Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie

This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie, which is awarded since 1992. The category was originally called Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special.

Award winners and nominations

1980s

• 1980: The Miracle Worker (NBC)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (CBS)
  • Amber Waves (ABC)
  • Gideon's Trumpet (CBS)
  • Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (CBS)

• 1981: Playing for Time (CBS)
  • Evita Peron (NBC)
  • Fallen Angel (CBS)
  • The Shadow Box (ABC)
  • The Women's Room (ABC)

• 1982: A Woman Called Golda (SYN)
  • Bill (CBS)
  • The Elephant Man (ABC)
  • Inside the Third Reich (ABC)
  • Skokie (CBS)

• 1983: Special Bulletin (NBC)
  • Little Gloria... Happy at Last (NBC)
  • M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (NBC)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (CBS)
  • Who Will Love My Children? (ABC)

• 1984: Something About Amelia (ABC)
  • Adam (NBC)
  • The Day After (ABC)
  • The Dollmaker (ABC)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (ABC)

• 1985: Do You Remember Love (CBS)
  • The Burning Bed (NBC)
  • Fatal Vision (NBC)
  • Heartsounds (ABC)
  • Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (NBC)

• 1986: Love Is Never Silent (NBC)
  • Amos (CBS)
  • Death of a Salesman (CBS)
  • An Early Frost (NBC)
  • Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (CBS)

• 1987: Promise (CBS)
  • Escape from Sobibor (CBS)
  • LBJ: The Early Years (NBC)
  • Pack of Lies (CBS)
  • Unnatural Causes (NBC)

• 1988: Inherit the Wind (NBC)
  • The Ann Jillian Story (NBC)
  • The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (ABC)
  • Foxfire (CBS)
  • The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story (NBC)

• 1989: Day One (CBS)
• 1989: Roe vs. Wade (NBC)
  • David (ABC)
  • Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (HBO)
  • My Name is Bill W. (ABC)

1990s

• 1990: Caroline? (CBS)
• 1990: The Incident (CBS)
  • The Final Days (ABC)
  • A Killing in a Small Town (CBS)
  • Murder in Mississippi (NBC)

• 1991: None

• 1992: Miss Rose White (NBC)
  • Doing Time on Maple Drive (FOX)
  • Homefront (ABC)
  • I'll Fly Away (NBC)
  • Without Warning: The James Brady Story (HBO)

• 1993: Barbarians at the Gate (HBO)
• 1993: Stalin (HBO)
  • Citizen Cohn (HBO)
  • The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO)
  • Tru (PBS)

• 1994: And the Band Played On (HBO)
  • Breathing Lessons (CBS)
  • Gypsy (CBS)
  • A Place for Annie (ABC)
  • To Dance with the White Dog (CBS)

• 1995: Indictment: The McMartin Trial (HBO)
  • The Burning Season (HBO)
  • Citizen X (HBO)
  • The Piano Lesson (CBS)
  • Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (NBC)

• 1996: Truman (HBO)
  • Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (Lifetime)
  • The Heidi Chronicles (TNT)
  • The Late Shift (HBO)
  • Tuskegee Airmen (HBO)

• 1997: Miss Evers' Boys (HBO)
  • Bastard Out of Carolina (Showtime)
  • Gotti (HBO)
  • If These Walls Could Talk (HBO)
  • In the Gloaming (HBO)

• 1998: Don King: Only in America (HBO)
  • 12 Angry Men (Showtime)
  • A Bright Shining Lie (HBO)
  • Gia (HBO)
  • What the Deaf Man Heard (CBS)

• 1999: A Lesson Before Dying (HBO)
  • The Baby Dance (Showtime)
  • Dash and Lilly (A&E Network)
  • Pirates of Silicon Valley (TNT)
  • The Rat Pack (HBO)

2000s

Year	Program	Network
2000	Tuesdays with Morrie	ABC
	Annie	ABC
	If These Walls Could Talk 2	HBO
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
	RKO 281
2001	Wit	HBO
	61*	HBO
	Conspiracy
	For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Showtime
2002	The Gathering Storm	HBO
	Dinner with Friends	HBO
	James Dean	TNT
	The Laramie Project	HBO
	Path to War
2003	Door to Door	TNT
	Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story	Lifetime
	Live from Baghdad	HBO
	My House in Umbria
	Normal
2004	Something the Lord Made	HBO
	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	HBO
	Ike: Countdown to D-Day	A&E Network
	The Lion in Winter	Showtime
	The Reagans
2005	Warm Springs	HBO
	Lackawanna Blues	HBO
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
	The Office Special	BBC America
	The Wool Cap	TNT
2006	The Girl in the Café	HBO
	Flight 93	A&E Network
	The Flight That Fought Back	Discovery Channel
	Mrs. Harris	HBO
	Yesterday
2007	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	HBO
	9/11: The Twin Towers	Discovery Channel
	Longford	HBO
	The Ron Clark Story	TNT
	Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy	Lifetime
2008	Recount	HBO
	Bernard and Doris	HBO
	Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
	The Memory Keeper's Daughter	Lifetime
	A Raisin in the Sun	ABC
2009	Grey Gardens	HBO
	Coco Chanel	Lifetime
	Into the Storm	HBO
	Prayers for Bobby	Lifetime
	Taking Chance	HBO

2010s

Year	Program	Network
2010	Temple Grandin	HBO
	Endgame	PBS
	Georgia O'Keeffe	Lifetime
	Moonshot	History Channel
	The Special Relationship	HBO
	You Don't Know Jack

In 2011, the category was merged with the miniseries category.

See also

• Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film

External links

• Primetime Emmy Awards