EVERY ACTOR EVER NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY/OSCAR/TONY FOR PLAYING AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT!

I...don't know what this blog is anymore. Now that I'm over doing movie reviews and have been more interested in writing theatrical pieces...I still have my interest in awards shows! Bold indicates a winner in that category. If the president was largely known by his initials, I have chosen that moniker. For presidents with identical last names, I have written their full names out as they were known in their presidency. 

TONY AWARDS

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY:

  • Ralph Bellamy in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) as FDR
  • Sam Waterson in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1994) as Lincoln
  • Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon (2007) as Nixon
  • Bryan Cranston in All the Way (2014) as LBJ
BEST FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL:

  • William Daniels in 1776 (1969) as John Adams
  • Daveed Diggs in Hamilton (2016) as Jefferson
  • Christopher Jackson in Hamilton (2016) as Washington


ACADEMY AWARDS

BEST LEADING ACTOR:

  • Raymond Massey in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) as Lincoln
  • Alexander Knox in Wilson (1944) as Wilson
  • James Whitmore in Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975) as Truman
  • Anthony Hopkins in Nixon (1995) as Nixon 
  • Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon (2008) as Nixon
  • Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln (2012) as Lincoln

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

  • Anthony Hopkins in Amistad (1997) as John Quincy Adams
  • Sam Rockwell in Vice (2018) as George W. Bush

EMMY AWARDS

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE:

  • Jason Robards in Hallmark Hall of Fame (Episode: Abe Lincoln in Illinois) [1964] as Lincoln 
  • William Devane in The Missiles of October (1975) as JFK
  • Edward Herrmann in Franklin & Eleanor (1976) as FDR
  • Hal Holbrook in Sandburg's Lincoln (1976) as Lincoln
  • George Grizzard in The Adams Chronicles (1976) as John Adams
  • Ed Flanders in Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking (1977) as Truman
  • Edward Herrmann in Franklin & Eleanor: The White House Years (1977) as FDR
  • Jason Robards in F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980) as FDR
  • Randy Quaid in LBJ: The Early Years (1987) as LBJ
  • Beau Bridges in Kissinger and Nixon (1996) as Nixon
  • Gary Sinise in Truman (1996) as Truman
  • Michael Gambon in Path to War (2002) as LBJ
  • James Brolin in The Reagans (2004) as Reagan
  • Kenneth Branagh in Warm Springs (2005) as FDR
  • Paul Giamatti in John Adams (2008) as John Adams
  • Dennis Quaid in The Special Relationship (2010) as Clinton
  • Greg Kinnear in The Kennedys (2011) as JFK
  • Bryan Cranston in All the Way (2016) as LBJ

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

  • Alec Baldwin in Saturday Night Live (as of this post won in 2017 and nominated again in 2018) as Trump

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES/TV MOVIE

  • Ed Flanders in Backstairs at the White House (1979) as Coolidge
  • Robert Vaughn in Backstairs at the White House (1979) as Wilson
  • Ralph Bellamy in The Winds of War (1983) as FDR
  • Stephen Dillane in John Adams (2008) as Jefferson
  • David Morse in John Adams (2008) as Washington
  • Len Cariou in Into the Storm (2009) as FDR


TOTAL COUNT FOR MULTIPLE PRESIDENTIAL REPRESENTATION:

FDR: 7

Lincoln: 5

LBJ/Nixon: 4

John Adams/Truman: 3

Jefferson/JFK/Washington/Wilson: 2

NOTES:

  • Jason Robards is the only actor represented here who was nominated for two different presidential performances (Lincoln and FDR).  
  • Alec Baldwin's portrayal of Trump is the most recent POTUS nominated. I smell a Biden nomination for Jim Carrey come Emmy nomination time this summer.
  • Dennis and Randy Quaid are the only siblings here who've both been nominated for presidential roles, for Clinton and LBJ respectively.
  • Bryan Cranston and Frank Langella are the only two actors who were able to be nominated in 2 different mediums for recreating their performance of the same president (LBJ and Nixon respectively).
  • Robert E. Sherwood's 1938 play Abe Lincoln in Illinois produced nominated roles for three different actors onstage, in a feature film, and in a TV movie. What can you say, it's an honest job.

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