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2020 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Joker Joaquin Phoenix](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/joker-todd-phillips-image.jpg)
Joker
Joaquin Phoenix
2019 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Bohemian Rhapsody Rami Malek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bohemian-rhapsody-bryan-singer-image.jpg)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Rami Malek
2018 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Darkest Hour Gary Oldman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/darkest-hour-joe-wright-image.jpg)
Darkest Hour
Gary Oldman
2017 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/manchester-by-the-sea-kenneth-lonergan-image.jpg)
Manchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck
2016 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Revenant Leonardo DiCaprio](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-revenant-image.jpg)
The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio
2015 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Theory of Everything Eddie Redmayne](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-theory-of-everything-james-marsh-image.jpg)
The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne
2014 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dallas-buyers-club-jean-marc-vallee-image.jpg)
Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey
2013 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Lincoln Daniel Day-Lewis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lincoln-steven-spielberg-image.jpg)
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis
2012 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Descendants George Clooney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-descendants-image.jpg)
The Descendants
George Clooney
2011 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The King's Speech Colin Firth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-kings-speech-tom-hooper-image.jpg)
The King’s Speech
Colin Firth
2010 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/crazy-heart-scott-cooper-image.jpg)
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges
2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Wrestler Mickey Rourke](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-wrestler-darren-aronofsky-image.jpg)
The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke
2008 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![There Will Be Blood Daniel Day-Lewis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/there-will-be-blood-paul-thomas-anderson-image.jpg)
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis
2007 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Last King of Scotland Forest Whitaker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-last-king-of-scotland-kevin-macdonald-image.jpg)
The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker
2006 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/capote-image.jpg)
Capote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2005 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Aviator Leonardo DiCaprio](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-aviator-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
The Aviator
Leonardo DiCaprio
2004 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Mystic River Sean Penn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mystic-river-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Mystic River
Sean Penn
2003 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![About Schmidt Jack Nicholson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/about-schmidt-image.jpg)
About Schmidt
Jack Nicholson
2002 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![A Beautiful Mind Russell Crowe](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-beautiful-mind-ron-howard-image.jpg)
A Beautiful Mind
Russell Crowe
2001 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Cast Away Tom Hanks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cast-away-robert-zemeckis-image.jpg)
Cast Away
Tom Hanks
2000 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Hurricane Denzel Washington](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hurricane-norman-jewison-image.jpg)
The Hurricane
Denzel Washington
1999 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Truman Show Jim Carrey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-truman-show-peter-weir-image.jpg)
The Truman Show
Jim Carrey
1998 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Ulee's Gold Peter Fonda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ulees-gold-victor-nunez-image.jpg)
Ulee’s Gold
Peter Fonda
1997 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Shine Geoffrey Rush](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shine-scott-hicks-image.jpg)
Shine
Geoffrey Rush
1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Leaving Las Vegas Nicolas Cage](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/leaving-las-vegas-mike-figgis-image.jpg)
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicolas Cage
1995 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Forrest Gump Tom Hanks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/forrest-gump-robert-zemeckis-image.jpg)
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks
1994 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Philadelphia Tom Hanks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/philadelphia-jonathan-demme-image.jpg)
Philadelphia
Tom Hanks
1993 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Scent of a Woman Al Pacino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/scent-of-a-woman-martin-brest-image.jpg)
Scent of a Woman
Al Pacino
1992 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Prince of Tides Nick Nolte](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-prince-of-tides-image.jpg)
The Prince of Tides
Nick Nolte
1991 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Reversal of Fortune Jeremy Irons](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/reversal-of-fortune-image.jpg)
Reversal of Fortune
Jeremy Irons
1990 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Born on the Fourth of July Tom Cruise](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/born-on-the-fourth-of-july-oliver-stone-image.jpg)
Born on the Fourth of July
Tom Cruise
1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Rain Man Dustin Hoffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/rain-man-image.jpg)
Rain Man
Dustin Hoffman
1988 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Wall Street Michael Douglas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wall-street-oliver-stone-image.jpg)
Wall Street
Michael Douglas
1987 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Mona Lisa Bob Hoskins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mona-lisa-neil-jordan-image.jpg)
Mona Lisa
Bob Hoskins
1986 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Runaway Train Jon Voight](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/runaway-train-image.jpg)
Runaway Train
Jon Voight
1985 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Amadeus F. Murray Abraham](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/amadeus-image.jpg)
Amadeus
F. Murray Abraham
1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Tender Mercies Robert Duvall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tender-mercies-image.jpg)
Tender Mercies
Robert Duvall
1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Dresser Tom Courtenay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-dresser-image.jpg)
The Dresser
Tom Courtenay
1983 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Gandhi Ben Kingsley](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gandhi-richard-attenborough-image.jpg)
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
1982 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![On Golden Pond Henry Fonda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/on-golden-pond-mark-rydell-image.jpg)
On Golden Pond
Henry Fonda
1981 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Raging Bull Robert De Niro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/raging-bull-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
Raging Bull
Robert De Niro
1980 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Kramer vs. Kramer Dustin Hoffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kramer-vs.-kramer-robert-benton-image.jpg)
Kramer vs. Kramer
Dustin Hoffman
1979 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Coming Home Jon Voight](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coming-home-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Coming Home
Jon Voight
1978 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Equus Richard Burton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/equus-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Equus
Richard Burton
1977 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Network Peter Finch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/network-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Network
Peter Finch
1976 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Jack Nicholson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-milos-forman-image.jpg)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Jack Nicholson
1975 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Chinatown Jack Nicholson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/chinatown-roman-polanski-image.jpg)
Chinatown
Jack Nicholson
1974 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Serpico Al Pacino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/serpico-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Serpico
Al Pacino
1973 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Godfather Marlon Brando](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-godfather-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
The Godfather
Marlon Brando
1972 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The French Connection Gene Hackman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-french-connection-william-friedkin-image.jpg)
The French Connection
Gene Hackman
1971 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Patton George C. Scott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/patton-franklin-j.-schaffner-image.jpg)
Patton
George C. Scott
1970 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![True Grit John Wayne](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/true-grit-henry-hathaway-image.jpg)
True Grit
John Wayne
1969 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Lion in Winter Peter O'Toole](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lion-in-winter-image.jpg)
The Lion in Winter
Peter O’Toole
1968 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![In the Heat of the Night Rod Steiger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-heat-of-the-night-norman-jewison-image.jpg)
In the Heat of the Night
Rod Steiger
1967 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![A Man for All Seasons Paul Scofield](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-man-for-all-seasons-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
A Man for All Seasons
Paul Scofield
1966 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Doctor Zhivago Omar Sharif](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/doctor-zhivago-david-lean-image.jpg)
Doctor Zhivago
Omar Sharif
1965 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Becket Peter O'Toole](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/becket-peter-glenville-image.jpg)
Becket
Peter O’Toole
1964 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Lilies of the Field Sidney Poitier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lilies-of-the-field-ralph-nelson-image.jpg)
Lilies of the Field
Sidney Poitier
1963 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![To Kill a Mockingbird Gregory Peck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/to-kill-a-mockingbird-robert-mulligan-image.jpg)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck
1962 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Judgment at Nuremberg Maximilian Schell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/judgment-at-nuremberg-stanley-kramer-image.jpg)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Maximilian Schell
1961 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/elmer-gantry-richard-brooks-image.jpg)
Elmer Gantry
Burt Lancaster
1960 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Career Anthony Franciosa](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/career-joseph-anthony-image.jpg)
Career
Anthony Franciosa
1959 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Separate Tables David Niven](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/separate-tables-delbert-mann-image.jpg)
Separate Tables
David Niven
1958 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Bridge on the River Kwai Alec Guinness](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-david-lean-image.jpg)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alec Guinness
1957 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Lust for Life Kirk Douglas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lust-for-life-vincente-minnelli-george-cukorco-director-image.jpg)
Lust for Life
Kirk Douglas
1956 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Marty Ernest Borgnine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marty-delbert-mann-image.jpg)
Marty
Ernest Borgnine
1955 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![On the Waterfront Marlon Brando](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/on-the-waterfront-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
On the Waterfront
Marlon Brando
1954 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Actress Spencer Tracy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-actress-george-cukor-image.jpg)
The Actress
Spencer Tracy
1953 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![High Noon Gary Cooper](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/high-noon-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
High Noon
Gary Cooper
1952 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Death of a Salesman Fredric March](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/death-of-a-salesman-laslo-benedek-image.jpg)
Death of a Salesman
Fredric March
1951 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Cyrano de Bergerac José Ferrer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cyrano-de-bergerac-michael-gordon-image.jpg)
Cyrano de Bergerac
José Ferrer
1950 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![All the King's Men Broderick Crawford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/all-the-kings-men-robert-rossen-image.jpg)
All the King’s Men
Broderick Crawford
1949 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Hamlet Laurence Olivier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hamlet-laurence-olivier-image.jpg)
Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
1948 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![A Double Life Ronald Colman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-double-life-george-cukor-image.jpg)
A Double Life
Ronald Colman
1947 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Yearling Gregory Peck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-yearling-clarence-brown-image.jpg)
The Yearling
Gregory Peck
1946 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![The Lost Weekend Ray Milland](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lost-weekend-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Lost Weekend
Ray Milland
1945 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Wilson Alexander Knox](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wilson-henry-king-image.jpg)
Wilson
Alexander Knox
1944 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
![Watch on the Rhine Paul Lukas](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/watch-on-the-rhine-herman-shumlin-hal-mohr-image.jpg)