Satellite Awards / Television / Best Actress in a Miniseries or a TV Movie

With the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV movie , the actresses honored as the leading ladies excellence have shown.

statistics
Most frequently honored leading actress	Judy Davis (two awards)
Most frequently nominated leading actress	Helen Mirren (four nominations)
Most frequently nominated leading actress without a win	Jessica Lange (three nominations)

The actresses from the previous year are always honored.

Nominations and winners

Late 1990s

year	Award winners	for the series	Nominations
1996	Helen Mirren	Hot suspicion	Kirstie Alley for Not asking about tomorrow Lolita Davidovich for The Embers of Violence Laura Dern for The Siege of Ruby Ridge Jena Malone for Between the Worlds
1997	Jennifer Beals Alfre Woodard	The Twilight of the Golds Miss Evers' Boys	Glenn Close for In der Abenddämmerung Greta Scacchi for The Adventures of Odysseus Meryl Streep for ... First Do No Harm
1998	Angelina Jolie	Gia - price of beauty	Olympia Dukakis for More Tales of the City Mia Farrow for Stille Helden Barbara Hershey for The Staircase: Death on the Stairs Jennifer Jason Leigh for Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1999	Linda Hamilton	Courage - a woman's courage	Kathy Bates for Annie - Christmas of an Orphan Halle Berry for Rising Star Leelee Sobieski for Jeanne d'Arc - The Woman of the Millennium Regina Taylor for Strange Justice

2000-2009

year	Award winners	for the series	Nominations
2000	Jill Hennessy	Nuremberg - In the name of humanity	Jennifer Beals for A House Divided Holly Hunter for Time of Justice Gena Rowlands for The Color of Love: Jacey's Story Vanessa Redgrave for Women Love Women
2001	Judy Davis	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Laura Linney for Wild Iris Sissy Spacek for midwife Hannah Taylor-Gordon for Anne Frank Emma Thompson for Wit
2002	Vanessa Williams	Keep the Faith, baby	Kathy Bates for In My Sister Stockard Channing's Life for The Matthew Shepard Story Marcia Gay Harden for King of Texas Vanessa Redgrave for Churchill - The Gathering Storm
2003	Meryl Streep	Angels in America	Felicity Huffman for Out of Order Jessica Lange for Normal Helen Mirren for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Mary Tyler Moore for Blessings Maggie Smith for My House in Umbria
2004	Dianne Wiest	The Blackwater Lightship	Clea DuVall for Helter Skelter Angela Lansbury for The Blackwater Lightship Helen Mirren for Hot Suspicion Miranda Richardson for The Lost Prince
2005	Kristen Bell	Stoner madness	Natascha McElhone for Revelations - The Revelation Geraldine McEwan for Miss Marple S. Epatha Merkerson for Lackawanna Blues Cynthia Nixon for Warm Springs Keri Russell for The Magic of Ordinary Days
2006	Judy Davis	A Little Thing Called Murder	Gillian Anderson for Bleak House Annette Bening for Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles Helen Mirren for Elizabeth I Miranda Richardson for Gideon's Daughter
2007	Samantha Morton	The Manchester Moor Murderess	Ellen Burstyn for Mitch Albom's For One More Day Queen Latifah for Life Support Debra Messing for The Starter Wife Sharon Small for Inspector Lynley Ruth Wilson for Jane Eyre
2008	Judi Dench	Cranford	Jacqueline Bisset for An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Laura Linney for John Adams - Freiheit für Amerika Phylicia Rashad for A Raisin in the Sun Susan Sarandon for Bernard and Doris Julie Walters for Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2009	Drew Barrymore	Gray Gardens	Lauren Ambrose for Loving Leah Judy Davis for Diamonds Jessica Lange for Gray Gardens Janet McTeer for Into the Storm Sigourney Weaver for Prayers for Bobby

Since 2010

year	Award winners	for the series	Nominations
2010	Claire Danes	You don't go alone	Hope Davis for The Special Relationship Judi Dench for Cranford Naomie Harris for Small Island Ellie Kendrick for The Diary of Anne Frank Winona Ryder for When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story Ruth Wilson for Luther
2011	Kate Winslet	Mildred Pierce	Taraji P. Henson for Taken from Me: Hell for a Mother Diane Lane for Cinema Verite Jean Marsh for Upstairs, Downstairs Elizabeth McGovern for Downton Abbey Rachel Weisz for The Conspiracy - Treason at the Highest Level
2012	Julianne Moore	Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect	Gillian Anderson for Great Expectations Romola Garai for The Crimson Petal and the White Nicole Kidman for Hemingway & Gellhorn Sienna Miller for The Girl Sigourney Weaver for Political Animals
2013	Elisabeth Moss	Top of the Lake	Helena Bonham Carter for Burton & Taylor Holliday Grainger for Bonnie & Clyde Rebecca Hall for Parade's End - The Last Gentleman Jessica Lange for American Horror Story Melissa Leo for Call me crazy! (Call Me Crazy: A Five Film) Helen Mirren for The Phil Spector Case Sarah Paulson for American Horror Story
2014	Frances McDormand	Olive Kitteridge	Maggie Gyllenhaal for The Honorable Woman Sarah Lancashire for Happy Valley Cicely Tyson for The Trip to Bountiful Kristen Wiig for The Spoils of Babylon
2015	Sarah Hay	Flesh and bone	Samantha Bond for Home Fires Aunjanue Ellis for The Book of Negroes Claire Foy for Wolves Queen Latifah for Bessie Cynthia Nixon for Stockholm, Pennsylvania
2016	Sarah Paulson	American Crime Story	Lily James for War and Peace Melissa Leo for The Long Road Audra McDonald for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Emily Watson for The Dresser Kerry Washington for In Good Faith