The Costume Designers Guild Award for Outstanding Made for Television Movie or Mini-Series was awarded from 2005 until 2014. Since CDG awards inception in 1998 and from 2015 onwards, miniseries and television films were recognized in separate specific categories for contemporary, period, and sci-fi/fantasy television.
| Year | Series | Costume Designer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 [1] | Elvis | Eduardo Castro | CBS |
| Empire Falls | HBO | ||
| Lackawanna Blues | Hope Hanafin | ||
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Eduardo Castro | ABC | |
| Warm Springs | Hope Hanafin | HBO | |
| 2006 [2] | Elizabeth I | Mike O'Neill | HBO |
| Bleak House | PBS | ||
| High School Musical | Tom McKinley | Disney | |
| Into the West | TNT | ||
| Mrs. Harris | HBO | ||
| 2007 [3] | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Mario Davignon | HBO |
| Jane Eyre | PBS | ||
| The Starter Wife | Debra McGuire and Marion Boyce | USA | |
| 2008 [4] | John Adams | Donna Zakowska | HBO |
| Bernard and Doris | HBO | ||
| Coco Chanel | Stefano De Nardis | Lifetime | |
| Cranford | PBS | ||
| Sense and Sensibility | Michele Clapton | ||
| 2009 [5] | Grey Gardens | Catherine Marie Thomas | HBO |
| Georgia O'Keeffe | Michael Dennison | Lifetime | |
| Little Dorrit | Barbara Kidd | PBS |
| Year | Film | Costume Designer(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 [6] | Temple Grandin | Cindy Evans | HBO |
| The Pacific | HBO | ||
| You Don't Know Jack | Rita Ryack | ||
| 2011 [7] | Downton Abbey | Susannah Buxton | PBS |
| The Kennedys | Christopher Hargadon | Reelz | |
| Mildred Pierce | HBO | ||
| 2012 [8] | Lou Eyrich | FX | |
| Hatfields & McCoys | Karri Hutchinson | History | |
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | HBO | ||
| 2013 [9] | Behind the Candelabra | Ellen Mirojnick | HBO |
| FX | |||
| Bonnie & Clyde | Lifetime | ||
| House of Versace | Claire Nadon | ||
| Phil Spector | Debra McGuire | HBO | |
| 2014 [10] | Lou Eyrich | FX | |
| Houdini | Birgit Hutter | History | |
| The Normal Heart | HBO | ||
| Olive Kitteridge | Jenny Eagan | ||
| Sherlock | Sarah Arthur | PBS |