Outstanding Lead Actor in A Miniseries or Movie
- Don Cheadle for playing Grant Wiggins in A Lesson Before Dying
- Ian Holm for playing King Lear in King Lear
- Jack Lemmon for playing Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind
- Sam Shepard for playing Dashiell Hammett in Dash and Lily
- Stanley Tucci for playing Walter Winchell in Winchell
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