Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special - TheTVDB.com

2024

Weronika Tofilska / Baby Reindeer

Millicent Shelton / Lessons in Chemistry

Gus Van Sant / Feud

Noah Hawley / Fargo

Issa López / True Detective

Steven Zaillian / RIPLEY

2023

Lee Sung Jin / BEEF

Dan Trachtenberg / Prey

Carl Franklin / Monster (2022)

Paris Barclay / Monster (2022)

Valerie Faris / Fleishman Is in Trouble

Jonathan Dayton / Fleishman Is in Trouble

Jake Schreier / BEEF

2022

Mike White / The White Lotus

2021

Sam Miller / I May Destroy You

Michaela Coel / I May Destroy You

Barry Jenkins / The Underground Railroad

Scott Frank / The Queen's Gambit

Sam Miller / I May Destroy You

2020

Lenny Abrahamson / Normal People

Maria Schrader / Unorthodox

2019

A Very English Scandal

Ava DuVernay / When They See Us

2018

Scott Frank / Godless

David Lynch / Twin Peaks

2017

James Marsh / The Night Of

Ryan Murphy / Feud

Steven Zaillian / The Night Of

2016

The Night Manager

2015

Peter Kosminsky / Wolf Hall

2010

Bob Balaban / Georgia O'Keeffe

The Pacific

Timothy Van Patten / The Pacific

The Pacific

The Pacific

2009

Susanna White / Generation Kill

2008

Bob Balaban / Bernard and Doris

Tom Hooper / John Adams

2001

Robert Allan Ackerman / Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

1999

Christian Duguay / Joan of Arc

1998

Steve Barron / Merlin (1998)

Tom Hanks / From the Earth to the Moon

1997

Andrey Konchalovskiy / The Odyssey (1997)

1992

I'll Fly Away

Ron Lagomarsino / Homefront

The Pacific Century

Joshua Brand / I'll Fly Away

1990

Simon Wincer / Lonesome Dove

1983

Simon Langton / Smiley's People

Dan Curtis / The Winds of War

1982

Charles Sturridge / Brideshead Revisited

Michael Lindsay-Hogg / Brideshead Revisited

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