Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

Winners and nominees

1990s

• 1996: Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment
  • Kirstie Alley - Suddenly
  • Lolita Davidovich - Harvest on Fire
  • Laura Dern - The Siege of Ruby Ridge
  • Jena Malone - Hidden in America

• 1997: Jennifer Beals - The Twilight of the Golds
• 1997: Alfre Woodard - Miss Evers' Boys
  • Glenn Close - In the Gloaming
  • Greta Scacchi - The Odyssey
  • Meryl Streep - ...First Do No Harm

• 1998: Angelina Jolie - Gia
  • Olympia Dukakis - More Tales of the City
  • Mia Farrow - Miracle at Midnight
  • Barbara Hershey - The Staircase
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh - Thanks of a Grateful Nation

• 1999: Linda Hamilton - The Color of Courage
  • Kathy Bates - Annie
  • Halle Berry - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
  • LeeLee Sobieski - Joan of Arc
  • Regina Taylor - Strange Justice

2000s

• 2000: Jill Hennessy - Nuremberg
  • Jennifer Beals - A House Divided
  • Holly Hunter - Harlan Country War
  • Gena Rowlands - The Color of Love: Jacey's Story
  • Vanessa Redgrave - If These Walls Could Talk 2

• 2001: Judy Davis - Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
  • Laura Linney - Wild Iris
  • Sissy Spacek - Midwives
  • Hannah Taylor-Gordon - Anne Frank: The Whole Story
  • Emma Thompson - Wit

• 2002: Vanessa Williams - Keep the Faith, Baby
  • Kathy Bates - My Sister's Keeper
  • Stockard Channing - The Matthew Shepard Story
  • Marcia Gay Harden - King of Texas
  • Vanessa Redgrave - The Gathering Storm

• 2003: Meryl Streep - Angels in America
  • Felicity Huffman - Out of Order
  • Jessica Lange - Normal
  • Helen Mirren - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
  • Mary Tyler Moore - Blessings
  • Maggie Smith - My House in Umbria

• 2004: Dianne West - The Blackwater Lightship
  • Clea DuVall - Helter Skelter
  • Angela Lansbury - The Blackwater Lightship
  • Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness
  • Miranda Richardson - The Lost Prince

• 2005: Kristen Bell - Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
  • Natascha McElhone - Revelations
  • Geraldine McEwan - Marple: A Murder Is Announced
  • S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues
  • Cynthia Nixon - Warm Springs
  • Keri Russell - The Magic of Ordinary Days

• 2006: Judy Davis - A Little Thing Called Murder
  • Gillian Anderson - Bleak House
  • Annette Bening - Mrs. Harris
  • Helen Mirren - Elizabeth I as Queen Elizabeth I
  • Miranda Richardson - Gideon's Daughter

• 2007: Samantha Morton - Longford
  • Ellen Burstyn - Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day
  • Queen Latifah - Life Support
  • Debra Messing - The Starter Wife
  • Sharon Small - Inspector Lynley Mysteries
  • Ruth Wilson - Jane Eyre

• 2008: Judi Dench - Cranford
  • Jacqueline Bisset - An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
  • Laura Linney - John Adams
  • Phylicia Rashad - A Raisin in the Sun
  • Susan Sarandon - Bernard and Doris
  • Julie Walters - Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

• 2009: Drew Barrymore - Grey Gardens
  • Lauren Ambrose - Loving Leah
  • Judy Davis - Diamonds
  • Jessica Lange - Grey Gardens
  • Janet McTeer - Into the Storm
  • Sigourney Weaver - Prayers for Bobby

• 2010: Claire Danes - Temple Grandin
  • Hope Davis - The Special Relationship
  • Judi Dench - Return to Cranford
  • Naomie Harris - Small Island
  • Ellie Kendrick - The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Winona Ryder - When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
  • Ruth Wilson - Luther

• 2011: Kate Winslet - Mildred Pierce
  • Taraji P. Henson - Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
  • Diane Lane - Cinema Verite
  • Elizabeth McGovern - Downton Abbey
  • Jean Marsh - Upstairs, Downstairs
  • Rachel Weisz - Page Eight