Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in Miniseries or Television Movie.

SAG Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	SAG-AFTRA
Currently held by	Patricia Arquette for Escape at Dannemora (2018)
Website	sagawards.org

Contents

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner.

1990s

Joanne Woodward won in 1994 for her role on the film adaptation of Breathing Lessons.

Kathy Bates won the award for her performance on The Late Shift (1996).

Halle Berry won for her portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge on Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999).

Vanessa Redgrave won for her performance on If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000).

Judy Davis won for Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001).

Meryl Streep won for Angels in America (2003).

Glenn Close won in 2004 for her role on The Lion in Winter.

Helen Mirren won twice for her performances on Elizabeth I (2006) and Phil Spector (2013).

Laura Linney won for her performance on John Adams (2008) as Abigail Adams.

Claire Danes won the award for her portrayal of Temple Grandin in the television film about her life (2010).

Kate Winslet won for her performance on Mildred Pierce (2011).

Julianne Moore won for her role in Game Change (2012).

Frances McDormand won for her performance in Olive Kitteridge (2014).

Sarah Paulson won for her portrayal in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016).

Nicole Kidman won for her performance in Big Little Lies (2017).

Year	Nominee	Miniseries or Movie	Role(s)
1994 (1st)	Joanne Woodward	Breathing Lessons	Maggie Moran
	Katharine Hepburn	One Christmas	Cornelia Beaumont
	Diane Keaton	Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight	Amelia Earhart
	Sissy Spacek	A Place for Annie	Susan Lansing
	Cicely Tyson	Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All	Castralia, Marsden Family House Slave / Maid
1995 (2nd)	Alfre Woodard	The Piano Lesson	Berniece Charles
	Glenn Close	Serving in Silence	Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer
	Sally Field	A Woman of Independent Means	Bess Alcott Steed Garner
	Anjelica Huston	Buffalo Girls	Calamity Jane
	Sela Ward	Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story	Jessica Savitch
1996 (3rd)	Kathy Bates	The Late Shift	Helen Kushnick
	Anne Bancroft	Homecoming	Abigail Tillerman
	Stockard Channing	An Unexpected Family	Barbara Whitney
	Jena Malone	Bastard Out of Carolina	Ruth “Bone” Boatwright
	Cicely Tyson	The Road to Galveston	Jordan Roosevelt
1997 (4th)	Alfre Woodard	Miss Evers' Boys	Eunice Evers, R.N.
	Glenn Close	In the Gloaming	Janet
	Faye Dunaway	The Twilight of the Golds	Phyllis Gold
	Sigourney Weaver	Snow White: A Tale of Terror	Lady Claudia Hoffman
	Mare Winningham	George Wallace	Lurleen Wallace
1998 (5th)	Angelina Jolie	Gia	Gia Carangi
	Ann-Margret	Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story	Pamela Harriman
	Stockard Channing	The Baby Dance	Rachel Luckman
	Olympia Dukakis	More Tales of the City	Mrs. Anna Madrigal
	Mary Steenburgen	About Sarah	Sarah Elizabeth McCaffrey
1999 (6th)	Halle Berry	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Dorothy Dandridge
	Kathy Bates	Annie	Miss Agatha Hannigan
	Judy Davis	A Cooler Climate	Paula
	Sally Field		Iris
	Helen Mirren	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand

2000s

Year	Nominee	Miniseries or Movie	Role
2000 (7th)	Vanessa Redgrave	If These Walls Could Talk 2	Edith Tree
	Stockard Channing	The Truth About Jane	Janice Williams
	Judi Dench	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Elizabeth Harman
	Sally Field	David Copperfield	Aunt Betsey Trotwood
	Elizabeth Franz	Death of a Salesman	Linda Loman
2001 (8th)	Judy Davis	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Judy Garland
	Angela Bassett	Ruby's Bucket of Blood	Ruby Delacroix
	Anjelica Huston	The Mists of Avalon	Vivianne, Lady of the Lake
	Sissy Spacek	Midwives	Sibyl Danforth
	Emma Thompson	Wit	Vivian Bearing
2002 (9th)	Stockard Channing	The Matthew Shepard Story	Judy Shephard
	Kathy Bates	My Sister's Keeper	Christine Chapman
	Helen Mirren	Door to Door	Mrs. Porter
	Vanessa Redgrave	The Gathering Storm	Clementine Churchill
	Uma Thurman	Hysterical Blindness	Debbie Miller
2003 (10th)	Meryl Streep	Angels in America	Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia
	Anne Bancroft	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Contessa
	Helen Mirren		Karen Stone
	Mary-Louise Parker	Angels in America	Harper Pitt
	Emma Thompson		Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel America
2004 (11th)	Glenn Close	The Lion in Winter	Queen Eleanor
	Patricia Heaton	The Goodbye Girl	Paula McFadden
	Keke Palmer	The Wool Cap	Lou
	Hilary Swank	Iron Jawed Angels	Alice Paul
	Charlize Theron	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Britt Ekland
2005 (12th)	S. Epatha Merkerson	Lackawanna Blues	Rachel “Nanny” Crosby
	Tonantzin Carmelo	Into the West	Thunder Heart Woman
	Cynthia Nixon	Warm Springs	Eleanor Roosevelt
	Joanne Woodward	Empire Falls	Francine Whiting
	Robin Wright		Grace Roby
2006 (13th)	Helen Mirren	Elizabeth I	Queen Elizabeth I
	Annette Bening	Mrs. Harris	Jean Harris
	Shirley Jones	Hidden Places	Aunt Batty
	Cloris Leachman	Mrs. Harris	Pearl “Billie” Schwartz
	Greta Scacchi	Broken Trail	Nola Johns
2007 (14th)	Queen Latifah	Life Support	Ana Walace
	Ellen Burstyn	Mitch Albom's For One More Day	Posey
	Debra Messing	The Starter Wife	Molly Kagan
	Anna Paquin	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Elaine Goodale
	Vanessa Redgrave	The Fever	Woman
	Gena Rowlands	What If God Were the Sun?	Melissa Eisenbloom
2008 (15th)	Laura Linney	John Adams	Abigail Adams
	Laura Dern	Recount	Katherine Harris
	Shirley MacLaine	Coco Chanel	Coco Chanel
	Phylicia Rashad	A Raisin in the Sun	Lena Younger
	Susan Sarandon	Bernard and Doris	Doris Duke
2009 (16th)	Drew Barrymore	Grey Gardens	Edith “Little Edie” Beale
	Joan Allen	Georgia O'Keeffe	Georgia O‘Keeffe
	Ruby Dee	America	Mrs. Harper
	Jessica Lange	Grey Gardens	Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier-Beale
	Sigourney Weaver	Prayers for Bobby	Mary Griffith

2010s

Year	Nominee	Miniseries or Movie	Role
2010 (17th)	Claire Danes	Temple Grandin	Temple Grandin
	Catherine O'Hara	Temple Grandin	Aunt Ann
	Julia Ormond		Eustacia Grandin
	Winona Ryder	When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story	Lois Wilson
	Susan Sarandon	You Don't Know Jack	Janet Good
2011 (18th)	Kate Winslet	Mildred Pierce	Mildred Pierce
	Diane Lane	Cinema Verite	Pat Loud
	Maggie Smith	Downton Abbey	Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
	Emily Watson	Appropriate Adult	Janet Leach
	Betty White	The Lost Valentine	Caroline Thomas
2012 (19th)	Julianne Moore	Game Change	Sarah Palin
	Nicole Kidman	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Martha Gellhorn
	Charlotte Rampling	Restless	Eva Delectorskaya
	Sigourney Weaver	Political Animals	Elaine Barrish Hammond
	Alfre Woodard	Steel Magnolias	Louisa "Ouiser" Boudreaux
2013 (20th)	Helen Mirren	Phil Spector	Linda Kenney Baden
	Angela Bassett	Betty & Coretta	Coretta Scott King
	Helena Bonham Carter	Burton & Taylor	Elizabeth Taylor
	Holly Hunter	Top of the Lake	GJ
	Elisabeth Moss		Det. Robin Griffin
2014 (21st)	Frances McDormand	Olive Kitteridge	Olive Kitteridge
	Ellen Burstyn	Flowers in the Attic	Olivia Foxworth
	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The Honourable Woman	Nessa Stein, Baroness Stein of Tilbury
	Julia Roberts	The Normal Heart	Dr. Emma Brookner
	Cicely Tyson	The Trip to Bountiful	Mrs. Carrie Watts
2015 (22nd)	Queen Latifah	Bessie	Bessie Smith
	Nicole Kidman	Grace of Monaco	Grace Kelly
	Christina Ricci	The Lizzie Borden Chronicles	Lizzie Borden
	Susan Sarandon	The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe	Gladys Monroe Mortenson
	Kristen Wiig	The Spoils Before Dying	Delores O’Dell
2016 (23rd)	Sarah Paulson	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Marcia Clark
	Bryce Dallas Howard	Black Mirror	Lacie Pound
	Felicity Huffman	American Crime	Leslie Graham
	Audra McDonald	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill	Billie Holiday
	Kerry Washington	Confirmation	Anita Hill
2017 (24th)	Nicole Kidman	Big Little Lies	Celeste Wright
	Laura Dern	Big Little Lies	Renata Klein
	Jessica Lange	Feud: Bette and Joan	Joan Crawford
	Susan Sarandon		Bette Davis
	Reese Witherspoon	Big Little Lies	Madeline Martha Mackenzie
2018 (25th)	Patricia Arquette	Escape at Dannemora	Tilly Mitchell
	Amy Adams	Sharp Objects	Camille Preaker
	Patricia Clarkson		Adora Crellin
	Penélope Cruz	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Donatella Versace
	Emma Stone	Maniac	Annie Landsberg

Multiples

Multiple winners

2 wins

• Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I, Phil Spector)
• Queen Latifah (Life Support, Bessie)
• Alfre Woodard (The Piano Lesson, Miss Evers' Boys)

Multiple nominees

Note: Winners are indicated in bold type.

2 nominations

• Anne Bancroft (Homecoming, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
• Angela Bassett (Ruby's Bucket of Blood, Betty & Coretta)
• Ellen Burstyn (Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day, Flowers in the Attic)
• Judy Davis (A Cooler Climate, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows)
• Laura Dern (Recount, Big Little Lies)
• Anjelica Huston (Buffalo Girls, The Mists of Avalon)
• Jessica Lange (Grey Gardens, Feud: Bette and Joan)
• Queen Latifah (Life Support, Bessie)
• Sissy Spacek (Midwives, A Place for Annie)
• Emma Thompson (Wit, Angels in America)
• Joanne Woodward (Breathing Lessons, Empire Falls)

3 nominations

• Kathy Bates (The Late Shift, Annie, My Sister's Keeper)
• Glenn Close (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, In the Gloaming, The Lion in Winter)
• Sally Field (A Woman of Independent Means, A Cooler Climate, David Copperfield)
• Nicole Kidman (Hemingway & Gellhorn, Grace of Monaco, Big Little Lies)
• Vanessa Redgrave (If These Walls Could Talk 2, The Gathering Storm, The Fever)
• Cicely Tyson (Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, The Road to Galveston, The Trip to Bountiful)
• Sigourney Weaver (Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Prayers for Bobby, Political Animals)
• Alfre Woodard (The Piano Lesson, Miss Evers' Boys, Steel Magnolias)

4 nominations

• Stockard Channing (A Unexpected Family, The Baby Dance, The Truth About Jane, The Matthew Shepard Story)
• Susan Sarandon (Bernard and Doris, You Don't Know Jack, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, Feud: Bette and Joan)

5 nominations

• Helen Mirren (The Passion of Ayn Rand, Door to Door, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Elizabeth I, Phil Spector)

See also

• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
• Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
• Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries
• Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries

External links

• SAG Awards official site