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Every Emmys Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 26 different winners.

One band per year, because no winner here has ever gone back-to-back. Colored by network; scroll sideways for the full run.
The Corner'00
Anne Frank: The Whole Story'01
Band of Brothers'02
Taken'03
Angels in America'04
The Lost Prince'05
Elizabeth I'06
Broken Trail'07
John Adams'08
Little Dorrit'09
The Pacific'10
Downton Abbey'11
Game Change'12
Behind the Candelabra'13
Fargo'14
Olive Kitteridge'15
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story'16
Big Little Lies'17
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story'18
Chernobyl'19
Watchmen'20
The Queen's Gambit'21
The White Lotus'22
Beef'23
Baby Reindeer'24
Adolescence'25
Wins by network
HBO13Netflix4FX3PBS3ABC1AMC1Other1

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

  • American Crime2 noms
  • Horatio Hornblower2 noms
  • Luther2 noms

Most losses

  • Fargo3L · 1W
  • American Crime2L · 0W
  • Horatio Hornblower2L · 0W
  • Luther2L · 0W
  • American Family1L · 0W
  • American Horror Story1L · 0W

The full list

YearWinnerNetwork
2025Adolescence
beat 4 others
  • Black Mirror
  • Dying for Sex
  • Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
  • The Penguin
Netflix
2024Baby Reindeer
beat 4 others
  • Fargo
  • Lessons in Chemistry
  • Ripley
  • True Detective: Night Country
Netflix
2023Beef
beat 4 others
  • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
  • Daisy Jones & the Six
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi
Netflix
2022The White Lotus
beat 4 others
  • Dopesick
  • The Dropout
  • Inventing Anna
  • Pam & Tommy
HBO
2021The Queen's Gambit
beat 4 others
  • I May Destroy You
  • Mare of Easttown
  • The Underground Railroad
  • WandaVision
Netflix
2020Watchmen
beat 4 others
  • Little Fires Everywhere
  • Mrs. America
  • Unbelievable
  • Unorthodox
HBO
2019Chernobyl
beat 4 others
  • Escape at Dannemora
  • Fosse/Verdon
  • Sharp Objects
  • When They See Us
HBO
2018The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
beat 4 others
  • The Alienist
  • Genius: Picasso
  • Godless
  • Patrick Melrose
FX
2017Big Little Lies
beat 4 others
  • Fargo
  • Feud: Bette and Joan
  • Genius
  • The Night Of
HBO
2016The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
beat 4 others
  • American Crime
  • Fargo
  • The Night Manager
  • Roots
FX
2015Olive Kitteridge
beat 4 others
  • American Crime
  • American Horror Story: Freak Show
  • The Honourable Woman
  • Wolf Hall
HBO
2014Fargo
beat 5 others
  • American Horror Story: Coven
  • Bonnie & Clyde
  • Luther
  • Treme
  • The White Queen
FX
2013Behind the Candelabra
beat 5 others
  • American Horror Story: Asylum
  • The Bible
  • Phil Spector
  • Political Animals
  • Top of the Lake
HBO
2012Game Change
beat 5 others
  • American Horror Story
  • Hatfields & McCoys
  • Hemingway & Gellhorn
  • Luther
  • Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
HBO
2011Downton Abbey
beat 5 others
  • Cinema Verite
  • The Kennedys
  • Mildred Pierce
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • Too Big to Fail
PBS
2010The Pacific
beat 1 other
  • Return to Cranford
HBO
2009Little Dorrit
beat 1 other
  • Generation Kill
PBS
2008John Adams
beat 3 others
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Cranford
  • Tin Man
HBO
2007Broken Trail
beat 2 others
  • Prime Suspect: The Final Act
  • The Starter Wife
AMC
2006Elizabeth I
beat 3 others
  • Bleak House
  • Into the West
  • Sleeper Cell
HBO
2005The Lost Prince
beat 3 others
  • Elvis
  • Empire Falls
  • The 4400
PBS
2004Angels in America
beat 4 others
  • American Family
  • Horatio Hornblower
  • Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness
  • Traffic
HBO
2003Taken
beat 2 others
  • Hitler: The Rise of Evil
  • Napoléon
Sci Fi
2002Band of Brothers
beat 3 others
  • Dinotopia
  • The Mists of Avalon
  • Shackleton
HBO
2001Anne Frank: The Whole Story
beat 4 others
  • Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City
  • Horatio Hornblower
  • Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
  • Nuremberg
ABC
2000The Corner
beat 4 others
  • Arabian Nights
  • The Beach Boys: An American Family
  • Jesus
  • P. T. Barnum
HBO

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