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Globes – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

List of winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama!

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2020 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Joker

Joaquin Phoenix

2019 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Bohemian Rhapsody

Rami Malek

2018 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Darkest Hour

Gary Oldman

2017 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck

2016 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio

2015 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

2013 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Lincoln

Daniel Day-Lewis

2012 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Descendants

George Clooney

2011 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The King’s Speech

Colin Firth

2010 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges

2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

2007 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

2005 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Aviator

Leonardo DiCaprio

2004 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Mystic River

Sean Penn

2003 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

About Schmidt

Jack Nicholson

2002 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

A Beautiful Mind

Russell Crowe

2001 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Cast Away

Tom Hanks

2000 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Hurricane

Denzel Washington

1999 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Truman Show

Jim Carrey

1998 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Ulee’s Gold

Peter Fonda

1997 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Shine

Geoffrey Rush

1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Leaving Las Vegas

Nicolas Cage

1995 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Forrest Gump

Tom Hanks

1994 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Philadelphia

Tom Hanks

1993 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1991 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

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

Rain Man

Dustin Hoffman

1988 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Wall Street

Michael Douglas

1987 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Mona Lisa

Bob Hoskins

1986 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Runaway Train

Jon Voight

1985 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Amadeus

F. Murray Abraham

1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Tender Mercies

Robert Duvall

1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Dresser

Tom Courtenay

1983 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Gandhi

Ben Kingsley

1982 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

On Golden Pond

Henry Fonda

1981 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Raging Bull

Robert De Niro

1980 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Kramer vs. Kramer

Dustin Hoffman

1979 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Coming Home

Jon Voight

1978 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Equus

Richard Burton

1977 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1975 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Chinatown

Jack Nicholson

1974 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Serpico

Al Pacino

1973 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Godfather

Marlon Brando

1972 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The French Connection

Gene Hackman

1971 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Patton

George C. Scott

1970 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1968 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1966 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Doctor Zhivago

Omar Sharif

1965 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Becket

Peter O’Toole

1964 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1962 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell

1961 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Elmer Gantry

Burt Lancaster

1960 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Career

Anthony Franciosa

1959 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1957 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Lust for Life

Kirk Douglas

1956 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Marty

Ernest Borgnine

1955 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

On the Waterfront

Marlon Brando

1954 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Actress

Spencer Tracy

1953 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

High Noon

Gary Cooper

1952 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

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

1950 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

All the King’s Men

Broderick Crawford

1949 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Hamlet

Laurence Olivier

1948 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

A Double Life

Ronald Colman

1947 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Yearling

Gregory Peck

1946 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Lost Weekend

Ray Milland

1945 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Wilson

Alexander Knox

1944 Golden Globe Awards – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Watch on the Rhine

Paul Lukas