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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
...| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| First awarded | 1971 |
| Currently held by | Lee Sung Jin, Beef (2023) |
| Website | emmys |
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] | ||||
| Hollywood Television Theater | "The Andersonville Trial" | Saul Levitt | PBS | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Hamlet" | John Barton | NBC | |
| World Premiere NBC Monday & Tuesday Night Movie | "Vanished" | Dean Riesner | ||
| Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original | ||||
| Movie of the Week on ABC | "Tribes" | Marvin Schwarz and Tracy Keenan Wynn | ABC | |
| CBS Thursday Night Movie | "The Brotherhood of the Bell" | David Karp | CBS | |
| World Premiere Movie | "San Francisco International Airport" | Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield | NBC | |
| 1972 (24th) | ||||
| Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation[2] | ||||
| Movie of the Week | "Brian's Song" | William Blinn | ABC | |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Snow Goose" | Paul W. Gallico | CBS | |
| The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | Earl Hamner Jr. | |||
| The New CBS Friday Night Movies | "The Glass House" | Tracy Keenan Wynn | ||
| Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original[3] | ||||
| To All My Friends on Shore | Allan Sloane | CBS | ||
| Movie of the Weekend | "Thief" | John D. F. Black | ABC | |
| The New CBS Friday Night Movies | "Goodbye, Raggedy Ann" | Jack Sher | CBS | |
| 1973 (25th) | ||||
| Outstanding Writing in Drama — Adaptation | ||||
| The House Without a Christmas Tree | Eleanor Perry | CBS | ||
| Bell System Family Theatre | "The Red Pony" | Ron Bishop and Robert Totten | NBC | |
| Wednesday Movie of the Week | "Go Ask Alice" | Ellen M. Violett | ABC | |
| Outstanding Writing in Drama — Original[4] | ||||
| CBS Thursday Night Movie | "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" | Abby Mann | CBS | |
| The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies | "Hawkins on Murder" | David Karp | CBS | |
| Wednesday Movie of the Week | "That Certain Summer" | Richard Levinson and William Link | ABC | |
| 1974 (26th) | ||||
| Best Writing in Drama — Adaptation[5] | ||||
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Tracy Keenan Wynn | CBS | ||
| Hollywood Television Theatre | "Steambath" | Bruce Jay Friedman | PBS | |
| NBC Wednesday Night Movie | "The Execution of Private Slovik" | Richard Levinson and William Link | NBC | |
| Best Writing in Drama — Original[6] | ||||
| GE Theater | "Tell Me Where It Hurts" | Fay Kanin | CBS | |
| CBS Playhouse 90 | "The Migrants" | Lanford Wilson | CBS | |
| The New CBS Tuesday Night Movies | "Cry Rape!" | Will Lorin | ||
| 1975 (27th) | ||||
| Outstanding Writing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy (Adaptation)[7] | ||||
| IBM Presents Clarence Darrow | David W. Rintels | NBC | ||
| ABC Movie Special | "QB VII" | Edward Anhalt | ABC | |
| Outstanding Writing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy (Original)[8] | ||||
| ABC Theater | "Love Among the Ruins" | James Costigan | ABC | |
| ABC Theater | "The Missiles of October" | Stanley R. Greenberg | ABC | |
| NBC World Premiere Movie | "The Law" | Joel Oliansky and William Sackheim | NBC | |
| Queen of the Stardust Ballroom | Jerome Kass | CBS | ||
| Special World Premiere ABC Saturday Night Movie | "Hustling" | Fay Kanin | ABC | |
| 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 | ||
| NBC World Premiere Movie | "Farewell to Manzanar" | Barry Beckerman | ||
| Outstanding Writing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy (Original)[10] | ||||
| ABC Theater | "Eleanor and Franklin" | James Costigan | ABC | |
| The ABC Friday Night Movie | "The Night That Panicked America" | Nicholas Meyer and Anthony Wilson | ABC | |
| ABC Theater | "I Will Fight No More Forever" | Jeb Rosebrook and Theodore Strauss | ||
| Babe | Joanna Lee | CBS | ||
| NBC World Premiere Movie | "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case" | JP Miller | NBC | |
| 1977 (29th) |
Outstanding Writing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy (Adaptation)[11] | |||
| Sybil | Stewart Stern | NBC | ||
| Bell System Presents | "The Man in the Iron Mask" | William Bast | NBC | |
| A Circle of Children | Steve Gethers | CBS | ||
| Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking | Carol Sobieski | PBS | ||
| NBC World Premiere Movie | "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" | John McGreevey | NBC | |
| Outstanding Writing in a Special Program – Drama or Comedy (Original)[12] | ||||
| The Big Event | "Tail Gunner Joe" | Lane Slate | NBC | |
| The ABC Friday Night Movie | "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" | Douglas Day Stewart and Joe Morgenstern | ABC | |
| ABC Theater | "Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years" | James Costigan | ||
| The Big Event | "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 | ||
| Great Performances | "Verna: USO Girl" | Albert Innaurato | PBS | |
| Hollywood Television Theatre | "Actor" | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | ||
| A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story | Blanche Hanalis | NBC | ||
| The War Between the Tates | Barbara Turner | |||
| 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 | |||
| Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or Special | ||||
| 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 | ||