Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winners

2024	The Brutalist ★☆☆
2023	Oppenheimer ★★☆
2022	The Fabelmans ☆☆
2021	The Power of the Dog ★☆☆
2020	Nomadland ★★★☆
2019	1917 ★☆☆
2018	Bohemian Rhapsody ☆☆
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ★☆☆
2016	Moonlight ★☆
2015	The Revenant ★☆☆
2014	Boyhood ★☆☆
2013	12 Years a Slave ★★☆
2012	Argo ★★☆
2011	The Descendants ★☆☆
2010	The Social Network ★☆☆
2009	Avatar ★☆☆
2008	Slumdog Millionaire ★★☆
2007	Atonement ★☆☆
2006	Babel ★☆☆
2005	Brokeback Mountain ★★☆☆
2004	The Aviator ★☆☆
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ★★☆
2002	The Hours ★☆☆
2001	A Beautiful Mind ★★☆
2000	Gladiator ★★☆
1999	American Beauty ★★☆
1998	Saving Private Ryan ★☆☆
1997	Titanic ★★☆
1996	The English Patient ★★☆
1995	Sense and Sensibility ★☆☆
1994	Forrest Gump ★★☆
1993	Schindler's List ★★☆
1992	Scent of a Woman ☆☆
1991	Bugsy ☆☆
1990	Dances With Wolves ★★☆
1989	Born on the Fourth of July ☆☆
1988	Rain Man ★☆
1987	The Last Emperor ★★☆
1986	Platoon ★☆
1985	Out of Africa ★☆
1984	Amadeus ★★☆
1983	Terms of Endearment ★☆
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ★☆☆
1981	On Golden Pond ☆☆
1980	Ordinary People ★☆
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer ★★☆
1978	Midnight Express ★☆☆
1977	The Turning Point ★☆☆
1976	Rocky ★☆
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ★★☆
1974	Chinatown ★☆☆
1973	The Exorcist ☆☆
1972	The Godfather ★☆
1971	The French Connection ★★☆
1970	Love Story ☆☆
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days ☆☆
1968	The Lion in Winter ☆☆
1967	In the Heat of the Night ★☆
1966	A Man for All Seasons ★★☆
1965	Doctor Zhivago ★☆☆
1964	Becket ★☆☆
1963	The Cardinal ☆
1962	Lawrence of Arabia ★★☆
1961	The Guns of Navarone ☆☆
1960	Spartacus ☆
1959	Ben-Hur ★★☆
1958	The Defiant Ones ☆☆
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai ★★☆
1956	Around the World in 80 Days ★☆
1955	East of Eden ★☆
1954	On the Waterfront ★☆
1953	The Robe ☆☆
1952	The Greatest Show on Earth ★☆
1951	A Place in the Sun ☆☆
1950	Sunset Boulevard ☆☆
1949	All the King's Men ★☆
1948	Johnny Belinda ☆☆
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ★☆☆
1947	Gentleman's Agreement ★☆
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives ★☆
1945	The Lost Weekend ★★☆
1944	Going My Way ★☆
1943	The Song of Bernadette ☆☆