Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.

Award winners

;1970s
*1979: Esther Rolle - "Summer of My German Soldier"

;1980s
*1980: Mare Winningham - "Amber Waves"
*1981: Jane Alexander - "Playing for Time"
*1982: Penny Fuller - "The Elephant Man"
*1983: Jean Simmons - "The Thorn Birds"
*1984: Roxana Zal - "Something About Amelia"
*1985: Kim Stanley - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
*1986: Colleen Dewhurst - "Between Two Women"
*1987: Piper Laurie - "Promise"
*1988: Jane Seymour - ""
*1989: Colleen Dewhurst - "Those She Left Behind"

;1990s
*1990: Eva Marie Saint - "People Like Us"
*1991: Ruby Dee - "Decoration Day"
*1992: Amanda Plummer - "Miss Rose White"
*1993: Mary Tyler Moore - "Stolen Babies"
*1994: Cicely Tyson - "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All"
*1995: Judy Davis - '
and Shirley Knight - '
*1996: Greta Scacchi - ""
*1997: Diana Rigg - "Rebecca"
*1998: Mare Winningham - "George Wallace"
*1999: Anne Bancroft - "Deep in My Heart"

=2000s=

;2000

* Kathy Bates in Annie
* Elizabeth Franz in Death of a Salesman
* Melanie Griffith in RKO 281
* Vanessa Redgrave in If These Walls Could Talk 2
* Maggie Smith in David Copperfield

;2001

* Anne Bancroft in Haven
* Tammy Blanchard in
* Brenda Blethyn in
* Holly Hunter in Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
* Audra McDonald in Wit

;2002

* Joan Allen in The Mists of Avalon
* Stockard Channing in The Matthew Shepard Story
* Anjelica Huston in The Mists of Avalon
* Diana Rigg in Victoria and Albert
* Sissy Spacek in Last Call

;2003

* Kathy Baker in Door to Door
* Anne Bancroft in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
* Juliette Lewis in Hysterical Blindness
* Helen Mirren in Door to Door
* Gena Rowlands in Hysterical Blindness

;2004

* Julie Andrews in Eloise at Christmastime
* Anne Heche in Gracie's Choice
* Anjelica Huston in Iron Jawed Angels
* Angela Lansbury in The Blackwater Lightship
* Mary-Louise Parker in Angels in America

;2005

* Jane Alexander in Warm Springs
* Kathy Bates in Warm Springs
* Camryn Manheim in Elvis
* Charlize Theron in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
* Joanne Woodward in Empire Falls

;2006

* Ellen Burstyn in Mrs. Harris
* Shirley Jones in Hidden Places
* Cloris Leachman in Mrs. Harris
* Kelly Macdonald in The Girl in the Café
* Alfre Woodard in The Water Is Wide

;2007

* Toni Collette in
* Judy Davis in The Starter Wife
* Samantha Morton in Longford
* Anna Paquin in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
* Greta Scacchi in Broken Trail

;2008

* Eileen Atkins in Cranford
* Laura Dern in Recount
* Ashley Jensen in
* Audra McDonald in A Raisin in the Sun
* Alfre Woodard in Pictures of Hollis Woods