Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

1972 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerThe French ConnectionGene HackmanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.Amazon1972 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesA Clockwork OrangeMalcolm McDowellAmazonCarnal KnowledgeJack NicholsonAmazonSunday Bloody SundayPeter FinchAmazonThe HospitalGeorge C. ScottAmazon

1963 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerTo Kill a MockingbirdGregory PeckAtticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.Amazon1963 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesBirdman of AlcatrazBurt LancasterAmazonDays of Wine and RosesJack LemmonAmazonGigotJackie GleasonAmazonLawrence of ArabiaPeter O'TooleAmazonLawrence of ArabiaAnthony QuinnAmazonLolitaJames MasonAmazonPressure PointBobby DarinAmazonSweet Bird of YouthPaul NewmanAmazonThe Wonderful World of the Brothers GrimmLaurence HarveyAmazon

1964 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerLilies of the FieldSidney PoitierA travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.Amazon1964 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesAmerica AmericaStathis GiallelisAmazonCaptain Newman, M.D.Gregory PeckAmazonCleopatraRex HarrisonAmazonHudPaul NewmanAmazonLove with the Proper StrangerSteve McQueenAmazonThe CardinalTom TryonAmazonThe Ugly AmericanMarlon BrandoAmazon

1965 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerBecketPeter O'TooleKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.Amazon1965 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesBecketRichard BurtonAmazonRio ConchosAnthony FranciosaAmazonSeven Days in MayFredric MarchAmazonZorba the GreekAnthony QuinnAmazon

1966 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerDoctor ZhivagoOmar SharifThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.Amazon1966 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesA Patch of BlueSidney PoitierAmazonShip of FoolsOskar WernerAmazonThe Agony and the EcstasyRex HarrisonAmazonThe PawnbrokerRod SteigerAmazon

1967 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerA Man for All SeasonsPaul ScofieldThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon1967 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesAlfieMichael CaineAmazonHawaiiMax von SydowAmazonThe Sand PebblesSteve McQueenAmazonWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Richard BurtonAmazon

1968 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerIn the Heat of the NightRod SteigerAn African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.Amazon1968 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesBonnie and ClydeWarren BeattyAmazonCool Hand LukePaul NewmanAmazonFar from the Madding CrowdAlan BatesAmazonGuess Who's Coming to DinnerSpencer TracyAmazonIn the Heat of the NightSidney PoitierAmazon

1969 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerThe Lion in WinterPeter O'Toole1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.Amazon1969 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesCharlyCliff RobertsonAmazonThe Boston StranglerTony CurtisAmazonThe FixerAlan BatesAmazonThe Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan ArkinAmazon

1970 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerTrue GritJohn WayneA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.Amazon1970 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesAnne of the Thousand DaysRichard BurtonAmazonMidnight CowboyJon VoightAmazonMidnight CowboyDustin HoffmanAmazonPopiAlan ArkinAmazon

1971 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerPattonGeorge C. ScottThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon1971 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesFive Easy PiecesJack NicholsonAmazonI Never Sang for My FatherMelvyn DouglasAmazonLove StoryRyan O'NealAmazonThe Great White HopeJames Earl JonesAmazon