Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Winners

2025	Hamnet	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jessie Buckley
2024	I'm Still Here	★★☆☆	Fernanda Torres
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Lily Gladstone
2022	Tár	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Cate Blanchett
2021	Being the Ricardos	★☆☆☆☆	Nicole Kidman
2020	The United States vs. Billie Holiday	★☆	Andra Day
2019	Judy	★★★	Renée Zellweger
2018	The Wife	★☆☆	Glenn Close
2017	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Frances McDormand
2016	Elle	★☆	Isabelle Huppert
2015	Room	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Brie Larson
2014	Still Alice	★★★	Julianne Moore
2013	Blue Jasmine	★★★☆	Cate Blanchett
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jessica Chastain
2011	The Iron Lady	★★★	Meryl Streep
2010	Black Swan	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Natalie Portman
2009	The Blind Side	★★☆	Sandra Bullock
2008	Revolutionary Road	★☆☆☆☆	Kate Winslet
2007	Away from Her	★☆☆☆	Julie Christie
2006	The Queen	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Helen Mirren
2005	Transamerica	★☆	Felicity Huffman
2004	Million Dollar Baby	★★★★★☆☆☆	Hilary Swank
2003	Monster	★★☆	Charlize Theron
2002	The Hours	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Nicole Kidman
2001	In the Bedroom	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Sissy Spacek
2000	Erin Brockovich	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Julia Roberts
1999	Boys Don't Cry	★★☆	Hilary Swank
1998	Elizabeth	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Cate Blanchett
1997	Mrs Brown	★★☆☆☆	Judi Dench
1996	Secrets & Lies	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Brenda Blethyn
1995	Casino	★☆☆	Sharon Stone
1994	Blue Sky	★★	Jessica Lange
1993	The Piano	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Holly Hunter
1992	Howards End	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Emma Thompson
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Jodie Foster
1990	Misery	★★	Kathy Bates
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	★☆☆	Michelle Pfeiffer
1988	The Accused	★★☆	Jodie Foster
1988	Gorillas in the Mist	★☆☆☆	Sigourney Weaver
1988	Madame Sousatzka	★	Shirley MacLaine
1987	Anna	★☆	Sally Kirkland
1986	Children of a Lesser God	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Marlee Matlin
1985	The Color Purple	★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Whoopi Goldberg
1984	Places in the Heart	★★★☆☆☆☆	Sally Field
1983	Terms of Endearment	★★★★★★★☆☆	Shirley MacLaine
1982	Sophie's Choice	★★☆☆☆	Meryl Streep
1981	The French Lieutenant's Woman	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Meryl Streep
1980	Ordinary People	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Mary Tyler Moore
1979	Norma Rae	★★☆☆☆☆	Sally Field
1978	Coming Home	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Jane Fonda
1977	Julia	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Jane Fonda
1976	Network	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Faye Dunaway
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Louise Fletcher
1974	A Woman Under the Influence	★☆☆☆☆☆	Gena Rowlands
1973	Cinderella Liberty	★☆☆☆	Marsha Mason
1972	The Emigrants	★☆☆☆☆	Liv Ullmann
1971	Klute	★★☆☆☆	Jane Fonda
1970	Love Story	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Ali MacGraw
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Geneviève Bujold
1968	Rachel, Rachel	★★☆☆☆☆	Joanne Woodward
1967	The Whisperers	★★☆	Edith Evans
1966	A Man and a Woman	★★★★☆☆☆☆	Anouk Aimée
1965	The Collector	★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Samantha Eggar
1964	The Pumpkin Eater	★★☆	Anne Bancroft
1963	The L-Shaped Room	★★☆	Leslie Caron
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	★☆☆☆	Geraldine Page
1961	Summer and Smoke	★☆	Geraldine Page
1960	Sunrise at Campobello	★☆☆	Greer Garson
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	★☆	Elizabeth Taylor
1958	I Want to Live!	★★☆☆☆☆☆	Susan Hayward
1957	The Three Faces of Eve	★★☆	Joanne Woodward
1956	Anastasia	★★	Ingrid Bergman
1955	The Rose Tattoo	★★★☆	Anna Magnani
1954	The Country Girl	★★★☆☆☆☆	Grace Kelly
1953	Roman Holiday	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Audrey Hepburn
1952	Come Back, Little Sheba	★★☆☆	Shirley Booth
1951	The Blue Veil	★☆	Jane Wyman
1950	Sunset Boulevard	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Gloria Swanson
1949	The Heiress	★★☆☆	Olivia de Havilland
1948	Johnny Belinda	★★★☆☆☆☆	Jane Wyman
1947	Mourning Becomes Electra	★☆☆	Rosalind Russell
1946	Sister Kenny	★☆	Rosalind Russell
1944	Gaslight	★★☆☆☆	Ingrid Bergman
1943	The Song of Bernadette	★★★★☆☆☆	Jennifer Jones