The Satellite Award   Best Miniseries / TV  Film  honors outstanding miniseries  or TV films  . This prize was awarded from 1996 to 1998, as well as from 2011 to 2013 and has only been awarded again since 2016. Between 1999 and 2010 and in both years 2014 and 2015, the two categories of mini-series and television film received separate awards.
 
The miniseries / TV films from the previous year are always awarded. 
Nominations and winners 
Best Miniseries / TV Movie 
 
1996-1998 
 
2011-2013 
 
year 
 
Nominations and winners 
 
Director 
 
TV network 
 
 
2011 Mildred Pierce Todd Haynes HBO
 
 
Cinema Verite 
Shari Springer Berman  and Robert Pulcini 
 
HBO
 
 
Downton Abbey 
Brian Percival  , Ben Bolt  , Brian Kelly  , Andy Goddard  , James Strong  and Ashley Pearce 
 
PBS 
 
 
Thurgood Michael Stevens HBO
 
 
Too Big to Fail - The great crisis Curtis Hanson HBO
 
 
The conspiracy - treason at the highest level David Hare 
BBC Two 
 
 
2012 Hatfields & McCoys Kevin Reynolds 
History 
 
 
Birdsong Philip Martin BBC One
 
 
The Crimson Petal and the White Marc Munden BBC Two
 
 
Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect Jay Roach HBO
 
 
Hemingway & Gellhorn Philip Kaufman HBO
 
 
Luther 
Brian Kirk  , Sam Miller  and Stefan Schwartz 
 
BBC One
 
 
Sherlock 
Paul McGuigan  , et al. 
BBC One
 
 
Wallander 
Philip Martin  and Niall MacCormick 
 
BBC One
 
 
2013 Dancing on the Edge Stephen Poliakoff BBC Two
 
 
The Big C 
Michael Engler  , et al. 
Show time
 
 
Burton & Taylor Richard Laxton 
BBC Four 
 
 
The Phil Spector case David Mamet 
HBO Films 
 
 
Liberace - Too much of a good thing is wonderful Steven Soderbergh HBO
 
 
Mob City 
Frank Darabont  and Guy Ferland 
 
TNT
 
 
Parade's End - The last gentleman Susanna White 
BBC  , HBO and VRT 
 
 
Our mothers, our fathers Stefan Kolditz 
ZDF 
 
 
Top of the Lake 
Jane Campion  and Garth Davis 
 
BBC Two and Sundance Channel 
 
 
The White Queen 
James Kent  , Jamie Payne  and Colin Teague 
 
BBC One
 
 
 
Since 2016 Best TV movie 
1999-2009 
 
2014-2015 
 
Best miniseries 
1999-2010 
 
year 
 
Nominations and winners 
 
Director 
 
TV network 
 
 
1999 Hornblower: The Even Chance Andrew Grieve 
A&E Networks 
 
 
Bonanno: A Godfather's Story Michel Poulette Show time
 
 
Jeanne d'Arc - The woman of the millennium Christian Duguay CBS
 
 
PT Barnum Simon Wincer A&E Networks
 
 
Showdown on the way to hell Uli Edel TNT
 
 
2000 American Tragedy Lawrence Schiller CBS
 
 
The Beach Boys: An American Family Jeff Bleckner ABC
 
 
The Corner Charles S. Dutton HBO
 
 
Jason and the battle for the Golden Fleece Nick Willing NBC
 
 
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal Charles Haid CBS
 
 
2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows Robert Allan Ackerman ABC
 
 
Anne Frank Robert Dornhelm ABC
 
 
Band of Brothers - We were like brothers 
David Frankel  , Mikael Salomon  , et al. 
HBO
 
 
Further Tales of the City Pierre Gang Show time
 
 
Uprising - the uprising Jon Avnet NBC
 
 
2002 Taken 
Tobe Hooper  , et al. 
The Sci-Fi Channel 
 
 
Ernest Shackleton Charles Sturridge A&E Networks
 
 
The Forsyte saga 
Christopher Menaul  and David Moore 
 
ITV
 
 
Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story Lawrence Schiller CBS
 
 
Talking to Heaven Stephen Gyllenhaal CBS
 
 
2003 Angels in america Mike Nichols HBO
 
 
Children of Dune Greg Yaitanes The Sci-Fi Channel
 
 
Doctor Zhivago (2002) Giacomo Campiotti ITV
 
 
Helen of Troy John Kent Harrison USA Network
 
 
Hornblower: Loyalty Charles Sturridge A&E Networks
 
 
Out of order 
Henry Bromell  , Tim Hunter  , Roger Kumble  and Wayne Powers 
 
Show time
 
 
2004 The Lost Prince Stephen Poliakoff PBS
 
 
4400 - The returnees 
Scott Peters  , et al. 
USA Network
 
 
American Family 
Gregory Nava  , Charles Burnett  and Barbara Martinez Jitner 
 
PBS
 
 
Charles II: The Power & the Passion Joe Wright BBC, A&E Networks
 
 
Hot Suspicion (TV Series) Christopher Menaul PBS
 
 
The second coming Adrian Shergold ITV
 
 
2005 Elvis James Steven Sadwith CBS
 
 
Agatha Christie's Marple 
Charlie Palmer  , Andy Wilson  , et al. 
UPN 
 
 
Elizabeth I - The Virgin Queen Coky Giedroyc PBS
 
 
Empire Falls - Fate of a City 
Robert Dornhelm  , et al. 
HBO
 
 
Into the West Tom Hooper TNT
 
 
Revelations - The Revelation Lili Fini Zanuck NBC
 
 
2006 To the Ends of the Earth David Attwood PBS
 
 
Bleak House 
Justin Chadwick  and Susanna White 
 
PBS
 
 
Casanova Sheree Folkson BBC
 
 
Elizabeth I Tom Hooper HBO
 
 
Thief 
John David Coles  , Dean White  and Paul McGuigan 
 
USA Network
 
 
2007 The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard 
Simon Curtis  , Declan Lowney  and Catherine Morshead 
 
PBS
 
 
The Company - On behalf of the CIA Mikael Salomon TNT
 
 
Five Days 
Otto Bathurst  , Toby Haynes  , Peter Hoar  and Simon Curtis 
 
HBO
 
 
Jane Eyre Susanna White PBS
 
 
The Starter Wife - everything at the beginning Jon Avnet USA Network
 
 
2008 Cranford 
Simon Curtis  and Steve Hudson 
 
PBS
 
 
John Adams - Freedom for America Tom Hooper HBO
 
 
The Last Enemy Iain B. MacDonald PBS
 
 
2009 Little Dorrit Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh,  and Diarmuid Lawrence 
 
PBS
 
 
Collision Marc Evans PBS
 
 
Diamonds Andy Wilson ABC
 
 
Commissioner Wallander 
Benjamin Caron  , Philip Martin  , et al. 
PBS
 
 
The Prisoner Nick Hurran 
AMC 
 
 
2010 Sherlock 
Paul McGuigan  , Nick Hurran  , et al. 
PBS
 
 
Carlos - the jackal Olivier Assayas 
IFC Films 
 
 
Emma Jim O'Hanlon PBS
 
 
The Pacific 
Jeremy Podeswa  , Timothy Van Patten  , David Nutter  , et al. 
HBO
 
 
The pillars of the earth Sergio Mimica-Gezzan Starz
 
 
Small Island John Alexander PBS
 
 
 
2014-2015 
 
 
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