Outstanding Lead Actor in A Miniseries or Movie
- Albert Finney for playing Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm
- James Franco for playing James Dean in James Dean
- Sir Michael Gambon for playing Lyndon B. Johnson in Path to War
- Kenneth Branagh for playing Ernest Shackleton in Shackleton
- Beau Bridges for playing Michael Mulvaney in We Were the Mulvaneys
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