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.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1990s

Year	Nominee	Miniseries or movie	Role
1994	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	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	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 Anne "Bone" Boatwright
	Cicely Tyson	The Road to Galveston	Jordan Roosevelt
1997	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	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	Halle Berry	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Dorothy Dandridge
	Kathy Bates	Annie	Miss Agatha Hannigan
	Judy Davis	A Cooler Climate	Paula
	Sally Field	A Cooler Climate	Iris
	Helen Mirren	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Ayn Rand

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Miniseries or Movie	Role
2000	Vanessa Redgrave	If These Walls Could Talk 2	Edith Tree
	Stockard Channing	The Truth About Jane	Janice
	Judi Dench	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Elizabeth
	Sally Field	David Copperfield	Aunt Betsey Trotwood
	Elizabeth Franz	Death of a Salesman	Linda Loman
2001	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
	Sissy Spacek	Midwives	Sibyl Danforth
	Emma Thompson	Wit	Vivian Bearing
2002	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	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	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Karen Stone
	Mary-Louise Parker	Angels in America	Harper Pitt
	Emma Thompson	Angels in America	Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel America
2004	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	S. Epatha Merkerson	Lackawanna Blues	Rachel "Nanny" Crosby
	Tonantzin Carmelo	Into the West	Thunder Heart Woman
	Cynthia Nixon	Warm Springs	Eleanor Roosevelt
	Robin Wright Penn	Empire Falls	Grace Roby
	Joanne Woodward	Empire Falls	Francine Whiting
2006	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	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	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	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	Winners and nominees	Miniseries or Movie	Role
2010	Claire Danes	Temple Grandin	Temple Grandin
	Catherine O'Hara	Temple Grandin	Aunt Ann
	Julia Ormond	Temple Grandin	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	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	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	Ouiser
2013	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	G.J.
	Elisabeth Moss	Top of the Lake	Det. Robin Griffin
2014
	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
	Nicole Kidman	Grace of Monaco	Grace Kelly
	Queen Latifah	Bessie	Bessie Smith
	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

Multiples

Multiple winners

2 wins

• Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I, Phil Spector)
• Alfre Woodard (The Piano Lesson, Miss Evers' Boys)

Multiple nominees

Bold type indicates the winner.

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)
• Anjelica Huston (Buffalo Girls, The Mists of Avalon)
• Nicole Kidman (Hemingway & Gellhorn, Grace of Monaco)
• 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)
• Vanessa Redgrave (If These Walls Could Talk 2, The Gathering Storm, The Fever)
• Susan Sarandon (Bernard and Doris, You Don't Know Jack, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe)
• 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)

5 nominations

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

See also

• Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

External links

• SAG Awards official site