Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

This Golden Globe Award honors the best performance by an actor in a drama television series.

Hiroyuki Sanada is the current recipient of the award for his portrayal of Lord Yoshii Toranaga in Shōgun.

Ed Asner, John Forsythe, Jon Hamm, Hugh Laurie and Telly Savalas have won the most awards in this category, each winning twice.

Peter Falk and Tom Selleck have both been nominated seven times each, for their respective roles on Columbo and Magnum, P.I..

Bob Newhart tied with John Charles Daly to be the first recipient of the award.
Mickey Rooney won for Mickey in 1963
Dean Martin won the award in 1966 for The Dean Martin Show .
Martin Landau won for Mission: Impossible in 1967
Mike Connors won in 1970 and received five more nominations for his performance on Mannix as Joe Mannix.
Peter Graves won in 1971 playing Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible .
Telly Savalas won the award twice for Kojak
Peter Falk won for Columbo in 1972 (out of seven nominations).
James Stewart won for Hawkins (1972).
Ed Asner won twice for his role as Lou Grant on the eponymous show .
James Garner was nominated three times for his role as Jim Rockford on The Rockford Files .
Richard Chamberlain won in 1981 for his role as John Blackthorne on the miniseries Shōgun .
Tom Selleck won for playing the title role in Magnum, P.I. . He tied with Peter Falk for having the most nominations in the category.
Kyle MacLachlan won in 1991 playing Dale Cooper on Twin Peaks
Sam Waterston won for I'll Fly Away (1992)
David Caruso won in 1994 for NYPD Blue
Jimmy Smits received the award for his role in NYPD Blue
David Duchovny won for The X-Files
Anthony Edwards won for ER
James Gandolfini won in 2000 for playing Tony Soprano in The Sopranos
Martin Sheen won for Josiah Bartlet on The West Wing (2004)
Michael Chiklis won playing Vic Mackey in The Shield (2002)
Hugh Laurie won twice for playing Gregory House House (2005, 2006).
Jon Hamm won in 2008 and 2016 for his role as Don Draper on Mad Men .
Steve Buscemi won for playing Nucky Thompson Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Kelsey Grammer won for playing a corrupt mayor in Boss (2011)
Bryan Cranston won playing Walter White in Breaking Bad (2014)
Kevin Spacey won playing Frank Underwood in House of Cards (2014)
Sterling K. Brown won for This is Us (2017)
Richard Madden won for Bodyguard (2018)
Brian Cox won for Succession (2019)
Josh O'Connor won for playing Prince Charles on The Crown (2020)
Jeremy Strong won for Succession (2021)
Kieran Culkin won for Succession (2023)