Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries represents excellence in the category of miniseries that are considered either six hours or more, or more than two parts.

What has been unique about this award in recent years is that there almost always has been at least one nominee that is a British miniseries originating from Great Britain. For example, the 2005 winner was The Lost Prince, which happened to be that year's British entry. The 2006 winner, Elizabeth I, was also a British miniseries, although it was a co-production with American television network HBO. Likewise, the 2009 winner, Little Dorrit, was a co-production of British and American companies (in this case, the BBC and PBS). In 2011, due to a limited amount of numbers of miniseries in recent years, the academy merged this and the made for television movie category together by calling it Outstanding Miniseries or Movie.

Award winners and nominations

1970s

• 1973: Tom Brown's Schooldays (PBS)
  • The Last of the Mohicans (PBS)
  • The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (CBS)

• 1974: Columbo: Double Exposure (NBC)
  • The Blue Knight (NBC)
  • McCloud (NBC)

• 1975: Benjamin Franklin (CBS)
  • Columbo (NBC)
  • McCloud (NBC)

• 1976: Upstairs, Downstairs (PBS)
  • The Adams Chronicles (PBS)
  • Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (PBS)
  • The Law (NBC)
  • Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC)

• 1977: Roots (ABC)
  • The Adams Chronicles (PBS)
  • Captains and the Kings (NBC)
  • Madame Bovary (PBS)
  • The Moneychangers (NBC)

• 1978: Holocaust (NBC)
  • Anna Karenina (PBS)
  • I, Claudius (PBS)
  • King (NBC)
  • Washington: Behind Closed Doors (ABC)

• 1979: Roots: The Next Generations (ABC)
  • Backstairs at the White House (NBC)
  • Blind Ambition (CBS)

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

• 2010: The Pacific (HBO)
  • Return to Cranford (PBS)

• 2011: Downton Abbey (PBS)
  • Cinema Verite (HBO)
  • The Kennedys (ReelzChannel)
  • Mildred Pierce (HBO)
  • The Pillars of the Earth (Starz)
  • Too Big to Fail (HBO)

References