Satellite Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film

The Satellite Award for Best Miniseries or TV Film is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy. The IFA separated these two categories from 1999 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2015 as Satellite Award for Best Miniseries and Satellite Award for Best Television Film.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)	Network
1996	Gulliver's Travels	Charles Sturridge	NBC
	If These Walls Could Talk	Nancy Savoca and Cher	HBO
	Pride and Prejudice	Simon Langton	A&E Network
	The Siege at Ruby Ridge	Roger Young	CBS
	The Summer of Ben Tyler	Arthur Allan Seidelman	CBS
1997	Don King: Only in America	John Herzfeld	HBO
	Breast Men	Lawrence O'Neil	HBO
	George Wallace	John Frankenheimer	TNT
	Miss Evers' Boys	Joseph Sargent	HBO
	The Odyssey	Andrei Konchalovsky	NBC
	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Stephen Surjik	HBO
1998	From the Earth to the Moon	David Frankel, et al.	HBO
	A Bright Shining Lie	Terry George	HBO
	Gia	Michael Cristofer	HBO
	More Tales of the City	Pierre Gang	Channel 4
	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Rod Holcomb	Showtime

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)	Network
2011	Mildred Pierce	Todd Haynes	HBO
	American Horror Story	Ryan Murphy Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Bradley Buecker David Semel Michael Uppendahl Tim Hunter Miguel Arteta John Scott Michael Lehmann	FX
	Cinema Verite	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini	HBO
	Downton Abbey	Brian Percival, Ben Bolt, Brian Kelly, Andy Goddard, James Strong, and Ashley Pearce	PBS
	Page Eight	David Hare	PBS
	Thurgood	Michael Stevens	HBO
	Too Big To Fail	Curtis Hanson	HBO
2012	Hatfields & McCoys	Kevin Reynolds	History
	Birdsong	Philip Martin	PBS
	The Crimson Petal and the White	Marc Munden	BBC America
	Game Change	Jay Roach	HBO
	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Philip Kaufman	HBO
	Luther	Sam Miller	BBC America
	Sherlock	Toby Haynes, Euros Lyn and Paul McGuigan	PBS
	Wallander	Philip Martin and Niall MacCormick	PBS
2013	Dancing on the Edge	Stephen Poliakoff	Starz
	Behind the Candelabra	Steven Soderbergh	HBO
	The Big C: Hereafter	Michael Engler, Craig Zisk, Jennifer Getzinger, et al.	Showtime
	Burton & Taylor	Richard Laxton	BBC America
	Generation War	Stefan Kolditz	ZDF
	Mob City	Frank Darabont and Guy Ferland	TNT
	Parade's End	Susanna White	HBO
	Phil Spector	David Mamet	HBO
	Top of the Lake	Jane Campion and Garth Davis	Sundance Channel
	The White Queen	James Kent, Jamie Payne, and Colin Teague	Starz
2016	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Ryan Murphy, Anthony Hemingway, and John Singleton	FX
	All the Way	Jay Roach	HBO
	And Then There Were None	Craig Viveiros	Acorn TV, Agatha Christie Productions
	Churchill's Secret	Charles Sturridge	PBS ITV
	Close to the Enemy	Stephen Poliakoff	Acorn TV BBC Two
	Confirmation	Rick Famuyiwa	HBO
	The Dresser	Richard Eyre	Starz
	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill	Lonny Price	HBO
	The Night Manager	Susanne Bier	AMC BBC One
	The Night Of	Steven Zaillian and James Marsh	HBO
2017	Big Little Lies	Jean-Marc Vallée	HBO
	Feud: Bette and Joan	Ryan Murphy Gwyneth Horder-Payton Liza Johnson Tim Minear Helen Hunt	FX
	Guerrilla	John Ridley Sam Miller	Showtime Sky Atlantic
	Rillington Place	Craig Viveiros	BBC One Sundance Now
	When We Rise	Gus Van Sant Dee Rees Thomas Schlamme Dustin Lance Black	ABC
	The Young Pope	Paolo Sorrentino	HBO
	13 Reasons Why	Tom McCarthy Helen Shaver Kyle Patrick Alvarez Gregg Araki Carl Franklin Jessica Yu	Netflix
2018	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Ryan Murphy Nelson Cragg Gwyneth Horder-Payton Daniel Minahan Matt Bomer	FX
	The Looming Tower	Alex Gibney John Dahl Ali Selim Michael Slovis Craig Zisk	Hulu
	Patrick Melrose	Edward Berger	Showtime Sky Atlantic
	Sharp Objects	Jean-Marc Vallée	HBO
	A Very English Scandal	Stephen Frears	BBC One Amazon Prime
2019	Chernobyl	Johan Renck	HBO
	The Act	Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre Adam Arkin Christine Choe Steven Piet Hannah Fidell	Hulu
	Fosse/Verdon	Thomas Kail Adam Berstein Jessica Yu Minnie Spikro	FX
	Unbelievable	Lisa Cholodenko Michael Dinner Susannah Grant	Netflix
	When They See Us	Ava DuVernay
	Years and Years	Simon Cellan Jones Lisa Mulcahy	HBO