| Primetime Emmy Award for Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie |
| Presenter: | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| Country: | United States |
| Holder: | Beef (2023) |
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.
In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 (22nd) [1] | ||||
| My Sweet Charlie | Edward M. Abroms | NBC | ||
| The Bob Hope Christmas Special | Anthony Carras, Jim Henrikson, Igo Kantor, Frank McKelvey and Stan Siegel | NBC | ||
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Gene Fowler Jr. | ABC | ||
| 1971 (23rd) [2] | ||||
| Longstreet | George Nicholson | ABC | ||
| The Neon Ceiling | Robert F. Shugrue | NBC | ||
| Vanished | Robert Watts | |||
| 1972 (24th) [3] | ||||
| Brian's Song | Bud S. Isaacs | ABC | ||
| The Glass House | Gene Fowler Jr. | CBS | ||
| The Snow Goose | Ken Pearce | NBC | ||
| 1973 (25th) [4] | ||||
| Surrender at Appomattox: Appointment with Destiny | Peter C. Johnson and Ed Spiegel | CBS | ||
| Go Ask Alice | Henry Berman | NBC | ||
| Liza with a Z | Alan Heim | |||
| 1974 (26th) [5] | ||||
| The Execution of Private Slovik | Frank Morriss | NBC | ||
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Sidney Levin | CBS | ||
| A Case of Rape | Richard Bracken | NBC | ||
| 1975 (27th) | ||||
| The Legend of Lizzie Borden | John A. Martinelli | ABC | ||
| QB VII | "Parts 1 & 2" | Byron 'Buzz' Brandt and Irving Rosenblum | ||
| Jerry Young | CBS | |||
| 1976 (28th) [6] | ||||
| Eleanor and Franklin | Michael Kahn | ABC | ||
| Babe | Henry Berman | CBS | ||
| I Will Fight No More Forever | Robert K. Lambert | ABC | ||
| The Night That Panicked America | Bud S. Isaacs, Tony Radecki and George Jay Nicholson | |||
| The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Rita Roland | NBC | ||
| 1977 (29th) [7] | ||||
| Rita Roland and Michael S. McLean | ABC | |||
| Helter Skelter | Byron 'Buzz' Brandt and Bud S. Isaacs | CBS | ||
| The Loneliest Runner | John Loeffler | NBC | ||
| Raid on Entebbe | Bud S. Isaacs, Art Seid and Nick Archer | |||
| 21 Hours at Munich | Ronald J. Fagan | ABC | ||
| 1978 (30th) [8] | ||||
| The Defection of Simas Kudirka | John A. Martinelli | CBS | ||
| Just a Little Inconvenience | Bernard J. Small | NBC | ||
| A Killing Affair | Ken Zemke | CBS | ||
| Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night | Kenneth R. Koch | |||
| To Kill a Cop | Harry Kaye and Donald R. Rode | NBC | ||
| Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy | Ronald J. Fagen | ABC | ||
| Zeigfeld: The Man and His Women | Les Green | NBC | ||
| 1979 (31st) [9] | ||||
| The Jericho Mile | Arthur Schmidt | ABC | ||
| Centennial | "Only the Rocks Live Forever" | Robert Watts | NBC | |
| First, You Cry | James Galloway | CBS | ||
| Ike | "Part 3" | John Woodcock, Bill Lenny and Paul Dixon | ABC | |
| The Winds of Kitty Hawk | John A. Martinelli | NBC | ||
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 (32nd) [10] | ||||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Bill Blunden and Alan Pattillo | CBS | ||
| Attica | Paul La Mastra | ABC | ||
| Kenny Rogers as The Gambler | Jerrold L. Ludwig | CBS | ||
| The Silent Lovers | David Newhouse | NBC | ||
| S.O.S. Titanic | John A. Martinelli and Rusty Coppleman | ABC | ||
| When Hell Was in Session | John Woodcock | NBC | ||
| 1981 (33rd) [11] | Murder in Texas | John A. Martinelli | NBC | |
| The Best Little Girl in the World | Barbara Dies and Michael S. McLean | ABC | ||
| Bitter Harvest | Thomas Fries | NBC | ||
| Masada | "Part 4" | John Bloom, Edwin F. England and Peter Kirby | ABC | |
| Shōgun | "Part 5" | Donald R. Rode, Benjamin A. Weissman, Jerry Young and Bill Luciano | NBC | |
| A Whale for the Killing | Michael Eliot and Robert Florio | ABC | ||
| 1982 (34th) [12] | A Woman Called Golda | Robert F. Shugrue | Syndicated | |
| Inside the Third Reich | James T. Heckert, Richard Belding and Les Green | |||
| Marco Polo | "Part 4" | John A. Martinelli | NBC | |
| A Piano for Mrs. Cimino | Rita Roland | CBS | ||
| 1983 (35th) [13] | The Thorn Birds | "Part 3" | Carroll Timothy O'Meara | ABC |
| The Blue and the Gray | "Part 1" | Fred A. Chulack and Bud Friedgen | CBS | |
| The Scarlet and the Black | Benjamin A. Weissman | |||
| The Thorn Birds | "Part 1" | Robert F. Shugrue | ABC | |
| Who Will Love My Children? | Jerrold L. Ludwig | |||
| The Winds of War | "Into the Maelstrom" | Bernard Gribble, Peter Zinner, John F. Burnett, Jack Tucker, Earle Herdan and Gary L. Smith | ||
| 1984 (36th) [14] | A Streetcar Named Desire | Jerrold L. Ludwig | ABC | |
| Dark Mirror | Bob Bring | ABC | ||
| The Day After | William Paul Dornisch and Robert Florio | |||
| The Dollmaker | Rita Roland | |||
| George Washington | "Part 3" | Les Green, Donald Douglas, David Wages and Mel Friedman | CBS | |
| Something About Amelia | Jack Harnish | ABC | ||
| 1985 (37th) [15] | Paul LaMastra | NBC | ||
| A.D. | "Part 5" | John A. Martinelli | NBC | |
| The Burning Bed | Richard Fetterman and Michael A. Stevenson | |||
| Hollywood Wives | "Part 2" | ABC | ||
| 1986 (38th) [16] | An Early Frost | Jerrold L. Ludwig | NBC | |
| Death of a Salesman | David Ray | CBS | ||
| Kane & Abel | "Part 1" | Mel Friedman, James Galloway and Les Green | ||
| "Part 2" | Ronald J. Fagan, Noelle Imparato and Rod Stephens | NBC | ||
| North and South | "Part 4" | Michael Eliot and Scott C. Eyler | ABC | |
| 1987 (39th) [17] | Steven Cohen | NBC | ||
| Fresno | "Part 4" | Andrew Chulack | CBS | |
| I'll Take Manhattan | "Part 1" | Michael Brown | ||
| Murder Ordained | "Part 2" | Michael Eliot | ||
| Unnatural Causes | Paul LaMastra | NBC | ||
| 1988 (40th) [18] | The Murder of Mary Phagan | John A. Martinelli | NBC | |
| Jerrold L. Ludwig | CBS | |||
| The Bourne Identity | Benjamin A. Weissman and Ellen Ring Jacobson | ABC | ||
| Foxfire | Paul LaMastra | CBS | ||
| James Galloway | NBC | |||
| To Heal a Nation | Gregory Prange and Millie Moore | |||
| 1989 (41st) [19] | War and Remembrance | "Part 10" | Peter Zinner and John F. Burnett | ABC |
| The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro | Robert K. Lambert | NBC | ||
| Lonesome Dove | "The Plains" | CBS | ||
| My Name Is Bill W. | Paul Rubell, John Wright | ABC | ||
| Roe vs. Wade | Elodie Keene and Joe Ann Fogle | NBC | ||
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (42nd) [20] | Caroline? | Paul LaMastra | CBS | |
| Blind Faith | "Part 2" | Christopher Cooke and James Galloway | NBC | |
| Center of Fire: Cousteau's Rediscovery of the World | Jane Lippman | TBS | ||
| A Killing in a Small Town | Harvey Rosenstock | CBS | ||
| The Shell Seekers | Fred A. Chulack | ABC | ||
| The Simpsons | "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" | Brian K. Roberts and Ric Eisman | Fox | |
| Small Sacrifices | "Part 2" | Parkie L. Singh | ABC | |
| 1991 (43rd) [21] | Sarah, Plain and Tall | John Wright | CBS | |
| The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | Eric A. Sears | TNT | ||
| Robert Florio | ||||
| Separate But Equal | "Part 2" | John W. Wheeler | ABC | |
| Stephen King's It | "Part 1" | Robert F. Shugrue and David Blangsted | ||
| 1992 (44th) [22] | Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal | Edgar Burcksen | ABC | |
| Afterburn | Jerrold L. Ludwig | HBO | ||
| Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel | "Part 2" | Douglas Ibold | NBC | |
| Homefront | "S.N.A.F.U." | William B. Stich and Michael B. Hoggan | ABC | |
| I'll Fly Away | "Pilot" | David Rosenbloom and Karen I. Stern | NBC | |
| 1993 (45th) [23] | Citizen Cohn | HBO | ||
| Alex Haley's Queen | "Part 3" | Paul LaMastra and James Galloway | CBS | |
| Barbarians at the Gate | Patrick Kennedy | HBO | ||
| Sinatra | "Part 1" | Scott Vickrey | CBS | |
| 1994 (46th) [24] | And the Band Played On | Lois Freeman-Fox | HBO | |
| Geronimo | Millie Moore | TNT | ||
| Gypsy | CBS | |||
| To Dance with the White Dog | Bill Blunden | |||
| "Part 1" | John A. Martinelli | NBC | ||
| 1995 (47th) [25] | HBO | |||
| Michael D. Ornstein | TNT | |||
| Buffalo Girls | Richard Bracken | CBS | ||
| Citizen X | HBO | |||
| The Piano Lesson | Jim Oliver | CBS | ||
| Geoffrey Rowland | NBC | |||
| 1996 (48th) [26] | The Tuskegee Airmen | David Beatty | HBO | |
| Andersonville | Paul Rubell | TNT | ||
| Gulliver's Travels | Peter Coulson | NBC | ||
| Hiroshima | Showtime | |||
| Truman | Lisa Fruchtman | HBO | ||
| 1997 (49th) [27] | Miss Evers' Boys | Michael Brown | HBO | |
| Crime of the Century | Antony Gibbs | HBO | ||
| Gotti | Zach Staenberg | |||
| If These Walls Could Talk | "1952" and "1974" | Elena Maganini | ||
| In Cold Blood | Michael D. Ornstein | CBS | ||
| The Man Who Captured Eichmann | Drake Silliman | TNT | ||
| 1998 (50th) [28] | Gia | Eric A. Sears | HBO | |
| Steven Cohen | HBO | |||
| From the Earth to the Moon | "Can We Do This?" | Laurie Grotstein | ||
| "1968" | Richard Pearson | |||
| Merlin | "Part 1" | Colin Green | NBC | |
| 1999 (51st) [29] | Horatio Hornblower | "The Duel" | Keith Palmer | A&E |
| Dash and Lilly | Cindy Mollo | A&E | ||
| Joan of Arc | "Part 2" | Ralph Brunjes | CBS | |
| Pirates of Silicon Valley | Richard Halsey | TNT | ||
| The Rat Pack | Eric A. Sears | HBO | ||
| The Temptations | "Part 2" | Neil Mandelberg and John Duffy | NBC | |
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (52nd) [30] | Tuesdays with Morrie | ABC | ||
| Annie | Scott Vickrey | ABC | ||
| "Part 1" | Geoffrey Rowland and Bryan M. Horne | |||
| Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Alan Heim | HBO | ||
| RKO 281 | Alex Mackie | |||
| 2001 (53rd) [31] | Wit | HBO | ||
| ABC | ||||
| Conspiracy | Peter Zinner | HBO | ||
| "Part 1" | Dody Dorn | ABC | ||
| 61* | Michael Jablow | HBO | ||
| 2002 (54th) [32] | Band of Brothers | "Day of Days" | Frances Parker | HBO |
| Band of Brothers | "Replacements" | Billy Fox | HBO | |
| James Dean | Antony Gibbs | TNT | ||
| The Lost Battalion | William B. Stich | A&E | ||
| Shackleton | "Part 2" | Peter Coulson | ||
| 2003 (55th) [33] | Live from Baghdad | Joe Hutshing | HBO | |
| Door to Door | Paul Dixon | TNT | ||
| "Part 1" | Henk Van Eeghen and Sylvain Lebel | CBS | ||
| Anita Brandt Burgoyne | Lifetime | |||
| Taken | "High Hopes" | Toni Morgan | Sci Fi | |
| 2004 (56th) [34] | Something the Lord Made | Michael Brown | HBO | |
| And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself | Mark Warner and Edward Warschilka | HBO | ||
| Angels in America | "Millennium Approaches" | John Bloom and Antonia Van Drimmelen | ||
| Battlestar Galactica | "Part 1" | Dany Cooper | Sci Fi | |
| William B. Stich | FX | |||
| Chris Peppe | A&E | |||
| 2005 (57th) [35] | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | John Smith | HBO | |
| Back When We Were Grownups | Tina Hirsch | CBS | ||
| Empire Falls | "Part 2" | Kate Williams | HBO | |
| Faith of My Fathers | Scott Boyd | A&E | ||
| The Wool Cap | Paul Dixon | TNT | ||
| 2006 (58th) [36] | Elizabeth I | "Part 1" | Beverley Mills | HBO |
| Elizabeth I | "Part 2" | HBO | ||
| Flight 93 | Scott Boyd | A&E | ||
| The Girl in the Café | Mark Day | HBO | ||
| The Ten Commandments | Ingrid Koller, Klaus Hundsbichler, Victor Du Bois and Mark Conte | ABC | ||
| 2007 (59th) [37] | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Michael D. Ornstein and Michael Brown | HBO | |
| The Path to 9/11 | "Part 2" | Geoffrey Rowland, Eric A. Sears, Bryan M. Horne, David Handman and Mitchell Danton | ABC | |
| Broken Trail | "Part 2" | Freeman A. Davies and Phil Norden | AMC | |
| Jane Eyre | "Part 1" | Jason Krasucki | PBS | |
| Life Support | HBO | |||
| The Starter Wife | "Part 3" | Robert Florio | USA | |
| 2008 (60th) [38] | Recount | Alan Baumgarten | HBO | |
| The Andromeda Strain | "Part 1" | Scott Vickrey | A&E | |
| The Extra Special Series Finale | Richard Halladey and Graham Barker | HBO | ||
| John Adams | "Independence" | Melanie Oliver | ||
| Tin Man | "Part 1" | Allan Lee | Sci Fi | |
| 2009 (61st) [39] | Taking Chance | Lee Percy and Brian A. Kates | HBO | |
| Generation Kill | "A Burning Dog" | Oral Norrie Ottey | HBO | |
| "The Cradle of Civilization" | Jason Krasucki | |||
| Grey Gardens | Alan Heim and Lee Percy | |||
| Scott Powell | Fox | |||
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (62nd) [40] | Temple Grandin | Leo Trombetta | HBO | |
| The Pacific | "Part 5" | Edward A. Warschilka | HBO | |
| "Part 8" | Alan Cody | |||
| "Part 9" | Alan Cody and Marta Évry | |||
| You Don't Know Jack | Aaron Yanes | |||
| 2011 (63rd) [41] | Cinema Verite | HBO | ||
| Downton Abbey | "Episode One" | John Wilson | PBS | |
| Mildred Pierce | "Part 4" | Camilla Toniolo | HBO | |
| Sherlock | Charlie Phillips | PBS | ||
| Too Big to Fail | Barbara Tulliver and Plummy Tucker | HBO | ||
| 2012 (64th) [42] | Hatfields & McCoys | "Part 2" | Don Cassidy | History |
| American Horror Story | "Birth" | Fabienne Bouville | FX | |
| Game Change | HBO | |||
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | Walter Murch | |||
| Sherlock | Charlie Phillips | PBS | ||
| 2013 (65th) [43] | Behind the Candelabra | HBO | ||
| "Nor'easter" | Fabienne Bouville | FX | ||
| Killing Lincoln | Steve Polivka | Nat Geo | ||
| Phil Spector | Barbara Tulliver | HBO | ||
| Top of the Lake | "Part 5" | Alexandre de Franceschi and Scott Gray | Sundance | |
| 2014 (66th) [44] | Sherlock | Yan Miles | PBS | |
| Fargo | "Buridan's Ass" | Regis Kimble | FX | |
| "The Crocodile's Dilemma" | Skip Macdonald | |||
| "The Rooster Prince" | Bridget Durnford | |||
| The Normal Heart | Adam Penn | |||
| 2015 (67th) [45] | Olive Kitteridge | "Security" | Jeffrey M. Werner | HBO |
| American Crime | "Episode One" | Luyen Vu | ABC | |
| Houdini | "Part 1" | Sabrina Plisco and David Beatty | History | |
| "10:00 p.m. – 11:00 a.m." | Scott Powell | Fox | ||
| Wolf Hall | "Entirely Beloved" | David Blackmore | PBS | |
| 2016 (68th) [46] | ||||
| "The Race Card" | C. Chi-Yoon Chung | FX | ||
| Fargo | "Did You Do This? No, You Did It | " | FX | |
| "Waiting for Dutch" | Skip Macdonald | |||
| "From the Ashes of Tragedy" | Adam Penn | |||
| "The Verdict" | Stewart Schill | |||
| 2017 (69th) [47] | ||||
| The Night Of | "The Beach" | Jay Cassidy and Nick Houy | HBO | |
| Big Little Lies | "You Get What You Need" | Veronique Barbe, David Berman, Justin LaChance, Maxime Lahaie, Sylvain Lebel and Jim Vega | HBO | |
| Fargo | "Aporia" | Henk Van Eeghen | FX | |
| "The Law of Vacant Places" | Regis Kimble | |||
| "The Narrow Escape Problem" | Curtis Thurber | |||
| 2018 (70th) [48] | ||||
| USS Callister (Black Mirror) | Selina MacArthur | Netflix | ||
| "Alone" | Emily Greene | FX | ||
| "House by the Lake" | Shelly Westerman | |||
| "Manhunt" | Chi-Yoon Chung | |||
| Twin Peaks | "Part 8" | Duwayne Dunham, Brian Berdan, Jonathan P. Shaw, Justin Krohn, Jason W.A. Tucker and David Lynch | Showtime | |
| 2019 (71st) [49] | ||||
| Chernobyl | "Please Remain Calm" | Simon Smith | HBO | |
| Chernobyl | "Open Wide, O Earth" | Jinx Godfrey | HBO | |
| Martin Nicholson and Erick Fefferman | ||||
| Fosse/Verdon | "Life Is a Cabaret" | Tim Streeto | FX | |
| Sharp Objects | "Fix" | Véronique Barbe, Justin Lachance, Maxime Lahaie, Émile Vallée and Jai M. Vee | HBO | |
| True Detective | "If You Have Ghosts" | Leo Trombetta | ||
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominees | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (72nd) [50] | ||||
| Watchmen | "A God Walks into Abar" | Henk Van Eeghen | HBO | |
| Skip Macdonald | Netflix | |||
| Mrs. America | "Phyllis" | Robert Komatsu | FX | |
| Watchmen | "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" | David Eisenberg | HBO | |
| "This Extraordinary Being" | Anna Hauger | |||
| 2021 (73rd) [51] | ||||
| The Queen's Gambit | "Exchanges" | Michelle Tesoro | Netflix | |
| Mare of Easttown | "Fathers" | Amy E. Duddleston and Naomi Sunrise Filoramo | HBO | |
| "Miss Lady Hawk Herself" | Amy E. Duddleston | |||
| WandaVision | "On a Very Special Episode..." | Nona Khodai | Disney+ | |
| "The Series Finale" | Zene Baker, Michael A. Webber, Nona Khodai and Tim Roche | |||
| 2022 (74th) [52] | ||||
| The White Lotus | "Departures" | John M. Valerio | HBO | |
| Dopesick | "Black Box Warning" | C. Chi-yoon Chung | Hulu | |
| "First Bottle" | Douglas Crise | |||
| Pam & Tommy | "I Love You, Tommy" | Tatiana S. Riegel | ||
| Station Eleven | "Unbroken Circle" | David Eisenberg, Anna Hauger, Anthony McAfee and Yoni Reiss | HBO Max | |
| The White Lotus | "Mysterious Monkeys" | Heather Persons | HBO | |
| 2023 (75th) [53] | ||||
| Beef | "Figures of Light" | Nat Fuller and Laura Zempel | Netflix | |
| "The Good Boy Box" | Stephanie Filo | Netflix | ||
| Ms. Marvel | "Generation Why" | Nona Khodai and Sabrina Plisco | Disney+ | |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi | "Part VI" | Kelley Dixon and Josh Earl | ||
| Prey | Angela M. Catanzaro and Claudia Castello | Hulu | ||
| Jamie Kennedy | Roku | |||
| 2024 (76th) [54] | ||||
| Baby Reindeer | "Episode 4" | Peter H. Oliver and Benjamin Gerstein | Netflix | |
| Black Mirror | "Beyond the Sea" | Jon Harris | ||
| Fargo | "The Tragedy of the Commons" | Regis Kimble | FX | |
| Ripley | "III Sommerso" | Joshua Raymond Lee and David O. Rogers | Netflix | |
| True Detective: Night Country | "Part 4" | Matt Chessé | HBO | |
| "Part 6" | Brenna Rangott | |||