Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

This is a list of the winners and nominations of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

Primetime Emmy Award for Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Awarded for	Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Currently held by	Baby Reindeer (2024)
Website	emmys.com

Chronology of category names

Year	Category title
1989–1991 (41st–43rd)
	Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special
1993 (41st–45th)
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for a Miniseries or Special
1996–1997 (48th–49th)
	Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or Special
1998 (50th)
	Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or Movie
1999 (51st)
	Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or Made for Television Movie
2000–2014 (52nd–66th)
	Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special
2015–2020 (67th–73rd)
	Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special

Winners and nominations

1980s

Year	Program	Casting	Network
1989 (41st)
	Lonesome Dove	Lynn Kressel	CBS

1990s

Year	Program	Casting	Network
1990 (42nd)
	The Incident	Randy Stone and Holly Powell	CBS
1991 (43rd)
	Separate but Equal	Alixe Gordin	ABC
1992 (44th)
	One Against the Wind	Joyce Gallie – casting executive	CBS
1993 (45th)
	Citizen Cohn	Donna Belajac – location casting; Mary Colquhoun – casting executive	HBO
1994 (46th)
	And the Band Played On	Judith Holstra and Nikki Valko – casting executive	HBO
1995 (47th)
	Award given as "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting"
1996 (48th)[1]
	Truman	Mary Colquhoun – casting	HBO
	The Tuskegee Airmen	Robi Reed-Humes – casting director
	The Boys Next Door	Olivia Harris and Phyllis Huffman – casting	CBS
	The Late Shift	Nancy Foy – casting director; Phyllis Huffman – New York casting	HBO
	Streets of Laredo	Lynn Kressel – casting director	CBS
1997 (49th)
	Bastard Out of Carolina	Linda Lowy – casting executive	Showtime
	Crime of the Century	Lynn Stalmaster – casting executive	HBO
	Grand Avenue	April Webster – casting executive
	Miss Evers' Boys	Shay Bentley-Griffin, Jaki Brown-Kaman, and Robyn M. Mitchell – casting executives
	Weapons of Mass Distraction	Gary M. Zuckerbrod – casting executive
1998 (50th)
	From the Earth to the Moon	Meg Liberman, Marc Hirschfeld, Sharon Klein, Mark Fincannon, Lisa Mae Wells Fincannon, Craig Fincannon, casting executives; Deborah Brown – New York casting executive	HBO
	Don King: Only in America	Robi Reed-Humes – casting executive	HBO
	George Wallace	Iris Grossman – casting executive	TNT
	Gia	Libby Goldstein and Junie Lowry Johnson – casting executives	HBO
	Merlin	Noel Davis – U.K. casting executive; Lynn Kressel – U.S. casting executive	NBC
1999 (51st)
	Winchell	Juel Bestrop – casting executive	HBO
	Joan of Arc	Deirdre Bowen, Susan Glicksman, and Fern Orenstein – casting executives	CBS
	A Lesson Before Dying	Shay Bentley-Griffin – location casting executive; Robi Reed-Humes – casting executive	HBO
	Pirates of Silicon Valley	Lisa Freiberger – casting executive	TNT
	The Rat Pack	Nancy Foy – casting executive	HBO
	The Temptations	Jaki Brown-Karman, Canice Kennedy, and Robyn M. Mitchell – casting executive	NBC

2000s

Year	Program	Casting	Network
2000 (52nd)
	RKO 281	Lora Kennedy – casting executive; Joyce Nettles – casting executive (location)	HBO
	Annie	Rosalie Joseph, Valorie Massalas, and Marcia Turner – casting executives	ABC
	The Corner	Jaki Brown-Karman – casting executive; Pat Moran – casting executive (location)	HBO
	Fail Safe	Barbara Miller and Anthony Sepulveda – casting executives	CBS
	If These Walls Could Talk 2	John Papsidera – casting executive	HBO
2001 (53rd)
	61*	Mali Finn – casting executive	HBO
	Anne Frank: The Whole Story	Nancy Bishop, Czech casting executive; Job Gosschalk, Dutch casting executive; Risa Kes – German casting executive; Meg Liberman, Camille Patton, and Angela Terry – casting executives; Suzanne Smith – U.K. casting executive	ABC
	The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	Di Carling – casting executive	HBO
	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows	Deirdre Bowen, Mary Buck, and Susan Edelman – casting executives; Tina Gerussi – Toronto casting executive	ABC
	When Billie Beat Bobby	Molly Lopata – casting executive
	Wit	Leo Davis – U.K. casting executive; Ellen Lewis and Juliet Taylor – casting executives	HBO
2002 (54th)
	Band of Brothers	Gary Davy and Suzanne Smith – U.K. casting by; Meg Liberman, Cami Patton, and Angela Terry – casting by	HBO
	The Gathering Storm	Irene Lamb – casting by	HBO
	James Dean	Nancy Foy – casting by	TNT
	The Laramie Project	Ann Goulder – casting by	HBO
	Path to War	Mindy Marin – casting by
2003 (55th)
	Live from Baghdad	John Papsidera – casting by	HBO
	Door to Door	Juel Bestrop, Bette Chadwick, Candice Elzinga, and Jeanne McCarthy – casting by	TNT
	Hysterical Blindness	Sheila Jaffe and Georgianne Walken – casting by	HBO
	Kingpin	Cara Coslow, Molly Lopata, and Bob Morones – casting by	NBC
	My House in Umbria	Irene Lamb – casting by	HBO
2004 (56th)
	Angels in America	Ellen Lewis and Juliet Taylor – casting by	HBO
	Iron Jawed Angels	Kathleen Chopin, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, and Liz Marks – casting by	HBO
	The Reagans	Susan Edelman, Tina Gerussi, and Andrea Kenyon – casting by	Showtime
	Something the Lord Made	Lynn Kressel and Pat Moran – casting by	HBO
	Traffic: The Miniseries	Stuart Aikins, Steve Brooksbank, and Mary Jo Slater – casting by	USA
2005 (57th)
	Lackawanna Blues	John Papsidera – casting by	HBO
	Elvis	Beth Blanks, Steve Brooksbank, and Mary Jo Slater – casting by	CBS
	Empire Falls	Avy Kaufman – casting by	HBO
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Nina Gold – casting by
	Warm Springs	Shay Bentley-Griffin and Lynn Kressel – casting by
2006 (58th)
	Elizabeth I	Doreen Jones – casting director	HBO
	The Girl in the Café	Fiona Weir – casting director	HBO
	High School Musical	Natalie Hart and Jason La Padura – casting by	Disney
	Into the West	Jo Edna Boldin – New Mexico casting; Candice Elzinga and Rhonda Fisekci – Canadian casting; Rene Haynes, Meg Liberman, and Cami Patton – casting by	TNT
	Mrs. Harris	Libby Goldstein and Junie Lowry-Johnson – casting directors	HBO
2007 (59th)
	Broken Trail	Wendy Weidman, Barbara Fiorentino, and Rebecca Mangieri – casting by; Coreen Mayrs and Heike Brandstatter – Canadian casting by; Jackie Lind – Calgary casting by	AMC
	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Rene Haynes – casting director; Rhonda Fisekci and Candice Elizinga – Canadian casting directors	HBO
	Jane Eyre	Di Carling – casting director	PBS
	The Path to 9/11	Meg Liberman, Cami Patton – casting by; Robin D. Cook and Nicole Hilliard-Forde – Canadian casting by; Suzanne M. Smith – U.K. casting by	ABC
	The Ron Clark Story	Gary M. Zuckerbrod and Lonnie Hamerman – casting by; Bonnie Finnegan – New York casting by; Rhonda Fisekci and Candice Elzinga – Canadian casting by	TNT
	The Starter Wife	Mary Jo Slater and Steven Brooksbank – casting directors; Tom McSweeney – Australian casting director	USA
2008 (60th)
	John Adams	Kathleen Chopin, Nina Gold, and Tracy Kilpatrick – casting directors	HBO
	The Bronx Is Burning	Billy Hopkins and Paul Schnee – casting by	ESPN
	The Company	Denise Chamian and Scout Masterson – casting by; Diane Kerbel – Canadian casting by; Priscilla John – U.K. casting by; Zsolt Csutak – Hungary casting by	TNT
	Cranford	Maggie Lunn – casting director	PBS
	Recount	David Rubin and Richard Hicks – casting directors; Lori S. Wyman – Florida casting director; Kathleen Chopin – New York casting director	HBO
2009 (61st)
	Little Dorrit	Rachel Freck – casting director	PBS
	Generation Kill	Alexa L. Fogel – casting director; Christa Schamberger – S.A. casting director; Suzanne Crowley and Gilly Poole – U.K. casting directors	HBO
	Grey Gardens	Ellen Parks – casting director; Robin Cook – location casting director
	House of Saddam	Elaine Grainger – casting director
	Into the Storm	Kate Rhodes James – casting director

2010s

Year	Program	Casting	Network
2010 (62nd)
	The Pacific	Meg Liberman and Cami Patton – casting directors; Christine King, Australian – casting director; Jennifer Euston – New York casting director; Suzanne Smith – U.K. casting director	HBO
	Emma	Gemma Hancock and Sam Stevenson – casting directors	PBS
	Georgia O'Keeffe	David Rubin and Richard Hicks – casting by; Angelique Midthunder – location casting by	Lifetime
	Temple Grandin	David Rubin and Richard Hicks – casting directors; Beth Sepko – location casting director	HBO
	You Don't Know Jack	Ellen Chenoweth – casting director
2011 (63rd)
	Mildred Pierce	Laura Rosenthal – casting director	HBO
	Cinema Verite	Randi Hiller – casting director	HBO
	Downton Abbey (Season 1)	Jill Trevellick – casting director	PBS
	Too Big to Fail	Alexa L. Fogel and Christine Kromer – casting directors	HBO
	Upstairs Downstairs (Season 1)	Andy Pryor – casting director	PBS
2012 (64th)
	Game Change	David Rubin, Richard Hicks, Pat Moran, and Kathleen Chopin – casting by	HBO
	American Horror Story	Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson – casting by	FX
	Five	Randi Hiller and Tamara-Lee Notcutt – casting by	Lifetime
	Hatfields & McCoys	Fern Champion and Amy Hubbard – casting by	History
	Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia	Kate Rhodes James – casting by	PBS
2013 (65th)
	Behind the Candelabra	Carmen Cuba – casting by	HBO
	American Horror Story: Asylum	Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson – casting by	FX
	The Hour (Season 2)	Jill Trevellick – casting by	BBC America
	Political Animals	David Rubin and Diane Heery – casting by	USA
	Top of the Lake	Kirsty McGregor and Tina Cleary – casting by	Sundance
2014 (66th)
	Fargo (Season 1)	Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin – casting directors	FX
	American Horror Story: Coven	Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, and Meagan Lewis – casting directors	FX
	The Normal Heart	Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond – casting directors	HBO
	Sherlock: His Last Vow	Julia Duff and Kate Rhodes James – casting directors	PBS
	Treme (Season 4)	Alexa L. Fogel and Meagan Lewis – casting directors	HBO
2015 (67th)
	Olive Kitteridge	Laura Rosenthal and Carolyn Pickman – casting directors	HBO
	American Crime (Season 1)	Kim Coleman and Beth Sepko Lindsey – casting directors	ABC
	American Horror Story: Freak Show	Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, and Meagan Lewis – casting directors	FX
	Bessie	Billy Hopkins and Jackie Burch – casting directors	HBO
	Wolf Hall	Nina Gold and Robert Sterne – casting directors	PBS
2016 (68th) [2]
	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Jeanne McCarthy, Nicole Abellera Hallman, Courtney Bright, and Nicole Daniels – casting directors	FX
	Fargo (Season 2)	Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin – casting directors	FX
	Grease: Live	Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, and Justin Huff – casting directors	Fox
	The Night Manager	Jina Jay – casting director	AMC
	Roots	Victoria Thomas, Moonyeenn Lee, Leo Davids, Lissy Holm, and Meagan Lewis – casting directors	History
2017 (69th) [3]
	Big Little Lies (Season 1)	David Rubin – casting director	HBO
	Fargo (Season 3)	Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin – casting directors	FX
	Feud: Bette and Joan	Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson – casting directors
	The Night Of	Avy Kaufman and Sabrina Hyman – casting directors	HBO
	The Wizard of Lies	Ellen Chenoweth – casting director
2018 (70th) [4]
	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story	Courtney Bright and Nicole Daniels – casting directors	FX
	Godless	Ellen Lewis – casting director; Rene Haynes - Native American casting director; Jo Edna Boldin – location casting director	Netflix
	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	Bernard Telsey and Patrick Goodwin – casting directors	NBC
	The Looming Tower	Avy Kaufman – casting director; Leo Davis & Lissy Holm – UK casting director; Moonyeenn Lee – South Africa casting director	Hulu
	Patrick Melrose	Nina Gold and Martin Ware – casting directors	Showtime
2019 (71st) [5]
	When They See Us	Aisha Coley – casting directors; Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram – location casting directors	Netflix
	Chernobyl	Nina Gold and Robert Sterne – casting directors	HBO
	Escape at Dannemora	Rachel Tenner – casting director	Showtime
	Fosse/Verdon	Bernard Telsey and Tiffany Little Canfield – casting directors	FX
	Sharp Objects	David Rubin– casting director	HBO

2020s

Year	Program	Casting	Network
2020 (72nd) [6]
	Watchmen	Victoria Thomas – casting director; Meagan Lewis – location casting director	HBO
	Mrs. America	Carmen Cuba – casting director; Robin Cook – location casting director	FX
	Normal People	Louise Kiely – casting director	Hulu
	Unbelievable	Laura Rosenthal, Jodi Angstreich, Kate Caldwell and Melissa Kostenbauder – casting directors	Netflix
	Unorthodox	Esther Kling – casting director; Vicki Thomson, Maria Rölcke and Cornelia Mareth – location casting directors
2021 (73rd) [7]
	The Queen's Gambit	Ellen Lewis, Kate Sprance and Olivia Scott-Webb – casting directors; Tina Gerussi, Anna-Lena Slater, Tatjana Moutchnik and Stephanie Maile – location casting directors	Netflix
	I May Destroy You	Julie Harkin – casting director	HBO
	Mare of Easttown	Avy Kaufman – casting director; Diane Heery and Jason Loftus – location casting directors
	The Underground Railroad	Francine Maisler – casting director; Meagan Lewis – location casting director	Prime Video
	WandaVision	Sarah Halley Finn and Jason B. Stamey – casting directors	Disney+
2022 (74th) [8]
	The White Lotus (Season 1)	Meredith Tucker – casting director; Katie Doyle – location casting director	HBO
	Dopesick	Avy Kaufman – casting director; Erica Arvold – location casting director	Hulu
	The Dropout	Jeanie Bacharach, Mark Rutman and Alison Goodman – casting directors
	Inventing Anna	Linda Lowy and Jamie Castro – original casting directors; Allison Estrin and Henry Russell Bergstein – casting directors; Juliette Ménager, Simone Bär and Alexandra Montag – location casting directors	Netflix
	Pam & Tommy	Mary Vernieu and Lindsay Graham Ahanonu – casting directors	Hulu
2023 (75th) [9]
	Beef	Charlene Lee and Claire Koonce – casting directors	Netflix
	Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story	Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson and Carol Kritzer – casting directors	Netflix
	Daisy Jones & the Six	Justine Arteta and Kim Davis-Wagner – casting directors	Prime Video
	Fleishman Is in Trouble	Laura Rosenthal and Jodi Angstreich – casting directors	FX
	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	Wendy O'Brien – casting director	Roku
2024 (76th) [10]
	Baby Reindeer	Nina Gold and Martin Ware – casting directors	Netflix
	Fargo (Season 5)	Rachel Tenner – casting director; Jackie Lind, Stephanie Gorin and Rhonda Fisekci – location casting directors	FX
	Feud: Capote vs. The Swans	Alexa L. Fogel – casting director
	Ripley	Avy Kaufman – casting director; Francesco Vedovati and Barbara Giordani – location casting directors	Netflix
	True Detective: Night Country	Francine Maisler – casting director; Deborah Schildt and Alda B. Gudjónsdóttir – location casting directors	HBO
2025 (77th) [11]
	Adolescence	Shaheen Baig – casting director	Netflix
	Black Mirror (Season 7)	Jina Jay and Jeanie Bacharach – casting directors; Corinne Clark and Jennifer Page – location casting directors
	Dying for Sex	Jeanie Bacharach – casting director; Jessica Daniels – location casting director	FX
	Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story	Tiffany Little Canfield, Josh Einsohn and Bernard Telsey – casting directors	Netflix
	The Penguin	Cindy Tolan and Suzanne Ryan – casting directors	HBO

Programs with multiple wins

2 wins

• American Crime Story

Casting directors with multiple awards

3 awards Meg Liberman

2 awards Courtney Bright Kathleen Chopin Mary Colquhoun Nicole Daniels Nina Gold Ellen Lewis Jackie Lind John Papsidera Cami Patton David Rubin Laura Rosenthal Suzanne Smith

Programs with multiple nominations

4 nominations American Horror Story Fargo

2 nominations American Crime Story Feud Monster Sherlock

Casting directors with multiple nominations

7 nominations David Rubin 6 nominations Avy Kaufman Eric Dawson Meagan Lewis Meg Liberman Nina Gold Robert J. Ulrich 5 nominations Cami Patton Jackie Lind Lynn Kressel Cami Patton Rachel Tenner 4 nominations Kathleen Chopin Rhonda Fisekci Alexa L. Fogel Richard Hicks Ellen Lewis Stephanie Gorin Laura Rosenthal Suzanne Smith Bernard Telsey

3 nominations Jeanie Bacharach Tiffany Little Canfield Shay Bentley-Griffin Steve Brooksbank Jaki Brown-Karman Robin Cook Candice Elzinga Nancy Foy Tina Gerussi Rene Haynes Billy Hopkins Kate Rhodes James Pat Moran John Papsidera Robi Reed Mary Jo Slater

2 nominations Jodi Angstreich Juel Bestrop Jo Edna Boldin Deirdre Bowen Courtney Bright Tiffany Little Canfield Di Carling Ellen Chenoweth Francine Maisler Mary Colquhoun Carmen Cuba Nicole Daniels Leo Davis Susan Edelman Libby Goldstein Diane Heery Randi Hiller Lissy Holm Phyllis Huffman Jina Jay Irene Lamb Moonyeenn Lee Molly Lopata Junie Lowry-Johnson Linda Lowy Jeanne McCarthy Robyn M. Mitchell Beth Sepko Robert Sterne Juliet Taylor Angela Terry Victoria Thomas Jill Trevellick Martin Ware Gary M. Zuckerbrod

Total awards by network

• HBO – 21
• CBS / FX / Netflix – 3
• ABC / AMC / PBS / Showtime – 1