TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials

The TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries, and Specials is an award given by the Television Critics Association.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Other Nominees
1984-1985 (1st)	The Burning Bed (NBC)	1984 Summer Olympics – Opening Ceremony (ABC) Farrah Fawcett – The Burning Bed (NBC) Fatal Vision (NBC) Heartsounds (ABC) The Jewel in the Crown (PBS) Kenny & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember (CBS) Threads (PBS) Wallenberg: A Hero's Story (NBC)
1985-1986 (2nd)	Live Aid (ABC / MTV)	Comic Relief (HBO) Horowitz in Moscow (CBS) The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS) Putting It Together: The Making of The Broadway Album (HBO)
1986-1987 (3rd)	Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met (HBO)	n/a
1987-1988 (4th)	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (HBO)	n/a
1988-1989 (5th)	What's Alan Watching? (CBS)	42nd Tony Awards (CBS) Comic Relief III (HBO) Glory! Glory! (HBO)
1989-1990 (6th)	Sammy Davis Jr.'s 60th Anniversary Celebration (ABC)	Billy Crystal Carmen on Ice (HBO) Comic Relief '90 (HBO) The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS)
1990-1991 (7th)	The Civil War (PBS)	Billy Crystal The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
1991-1992 (8th)	Billy Crystal – 64th Academy Awards (ABC)	MGM: When the Lion Roars (TNT) When It Was a Game (HBO)
1992-1993 (9th)	Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (NBC)	Michael Jackson Talks... to Oprah: 90 Primetime Minutes with the King of Pop (ABC) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: 25th Anniversary Reunion (NBC) Women of Country (CBS)
1993-1994 (10th)	Prime Suspect III (PBS)	Gypsy (CBS) One for the Road with Charles Kuralt and Morley Safer (CBS) Tales of the City (PBS)
1994-1995 (11th)	Baseball (PBS)	500 Nations (CBS) Barbra: The Concert (HBO) Tales from the Far Side (CBS)
1995-1996 (12th)	Pride and Prejudice (A&E)	68th Academy Awards (ABC) Barbara Walters: 20 Years at ABC (ABC) The Beatles Anthology (ABC)
1996-1997 (13th)	Bastard out of Carolina (Showtime)	The Last Don (CBS) Moll Flanders (PBS) The Odyssey (NBC) The West (PBS)
1997-1998 (14th)	From the Earth to the Moon (HBO)	Don King: Only in America (HBO) Merlin (NBC) Moby Dick (USA) Tom Jones (A&E) What the Deaf Man Heard (CBS)
1998-1999 (15th)	Joan of Arc (CBS)	Alice in Wonderland (NBC) The Farmer's Wife (PBS) Hornblower (A&E) Shot Through the Heart (HBO)
1999-2000 (16th)	The Corner (HBO)	Annie (ABC) Arabian Nights (ABC) Fail Safe (CBS) Jesus (CBS)
2000-2001 (17th)	Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (ABC)	61* (HBO) Anne Frank (ABC) Horatio Hornblower (A&E) Wit (HBO)
2001-2002 (18th)	Band of Brothers (HBO)	9/11 (CBS) America: A Tribute to Heroes (ABC / CBS / Fox / NBC) The Blue Planet: Seas of Life (Discovery Channel) Frontier House (PBS)
2002-2003 (19th)	Taken (Sci Fi)	Door to Door (TNT) Hitler: The Rise of Evil (CBS) Live from Baghdad (HBO) Manor House (PBS)
2003-2004 (20th)	Angels in America (HBO)	The Lion in Winter (Showtime) Prime Suspect: The Last Witness (PBS) Soldier's Girl (Showtime) State of Play (BBC America)
2004-2005 (21st)	The Office: Christmas Special (BBC America)	Lackawanna Blues (HBO) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (HBO) Something the Lord Made (HBO) Sometimes in April (HBO)
2005-2006 (22nd)	No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (PBS)	Bleak House (PBS) Elizabeth I (HBO) Sleeper Cell (Showtime) Viva Blackpool (BBC America)
2006-2007 (23rd)	Planet Earth (Discovery Channel)	Broken Trail (AMC) Prime Suspect: The Final Act (PBS) The State Within (BBC America) When the Levees Broke (HBO)
2007-2008 (24th)	John Adams (HBO)	The Complete Jane Austen (PBS) Cranford (PBS) A Raisin in the Sun (ABC) The War (PBS)
2008-2009 (25th)	Grey Gardens (HBO)	2008 Summer Olympics (NBC) 24: Redemption (Fox) Generation Kill (HBO) Taking Chance (HBO)
2009-2010 (26th)	The Pacific (HBO)	Life (Discovery Channel) Temple Grandin (HBO) Torchwood: Children of Earth (BBC America) You Don't Know Jack (HBO)
2010-2011 (27th)	Sherlock (PBS)	Cinema Verite (HBO) Downton Abbey (PBS) Mildred Pierce (HBO) Too Big to Fail (HBO)
2011-2012 (28th)	Downton Abbey[2] (PBS)	Game Change (HBO) Hatfields & McCoys (History) Hemingway & Gellhorn (HBO) Sherlock (PBS)
2012-2013 (29th)	Behind the Candelabra (HBO)	American Horror Story: Asylum (FX) Downton Abbey (PBS) Rectify (Sundance Channel) Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel)
2013-2014 (30th)	True Detective (HBO)	American Horror Story: Coven (FX) Broadchurch (BBC America) Fargo (FX) The Returned (SundanceTV)
2014-2015 (31st)	The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst[3] (HBO)	Bessie (HBO) The Honourable Woman (SundanceTV) Olive Kitteridge (HBO) Wolf Hall (PBS)
2015-2016 (32nd)	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX)	All the Way (HBO) Fargo (FX) The Night Manager (AMC) Roots (History) Show Me a Hero (HBO)
2016-2017 (33rd)	Big Little Lies (HBO)	Fargo (FX) Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Netflix) The Night Of (HBO) The Wizard of Lies (HBO)
2017-2018 (34th)	The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (FX)	Alias Grace (Netflix) Howards End (Starz) Patrick Melrose (Showtime) The Tale (HBO) Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime)
2018-2019 (35th)	Chernobyl (HBO)	Deadwood: The Movie (HBO) Escape at Dannemora (Showtime) Fosse/Verdon (FX) Sharp Objects (HBO) When They See Us (Netflix)
2019-2020 (36th)	Watchmen (HBO)	Little Fires Everywhere (Hulu) Mrs. America (FX on Hulu) Normal People (Hulu) The Plot Against America (HBO) Unbelievable (Netflix)
2020-2021 (37th)[4][5]	Mare of Easttown (HBO)	Bo Burnham: Inside (Netflix) The Good Lord Bird (Showtime) I May Destroy You (HBO) It's a Sin (HBO Max) The Queen's Gambit (Netflix) The Underground Railroad (Amazon) WandaVision (Disney+)
2021-2022 (38th)[6]	Dopesick (Hulu)	The Dropout (Hulu) The Girl from Plainville (Hulu) Maid (Netflix) Midnight Mass (Netflix) The Staircase (HBO Max) Station Eleven (HBO Max) Under the Banner of Heaven (FX)
2022-2023 (39th)[7]	Beef (Netflix)	Black Bird (Apple TV+) Daisy Jones & The Six (Amazon) Fleishman Is in Trouble (FX) Mrs. Davis (Peacock) The Patient (FX) A Small Light (NatGeo) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Roku Channel)
2023-2024 (40th)[8]	Baby Reindeer (Netflix)	The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) Fargo (FX) Fellow Travelers (Showtime) Ripley (Netflix) The Sympathizer (HBO / Max)
2024-2025 (41st)[9][10]	Adolescence (Netflix)	Agatha All Along (Disney+) Disclaimer (Apple TV+) Dying for Sex (FX) The Penguin (HBO) Rebel Ridge (Netflix) Say Nothing (FX) Sirens (Netflix)

Total awards by network

• HBO/Max – 16
• PBS – 6
• ABC – 4
• Netflix – 3
• CBS – 2
• FX – 2
• NBC – 2
• A&E – 1
• BBC America – 1
• Discovery Channel – 1
• Hulu — 1
• MTV – 1
• Sci Fi – 1
• Showtime – 1

Total nominations by network

• HBO/Max – 60
• PBS – 24
• CBS – 20
• FX – 16
• ABC – 15
• Netflix - 15
• NBC – 11
• Showtime – 9
• BBC America – 6
• Hulu - 5
• A&E – 4
• SundanceTV - 4
• Discovery Channel – 3
• Amazon - 2
• AMC - 2
• Apple TV+ - 2
• Disney+ - 2
• Fox - 2
• History - 2
• TNT - 2
• MTV – 1
• NatGeo - 1
• Peacock - 1
• Roku Channel - 1
• Sci Fi – 1
• Starz - 1