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This is a list of the winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
Winners and nominations
indicates the winner
1970s
Year |
Program |
Episode |
Nominee(s) |
Network |
1971
(23rd) |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation[1] |
The Andersonville Trial |
Saul Levitt |
PBS |
Hamlet (Hallmark Hall of Fame) |
John Barton |
NBC |
Vanished |
Dean Riesner |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original[2] |
Tribes |
Marvin Schwarz and Tracy Keenan Wynn |
ABC |
The Brotherhood of the Bell |
David Karp |
CBS |
San Francisco International Airport |
Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield |
NBC |
1972
(24th) |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation[3] |
Brian's Song |
William Blinn |
ABC |
The Glass House |
Tracy Keenan Wynn |
CBS |
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story |
Earl Hamner Jr. |
The Snow Goose |
Paul W. Gallico |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original[2] |
To All My Friends on Shore |
Allan Sloane |
CBS |
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann |
Jack Sher |
CBS |
Thief |
John D. F. Black |
ABC |
1973
(25th) |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation[4] |
The House Without a Christmas Tree |
Eleanor Perry |
CBS |
Go Ask Alice |
Ellen M. Violett |
ABC |
The Red Pony |
Ron Bishop and Robert Totten |
NBC |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original[5] |
The Marcus-Nelson Murders |
Abby Mann |
CBS |
Hawkins on Murder |
David Karp |
CBS |
That Certain Summer |
Richard Levinson and William Link |
ABC |
1974
(26th) |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation[4] |
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
Tracy Keenan Wynn |
CBS |
The Execution of Private Slovik |
Richard Levinson and William Link |
NBC |
Steambath |
Bruce Jay Friedman |
PBS |
Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original[6] |
Tell Me Where It Hurts |
Fay Kanin |
CBS |
Cry Rape! |
Will Lorin |
CBS |
The Migrants |
Lanford Wilson |
1975
(27th) |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation[7] |
Clarence Darrow |
David W. Rintels |
NBC |
QB VII |
"Parts 1 & 2" |
Edward Anhalt |
ABC |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original[8] |
Love Among the Ruins |
James Costigan |
ABC |
Hustling |
Fay Kanin |
ABC |
The Law |
Joel Oliansky and William Sackheim |
NBC |
The Missiles of October |
Stanley R. Greenberg |
ABC |
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom |
Jerome Kass |
CBS |
1976
(28th) |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation[9] |
Fear on Trial |
David W. Rintels |
CBS |
The Entertainer |
Jeanne Houston, James D. Houston, and John Korty |
NBC |
Farewell to Manzanar |
Barry Beckerman |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original[10] |
Eleanor and Franklin |
James Costigan |
ABC |
Babe |
Joanna Lee |
CBS |
I Will Fight No More Forever |
Jeb Rosebrook and Theodore Strauss |
ABC |
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case |
JP Miller |
NBC |
The Night That Panicked America |
Nicholas Meyer and Anthony Wilson |
ABC |
1977
(29th) |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation[11] |
Sybil |
Stewart Stern |
NBC |
A Circle of Children |
Steve Gethers |
CBS |
Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking |
Carol Sobieski |
PBS |
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys |
John McGreevey |
NBC |
The Man in the Iron Mask |
William Bast |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original[12] |
Tail Gunner Joe |
Lane Slate |
NBC |
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble |
Douglas Day Stewart and Joe Morgenstern |
ABC |
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years |
James Costigan |
Raid on Entebbe |
Barry Beckerman |
NBC |
Victory at Entebbe |
Ernest Kinoy |
ABC |
1978
(30th) |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Adaptation[13] |
Mary White |
Caryl Ledner |
ABC |
Actor |
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee |
PBS |
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story |
Blanche Hanalis |
NBC |
Verna: USO Girl |
Albert Innaurato |
PBS |
The War Between the Tates |
Barbara Turner |
NBC |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program, Drama or Comedy — Original[14] |
The Last Tenant |
George Rubino |
ABC |
Breaking Up |
Loring Mandel |
ABC |
The Defection of Simas Kudirka |
Bruce Feldman |
CBS |
The Gathering |
James Poe |
ABC |
Something for Joey |
Jerry McNeely |
CBS |
The Storyteller |
Richard Levinson and William Link |
1979
(31st)
[15] |
The Jericho Mile |
Michael Mann and Patrick J. Nolan |
ABC |
Backstairs at the White House |
"Book One" |
Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov |
NBC |
Friendly Fire |
Fay Kanin |
ABC |
Roots: The Next Generations |
"Chapter 1 – 1880s" |
Ernest Kinoy |
Summer of My German Soldier |
Jane-Howard Hammerstein |
NBC |
1980s
1990s
2000s
Year |
Program |
Episode |
Nominee(s) |
Network |
2000
(52nd)
[36] |
The Corner |
David Mills and David Simon |
HBO |
Cheaters |
John Stockwell |
HBO |
Homicide: The Movie |
Tom Fontana, Eric Overmyer and James Yoshimura |
NBC |
If These Walls Could Talk 2 |
"1961" |
Jane Anderson |
HBO |
RKO 281 |
John Logan |
2001
(53rd)
[37] |
Conspiracy |
Loring Mandel |
HBO |
Anne Frank: The Whole Story |
Kirk Ellis |
ABC |
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows |
Robert Freedman |
61* |
Hank Steinberg |
HBO |
Wit |
Mike Nichols and Emma Thompson |
2002
(54th)
[38] |
The Gathering Storm |
Larry Ramin and Hugh Whitemore |
HBO |
Band of Brothers |
Erik Bork, E. Max Frye, Tom Hanks, Erik Jendresen, Bruce C. McKenna, John Orloff, and Graham Yost |
HBO |
The Laramie Project |
Stephen Belber, Leigh Fondakowski, Amanda Gronich, Moisés Kaufman, Jeffrey LaHoste, John McAdams, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Kelli Simpkins and Stephen Wangh |
Path to War |
Daniel Giat |
Shackleton |
Charles Sturridge |
A&E |
2003
(55th)
[39] |
Door to Door |
William H. Macy and Steven Schachter |
TNT |
Hysterical Blindness |
Laura Cahill |
HBO |
Live from Baghdad |
Richard Chapman, Timothy Sexton, John Patrick Shanley and Robert Wiener |
My House in Umbria |
Hugh Whitemore |
Normal |
Jane Anderson |
2004
(56th)
[40] |
Angels in America |
Tony Kushner |
HBO |
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself |
Larry Gelbart |
HBO |
Iron Jawed Angels |
Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, Jennifer Friedes, Sally Robinson and Raymond Singer |
The Reagans |
Elizabeth Egloff, Jane Marchwood and Tom Rickman |
Showtime |
Something the Lord Made |
Robert Caswell and Peter Silverman |
HBO |
2005
(57th)
[41] |
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers |
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely |
HBO |
The 4400 |
"Pilot" |
René Echevarria and Scott Peters |
USA |
Empire Falls |
Richard Russo |
HBO |
The Office Special |
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant |
BBC America |
Warm Springs |
Margaret Nagle |
HBO |
2006
(58th)
[42] |
The Girl in the Café |
Richard Curtis |
HBO |
Bleak House |
Andrew Davies |
PBS |
Elizabeth I |
Nigel Williams |
HBO |
Flight 93 |
Nevin Schreiner |
A&E |
Mrs. Harris |
Phyllis Nagy |
HBO |
2007
(59th)
[43] |
Prime Suspect: The Final Act |
Frank Deasy |
PBS |
Broken Trail |
Alan Geoffrion |
AMC |
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
Daniel Giat |
HBO |
Jane Eyre |
Sandy Welch |
PBS |
The Starter Wife |
Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott |
USA |
2008
(60th)
[44] |
John Adams |
"Independence" |
Kirk Ellis |
HBO |
Bernard and Doris |
Hugh Costello |
HBO |
Cranford |
Heidi Thomas |
PBS |
Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale |
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant |
HBO |
Recount |
Danny Strong |
2009
(61st)
[45] |
Little Dorrit |
Andrew Davies |
PBS |
Generation Kill |
"Bomb in the Garden" |
Ed Burns and David Simon |
HBO |
Grey Gardens |
Patricia Rozema and Michael Sucsy |
Into the Storm |
Hugh Whitemore |
Taking Chance |
Ross Katz and Michael Strobl |
2010s
2020s
Total awards by network
Individuals with multiple awards
Individuals with multiple nominations
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
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- 2 nominations
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Programs with multiple awards
Programs with multiple nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
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- 2 nominations
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
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