Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winners

2025	Hamnet	★★☆☆☆
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	★★☆☆