# Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

This is a list of the winners and nominations of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

## Chronology of category names

| Year | Category title |
| 1989–1991 (41st–43rd) |
| 1989–1991 (41st–43rd) | Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special |
| 1993 (41st–45th) |
| 1993 (41st–45th) | Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting for a Miniseries or Special |
| 1996–1997 (48th–49th) |
| 1996–1997 (48th–49th) | Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or Special |
| 1998 (50th) |
| 1998 (50th) | Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or Movie |
| 1999 (51st) |
| 1999 (51st) | Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or Made for Television Movie |
| 2000–2014 (52nd–66th) |
| 2000–2014 (52nd–66th) | Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special |
| 2015–2020 (67th–73rd) |
| 2015–2020 (67th–73rd) | Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special |

## Winners and nominations
### 1980s

| Year | Program | Casting | Network |
| 1989 (41st) |
| 1989 (41st) | Lonesome Dove | Lynn Kressel | CBS |

### 1990s

| Year | Program | Casting | Network |
| 1990 (42nd) |
| 1990 (42nd) | The Incident | Randy Stone and Holly Powell | CBS |
| 1991 (43rd) |
| 1991 (43rd) | Separate but Equal | Alixe Gordin | ABC |
| 1992 (44th) |
| 1992 (44th) | One Against the Wind | Joyce Gallie – casting executive | CBS |
| 1993 (45th) |
| 1993 (45th) | Citizen Cohn | Donna Belajac – location casting; Mary Colquhoun – casting executive | HBO |
| 1994 (46th) |
| 1994 (46th) | And the Band Played On | Judith Holstra and Nikki Valko – casting executive | HBO |
| 1995 (47th) |
| Award given as "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Casting" |||
| 1996 (48th) |
| 1996 (48th) | Truman | Mary Colquhoun – casting | HBO |
| 1996 (48th) | The Tuskegee Airmen | Robi Reed-Humes – casting director | HBO |
| 1996 (48th) | The Boys Next Door | Olivia Harris and Phyllis Huffman – casting | CBS |
| 1996 (48th) | The Late Shift | Nancy Foy – casting director; Phyllis Huffman – New York casting | HBO |
| 1996 (48th) | Streets of Laredo | Lynn Kressel – casting director | CBS |
| 1997 (49th) |
| 1997 (49th) | Bastard Out of Carolina | Linda Lowy – casting executive | Showtime |
| 1997 (49th) | Crime of the Century | Lynn Stalmaster – casting executive | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) | Grand Avenue | April Webster – casting executive | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) | Miss Evers' Boys | Shay Bentley-Griffin, Jaki Brown-Kaman, and Robyn M. Mitchell – casting executives | HBO |
| 1997 (49th) | Weapons of Mass Distraction | Gary M. Zuckerbrod – casting executive | HBO |
| 1998 (50th) |
| 1998 (50th) | From the Earth to the Moon | Meg Liberman, Marc Hirschfeld, Sharon Klein, Mark Fincannon, Lisa Mae Wells Fincannon, Craig Fincannon, casting executives; Deborah Brown – New York casting executive | HBO |
| 1998 (50th) | Don King: Only in America | Robi Reed-Humes – casting executive | HBO |
| 1998 (50th) | George Wallace | Iris Grossman – casting executive | TNT |
| 1998 (50th) | Gia | Libby Goldstein and Junie Lowry Johnson – casting executives | HBO |
| 1998 (50th) | Merlin | Noel Davis – U.K. casting executive; Lynn Kressel – U.S. casting executive | NBC |
| 1999 (51st) |
| 1999 (51st) | Winchell | Juel Bestrop – casting executive | HBO |
| 1999 (51st) | Joan of Arc | Deirdre Bowen, Susan Glicksman, and Fern Orenstein – casting executives | CBS |
| 1999 (51st) | A Lesson Before Dying | Shay Bentley-Griffin – location casting executive; Robi Reed-Humes – casting executive | HBO |
| 1999 (51st) | Pirates of Silicon Valley | Lisa Freiberger – casting executive | TNT |
| 1999 (51st) | The Rat Pack | Nancy Foy – casting executive | HBO |
| 1999 (51st) | The Temptations | Jaki Brown-Karman, Canice Kennedy, and Robyn M. Mitchell – casting executive | NBC |

### 2000s

| Year | Program | Casting | Network |
| 2000 (52nd) |
| 2000 (52nd) | RKO 281 | Lora Kennedy – casting executive; Joyce Nettles – casting executive (location) | HBO |
| 2000 (52nd) | Annie | Rosalie Joseph, Valorie Massalas, and Marcia Turner – casting executives | ABC |
| 2000 (52nd) | The Corner | Jaki Brown-Karman – casting executive; Pat Moran – casting executive (location) | HBO |
| 2000 (52nd) | Fail Safe | Barbara Miller and Anthony Sepulveda – casting executives | CBS |
| 2000 (52nd) | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | John Papsidera – casting executive | HBO |
| 2001 (53rd) |
| 2001 (53rd) | 61* | Mali Finn – casting executive | HBO |
| 2001 (53rd) | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Nancy Bishop, Czech casting executive; Job Gosschalk, Dutch casting executive; Risa Kes – German casting executive; Meg Liberman, Camille Patton, and Angela Terry – casting executives; Suzanne Smith – U.K. casting executive | ABC |
| 2001 (53rd) | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | Di Carling – casting executive | HBO |
| 2001 (53rd) | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Deirdre Bowen, Mary Buck, and Susan Edelman – casting executives; Tina Gerussi – Toronto casting executive | ABC |
| 2001 (53rd) | When Billie Beat Bobby | Molly Lopata – casting executive | ABC |
| 2001 (53rd) | Wit | Leo Davis – U.K. casting executive; Ellen Lewis and Juliet Taylor – casting executives | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) |
| 2002 (54th) | Band of Brothers | Gary Davy and Suzanne Smith – U.K. casting by; Meg Liberman, Cami Patton, and Angela Terry – casting by | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) | The Gathering Storm | Irene Lamb – casting by | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) | James Dean | Nancy Foy – casting by | TNT |
| 2002 (54th) | The Laramie Project | Ann Goulder – casting by | HBO |
| 2002 (54th) | Path to War | Mindy Marin – casting by | HBO |
| 2003 (55th) |
| 2003 (55th) | Live from Baghdad | John Papsidera – casting by | HBO |
| 2003 (55th) | Door to Door | Juel Bestrop, Bette Chadwick, Candice Elzinga, and Jeanne McCarthy – casting by | TNT |
| 2003 (55th) | Hysterical Blindness | Sheila Jaffe and Georgianne Walken – casting by | HBO |
| 2003 (55th) | Kingpin | Cara Coslow, Molly Lopata, and Bob Morones – casting by | NBC |
| 2003 (55th) | My House in Umbria | Irene Lamb – casting by | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) |
| 2004 (56th) | Angels in America | Ellen Lewis and Juliet Taylor – casting by | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) | Iron Jawed Angels | Kathleen Chopin, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, and Liz Marks – casting by | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) | The Reagans | Susan Edelman, Tina Gerussi, and Andrea Kenyon – casting by | Showtime |
| 2004 (56th) | Something the Lord Made | Lynn Kressel and Pat Moran – casting by | HBO |
| 2004 (56th) | Traffic: The Miniseries | Stuart Aikins, Steve Brooksbank, and Mary Jo Slater – casting by | USA |
| 2005 (57th) |
| 2005 (57th) | Lackawanna Blues | John Papsidera – casting by | HBO |
| 2005 (57th) | Elvis | Beth Blanks, Steve Brooksbank, and Mary Jo Slater – casting by | CBS |
| 2005 (57th) | Empire Falls | Avy Kaufman – casting by | HBO |
| 2005 (57th) | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Nina Gold – casting by | HBO |
| 2005 (57th) | Warm Springs | Shay Bentley-Griffin and Lynn Kressel – casting by | HBO |
| 2006 (58th) |
| 2006 (58th) | Elizabeth I | Doreen Jones – casting director | HBO |
| 2006 (58th) | The Girl in the Café | Fiona Weir – casting director | HBO |
| 2006 (58th) | High School Musical | Natalie Hart and Jason La Padura – casting by | Disney |
| 2006 (58th) | Into the West | Jo Edna Boldin – New Mexico casting; Candice Elzinga and Rhonda Fisekci – Canadian casting; Rene Haynes, Meg Liberman, and Cami Patton – casting by | TNT |
| 2006 (58th) | Mrs. Harris | Libby Goldstein and Junie Lowry-Johnson – casting directors | HBO |
| 2007 (59th) |
| 2007 (59th) | Broken Trail | Wendy Weidman, Barbara Fiorentino, and Rebecca Mangieri – casting by; Coreen Mayrs and Heike Brandstatter – Canadian casting by; Jackie Lind – Calgary casting by | AMC |
| 2007 (59th) | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Rene Haynes – casting director; Rhonda Fisekci and Candice Elizinga – Canadian casting directors | HBO |
| 2007 (59th) | Jane Eyre | Di Carling – casting director | PBS |
| 2007 (59th) | The Path to 9/11 | Meg Liberman, Cami Patton – casting by; Robin D. Cook and Nicole Hilliard-Forde – Canadian casting by; Suzanne M. Smith – U.K. casting by | ABC |
| 2007 (59th) | The Ron Clark Story | Gary M. Zuckerbrod and Lonnie Hamerman – casting by; Bonnie Finnegan – New York casting by; Rhonda Fisekci and Candice Elzinga – Canadian casting by | TNT |
| 2007 (59th) | The Starter Wife | Mary Jo Slater and Steven Brooksbank – casting directors; Tom McSweeney – Australian casting director | USA |
| 2008 (60th) |
| 2008 (60th) | John Adams | Kathleen Chopin, Nina Gold, and Tracy Kilpatrick – casting directors | HBO |
| 2008 (60th) | The Bronx Is Burning | Billy Hopkins and Paul Schnee – casting by | ESPN |
| 2008 (60th) | The Company | Denise Chamian and Scout Masterson – casting by; Diane Kerbel – Canadian casting by; Priscilla John – U.K. casting by; Zsolt Csutak – Hungary casting by | TNT |
| 2008 (60th) | Cranford | Maggie Lunn – casting director | PBS |
| 2008 (60th) | Recount | David Rubin and Richard Hicks – casting directors; Lori S. Wyman – Florida casting director; Kathleen Chopin – New York casting director | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) |
| 2009 (61st) | Little Dorrit | Rachel Freck – casting director | PBS |
| 2009 (61st) | Generation Kill | Alexa L. Fogel – casting director; Christa Schamberger – S.A. casting director; Suzanne Crowley and Gilly Poole – U.K. casting directors | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) | Grey Gardens | Ellen Parks – casting director; Robin Cook – location casting director | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) | House of Saddam | Elaine Grainger – casting director | HBO |
| 2009 (61st) | Into the Storm | Kate Rhodes James – casting director | HBO |

### 2010s

| Year | Program | Casting | Network |
| 2010 (62nd) |
| 2010 (62nd) | The Pacific | Meg Liberman and Cami Patton – casting directors; Christine King, Australian – casting director; Jennifer Euston – New York casting director; Suzanne Smith – U.K. casting director | HBO |
| 2010 (62nd) | Emma | Gemma Hancock and Sam Stevenson – casting directors | PBS |
| 2010 (62nd) | Georgia O'Keeffe | David Rubin and Richard Hicks – casting by; Angelique Midthunder – location casting by | Lifetime |
| 2010 (62nd) | Temple Grandin | David Rubin and Richard Hicks – casting directors; Beth Sepko – location casting director | HBO |
| 2010 (62nd) | You Don't Know Jack | Ellen Chenoweth – casting director | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) |
| 2011 (63rd) | Mildred Pierce | Laura Rosenthal – casting director | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) | Cinema Verite | Randi Hiller – casting director | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) | Downton Abbey (Season 1) | Jill Trevellick – casting director | PBS |
| 2011 (63rd) | Too Big to Fail | Alexa L. Fogel and Christine Kromer – casting directors | HBO |
| 2011 (63rd) | Upstairs Downstairs (Season 1) | Andy Pryor – casting director | PBS |
| 2012 (64th) |
| 2012 (64th) | Game Change | David Rubin, Richard Hicks, Pat Moran, and Kathleen Chopin – casting by | HBO |
| 2012 (64th) | American Horror Story | Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson – casting by | FX |
| 2012 (64th) | Five | Randi Hiller and Tamara-Lee Notcutt – casting by | Lifetime |
| 2012 (64th) | Hatfields & McCoys | Fern Champion and Amy Hubbard – casting by | History |
| 2012 (64th) | Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia | Kate Rhodes James – casting by | PBS |
| 2013 (65th) |
| 2013 (65th) | Behind the Candelabra | Carmen Cuba – casting by | HBO |
| 2013 (65th) | American Horror Story: Asylum | Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson – casting by | FX |
| 2013 (65th) | The Hour (Season 2) | Jill Trevellick – casting by | BBC America |
| 2013 (65th) | Political Animals | David Rubin and Diane Heery – casting by | USA |
| 2013 (65th) | Top of the Lake | Kirsty McGregor and Tina Cleary – casting by | Sundance |
| 2014 (66th) |
| 2014 (66th) | Fargo (Season 1) | Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin – casting directors | FX |
| 2014 (66th) | American Horror Story: Coven | Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, and Meagan Lewis – casting directors | FX |
| 2014 (66th) | The Normal Heart | Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond – casting directors | HBO |
| 2014 (66th) | Sherlock: His Last Vow | Julia Duff and Kate Rhodes James – casting directors | PBS |
| 2014 (66th) | Treme (Season 4) | Alexa L. Fogel and Meagan Lewis – casting directors | HBO |
| 2015 (67th) |
| 2015 (67th) | Olive Kitteridge | Laura Rosenthal and Carolyn Pickman – casting directors | HBO |
| 2015 (67th) | American Crime (Season 1) | Kim Coleman and Beth Sepko Lindsey – casting directors | ABC |
| 2015 (67th) | American Horror Story: Freak Show | Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson, and Meagan Lewis – casting directors | FX |
| 2015 (67th) | Bessie | Billy Hopkins and Jackie Burch – casting directors | HBO |
| 2015 (67th) | Wolf Hall | Nina Gold and Robert Sterne – casting directors | PBS |
| 2016 (68th) |
| 2016 (68th) | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Jeanne McCarthy, Nicole Abellera Hallman, Courtney Bright, and Nicole Daniels – casting directors | FX |
| 2016 (68th) | Fargo (Season 2) | Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin – casting directors | FX |
| 2016 (68th) | Grease: Live | Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, and Justin Huff – casting directors | Fox |
| 2016 (68th) | The Night Manager | Jina Jay – casting director | AMC |
| 2016 (68th) | Roots | Victoria Thomas, Moonyeenn Lee, Leo Davids, Lissy Holm, and Meagan Lewis – casting directors | History |
| 2017 (69th) |
| 2017 (69th) | Big Little Lies (Season 1) | David Rubin – casting director | HBO |
| 2017 (69th) | Fargo (Season 3) | Rachel Tenner, Jackie Lind, and Stephanie Gorin – casting directors | FX |
| 2017 (69th) | Feud: Bette and Joan | Robert J. Ulrich and Eric Dawson – casting directors | FX |
| 2017 (69th) | The Night Of | Avy Kaufman and Sabrina Hyman – casting directors | HBO |
| 2017 (69th) | The Wizard of Lies | Ellen Chenoweth – casting director | HBO |
| 2018 (70th) |
| 2018 (70th) | The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story | Courtney Bright and Nicole Daniels – casting directors | FX |
| 2018 (70th) | Godless | Ellen Lewis – casting director; Rene Haynes - Native American casting director; Jo Edna Boldin – location casting director | Netflix |
| 2018 (70th) | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert | Bernard Telsey and Patrick Goodwin – casting directors | NBC |
| 2018 (70th) | The Looming Tower | Avy Kaufman – casting director; Leo Davis & Lissy Holm – UK casting director; Moonyeenn Lee – South Africa casting director | Hulu |
| 2018 (70th) | Patrick Melrose | Nina Gold and Martin Ware – casting directors | Showtime |
| 2019 (71st) |
| 2019 (71st) | When They See Us | Aisha Coley – casting directors; Billy Hopkins and Ashley Ingram – location casting directors | Netflix |
| 2019 (71st) | Chernobyl | Nina Gold and Robert Sterne – casting directors | HBO |
| 2019 (71st) | Escape at Dannemora | Rachel Tenner – casting director | Showtime |
| 2019 (71st) | Fosse/Verdon | Bernard Telsey and Tiffany Little Canfield – casting directors | FX |
| 2019 (71st) | Sharp Objects | David Rubin– casting director | HBO |

### 2020s

| Year | Program | Casting | Network |
| 2020 (72nd) |
| 2020 (72nd) | Watchmen | Victoria Thomas – casting director; Meagan Lewis – location casting director | HBO |
| 2020 (72nd) | Mrs. America | Carmen Cuba – casting director; Robin Cook – location casting director | FX |
| 2020 (72nd) | Normal People | Louise Kiely – casting director | Hulu |
| 2020 (72nd) | Unbelievable | Laura Rosenthal, Jodi Angstreich, Kate Caldwell and Melissa Kostenbauder – casting directors | Netflix |
| 2020 (72nd) | Unorthodox | Esther Kling – casting director; Vicki Thomson, Maria Rölcke and Cornelia Mareth – location casting directors | Netflix |
| 2021 (73rd) |
| 2021 (73rd) | The Queen's Gambit | Ellen Lewis, Kate Sprance and Olivia Scott-Webb – casting directors; Tina Gerussi, Anna-Lena Slater, Tatjana Moutchnik and Stephanie Maile – location casting directors | Netflix |
| 2021 (73rd) | I May Destroy You | Julie Harkin – casting director | HBO |
| 2021 (73rd) | Mare of Easttown | Avy Kaufman – casting director; Diane Heery and Jason Loftus – location casting directors | HBO |
| 2021 (73rd) | The Underground Railroad | Francine Maisler – casting director; Meagan Lewis – location casting director | Prime Video |
| 2021 (73rd) | WandaVision | Sarah Halley Finn and Jason B. Stamey – casting directors | Disney+ |
| 2022 (74th) |
| 2022 (74th) | The White Lotus (Season 1) | Meredith Tucker – casting director; Katie Doyle – location casting director | HBO |
| 2022 (74th) | Dopesick | Avy Kaufman – casting director; Erica Arvold – location casting director | Hulu |
| 2022 (74th) | The Dropout | Jeanie Bacharach, Mark Rutman and Alison Goodman – casting directors | Hulu |
| 2022 (74th) | Inventing Anna | Linda Lowy and Jamie Castro – original casting directors; Allison Estrin and Henry Russell Bergstein – casting directors; Juliette Ménager, Simone Bär and Alexandra Montag – location casting directors | Netflix |
| 2022 (74th) | Pam & Tommy | Mary Vernieu and Lindsay Graham Ahanonu – casting directors | Hulu |
| 2023 (75th) |
| 2023 (75th) | Beef | Charlene Lee and Claire Koonce – casting directors | Netflix |
| 2023 (75th) | Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story | Robert J. Ulrich, Eric Dawson and Carol Kritzer – casting directors | Netflix |
| 2023 (75th) | Daisy Jones & the Six | Justine Arteta and Kim Davis-Wagner – casting directors | Prime Video |
| 2023 (75th) | Fleishman Is in Trouble | Laura Rosenthal and Jodi Angstreich – casting directors | FX |
| 2023 (75th) | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Wendy O'Brien – casting director | Roku |
| 2024 (76th) |
| 2024 (76th) | Baby Reindeer | Nina Gold and Martin Ware – casting directors | Netflix |
| 2024 (76th) | Fargo (Season 5) | Rachel Tenner – casting director; Jackie Lind, Stephanie Gorin and Rhonda Fisekci - location casting directors | FX |
| 2024 (76th) | Feud: Capote vs. The Swans | Alexa L. Fogel – casting director | FX |
| 2024 (76th) | Ripley | Avy Kaufman – casting director; Francesco Vedovati and Barbara Giordani - location casting directors | Netflix |
| 2024 (76th) | True Detective: Night Country | Francine Maisler – casting director; Deborah Schildt and Alda B. Gudjónsdóttir - location casting directors | HBO |

## Programs with multiple wins
### 2 wins

* American Crime Story

## Total awards by network

* HBO – 21
* CBS / FX / Netflix – 3
* ABC / AMC / PBS / Showtime – 1