Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special

2025

Adolescence

Lauren LeFranc / The Penguin

Say Nothing

Dying for Sex

2024

Steven Zaillian / RIPLEY

Richard Gadd / Baby Reindeer

Noah Hawley / Fargo

Issa López / True Detective

Ron Nyswaner / Fellow Travelers

2023

Patrick Aison / Prey

Taffy Brodesser-Akner / Fleishman Is in Trouble

Dan Trachtenberg / Prey

Eric Appel / Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Janine Nabers / Swarm

Donald Glover / Swarm

'Weird Al' Yankovic / Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Lee Sung Jin / BEEF

Joel Kim Booster / Fire Island

2022

Mike White / The White Lotus

2021

Michaela Coel / I May Destroy You

Scott Frank / The Queen's Gambit

Brad Ingelsby / Mare of Easttown

2020

Alice Birch / Normal People

Sally Rooney / Normal People

Susannah Grant / Unbelievable

2019

Ava DuVernay / When They See Us

A Very English Scandal

2018

Scott Frank / Godless

David Lynch / Twin Peaks

Mark Frost / Twin Peaks

2017

Richard Price / The Night Of

Steven Zaillian / The Night Of

Ryan Murphy / Feud

2016

The Night Manager

2015

Gene Stupnitsky / Hello Ladies: The Movie

Lee Eisenberg / Hello Ladies: The Movie

Peter Straughan / Wolf Hall

Stephen Merchant / Hello Ladies: The Movie

2014

Eric Ellis Overmyer / Treme

David Simon / Treme

2009

Generation Kill

2008

Kirk Ellis / John Adams

2001

Robert L. Freedman / Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

2000

James Yoshimura / Homicide: The Movie

Tom Fontana / Homicide: The Movie

Eric Ellis Overmyer / Homicide: The Movie

1998

Edward Khmara / Merlin (1998)

Graham Yost / From the Earth to the Moon

Peter Barnes / Merlin (1998)

David Stevens / Merlin (1998)

1992

I'll Fly Away

1990

William D. Wittliff / Lonesome Dove

1988

A Year in the Life

1982

John Mortimer / Brideshead Revisited

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