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A visual history · Emmys

The winners who defined Made for TV Movie.

19 ceremonies, 1992–2010. 20 different winners.

Who won most recently?
Temple Grandin in 2010.
  1. Temple GrandinHBO
  2. Grey GardensHBO
  3. RecountHBO
  4. Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeHBO
  5. The Girl in the CaféHBO
  6. Warm SpringsHBO
Years explored
1992–2010
Different winners
20
Category leader
No leader
About this record

Outstanding Made for Television Movie was first awarded in 1992, so it does not run the full 1951–2025 window.

It was awarded for the last time in 2010.

Television movies stopped having an award of their own after 2010: for the 2011, 2012 and 2013 ceremonies they competed against miniseries in a single Outstanding Miniseries or Movie category. A separate movie award came back in 2014 as Outstanding Television Movie.

From 2011 the Emmys awarded Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series instead.

2000–2010

11 ceremonies

19922010

01 / The reigns

11 winners shaped this category.

The timeline turns the 2000–2010 record into a sequence of reigns. Longer bands reveal sustained runs; color shows the credited network.

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by network; scroll sideways for the full run.
Tuesdays with Morrie'00
Wit'01
The Gathering Storm'02
Door to Door'03
Something the Lord Made'04
Warm Springs'05
The Girl in the Café'06
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'07
Recount'08
Grey Gardens'09
Temple Grandin'10

02 / The power map

Who stood behind the winners?

HBO leads the recorded network credits with 9 wins, 2000–2010. The full distribution shows whether power was concentrated or shared.

HBO9 wins
ABC1 win
TNT1 win
Wins by network
  1. HBO982%
  2. ABC19%
  3. TNT19%

04 / The archive

Every year.
Every winner.

The complete reference behind the story, showing 2000–2010. Open any year to see the rest of the field when nominee records are available.

YearWinnerNetwork
2010Temple Grandin
beat 5 others
  • Endgame
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Moonshot
  • The Special Relationship
  • You Don't Know Jack
HBO
2009Grey Gardens
beat 4 others
  • Coco Chanel
  • Into the Storm
  • Prayers for Bobby
  • Taking Chance
HBO
2008Recount
beat 4 others
  • Bernard and Doris
  • Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter
  • A Raisin in the Sun
HBO
2007Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
beat 4 others
  • Longford
  • 9/11: The Twin Towers
  • The Ron Clark Story
  • Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
HBO
2006The Girl in the Café
beat 4 others
  • Flight 93
  • Mrs. Harris
  • Yesterday
  • The Flight That Fought Back
HBO
2005Warm Springs
beat 4 others
  • Lackawanna Blues
  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  • The Office Special
  • The Wool Cap
HBO
2004Something the Lord Made
beat 4 others
  • Ike: Countdown to D-Day
  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
  • The Lion in Winter
  • The Reagans
HBO
2003Door to Door
beat 4 others
  • Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
  • Live from Baghdad
  • My House in Umbria
  • Normal
TNT
2002The Gathering Storm
beat 4 others
  • Dinner with Friends
  • James Dean
  • The Laramie Project
  • Path to War
HBO
2001Wit
beat 4 others
  • Conspiracy
  • For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
  • Laughter on the 23rd Floor
  • 61*
HBO
2000Tuesdays with Morrie
beat 4 others
  • Annie
  • If These Walls Could Talk 2
  • Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
  • RKO 281
ABC