Satellite Award for Best Television Film

The Satellite Award for Best Film Made for Television was one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy. In 2016, the IPA merged the TV miniseries and film categories.^[1]

Satellite Award for Best Television Film
Awarded for	Best Television Film
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1999
Currently held by	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
1999	Strange Justice	Ernest R. Dickerson	Showtime
	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Martha Coolidge	HBO
	A Lesson Before Dying	Joseph Sargent	HBO
	RKO 281	Benjamin Ross	HBO
	A Slight Case of Murder	Steven Schachter	TNT

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
2000	Harlan County War	Tony Bill	Showtime
	Cheaters	John McCalmont	Syndication
	Dirty Pictures	Frank Pierson	Showtime
	For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story	Joseph Sargent	HBO
	Nuremberg	Yves Simoneau	TNT
2001	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Cyrus Nowrasteh	Showtime
	Conspiracy	Frank Pierson	HBO
	Midwives	Glenn Jordan	Lifetime
	Varian's War	Lionel Chetwynd	Showtime
	Wild Iris	Daniel Petrie	Showtime
	Wit	Mike Nichols	HBO
2002	Door to Door	Steven Schachter	TNT
	The Gathering Storm	Richard Loncraine	HBO
	Keep the Faith, Baby	Doug McHenry	Showtime
	The Laramie Project	Moisés Kaufman	HBO
	Path to War	John Frankenheimer	HBO
2003	Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story	Robert Dornhelm	USA Network
	And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself	Bruce Beresford	HBO
	My House in Umbria	Richard Loncraine	HBO
	Normal	Jane Anderson	HBO
	Our Town	James Naughton	PBS
	Soldier's Girl	Frank Pierson	Showtime
2004	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	Vondie Curtis-Hall	FX
	Helter Skelter	John Gray	CBS
	Iron Jawed Angels	Katja von Garnier	HBO
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Stephen Hopkins	HBO
	Something the Lord Made	Joseph Sargent	HBO
2005	Reefer Madness	Andy Fickman	Showtime
	Kidnapped	Brendan Maher	BBC
	Lackawanna Blues	George C. Wolfe	HBO
	The Magic of Ordinary Days	Brent Shields	CBS
	Our Fathers	Dan Curtis	Showtime
	Sometimes in April	Raoul Peck	HBO
	Warm Springs	Joseph Sargent	HBO
2006	A Little Thing Called Murder	Richard Benjamin	Lifetime
	Gideon's Daughter	Stephen Poliakoff	BBC America
	High School Musical	Kenny Ortega	Disney Channel
	In from the Night	Peter Levin	CBS
	Mrs. Harris	Phyllis Nagy	HBO
2007	Mitch Albom's For One More Day	Lloyd Kramer	ABC
	Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee	Yves Simoneau	HBO
	Life Support	Nelson George	HBO
	Longford	Tom Hooper	HBO
	The Trial of Tony Blair	Simon Cellan Jones	Channel 4
	The Wind in the Willows	Rachel Talalay	PBS
2008	Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story	Andy DeEmmony	BBC
	24: Redemption	Jon Cassar	Fox
	Bernard and Doris	Bob Balaban	HBO
	God on Trial	Andy DeEmmony	PBS
	The Memory Keeper's Daughter	Mick Jackson	Lifetime
	Recount	Jay Roach	HBO
2009	Grey Gardens	Michael Sucsy	HBO
	The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler	John Kent Harrison	CBS
	Endgame	Pete Travis	PBS
	Into the Storm	Thaddeus O'Sullivan	HBO
	Loving Leah	Jeff Bleckner	CBS
	Taking Chance	Ross Katz	HBO Films

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
2010	Temple Grandin	Mick Jackson	HBO
	The Diary of Anne Frank	Jon Jones	BBC One
	The Special Relationship	Richard Loncraine	HBO, BBC Two
	When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story	John Kent Harrison	CBS
	You Don't Know Jack	Barry Levinson	HBO
2014	Return to Zero	Sean Hanish	Lifetime
	The Gabby Douglas Story	Gregg Champion	Lifetime
	The Normal Heart	Ryan Murphy	HBO
	The Trip to Bountiful	Peter Masterson	Lifetime
	Turks & Caicos	David Hare	BBC, PBS
2015	Stockholm, Pennsylvania	Nikole Beckwith	Lifetime
	Killing Jesus	Christopher Menaul	National Geographic Channel
	Nightingale	Elliott Lester	HBO
	Bessie	Dee Rees	HBO
2017	The Wizard of Lies	Barry Levinson	HBO
	King Charles III	Rupert Goold	BBC, PBS
	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	George C. Wolfe	HBO
	To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters	Sally Wainwright	Netflix
	War Machine	David Michôd	HBO
2018	The Tale	Jennifer Fox	HBO
	Cargo	Ben Howling Yolanda Ramke	Netflix
	Her Only Choice	Christel Gibson	BET
	King Lear	Richard Eyre	Amazon Studios BBC
2019	El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie	Vince Gilligan	Netflix
	Brexit: The Uncivil War	Toby Haynes	HBO
	Deadwood: The Movie	Daniel Minahan	HBO
	The Highwaymen	John Lee Hancock	Netflix

2020s

Year	Winners and nominees	Director	Network(s)
2020 [2][3]	The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel	Christine Swanson	Lifetime
	Bad Education	Cory Finley	HBO
	Sylvie's Love	Eugene Ashe	Amazon Prime Video
	Uncle Frank	Alan Ball	Amazon Prime Video
2021	Oslo	Bartlett Sher	HBO
	Help	Marc Munden	Channel 4
	Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia	Kenny Leon	Lifetime
2022 [4]	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	Eric Appel	The Roku Channel
	Fresh	Mimi Cave	Hulu
	Operation Mincemeat	John Madden	Netflix
	Rescued by Ruby	Katt Shea
	The Survivor	Barry Levinson	HBO