Who are the top frontrunners in this year's Emmy Awards campaign for Best TV Movie/Miniseries Actor? In recent years, it has been harder to gauge since winners have been such a big swing beetween major stars like Al Pacino ("You Don't Know Jack") and character actors like Barry Pepper ("The Kennedys").
On this year's ballot, the most likely contenders could be Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton ("Hatfields and McCoys"), Idris Elba ("Luther"), Woody Harrelson ("Game Change"), Bill Nighy ("Page Eight"), Clive Owen ("Hemingway and Gellhorn"), Alan Rickman ("The Song of Lunch"), and Dominic West (for "Appropriate Adult" or "The Hour").
Other actors to consider include Douglas Booth ("Great Expectations"), Pierce Brosnan ("Bag of Bones"), John Corbett ("A Smile as Big as the Moon"), Benedict Cumberbatch ("Sherlock"), Laurence Fishburne , Martin Landau, and Bradley Whitford ("Have a Little Faith"), Cuba Gooding, Jr. ("Firelight"), Bruce Greenwood ("The River"), Mark Harmon ("Certain Prey"), Eddie Izzard ("Treasure Island"), Rob Lowe ("Drew Peterson: Untouchable"), Dylan McDermott ("American Horror Story"), Eddie Redmayne ("Birdsong"), Tom Selleck ("Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt"), and Ben Whishaw ("The Hour").



















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