2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Winner
![The Wrestler Mickey Rourke](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-wrestler-darren-aronofsky-image.jpg)
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominees
![Frost/Nixon Frank Langella](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/frostnixon-ron-howard-image.jpg)
Frost/Nixon
Frank Langella
![Milk Sean Penn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/milk-gus-van-sant-image.jpg)
Milk
Sean Penn
![Revolutionary Road Leonardo DiCaprio](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/revolutionary-road-sam-mendes-image.jpg)
Revolutionary Road
Leonardo DiCaprio
![The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Brad Pitt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-david-fincher-image.jpg)