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

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

Winners and nominees

1990s

• 1996: Stanley Tucci - Murder One
  • Brian Dennehy - A Season in Purgatory
  • Ian McKellen - Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
  • Anthony Quinn - Gotti
  • Treat Williams - The Late Shift

• 1997: Vondie Curtis-Hall - Don King: Only in America
  • Jason Alexander - Cinderella
  • Joe Don Baker - George Wallace
  • Michael Caine - Mandela and de Klerk
  • Ossie Davis - Miss Evers' Boys

• 1998: David Clennon - From the Earth to the Moon
  • Brian Dennehy - Thanks of a Grateful Nation
  • Lance Henriksen - The Day Lincoln Was Shot
  • Martin Short - Merlin
  • Daniel Williams - Always Outnumbered

2000s

• 2001: David Schwimmer - Band of Brothers
  • Billy Campbell - Further Tales of the City
  • Cary Elwes - Uprising
  • Colin Firth - Conspiracy
  • Stanley Tucci - Conspiracy

• 2002: Linus Roache - The Gathering Storm
  • Jim Broadbent - The Gathering Storm
  • Jeremy Davies - The Laramie Project
  • Terry Kinney - The Laramie Project
  • Roy Scheider - King of Texas

• 2003: Justin Kirk - Angels in America
  • Eion Bailey - And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • Chris Cooper - My House in Umbria
  • Shawn Hatosy - Soldier's Girl
  • Patrick Wilson - Angels in America
  • Jeffrey Wright - Angels in America

• 2004: Bill Nighy - The Lost Prince
  • Brad Dourif - Deadwood
  • Balthazar Getty - Traffic
  • William H. Macy - Stealing Sinatra
  • Keith McErlean - The Blackwater Lightship

• 2005: Randy Quaid - Elvis
  • Brian Dennehy - Our Fathers
  • Tim Blake Nelson - Warm Springs
  • Paul Newman - Empire Falls
  • Ruben Santiago-Hudson - Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • William Shatner - Boston Legal

• 2006: Tony Plana - Ugly Betty
  • Philip Baker Hall - The Loop
  • Michael Emerson - Lost
  • Robert Knepper - Prison Break
  • Jeremy Piven - Entourage
  • Forest Whitaker - The Shield

• 2007: David Zayas - Dexter
  • Harry Dean Stanton - Big Love
  • Michael Emerson - Lost
  • Justin Kirk - Weeds
  • T.R. Knight - Grey's Anatomy
  • Masi Oka - Heroes
  • Andy Serkis - Longford

• 2008: Nelsan Ellis - True Blood
  • Zeljko Ivanek - Damages
  • Harvey Keitel - Life on Mars
  • John Noble - Fringe
  • John Slattery - Mad Men
  • Jimmy Smits - Dexter

• 2009: John Lithgow - Dexter
  • Chris Colfer - Glee
  • Tom Courtenay - Little Dorrit
  • Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
  • John Noble - Fringe
  • Harry Dean Stanton - Big Love

2010s

2010: David Strathairn - Temple Grandin

• Ty Burrell - Modern Family
• Bruce Campbell - Burn Notice
• Chris Colfer - Glee
• Alan Cumming - The Good Wife
• Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
• Aaron Paul - Breaking Bad
• Martin Short - Damages

2011: Ryan Hurst – Sons of Anarchy and Peter Dinklage – Game of Thrones (tie)

• Ty Burrell – Modern Family
• Donald Glover – Community
• Walton Goggins – Justified
• Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother
• Guy Pearce – Mildred Pierce
• James Woods – Too Big to Fail