Golden Globe Winners for Best Television Film

by Hoekkie | created - 28 Mar 2020 | updated - 15 Aug 2020 | Public

These movies won a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'. Which one is your favorite or which one would you like to see?

Note: The full name of the Golden Globe Award category is 'Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television'. In this poll the miniseries are excluded.

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1. Behind the Candelabra (2013)

TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Eric Zuckerman

Votes: 45,409

2014 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

2. Game Change (2012 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Peter MacNicol

Votes: 23,214

2013 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

3. Grey Gardens (2009 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 104 min | Biography, Drama

The lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Director: Michael Sucsy | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ken Howard

Votes: 11,215

2010 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

4. Longford (2006 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 93 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Lee Boardman, Jim Broadbent, Tam Dean Burn, Lindsay Duncan

Votes: 3,291

2008 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

5. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

TV-MA | 122 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow

Votes: 15,291

2005 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

6. The Gathering Storm (2002 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache

Votes: 7,050

2003 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

7. Dirty Pictures (2000 TV Movie)

R | 104 min | Drama

A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Woods, Ann Marin, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid

Votes: 872

2001 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

8. RKO 281 (1999 TV Movie)

R | 86 min | Biography, Drama

Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich

Votes: 6,504

2000 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

9. Rasputin (1996 TV Movie)

R | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History

HBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen, David Warner

Votes: 3,982

1997 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

10. Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995 TV Movie)

R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller

Lawyers and the media argue the alleged child abuse at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Lolita Davidovich, Sada Thompson

Votes: 4,184

1996 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

11. The Burning Season: The Chico Mendes Story (1994 TV Movie)

R | 123 min | Biography, Drama

Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers who want to cut down their part of the rainforest for a new road and ... See full summary »

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Raul Julia, Carmen Argenziano, Sonia Braga, Kamala Lopez

Votes: 755

1995 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

12. Barbarians at the Gate (1993 TV Movie)

R | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers.

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy

Votes: 3,397

1994 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

13. One Against the Wind (1991 TV Movie)

PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama

Mary Lindell works for the French Red Cross in occupied France during World War II and helps Allied airmen who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are ... See full summary »

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Anthony Higgins, Christien Anholt

Votes: 569

1992 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

14. Decoration Day (1990 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama

A grumpy man must rejoin his community when his godchild gets in trouble and a childhood friend refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.

Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: James Garner, Judith Ivey, Ruby Dee, Bill Cobbs

Votes: 607

1991 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

15. Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987 TV Movie)

282 min | Biography, Drama

The true story of one of the richest women in America - heiress to the Woolworth fortune. She had vast wealth and seven husbands, but never found lasting love.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, David Ackroyd, Stéphane Audran, Amadeus August

Votes: 501

1988 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television' - Tied with Escape from Sobibor (1987)

16. Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 143 min | Drama, History, War

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker

Votes: 9,830

1988 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television' - Tied with Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987).

17. Promise (1986 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama, Family

When his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house, but also the custody of his younger brother, who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. At the age of 21, Bob promised to look after... See full summary »

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: James Garner, James Woods, Piper Laurie, Peter Michael Goetz

Votes: 488

1987 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

18. Something About Amelia (1984 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

Counseling helps a family deal with the discovery that their daughter was sexually abused by a close relative.

Director: Randa Haines | Stars: Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Olivia Cole, Roxana Zal

Votes: 620

1985 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

19. Bill (1981 TV Movie)

97 min | Biography, Drama

Bill Sackter, a intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner-city institution. He is taken in by a kind ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Dennis Quaid, Largo Woodruff, Anna Maria Horsford

Votes: 781

1982 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

20. The Shadow Box (1980 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

Three terminally-ill cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds, where they are attended and visited by both family and close friends.

Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Valerie Harper, James Broderick

Votes: 243

1981 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

21. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 150 min | Drama, War

A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm

Votes: 10,540

1980 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

22. A Family Upside Down (1978 TV Movie)

98 min | Drama

An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Helen Hayes, Fred Astaire, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Pat Crowley

Votes: 163

1979 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

23. Raid on Entebbe (1976)

Not Rated | 145 min | Action, Drama, History

True story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Balsam

Votes: 3,808

1978 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

24. Babe (1975 TV Movie)

106 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The story of Babe Didrickson, who won two gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics and returned to become a world champion golfer, her battles to be accepted as a woman in a man's sports world, and her fight against cancer.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Susan Clark, Alex Karras, Slim Pickens, Jeanette Nolan

Votes: 322

1976 Winner of 'Best Motion Picture Made for Television'

25. That Certain Summer (1972 TV Movie)

73 min | Drama

Teenager Nick Salter visits his divorced father Doug and meets Dad's new friend Gary McLain. But Doug enjoys Gary's company more than the company of women. Nick must then learn to deal with Doug's homosexuality.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen, Joe Don Baker, Marlyn Mason

Votes: 492

1973 Winner of 'Best Movie Made for TV'

26. The Snow Goose (1971 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama

An aging artist who lives a solitary life as a lighthouse keeper in an Essex fishing village assists a young orphan girl in caring for a wounded snow goose.

Director: Patrick Garland | Stars: Richard Harris, Jenny Agutter, Graham Crowden, Freda Bamford

Votes: 449

1972 Winner of 'Best Movie Made for TV'



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