Outstanding Lead Actress in A Miniseries or Movie
- Glenn Close for playing Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
- Sally Field for playing Bess Gardner Steed in A Woman of Independent Means
- Anjelica Huston for playing Calamity Jane in Buffalo Girls
- Diane Keaton for playing Amelia Earhart in Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
- Alfre Woodard for playing Berniece Charles in The Piano Lesson
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