Satellite Award for Best Television Film

The Satellite Award for Best Film Made for Television is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy. In 2011, the IPA merged the TV miniseries and film categories.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)	Network
1999	Strange Justice	Ernest R. Dickerson	Showtime
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Martha Coolidge	HBO
	A Lesson Before Dying	Joseph Sargent	HBO
	RKO 281	Benjamin Ross	HBO
	A Slight Case of Murder	Steven Schachter	TNT

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director(s)	Network
2000	Harlan County War	Tony Bill	Showtime
	Cheaters	John Stockwell	HBO
	Dirty Pictures	Frank Pierson	Showtime
	For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story	Joseph Sargent	HBO
	Nuremberg	Yves Simoneau	TNT
2001	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Cyrus Nowrasteh	Showtime
	Conspiracy	Frank Pierson	HBO
	Midwives	Glenn Jordan	Lifetime
	Varian's War	Lionel Chetwynd	Showtime
	Wild Iris	Daniel Petrie	Showtime
	Wit	Mike Nichols	HBO
2002	Door to Door	Steven Schachter	TNT
	The Gathering Storm	Richard Loncraine	HBO
	Keep the Faith, Baby	Doug McHenry	Showtime
	The Laramie Project	Moisés Kaufman	HBO
	Path to War	John Frankenheimer	HBO
2003	Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story	Robert Dornhelm	USA Network
	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Bruce Beresford	HBO
	My House in Umbria	Richard Loncraine	HBO
	Normal	Jane Anderson	HBO
	Our Town	James Naughton	PBS
	Soldier's Girl	Frank Pierson	Showtime
2004	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Vondie Curtis-Hall	FX
	Helter Skelter	John Gray	Lakeside Productions/Wolper Organization
	Iron Jawed Angels	Katja von Garnier	HBO
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Stephen Hopkins	HBO
	Something the Lord Made	Joseph Sargent	HBO
2005	Reefer Madness	Andy Fickman	Showtime
	Kidnapped	Brendan Maher	PBS
	Lackawanna Blues	George C. Wolfe	HBO
	The Magic of Ordinary Days	Brent Shields	HBO
	Our Fathers	Dan Curtis	Showtime
	Sometimes in April	Raoul Peck	HBO
	Warm Springs	Joseph Sargent	HBO
2006	A Little Thing Called Murder	Richard Benjamin	Lifetime
	Gideon's Daughter	Stephen Poliakoff	BBC America
	High School Musical	Kenny Ortega	Disney Channel
	In from the Night	Peter Levin	NBC
	Mrs. Harris	Phyllis Nagy	HBO
2007	Mitch Albom's For One More Day	Lloyd Kramer	ABC
	Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee	Yves Simoneau	HBO
	Life Support	Nelson George	HBO
	Longford	Tom Hooper	HBO/Channel 4
	The Trial of Tony Blair	Simon Cellan Jones	Channel 4
	The Wind in the Willows	Rachel Talalay	PBS/BBC
2008	Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story	Andy DeEmmony	PBS/BBC
	24: Redemption	Jon Cassar	Fox
	Bernard and Doris	Bob Balaban	HBO
	God on Trial	Andy DeEmmony	PBS
	The Memory Keeper's Daughter	Mick Jackson	Lifetime
	Recount	Jay Roach	HBO
2009	Grey Gardens	Michael Sucsy	HBO
	The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler	John Kent Harrison	Hallmark Hall of Fame
	Endgame	Pete Travis	Channel 4
	Into the Storm	Thaddeus O'Sullivan	HBO/HBO Canada
	Loving Leah	Jeff Bleckner	Hallmark Hall of Fame
	Taking Chance	Ross Katz	HBO Films