Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Currently held by	Jessica Lange,; American Horror Story (2012)
Official website	http://www.emmys.com/

This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – a Miniseries or Movie.

Award winners [edit]

1970s [edit]

1977: Olivia Cole - Roots as Mathilda
1978: Blanche Baker - Holocaust as Anna Weiss
1979: Esther Rolle – Summer of My German Soldier as Ruth

1980s [edit]

1980: Mare Winningham – Amber Waves as Marlene Burkhardt
- Eileen Heckart - F.D.R.: The Last Year as Eleanor Roosevelt
- Patricia Neal - All Quiet on the Western Front as Mrs. Baumer
- Carrie Nye - Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War as Tallulah Bankhead

1981: Jane Alexander – Playing for Time as Alma Rose
- Colleen Dewhurst - The Women's Room as Val
- Patty Duke - The Women's Room as Lily
- Shirley Knight - Playing for Time as Frau Lagerfuhrerin Maria Mandel
- Piper Laurie - The Bunker as Magda Goebbels

1982: Penny Fuller – The Elephant Man as Mrs. Kendal
- Claire Bloom - Brideshead Revisited as Lady Marchmain
- Judy Davis - A Woman Called Golda as Golda Myerson/Meir
- Vicki Lawrence - Eunice as Thelma "Mama" Harper
- Rita Moreno - Portrait of a Showgirl as Rosella DeLeon

1983: Jean Simmons – The Thorn Birds as Fee Cleary
- Judith Anderson - Kennedy Center Tonight: Medea as Nurse
- Polly Bergen - The Winds of War as Rhoda Henry
- Bette Davis - Little Gloria... Happy at Last as Alice Gwynnne Vanderbilt
- Piper Laurie - The Thorn Birds as Anne Mueller

1984: Roxana Zal – Something About Amelia as Amelia Bennett
- Beverly D'Angelo - A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella DuBois Kowalski
- Patty Duke - George Washington as Martha Washington
- Cloris Leachman - Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter as Mary Kovacs
- Tuesday Weld - The Winter of Our Discontent as Margie Young-Hunt

1985: Kim Stanley – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Mama
- Penny Fuller - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Mae
- Ann Jillian - Ellis Island as Nellie Byfield
- Deborah Kerr - A Woman of Substance as Emma Harte
- Alfre Woodard - Words by Heart as Claudie Sills

1986: Colleen Dewhurst – Between Two Women as Barbara Petherton
- Phyllis Frelich - Love is Never Silent as Janice Ryder
- Dorothy McGuire - Amos as Hester Farrell
- Vanessa Redgrave - Peter the Great as Tsarevna Sophia
- Sylvia Sidney - An Early Frost as Beatrice McKenna

1987: Piper Laurie – Promise as Annie Gilbert
- Claudette Colbert - The Two Mrs. Grenvilles as Alice Grenville
- Olivia de Havilland - Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna as Dowager Empress Maria
- Christine Lahti - Amerika as Althea Milford
- Elizabeth Wilson - Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder as Berenice Bradshaw

1988: Jane Seymour – Onassis: The Richest Man in the World as Maria Callas
- Stockard Channing - Echoes in the Darkness as Susan Reinert
- Ruby Dee - Gore Vidal's Lincoln as Elizabeth Keckley
- Julie Harris - The Woman He Loved as Alice
- Lisa Jacobs - The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank as Anne Frank

1989: Colleen Dewhurst – Those She Left Behind as Margaret Page
- Peggy Ashcroft - A Perfect Spy as Miss Duber
- Polly Bergen - War and Remembrance as Rhoda Henry
- Glenne Headly - Lonesome Dove as Elmira Johnson
- Paula Kelly - The Women of Brewster Place as Theresa

1990s [edit]

1990: Eva Marie Saint – People Like Us as Lil Van Degan Altemus
- Stockard Channing - Perfect Witness as Liz Sapperstein
- Colleen Dewhurst - Lantern Hill as Elizabeth
- Swoosie Kurtz - The Image as Joanne Winstow-Darvish
- Irene Worth - The Shell Seekers as Dolly Keeling

1991: Ruby Dee – Decoration Day as Rowena
- Olympia Dukakis - Lucky Day as Katherine Campbell
- Vanessa Redgrave - Young Catherine as Empress Elizabeth
- Doris Roberts - The Sunset Gang as Mimi Finklestein
- Elaine Stritch - An Inconvenient Woman as Rose

1992: Amanda Plummer – Miss Rose White as Lusia
- Anne Bancroft - Broadway Bound as Kate Jerome
- Bibi Besch - Doing Time on Maple Drive as Lisa Carter
- Penny Fuller - Miss Rose White as Miss Kate Ryan
- Maureen Stapleton - Miss Rose White as Tanta Perla

1993: Mary Tyler Moore – Stolen Babies as Georgia Tann
- Ann-Margret - Alex Haley's Queen as Sally Jackson
- Lee Grant - Citizen Cohn as Dora Cohn
- Peggy McCay - Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story as Virginia Bembenek
- Joan Plowright - Stalin as Olga

1994: Cicely Tyson – Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Castalia
- Anne Bancroft - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All as Lucy Marsden (age 99 - 100)
- Swoosie Kurtz - And the Band Played On as Mrs. Johnstone
- Lee Purcell - Secret Sins of the Father as Ann Theilman
- Lily Tomlin - And the Band Played On as Dr. Selma Dritz

1995: Judy Davis – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Diane
1995: Shirley Knight – Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Peggy Buckey
- Sonia Braga - The Burning Season as Regina de Catrvalho
- Sissy Spacek - The Good Old Boys as Spring Renfro
- Sada Thompson - Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Virginia McMartin

1996: Greta Scacchi – Rasputin as Tsarina Alexandra
- Kathy Bates - The Late Shift as Helen Kushnick
- Diana Scarwid - Truman as Bess Truman
- Mare Winningham - The Boys Next Door as Sheila
- Alfre Woodard - Gulliver's Travels as Queen of Brobdingnag

1997: Diana Rigg – Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers
- Kirstie Alley - The Last Don as Rose Marie Clericuzio
- Bridget Fonda - In the Gloaming as Anne
- Glenne Headly - Bastard Out of Carolina as Aunt Ruth
- Frances McDormand - Hidden in America as Gus

1998: Mare Winningham – George Wallace as Lurleen Wallace
- Helena Bonham Carter - Merlin as Morgan le Fay
- Julie Harris - Ellen Foster as Leonora Nelson
- Judith Ivey - What the Deaf Man Heard as Lucille
- Angelina Jolie - George Wallace as Cornelia Wallace

1999: Anne Bancroft – Deep in My Heart as Gerry Eileen Cummins
- Jacqueline Bisset - Joan of Arc as Isabelle d'Arc
- Olympia Dukakis - Joan of Arc as Mother Babette
- Bebe Neuwirth - Dash and Lilly as Dorothy Parker
- Cicely Tyson - A Lesson Before Dying as Tante Lou
- Dianne Wiest - The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn as Sarah McClellan

2000s [edit]

2000: Vanessa Redgrave – If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree
- Kathy Bates – Annie as Agatha Hannigan
- Elizabeth Franz – Death of a Salesman as Linda Loman
- Melanie Griffith – RKO 281 as Marion Davies
- Maggie Smith – David Copperfield as Betsey Trotwood

2001: Tammy Blanchard – Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows as young Judy Garland
- Anne Bancroft – Haven as Mama Gruber
- Brenda Blethyn – Anne Frank: The Whole Story as Auguste Van Pels
- Holly Hunter – Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her as Rebecca Waynon
- Audra McDonald – Wit as Susie Monahan

2002: Stockard Channing – The Matthew Shepard Story as Judy Shepard
- Joan Allen – The Mists of Avalon as Morgause
- Anjelica Huston – The Mists of Avalon as Viviane
- Diana Rigg – Victoria and Albert as Baroness Lehzen
- Sissy Spacek – Last Call as Zelda Fitzgerald

2003: Gena Rowlands – Hysterical Blindness as Virginia Miller
- Kathy Baker – Door to Door as Gladys Sullivan
- Anne Bancroft – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa
- Juliette Lewis – Hysterical Blindness as Beth Tocyznski
- Helen Mirren – Door to Door as Mrs. Porter

2004: Mary-Louise Parker – Angels in America as Harper Pitt
- Julie Andrews – Eloise at Christmastime as Nanny
- Anne Heche – Gracie's Choice as Rowena Larson
- Anjelica Huston – Iron Jawed Angels as Carrie Chapman Catt
- Angela Lansbury – The Blackwater Lightship as Dora

2005: Jane Alexander – Warm Springs as Sara Delano Roosevelt
- Kathy Bates – Warm Springs as Helena Mahoney
- Camryn Manheim – Elvis as Gladys Presley
- Charlize Theron – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Britt Ekland
- Joanne Woodward – Empire Falls as Francine Whiting

2006: Kelly Macdonald – The Girl in the Café as Gina
- Ellen Burstyn – Mrs. Harris as Former Tarnower Steady
- Shirley Jones – Hidden Places as Aunt Batty
- Cloris Leachman – Mrs. Harris as Pearl Schwartz
- Alfre Woodard – The Water Is Wide as Mrs. Brown

2007: Judy Davis – The Starter Wife as Joan McAllister
- Toni Collette – Tsunami: The Aftermath as Kathy Graham
- Samantha Morton – Longford as Myra Hindley
- Anna Paquin – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee as Elaine Goodale
- Greta Scacchi – Broken Trail as Mrs. Nola Johns

2008: Eileen Atkins – Cranford as Deborah Jenkyns
- Laura Dern – Recount as Katherine Harris
- Ashley Jensen – Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale as Maggie Jacobs
- Audra McDonald – A Raisin in the Sun as Ruth Younger
- Alfre Woodard – Pictures of Hollis Woods as Edna Reilly

2009: Shohreh Aghdashloo – House of Saddam as Sajida Khairallah Talfah
- Marcia Gay Harden – The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler as Janina Krzyżanowska
- Janet McTeer – Into the Storm as Clementine Churchill
- Jeanne Tripplehorn – Grey Gardens as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Cicely Tyson – Relative Stranger as Pearl

2010s [edit]

Year	Actor	Program	Role	Network
2009-2010 (62nd)
	Julia Ormond	Temple Grandin	Eustacia Grandin	HBO
	Kathy Bates	Alice	The Queen of Hearts	Syfy
	Catherine O'Hara	Temple Grandin	Aunt Ann	HBO
	Susan Sarandon	You Don't Know Jack	Janet Good	HBO
	Brenda Vaccaro	You Don't Know Jack	Margo Janus	HBO
2010-2011 (63rd)
	Maggie Smith	Downton Abbey	Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham	PBS
	Eileen Atkins	Upstairs, Downstairs	Maud, Lady Holland	PBS
	Melissa Leo	Mildred Pierce	Lucy Gessler	HBO
	Mare Winningham	Mildred Pierce	Ida Corwin	HBO
	Evan Rachel Wood	Mildred Pierce	Veda Pierce	HBO
2011-2012 (64th)
	Jessica Lange	American Horror Story	Constance Langdon	FX
	Frances Conroy	American Horror Story	Moira O'Hara	FX
	Judy Davis	Page Eight	Jill Tankard	PBS
	Sarah Paulson	Game Change	Nicolle Wallace	HBO
	Mare Winningham	Hatfields & McCoys	Sally McCoy	History

Most wins [edit]

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Multiple nominations [edit]

2 nominations

3 nominations

4 nominations

5 nominations

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

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