Golden Globe Best Mini-Series

The Golden Globe Award for Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film is an accolade presented during the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony to honor the most remarkable miniseries or movie made for television. The ceremony is conducted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) that comprise of journalists and photographers covering the American entertainment industry for publications mainly in non-US media markets. The award marks as a token of honor for the winning miniseries or made for television movie, recognizing it as the finest and most outstanding small screen program in the category for that year.

The HFPA started honoring outstanding television works from the 13th Golden Globe Awards held in February 1956 and first presented this category on February 6, 1972, during the 29th Golden Globe Awards that saw the British television drama film The Snow Goose winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Film. No award was given in the category from the 31st Golden Globe Awards (1974) to the 33rd Golden Globe Awards (1976) and again during the 36th Golden Globe Awards (1979). During the 39th Golden Globe Awards (1982), the CBS aired made-for-television biographical drama film Bill won the Best Miniseries or Television Film award tying with the ABC aired television miniseries East of Eden, marking the first tie in this category. The only other instance when the award witnessed a tie was in 1988 when the ITV and CBS aired British television film Escape from Sobibor and the NBC aired American television biographical drama Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story won the award.

The American anthology true crime television series American Crime Story broadcast on FX in the US has won two awards, which marks as the most, in this category. The first came in 2017 for The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story and the second in 2019 for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. The series also holds the record of garnering most nominations in the category with three tying with the American black comedy crime drama television series Fargo, also aired by FX. The latter won one award in the category in 2015. Other notable miniseries or television films that won the award includes the American epic Western adventure television miniseries Lonesome Dove in 1990; the French-German biographical film and television miniseries Carlos in 2011; the American political drama television film Game Change in 2013; the American coming-of-age period drama streaming television miniseries The Queen's Gambit in 2021; and the American dark comedy-drama anthology television series The White Lotus in 2023.

HBO, as a network, has bagged most awards in this category with 20. It is followed by ABC with 7 awards; CBS with 5 awards; PBS with 4 awards; and FX and NBC with 3 awards each.

List of Winners - Golden Globes Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Television