Satellite Award for Best Miniseries

Satellite Award for Best Miniseries
Satellite Award for Best Miniseries
Awarded for	Best Miniseries
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First awarded	1999
Currently held by	Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)

The Satellite Award for Best Miniseries is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

In 2016, the IPA merged the television film and miniseries categories as Best Miniseries or Television Film, but the merged category was discontinued the following year.^[1]

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
1999	Hornblower: The Even Chance	Andrew Grieve	A&E / ITV
	Bonanno: A Godfather's Story	Michel Poulette	Showtime
	Joan of Arc	Christian Duguay	CBS
	P.T. Barnum	Simon Wincer	A&E
	Purgatory	Uli Edel	TNT

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
2000	American Tragedy	Lawrence Schiller	CBS
	The Beach Boys: An American Family	Jeff Bleckner	ABC
	The Corner	Charles S. Dutton	HBO
	Jason and the Argonauts	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: The Whole Story	Robert Dornhelm	ABC
	Band of Brothers	David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, et al.	HBO
	Further Tales of the City	Pierre Gang	Showtime
	Uprising	Jon Avnet	NBC
2002	Taken	Tobe Hooper, et al.	Sci-Fi Channel
	The Forsyte Saga	Christopher Menaul and David Moore	ITV / PBS
	Living with the Dead	Stephen Gyllenhaal	CBS
	Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story	Lawrence Schiller	CBS
	Shackleton	Charles Sturridge	A&E / Channel 4
2003	Angels in America	Mike Nichols	HBO
	Doctor Zhivago	Giacomo Campiotti	ITV / PBS
	Frank Herbert's Children of Dune	Greg Yaitanes	Sci-Fi Channel
	Helen of Troy	John Kent Harrison	USA Network
	Hornblower: Loyalty	Andrew Grieve	A&E
	Out of Order	Henry Bromell, Tim Hunter, Roger Kumble, and Wayne Powers	Showtime
2004	The Lost Prince	Stephen Poliakoff	BBC One / PBS
	The 4400	Scott Peters, et al.	USA Network
	American Family	Charles Burnett, Barbara Martinez Jitner, and Gregory Nava	PBS
	Charles II: The Power and the Passion	Joe Wright	A&E / BBC One
	Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness	Tom Hooper	ITV / PBS
	The Second Coming	Adrian Shergold	ITV
2005	Elvis	James Steven Sadwith	CBS
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Charles Palmer, Andy Wilson, et al.	UPN
	Empire Falls	Robert Dornhelm, et al.	HBO
	Into the West	Tom Hooper	TNT
	Revelations	Lili Fini Zanuck	NBC
	The Virgin Queen	Coky Giedroyc	BBC One / PBS
2006	To the Ends of the Earth	David Attwood	BBC Two / PBS
	Bleak House	Justin Chadwick and Susanna White	BBC One / PBS
	Casanova	Sheree Folkson	BBC Three
	Elizabeth I	Tom Hooper	HBO
	Thief	John David Coles, Paul McGuigan, and Dean White	USA Network
2007	The Amazing Mrs Pritchard	Simon Curtis, Declan Lowney, and Catherine Morshead	BBC One / PBS
	The Company	Mikael Salomon	TNT
	Five Days	Otto Bathurst, Simon Curtis, Toby Haynes, and Peter Hoar	BBC One / HBO
	Jane Eyre	Susanna White	BBC One / PBS
	The Starter Wife	Jon Avnet	USA Network
2008	Cranford	Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson	BBC One / PBS
	John Adams	Tom Hooper	HBO
	The Last Enemy	Iain B. MacDonald	BBC One / PBS
2009	Little Dorrit	Diarmuid Lawrence, Adam Smith, and Dearbhla Walsh	BBC One / PBS
	Collision	Marc Evans	ITV / PBS / STV / UTV
	Diamonds	Andy Wilson	ABC
	The Prisoner	Nick Hurran	AMC
	Wallander	Benjamin Caron, Philip Martin, et al.	BBC One / PBS

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
2010	Sherlock	Nick Hurran, Paul McGuigan, et al.	BBC One / PBS
	Carlos	Olivier Assayas	Sundance Channel
	Emma	Jim O'Hanlon	BBC One / PBS
	The Pacific	Jeremy Podeswa, Tim Van Patten, et al.	HBO
	The Pillars of the Earth	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Starz
	Small Island	John Alexander	BBC One / PBS
2014	Olive Kitteridge	Lisa Cholodenko	HBO
	24: Live Another Day	Jon Cassar, et al.	Fox
	Endeavour	Colm McCarthy	ITV / PBS / STV / UTV
	Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond	Mat Whitecross	BBC America / Sky Atlantic
	Happy Valley	Tim Fywell, Neasa Hardiman, and Euros Lyn	BBC One / Netflix
	The Honourable Woman	Hugo Blick	BBC Two / SundanceTV
	The Roosevelts	Ken Burns	PBS
	Sherlock	Nick Hurran, Paul McGuigan, et al.	BBC One / PBS
	The Spoils of Babylon	Matt Piedmont	IFC
2015	Flesh and Bone	Alik Sakharov, et al.	Starz
	The Book of Negroes	Clement Virgo	BET
	Saints & Strangers	Paul A. Edwards	Nat Geo
	Show Me a Hero	Paul Haggis	HBO
	Wolf Hall	Peter Kosminsky	BBC Two / PBS
2017	Big Little Lies	Jean-Marc Vallée	HBO
	Feud: Bette and Joan	Ryan Murphy, et al.	FX
	Guerrilla	Sam Miller and John Ridley	Showtime / Sky Atlantic
	Rillington Place	Craig Viveiros	BBC One / Sundance Now
	When We Rise	Gus Van Sant, et al.	ABC
	The Young Pope	Paolo Sorrentino	Canal+ / HBO / Sky Atlantic
2018	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Ryan Murphy, et al.	FX
	The Looming Tower	Alex Gibney, et al.	Hulu
	Patrick Melrose	Edward Berger	Showtime / Sky Atlantic
	Sharp Objects	Jean-Marc Vallée	HBO
	A Very English Scandal	Stephen Frears	BBC One / Amazon Prime Video
2019	Chernobyl	Johan Renck	HBO / Sky Atlantic
	The Act	Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, et al.	Hulu
	Fosse/Verdon	Thomas Kail, et al.	FX
	Unbelievable	Lisa Cholodenko, et al.	Netflix
	When They See Us	Ava DuVernay	Netflix
	Years and Years	Simon Cellan Jones and Lisa Mulcahy	BBC One / HBO

2020s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
2020 ^[2]^[3]	The Good Lord Bird	Hughes brothers, et. al	Showtime
	Mrs. America	Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, et al.	FX on Hulu
	Normal People	Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald	Hulu
	The Queen's Gambit	Scott Frank	Netflix
	Small Axe	Steve McQueen	BBC One / Amazon Prime Video
	The Undoing	Susanne Bier	HBO
	Unorthodox	Maria Schrader	Netflix
2021	Mare of Easttown	Craig Zobel	HBO
	It's a Sin	Peter Hoar	Channel 4 / HBO Max
	Maid	John Wells, et al.	Netflix
	The North Water	Andrew Haigh	BBC Two / AMC+
	Time	Lewis Arnold	BBC One
	The Underground Railroad	Barry Jenkins	Prime Video
2022 ^[4]	Under the Banner of Heaven	David Mackenzie, et al.	FX on Hulu
	Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story	Jennifer Lynch, et al.	Netflix
	The Ipcress File	James Watkins	AMC+
	This Is Going To Hurt	Lucy Forbes, Tom Kingsley	AMC+
	The Old Man	Jon Watts, et al.	FX
	Pachinko	Kogonada, Justin Chon	Apple TV+
	The Staircase	Antonio Campos	HBO Max
	We Own This City	Reinaldo Marcus Green	HBO

References

^ "2016 | Categories | International Press Academy". International Press Academy.
^ "'One Night in Miami' and 'Nomadland' Lead Nominations for 25th Satellite Awards". Vimooz. February 1, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
^ Anderson, Erik (February 15, 2021). "Satellite Awards winners: 'Nomadland,' 'Forty-Year Old Version' top film prizes; 'Schitt's Creek,' 'Better Call Saul' take TV". Awards Watch. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
^ "The International Press Academy Announces Winners for the 27th Annual Satellite™ Awards". International Press Academy. March 3, 2023. Retrieved March 15, 2023.

External links

Official website

[1] "2016 | Categories | International Press Academy". International Press Academy.

[2] "'One Night in Miami' and 'Nomadland' Lead Nominations for 25th Satellite Awards". Vimooz. February 1, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.

[3] Anderson, Erik (February 15, 2021). "Satellite Awards winners: 'Nomadland,' 'Forty-Year Old Version' top film prizes; 'Schitt's Creek,' 'Better Call Saul' take TV". Awards Watch. Retrieved October 27, 2021.

[4] "The International Press Academy Announces Winners for the 27th Annual Satellite™ Awards". International Press Academy. March 3, 2023. Retrieved March 15, 2023.

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