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
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Country	United States
Currently held by	Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey (2011)
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.

Contents 1 Award winners 1.1 1970s 1.2 1980s 1.3 1990s 1.4 2000s 1.5 2010s 2 Most wins 3 Multiple nominations

Award winners

1970s

• 1979: Esther Rolle – Summer of My German Soldier as Ruth

1980s

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

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

2000: Vanessa Redgrave – If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree Kathy Bates – Annie as Miss 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 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 Gerda Stedman 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 Miss 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

• 2010: Julia Ormond – Temple Grandin as Eustacia Grandin
  • Kathy Bates – Alice as The Queen of Hearts
  • Catherine O'Hara – Temple Grandin as Aunt Anne
  • Susan Sarandon – You Don't Know Jack as Janet Good
  • Brenda Vaccaro – You Don't Know Jack as Margo Janus

• 2011: Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
  • Eileen Atkins - Upstairs, Downstairs as Lady Maud Holland
  • Melissa Leo - Mildred Pierce as Lucy Gessler
  • Mare Winningham - Mildred Pierce as Ida Corwin
  • Evan Rachel Wood - Mildred Pierce as Veda Pierce

Most wins

2 wins

• Jane Alexander
• Judy Davis
• Colleen Dewhurst
• Mare Winningham

Multiple nominations

2 nominations

• Eileen Atkins
• Polly Bergen
• Ruby Dee
• Olympia Dukakis
• Patty Duke
• Julie Harris
• Glenne Headly
• Anjelica Huston
• Shirley Knight
• Swoosie Kurtz
• Cloris Leachman
• Audra McDonald
• Diana Rigg
• Greta Scacchi
• Maggie Smith
• Sissy Spacek

3 nominations

• Stockard Channing
• Judy Davis
• Penny Fuller
• Piper Laurie
• Vanessa Redgrave
• Cicely Tyson

4 nominations

• Kathy Bates
• Colleen Dewhurst
• Mare Winningham
• Alfre Woodard

5 nominations

• Anne Bancroft

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie 1979–2000 Esther Rolle (1979) · Mare Winningham (1980) · Jane Alexander (1981) · Penny Fuller (1982) · Jean Simmons (1983) · Roxana Zal (1984) · Kim Stanley (1985) · Colleen Dewhurst (1986) · Piper Laurie (1987) · Jane Seymour (1988) · Colleen Dewhurst (1989) · Eva Marie Saint (1990) · Ruby Dee (1991) · Amanda Plummer (1992) · Mary Tyler Moore (1993) · Cicely Tyson (1994) · Judy Davis / Shirley Knight (1995) · Greta Scacchi (1996) · Diana Rigg (1997) · Mare Winningham (1998) · Anne Bancroft (1999) · Vanessa Redgrave (2000) 2001–present Tammy Blanchard (2001) · Stockard Channing (2002) · Gena Rowlands (2003) · Mary-Louise Parker (2004) · Jane Alexander (2005) · Kelly Macdonald (2006) · Judy Davis (2007) · Eileen Atkins (2008) · Shohreh Aghdashloo (2009) · Julia Ormond (2010) · Maggie Smith (2011) Complete List · (1979–2000) · (2001–2025)

Primetime Emmy Award categories Programming Comedy Series · Drama Series · Variety, Music or Comedy Series · Miniseries · Made for TV Movie · Variety, Music or Comedy Special · Directing – Comedy Series · Directing – Drama Series · Directing – Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special · Writing – Comedy Series · Writing – Drama Series · Writing – Variety, Music or Comedy Program · Writing – Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special · Reality Program · Reality-Competition Program Performance Lead Actor – Comedy Series · Lead Actor – Drama Series · Lead Actor – Miniseries or a Movie · Lead Actress – Comedy Series · Lead Actress – Drama Series · Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie · Supporting Actor – Comedy Series · Supporting Actor – Drama Series · Supporting Actor – Miniseries or a Movie · Supporting Actress – Comedy Series · Supporting Actress – Drama Series · Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie · Guest Actor – Comedy Series · Guest Actor – Drama Series · Guest Actress – Comedy Series · Guest Actress – Drama Series · Host – Reality or Reality-Competition Program Creative Arts Animated Program – Less Than One Hour · Animated Program – More Than One Hour · Voice-Over Performance · Casting – Comedy Series · Casting – Drama Series · Casting – Miniseries, Movie or a Special · Choreography · Cinematography for a Half-Hour Series · Cinematography for a One Hour Series · Costumes for a Series · Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special · Main Title Design · Main Title Theme Music · Music Composition for a Series · Picture Editing for a Comedy Series · Picture Editing for a Drama Series · Visual Effects for a Series · Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or Special Retired Actor of the Year · Actress of the Year · Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program · Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Series · Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series ·