Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries
The Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Television Movie or Mini-Series (Original Name: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie ) is one of the awards given annually in the United States by the Screen Actors Guild , a trade union by actors. It is aimed at actresses, the excellent performance in a major or minor role in a TV movie or miniseries have produced. The category was launched in 1995. The winners will be determined in a secret ballot by the full members of the union.
History and records
Over the past 21 years, the Screen Actors Guild has presented a total of 21 awards for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini-Series to 19 different actresses. The first to win was Joanne Woodward , who won the 1995 Screen Actors Guild Awards for her role as Maggie Moran in Maggie, Maggie . The final winner so far was Nicole Kidman , who was honored for her role as Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2018 .
The following is a list of records of the most frequent nominees and winners in the Best Actress category in a TV movie or miniseries . The winners and nominees in the other actor categories are not counted.
| statistics | actor | number | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most frequent awards | Alfre Woodard | 2 | 1996, 1998 |
| Helen Mirren | 2 | 2007, 2014 | |
| Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
5 | 2000, 2003, 2004, 2007 *, 2014 * | |
| Most frequent nominations without a win | Sally Field | 3 | 1996, 2000, 2001 |
| Sigourney Weaver | 3 | 1998, 2010, 2013 | |
| Susan Sarandon | 3 | 2009, 2011, 2016 |
Winners and nominees
The television films and miniseries listed below are given with their German broadcast title (if they can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted in bold type first.
1995-2000
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Joanne Woodward - Maggie, Maggie (Breathing Lessons)
- Katharine Hepburn - A Christmas (One Christmas)
- Diane Keaton - Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
- Sissy Spacek - Will Annie Live? (A Place for Annie)
- Cicely Tyson - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
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Alfre Woodard - The Piano Lesson
- Glenn Close - Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
- Sally Field - Interplay of Life (A Woman of Independent Means)
- Anjelica Huston - Buffalo Girls
- Sela Ward - The Struggle for Happiness (Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story)
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Kathy Bates - The Late Shift
- Anne Bancroft - Four Siblings Stick Together (Homecoming)
- Stockard Channing - An Unexpected Family
- Jena Malone - Defenseless - Shadows over Carolina (Bastard Out of Carolina)
- Cicely Tyson - The Road to Galveston (The Road to Galveston)
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Alfre Woodard - Miss Evers' Boys
- Glenn Close - At dusk (In The Gloaming)
- Faye Dunaway - The Twilight of the Gods
- Sigourney Weaver - Snow White (Snow White: A Tale of Terror)
- Mare Winningham - Wallace (George Wallace)
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Angelina Jolie - Gia - Price of Beauty (Gia)
- Ann-Margret - The Soul of the Party - Die Pamela Harriman Story (Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story)
- Stockard Channing - Baby Blues (The Baby Dance)
- Olympia Dukakis - More Tales of the City (More Tales of the City)
- Mary Steenburgen - Taking care of Sarah (About Sarah)
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Halle Berry - Rising Star (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge)
- Kathy Bates - Annie - An Orphan's Christmas (Annie)
- Judy Davis - Ice Age - A Marital War With Consequences (A Cooler Climate)
- Sally Field - Ice Age - A Marital War with Consequences (A Cooler Climate)
- Helen Mirren - Ayn Rand - Life and Love for Literature (The Passion of Ayn Rand)
2001-2010
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Vanessa Redgrave - Women Love Women (If These Walls Could Talk 2)
- Stockard Channing - Painful Truth (The Truth About Jane)
- Judi Dench - The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (The Last of the Blonde Bombshells)
- Sally Field - David Copperfield
- Elizabeth Franz - Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman)
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Judy Davis - Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
- Angela Bassett - Ruby's Bucket of Blood
- Anjelica Huston - The Mists of Avalon (The Mists of Avalon)
- Sissy Spacek - midwives (Midwives)
- Emma Thompson - Repartee (Wit)
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Stockard Channing - The Matthew Shepard Story (The Matthew Shepard Story)
- Kathy Bates - My Sister's Keeper
- Helen Mirren - Door to Door (Door to Door)
- Vanessa Redgrave - Churchill - The Gathering Storm (The Gathering Storm)
- Uma Thurman - Hysterical Blindness
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Meryl Streep - Angels in America (Angels in America)
- Anne Bancroft - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- Helen Mirren - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- Mary-Louise Parker - Angels in America (Angels in America)
- Emma Thompson - Angels in America (Angels in America)
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Glenn Close - Lion in Winter - Fight for the King's Crown (The Lion in Winter)
- Patricia Heaton - The Goodbye (The Goodbye Girl)
- Keke Palmer - The Guardian Angel (The Wool Cap)
- Hilary Swank - Alice Paul - The Path into Light (Iron Jawed Angels)
- Charlize Theron - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues
- Tonantzin Carmelo - Into the West - Into the West (Into the West)
- Cynthia Nixon - Warm Springs
- Joanne Woodward - Empire Falls - Fate of a City (Empire Falls)
- Robin Wright - Empire Falls - Fate of a City (Empire Falls)
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Helen Mirren - Elizabeth I
- Annette Bening - Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles (Mrs. Harris)
- Shirley Jones - Hidden Places
- Cloris Leachman - Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles (Mrs. Harris)
- Greta Scacchi - Broken Trail
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Queen Latifah - Life Support
- Ellen Burstyn - Oprah Winfrey Presents: For One More Day (Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day)
- Debra Messing - The Starter Wife - The Starter Wife (The Starter Wife)
- Anna Paquin - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Vanessa Redgrave - The Fever
- Gena Rowlands - Divine Chance (What If God Were the Sun?)
- Laura Linney - John Adams - Freedom For America (John Adams)
- Drew Barrymore - The First Lady's Eccentric Cousins (Gray Gardens)
2011-2020
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Claire Danes - You Don't Walk Alone (Temple Grandin)
- Catherine O'Hara - You Don't Walk Alone (Temple Grandin)
- Julia Ormond - You Don't Walk Alone (Temple Grandin)
- Winona Ryder - When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
- Susan Sarandon - A Life for Death (You Don't Know Jack)
- Julianne Moore - Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect (Game Change)
- Helen Mirren - The Phil Spector Case (Phil Spector)
Frances McDormand - Olive Kitteridge
- Ellen Burstyn - Flowers in the Attic - Flowers in the Attic (Flowers in the Attic)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Honorable Woman
- Julia Roberts - The Normal Heart
- Cicely Tyson - The Trip to Bountiful
- Nicole Kidman - Grace of Monaco
- Christina Ricci - The Lizzie Borden Chronicles
- Susan Sarandon - The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
- Kristen Wiig - The Spoils Before Dying
Sarah Paulson - American Crime Story (The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story)
- Bryce Dallas Howard - Black Mirror
- Felicity Huffman - American Crime
- Audra McDonald - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
- Kerry Washington - In Good Faith (Confirmation)
Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies
- Laura Dern - Big Little Lies
- Jessica Lange - Feud (Feud: Bette and Joan)
- Susan Sarandon - Feud (Feud: Bette and Joan)
- Reese Witherspoon - Big Little Lies
Patricia Arquette - Escape at Dannemora
- Amy Adams - Sharp Objects
- Patricia Clarkson - Sharp Objects
- Penélope Cruz - American Crime Story (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)
- Emma Stone - Maniac
Web links
- Official website of the Screen Actors Guild Awards
Individual evidence
- ^ 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards . In: SAGAwards.org . Retrieved August 1, 2013.
- ↑ 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards . In: SAGAwards.org . Retrieved January 22, 2018.