Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama

won the first recipient of this award with Bob Newhart in 1961 tied with John Charles Daly to be the first recipient of the award. won for Mickey in 1963 won the award in 1966 for The Dean Martin Show. won for Mission: Impossible in 1967 won in 1970 and received five more nominations for his performance on Mannix as Joe Mannix. won in 1971 playing Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible. won the award twice for Kojak won for Columbo in 1972 (out of seven nominations). won for Hawkins (1972). won twice for his role as Lou Grant on the eponymous show. was nominated three times for his role as Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files. won in 1981 for his role as John Blackthorne on the miniseries Shōgun. won for playing the title role in Magnum, P.I.. He tied with Peter Falk for having the most nominations in the category. won for Miami Vice (1985) won in 1991 playing Dale Cooper on Twin Peaks won for ''I'll Fly Away'' (1992) won in 1994 for NYPD Blue received the award for his role in NYPD Blue won for The X-Files won for ER won for The Practice (1998). won in 2000 for playing Tony Soprano in The Sopranos won for Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing (2004) won playing Vic Mackey in The Shield (2002) won twice for playing Gregory House House (2005, 2006). won in 2008 and 2016 for his role as Don Draper on Mad Men. won for playing Nucky Thompson Boardwalk Empire (2010) won for playing a corrupt mayor in Boss (2011) won playing Walter White in Breaking Bad (2014) won playing Frank Underwood in House of Cards (2014) won for This is Us (2017) won for Bodyguard (2018) won for Succession (2019) won for playing Prince Charles on The Crown (2020) won for Succession (2021) won for Yellowstone (2022) won for Succession (2023) won for Shōgun (2024) Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees. 1960s 1970s Best Actor – Television Series Drama 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Actors with multiple awards==

; 2 wins • Ed Asner • John Forsythe • Jon Hamm • Hugh Laurie • Telly Savalas ==Series with multiple awards==

;3 wins • NYPD Blue (ABC) • Succession (HBO) ; 2 wins • Dynasty (ABC) • House (Fox) • Kojak (CBS) • Lou Grant (CBS) • Mad Men (AMC) • Mission: Impossible (CBS) ==Actors with multiple nominations==

; 7 nominations • Peter Falk • Tom Selleck ; 6 nominations • Mike Connors • John Forsythe • Jon Hamm • Hugh Laurie • Martin Sheen ; 5 nominations • Ed Asner • Michael C. Hall • Carroll O'Connor • Bob Odenkirk • Liev Schreiber • Kiefer Sutherland • Daniel J. Travanti • Robert Wagner • Robert Young ; 4 nominations • Bryan Cranston • David Duchovny • Anthony Edwards • James Gandolfini • Larry Hagman • Telly Savalas ; 3 nominations • Scott Bakula • Jason Bateman • Steve Buscemi • Michael Chiklis • George Clooney • Brian Cox • James Garner • Peter Graves • Harry Hamlin • Lance Henriksen • Rami Malek • Dylan McDermott • Rob Morrow • Gary Oldman • Bill Paxton • Billy Porter • Matthew Rhys • Jimmy Smits • James Spader • Sam Waterston ; 2 nominations • Simon Baker • Corbin Bernsen • James Brolin • Sterling K. Brown • Raymond Burr • Richard Chamberlain • William Conrad • Patrick Dempsey • Chad Everett • Mark Harmon • John Houseman • Don Johnson • James Earl Jones • Peter Krause • Damian Lewis • Rob Lowe • Diego Luna • Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Michael Moriarty • Jason Priestley • Adam Scott • Tom Skerritt • Kevin Spacey • Jeremy Strong • Richard Thomas • Billy Bob Thornton • Robert Urich • Ken Wahl • Dominic West • Edward Woodward ==TV Series with multiple nominations==

;7 nominations • Columbo (NBC) • ER (NBC) • Magnum, P.I. (CBS) • The West Wing (NBC) ;6 nominations • Dynasty (ABC) • House (Fox) • L.A. Law (NBC) • Mad Men (AMC) • Mannix (CBS) • Succession (HBO) ;5 nominations • 24 (Fox) • Better Call Saul (AMC) • Dexter (Showtime) • Hill Street Blues (NBC) • In the Heat of the Night (NBC) • Lou Grant (CBS) • Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC) • NYPD Blue (ABC) • Ray Donovan (Showtime) ;4 nominations • Breaking Bad (AMC) • Dallas (CBS) • Hart to Hart (ABC) • Kojak (CBS) • Mission: Impossible (CBS) • The Sopranos (HBO) • The X-Files (Fox) ;3 nominations • Big Love (HBO) • Boardwalk Empire (HBO) • The Crown (Netflix) • The Dean Martin Show (NBC) • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (NBC) • Miami Vice (NBC) • Millennium (Fox) • Mr. Robot (USA) • Northern Exposure (CBS) • Ozark (Netflix) • Pose (FX) • The Practice (ABC) • Quantum Leap (NBC) • The Rockford Files (NBC) • Run for Your Life (NBC) • The Shield (FX) • Slow Horses (Apple TV+) ;2 nominations • The Americans (FX) • Andor (Disney+) • Beverly Hills, 90210 (Fox) • The Blacklist (NBC) • Cannon (CBS) • The Equalizer (CBS) • The Fugitive (ABC) • ''Gabriel's Fire'' (ABC) • ''I'll Fly Away'' (NBC) • I Spy (NBC) • ''Grey's Anatomy'' (ABC) • Homeland (Showtime) • Hotel (ABC) • Ironside (NBC) • Law & Order (NBC) • Medical Center (CBS) • The Paper Chase (CBS) • Picket Fences (CBS) • Reasonable Doubts (NBC) • Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC) • Severance (Apple TV+) • Six Feet Under (HBO) • The Streets of San Francisco (ABC) • The Tudors (Showtime) • Vega$ (ABC) • The Waltons (CBS) • Wiseguy (NBC) ==See also==