This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie winners:

• 1979: Marlon Brando - '' The Next Generation
• 1980: George Grizzard - ''The Oldest Living Guard
• 1981: David Warner - ''Masada
• 1982: Laurence Olivier - ''Brideshead Revisited
• 1983: Richard Kiley - ''The Thorn Birds
• 1984: Art Carney - ''Terrible Joe Moran
• 1985: Karl Malden - ''Fatal Vision
• 1986: John Malkovich - ''Death of a Salesman
• 1987: Dabney Coleman - ''Sworn to Silence
• 1988: John Shea - ''Baby M
• 1989: Derek Jacobi - ''The Tenth Man
• 1990: Vincent Gardenia - ''Age-0ld Friends
• 1991: James Earl Jones - ''Heat Wave
• 1992: Hume Cronyn - ''Broadway Bound
• 1993: Beau Bridges - ''The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
• 1994: Michael Goorjian - ''David's Mother
• 1995: Donald Sutherland - ''Citizen X
• 1996: Tom Hulce - ''The Heidi Chronicles
• 1997: Beau Bridges - ''The Second Civil War
• 1998: George C. Scott - ''12 Angry Men
• 1999: Peter O'Toole - ''Joan of Arc
• 2000: Hank Azaria - ''Tuesdays With Morrie
• 2001: Brian Cox - ''Nuremberg
• 2002: Michael Moriarty - ''James Dean
• 2003: Ben Gazzara - ''Hysterical Blindness
• 2004: Jeffrey Wright - ''Angels in America
• 2005: Paul Newman - ''Empire Falls

Emmy Award winners