1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Winner and Nominees

Rain Man

Dustin Hoffman

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Bird

Forest Whitaker

Dominick and Eugene

Tom Hulce

Mississippi Burning

Gene Hackman

Stand and Deliver

Edward James Olmos