Anexo:Primetime Emmy al mejor guion - Miniserie, telefilme o especial dramático

El premio Primetime Emmy al mejor guion de serie limitada, telefilme o especial dramático (Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special) es entregado cada año por la Academia de Artes y Ciencias de la Televisión de Estados Unidos.​

Década de 2020

2020

• Watchmen (episodio: «This Extraordinary Being») — Damon Lindelof, Cord Jefferson
  • Mrs. America (episodio: «Shirley») — Tanya Barfield
  • Normal People (episodio: «Episode 3») — Sally Rooney, Alice Birch
  • Unbelievable (episodio: «Episode 1») — Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman
  • Unorthodox (episodio: «Part 1») — Anna Winger

Década de 2010

2019

• Chernobyl — Craig Mazin
  • A Very English Scandal — Russell T Davies
  • Escape at Dannemora (episodio: «Part 6») — Brett Johnson, Jerry Stahl, Michael Tolkin
  • Escape at Dannemora (episodio: «Part 7») — Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin
  • Fosse/Verdon (episodio: «Providence») — Joel Fields, Steven Levenson
  • When They See Us (episodio: «Part Four») — Ava DuVernay, Michael Starrbury

2018

• Black Mirror (episodio: «USS Callister») — William Bridges, Charlie Brooker
  • American Vandal (episodio: «Clean Up») — Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus
  • The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (episodio: «House by the Lake») — Tom Rob Smith
  • Godless — Scott Frank
  • Patrick Melrose — David Nicholls
  • Twin Peaks — David Lynch, Mark Frost

2017

• Black Mirror (episodio: «San Junípero») — Charlie Brooker
  • Big Little Lies — David E. Kelley
  • Fargo (episodio: «The Law of Vacant Places») — Noah Hawley
  • Feud: Bette and Joan (episodio: «And the Winner Is... (The Oscars of 1963)») — Ryan Murphy
  • Feud: Bette and Joan (episodio: «Pilot») — Jaffe Cohen, Ryan Murphy, Michael Zam
  • The Night Of (episodio: «The Call of the Wild») — Richard Price, Steven Zaillian

2016

• The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (episodio: «Marcia, Marcia, Marcia») — D. V. DeVincentis
  • Fargo (episodio: «Loplop») — Bob DeLaurentis
  • Fargo (episodio: «Palindrome») — Noah Hawley
  • The Night Manager — David Farr
  • The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (episodio: «The Race Card») — Joe Robert Cole

2015

• Olive Kitteridge — Jane Anderson
  • American Crime (episodio: «Episode One») — John Ridley
  • Bessie — Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, Horton Foote, Dee Rees
  • Hello Ladies: The Movie — Lee Eisenberg, Stephen Merchant, Gene Stupnitsky
  • The Honourable Woman — Hugo Blick
  • Wolf Hall — Peter Straughan

2014

• Sherlock (episodio: «His Last Vow») — Steven Moffat
  • American Horror Story: Coven (episodio: «Bitchcraft») — Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy
  • Fargo (episodio: «The Crocodile's Dilemma») — Noah Hawley
  • Luther — Neil Cross
  • The Normal Heart — Larry Kramer
  • Treme (episodio: «...To Miss New Orleans») — Eric Overmyer, David Simon

2013

• The Hour — Abi Morgan
  • Behind the Candelabra — Richard LaGravenese
  • Parade's End — Tom Stoppard
  • Phil Spector — David Mamet
  • Top of the Lake — Jane Campion, Gerard Lee

2012

• Game Change — Danny Strong
  • Hatfields & McCoys (episodio: «Part 2») — Bill Kerby, Ted Mann, Ronald Parker
  • The Hour — Abi Morgan
  • Luther — Neil Cross
  • Sherlock (episodio: «A Scandal in Belgravia») — Steven Moffat

2011

• Downton Abbey — Julian Fellowes
  • Mildred Pierce — Todd Haynes, Jonathan Raymond
  • Sherlock (episodio: «A Study in Pink») — Steven Moffat
  • Too Big to Fail — Peter Gould
  • Upstairs Downstairs — Heidi Thomas

2010

• You Don't Know Jack — Adam Mazer
  • The Pacific (episodio: «Home») — Bruce C. McKenna, Robert Schenkkan
  • The Pacific (episodio: «Iwo Jima») — Michelle Ashford, Robert Schenkkan
  • The Special Relationship — Peter Morgan
  • Temple Grandin — William Merritt Johnson, Christopher Monger

Década de 2000

2009

• La pequeña Dorrit — Andrew Davies
  • Generation Kill (episodio: «Bomb in the Garden») — Ed Burns, David Simon
  • Grey Gardens — Patricia Rozema, Michael Sucsy
  • Into the Storm — Hugh Whitemore
  • Taking Chance — Ross Katz, Michael Strobl

2008

• John Adams (episodio: «Independence») — Kirk Ellis
  • Bernard and Doris — Hugh Costello
  • Cranford — Heidi Thomas
  • Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale — Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
  • Recount — Danny Strong

2007

• Prime Suspect: The Final Act — Frank Deasy
  • Broken Trail — Alan Geoffrion
  • Entierra mi corazón en Wounded Knee — Daniel Giat
  • Jane Eyre — Sandy Welch
  • The Starter Wife — Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott

2006

• La chica del café — Richard Curtis
  • Bleak House — Andrew Davies
  • Elizabeth I — Nigel Williams
  • Flight 93 — Nevin Schreiner
  • Mrs. Harris — Phyllis Nagy

2005

• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers — Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
  • Empire Falls — Richard Russo
  • Los 4400 — René Echevarria, Scott Peters
  • The Office (episodio: «Christmas Special») — Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
  • Warm Springs — Margaret Nagle

2004

• Angels in America — Tony Kushner
  • And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself — Larry Gelbart
  • The Reagans — Elizabeth Egloff, Jane Marchwood, Thomas Rickman
  • Iron Jawed Angels — Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, Jennifer Friedes, Sally Robinson, Raymond Singer
  • Something the Lord Made — Robert Caswell, Peter Silverman

2003

• Door to Door — William H. Macy, Steven Schachter
  • Fuego sobre Bagdad — Robert Wiener, Richard Chapman, John Patrick Shanley, Timothy J. Sexton
  • Hysterical Blindness — Laura Cahill
  • My House in Umbria — Hugh Whitemore
  • Normal — Jane Anderson

2002

• The Gathering Storm — Larry Ramin, Hugh Whitemore
  • Band of Brothers — Erik Bork, E. Max Frye, Tom Hanks, Erik Jendresen, Bruce C. McKenna, John Orloff, Graham Yost
  • Camino a la guerra — Daniel Giat
  • The Laramie Project — Stephen Belber, Leigh Fondakowski, Amanda Gronich, Moisés Kaufman, Jeffrey LaHoste, John McAdams, Andy Paris, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Kelli Simpkins, Stephen Wangh
  • Shackleton — Charles Sturridge

2001

• La solución final — Loring Mandel
  • 61* — Hank Steinberg
  • La historia de Ana Frank — Kirk Ellis
  • Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows — Robert L. Freedman
  • Wit — Mike Nichols, Emma Thompson

2000

• The Corner — David Mills, David Simon
  • Cheaters — John Stockwell
  • Homicide: The Movie — Tom Fontana, Eric Overmyer, James Yoshimura
  • If These Walls Could Talk 2 — Jane Anderson
  • RKO 281 — John Logan

Década de 1990

1999

• A Lesson Before Dying — Ann Peacock
  • The Baby Dance — Jane Anderson
  • Dash and Lilly — Jerrold L. Ludwig
  • El clan sinatra — Kario Salem
  • Piratas de Silicon Valley — Martyn Burke

1998

• Don King: Only in America — Kario Salem
  • De la Tierra a la Luna — Graham Yost
  • Gia — Michael Cristofer, Jay McInerney
  • Merlin — Peter Barnes, Edward Khmara, David Stevens
  • More Tales of the City — Nicholas Wright

1997

• Old Man — Horton Foote
  • Crime of the Century — William Nicholson
  • Gotti — Steve Shagan
  • Miss Evers' Boys — Walter Bernstein
  • Weapons of Mass Distraction — Larry Gelbart

1996

• Los viajes de Gulliver — Simon Moore
  • Escuadrón de combate 332 — T. S. Cook, Trey Ellis, Ron Hutchinson, Paris Qualles, Robert Williams
  • The Late Shift — George Armitage, Bill Carter
  • Orgullo y prejuicio — Andrew Davies
  • Truman — Thomas Rickman

1995

• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story — Alison Cross
  • The Burning Season — Ron Hutchinson, William Mastrosimone, Michael Tolkin
  • Citizen X — Chris Gerolmo
  • Enjuiciamiento: El Caso McMartin — Abby Mann, Myra Mann
  • The Piano Lesson — August Wilson

1994

• David's Mother — Bob Randall
  • And the Band Played On — Arnold Schulman
  • Breathing Lessons — Robert W. Lenski
  • Prime Suspect 3: Mystery! — Lynda La Plante
  • Tales of the City — Richard Kramer

1993

• The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom — Jane Anderson
  • Barbarians at the Gate — Larry Gelbart
  • Citizen Cohn — David Franzoni
  • Family Pictures — Jennifer Miller
  • Stalin — Paul Monash

1992

• I'll Fly Away (episodio: «Pilot») — Joshua Brand, John Falsey
  • Destino Broadway — Neil Simon
  • Doing Time on Maple Drive — James Duff
  • Miss Rose White — Anna Sandor
  • Without Warning: The James Brady Story — Robert Bolt

1991

• House of Cards — Andrew Davies
  • Decoration Day — Robert W. Lenski
  • Paris Trout — Pete Dexter
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall — Patricia MacLachlan, Carol Sobieski
  • Separate but Equal — George Stevens, Jr.

1990

• Andre's Mother — Terrence McNally
  • Caroline? — Michael De Guzmán
  • The Incident — James Norell, Michael Norell
  • The Final Days — Hugh Whitemore
  • The Kennedys of Massachusetts — William Hanley

Década de 1980

1989

• Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story — Ron Hutchison, Abby Mann, Robin Vote
  • I Know My First Name Is Steven — JP Miller, Cynthia Whitcomb
  • My Name Is Bill W. — William G. Borchert
  • Lonesome Dove — Bill Wyttliff
  • Roe vs. Wade — Alison Cross

1988

• The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank — William Hanley
  • Baby M (episodio: «Part I») — James Steven Sadwith
  • Billionaire Boys Club (episodio: «Part I») — Gy Waldron
  • Foxfire — Susan Cooper
  • The Murder of Mary Phagan — Jeffrey Lane, Larry McMurtry

1987

• Promise — Ken Blackwell, Tennyson Flowers, Richard Friedenberg
  • Escape de Sobibor — Reginald Rose
  • Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder — William Hanley
  • Pack of Lies — Hugh Whitemore
  • A Year in the Life — Joshua Brand, John Falsey

1986

• An Early Frost — Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman, Sherman Yellen
• Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy — David Butler
  • Alex: The Life of a Child — Carol Evan McKeand, Nigel McKeand
  • Anne of Green Gables (episodio: «Part I») — Kevin Sullivan, Joe Wiesenfeld
  • Dress Gray (episodio: «Part I») — Gore Vidal
  • Love Is Never Silent — Darlene Craviotto

1985

• Do You Remember Love — Vickie Patik
  • The Burning Bed — Rose Leiman Goldemberg
  • Fatal Vision — John Gay
  • The Jewel in the Crown (episodio: «Crossing the River») — Ken Taylor
  • Wallenberg: A Hero's Story — Gerald Green

1984

• Something About Amelia — William Hanley
  • Adam — Allan Leicht
  • The Day After — Edward Hume
  • The Dollmaker — Susan Cooper, Hume Cronyn
  • Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter — April Smith

1983

• Special Bulletin — Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick
  • The Executioner's Song — Norman Mailer
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby — David Edgar
  • Little Gloria... Happy at Last — William Hanley
  • Who Will Love My Children? — Michael Bortman

1982

• Bill — Corey Blechman, Barry Morrow
  • Oppenheimer (episodio: «Part V») — Peter Prince
  • Retorno a Brideshead (episodio: «Et in Arcadia Ego») — John Mortimer
  • Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend, — Oliver Hailey
  • Skokie — Ernest Kinoy

1981

• Playing for Time — Arthur Miller
  • Bitter Harvest — Richard Friedenberg
  • Masada (episode: «Part IV») — Joel Oliansky
  • The Shadow Box — Michael Cristofer
  • Shōgun (episode: «Part 5») — Eric Bercovici

1980

• Off the Minnesota Strip — David Chase
  • Amber Waves — Ken Trevey
  • Attica — James S. Henerson
  • Gideon's Trumpet — David W. Rintels
  • This Year's Blonde — James Lee