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	★★★★☆☆☆