Oscar Winners on the Small Screen

Winning an Academy Award used to mean you’d never have to stoop to doing television again. But nowadays, more than a dozen former Oscar winners are finding new dramatic challenges on the small screen. Click through to find out which award-winners you can watch at home every week.

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F. Murray Abraham

Won For: Playing Mozart-hating composer Salieri in the 1984 period drama “Amadeus.”

Now He Plays: Enigmatic black-ops mastermind Dar Adal on Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama “Homeland.”
F. Murray Abraham

Won For: Playing Mozart-hating composer Salieri in the 1984 period drama “Amadeus.”

Now He Plays: Enigmatic black-ops mastermind Dar Adal on Showtime’s Emmy-winning drama “Homeland.”