Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie

The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie is a retired category of Primetime Emmy Awards, given out to the best miniseries or television film between 2011 and 2013.

The award was created in 2011 when the Miniseries and Television Movie categories were merged. The merger was largely due to the decline in miniseries production in the past decade. In the final ten years of the miniseries category, it was able to fill all five nomination slots only twice, with the final two ceremonies only having two nominees. ^[1] However, in 2014, the decision was reversed, and the separate Miniseries and Television Movie categories were reinstated.^[2]

A similar incident had happened in 1991 when the Outstanding Miniseries and the Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special (television movies) categories were merged to form the new Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special and Miniseries category and the number of nominees increased from five to six.^[3] For this year, 2 miniseries had competed with 4 made for TV movies. The following year, 1992, the new category was split to re-form the Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Made for Television Movie categories.

Winners and nominees

The following tables, divided by decade, display the winners and nominees, according to the Primetime Emmy Awards database.

2010s

Year	Program	Producers	Network
2010–2011 (63rd)[4]
	Downton Abbey	Gareth Neame, Rebecca Eaton, and Julian Fellowes, executive producers; Tony To, Graham Yost, Eugene Kelly, and Bruce C. McKenna, co-executive producer; Nigel Marchant, producer; Liz Trubridge, series producer;	PBS
	Cinema Verite	Gavin Polone and Zanne Devine, executive producers; Karyn McCarthy, producer	HBO
	The Kennedys	Jonathan Koch, Steve Michaels, Jon Cassar, Stephen Kronish, Michael Prupas, Jamie Paul Rock, Joel Surnow, David McKillop, Dirk Hoogstra, Christine Shipton, and Tara Ellis, executive producers; Brian Gibson, supervising producer	ReelzChannel
	Mildred Pierce	Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, John Wells, and Todd Haynes, executive producers; Ilene S. Landress, co-executive producer	HBO
	The Pillars of the Earth	David A. Rosemont, Jonas Bauer, Tim Halkin, Michael Prupas, David W. Zucker, Rola Bauer, Ridley Scott, and Tony Scott, executive producers; John Ryan, producer	Starz
	Too Big to Fail	Curtis Hanson, Paula Weinstein, and Jeffrey Levine, executive producers; Carol Fenelon, co-executive producer; Ezra Swerdlow, producer	HBO
2011–2012 (64th)[5]
	Game Change	Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Jay Roach, executive producers; Danny Strong and Steven Shareshian, co-executive producers; Amy Sayres, producer	HBO
	American Horror Story	Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Dante Di Loreto, executive producers	FX
	Hatfields & McCoys	Leslie Greif, Nancy Dubuc, and Dirk Hoogstra, executive producers; Barry Berg, supervising producer; Kevin Costner, Darrell Fetty, Herb Nanas, producer by; and Vlad Paunescu, producer	History
	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Peter Kaufman, Trish Hofmann, James Gandolfini, Alexandra Ryan, and Barbara Turner, executive producers; Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong, co-executive producer	HBO
	Luther	Phillippa Giles, executive producer; Katie Swinden, producer	BBC America
	Sherlock: “A Scandal in Belgravia”	Beryl Vertue, Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Rebecca Eaton, and Bethan Jones, executive producers; Sue Vertue, producer	PBS
2012–2013 (65th)[6]
	Behind the Candelabra	Jerry Weintraub, executive producer; Gregory Jacobs, Susan Ekins, and Michael Polaire, producers	HBO
	American Horror Story: Asylum	Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto, and Tim Minear, executive producers; Jennifer Salt, James Wong, Jessica Sharzer, and Bradley Buecker, co-executive producers; and Alexis Martin Woodall, producer	FX
	The Bible	Mark Burnett, Roma Downey, Richard Bedser, Nancy Dubuc, Dirk Hoogstra, Julian P. Hobbs, executive producers	History
	Phil Spector	Barry Levinson and David Mamet, executive producers; and Michael Hausman, producer	HBO
	Political Animals	Greg Berlanti, Laurence Mark, and Sarah Caplan, executive producers; and Melissa Kellner Berman, co-executive producer	USA Network
	Top of the Lake	Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Jane Campion, executive producers; and Philippa Campbell, producer	Sundance Channel

Total awards by network

• HBO – 2
• PBS – 1

See also

• Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film

References

1. Powers, Lindsay (February 24, 2011). "Emmys to Merge Miniseries, Made for TV Movie Categories This Year". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
2. Andreeva, Nellie (February 20, 2014). "EMMYS: TV Academy Splits Best Miniseries & TV Movie, Reality Program & Voice-Over Categories, Expands Combined Longform Fields To 6 Nominees, Sets Possibility For 7 Best Drama & Comedy Series Nominees". Deadline.com. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
3. "43rd Primetime Emmys Nominees and Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2014-12-01.
4. "Outstanding Miniseries or Movie - 2011". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
5. "Outstanding Miniseries or Movie - 2012". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
6. "Outstanding Miniseries or Movie - 2013". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved November 22, 2014.