozi: Bert O'Riley
- Jason Isaacs – The State Within u ulozi: Mark Brydon
- James Nesbitt – Jekyll u ulozi: Tom Jackman/Mr. Hyde
2008: Paul Giamatti – John Adams u ulozi: John Adams
- Ralph Fiennes – Bernard and Doris u ulozi: Bernard Lafferty
- Kevin Spacey – Recount u ulozi: Ron Klain
- Kiefer Sutherland – 24: Redemption u ulozi: Jack Bauer
- Tom Wilkinson – Recount u ulozi: James Baker
2009: Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance u ulozi: Michael Strobl
- Kenneth Branagh – Wallander: One Step Behind u ulozi: Kurt Wallander
- Chiwetel Ejiofor – Endgame u ulozi: Thabo Mbeki
- Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm u ulozi: Winston Churchill
- Jeremy Irons – Georgia O'Keeffe u ulozi: Alfred Stieglitz
2010-e
uredi2010: Al Pacino – You Don't Know Jack u ulozi: Jack Kevorkian
- Idris Elba – Luther u ulozi: Glavni inspektor detektiva John Luther
- Ian McShane – The Pillars of the Earth u ulozi: Waleran Bigod
- Dennis Quaid – The Special Relationship u ulozi: Bill Clinton
- Edgar Ramirez – Carlos u ulozi: Carlos Šakal
2011: Idris Elba – Luther u ulozi: Detective Chief Inspector John Luther
- Hugh Bonneville – Downton Abbey u ulozi: Robert, Earl of Grantham
- William Hurt – Too Big to Fail u ulozi: Henry Paulson
- Bill Nighy – Page Eight u ulozi: Johnny Worricker
- Dominic West – The Hour u ulozi: Hector Madden
2012: Kevin Costner – Hatfields & McCoys u ulozi: Devil Anse Hatfield
- Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock u ulozi: Sherlock Holmes
- Woody Harrelson – Game Change u ulozi: Steve Schmidt
- Toby Jones – The Girl u ulozi: Alfred Hitchcock
- Clive Owen – Hemingway & Gellhorn u ulozi: Ernest Hemingway
2013: Michael Douglas – Behind the Candelabra u ulozi: Liberace
- Matt Damon – Behind the Candelabra u ulozi: Scott Thorson
- Chiwetel Ejiofor – Dancing on the Edge u ulozi: Louis Lester
- Idris Elba – Luther u ulozi: Detective Chief Inspector John Luther
- Al Pacino – Phil Spector u ulozi: Phil Spector
2014: Billy Bob Thornton – Fargo u ulozi: Lorne Malvo
- Martin Freeman – Fargo u ulozi: Lester Nygaard
- Woody Harrelson – True Detective u ulozi: Detective Martin Hart
- Matthew McConaughey – True Detective u ulozi: Detective Rustin Cohle
- Mark Ruffalo – The Normal Heart u ulozi: Ned Weeks
Napomene
uredi*Ving Rhames je pozvao Jack Lemmona, koji je takođe bio nominovan, na scenu i posvetio je nagradu njemu.