Media Notes / Golden Globe for Best Drama Film

A list of films that won and were nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

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1940s

• 1943^note as Best Picture: The Song of Bernadette

• 1944^note as Best Picture: Going My Way

• 1945^note as Best Picture: The Lost Weekend

• 1946^note as Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives

• 1947^note as Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement

• 1948^note as Best Picture: Tie
  • Johnny Belinda
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

• 1949^note as Best Picture: All the King's Men
  • Come to the Stable

1950s

• 1950^note as Best Picture: Sunset Boulevard
  • All About Eve
  • Born Yesterday
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Harvey

• 1951: A Place in the Sun
  • Bright Victory
  • Detective Story
  • Quo Vadis
  • A Streetcar Named Desire

• 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Come Back, Little Sheba
  • The Happy Time
  • High Noon
  • The Thief

• 1953: The Robe

• 1954: On the Waterfront

• 1955: East of Eden

• 1956: Around the World in 80 Days
  • Giant
  • Lust for Life
  • The Rainmaker
  • War and Peace

• 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Wild Is the Wind
  • Sayonara
  • 12 Angry Men
  • Witness for the Prosecution

• 1958: The Defiant Ones
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Home Before Dark
  • I Want to Live!
  • Separate Tables

• 1959: Ben-Hur
  • Anatomy of a Murder
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • The Nun's Story
  • On the Beach

1960s

• 1960: Spartacus
  • Elmer Gantry
  • Inherit the Wind
  • Sons and Lovers
  • Sunrise at Campobello

• 1961: The Guns of Navarone
  • El Cid
  • Fanny
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Splendor in the Grass

• 1962: Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Chapman Report
  • Days of Wine and Roses
  • Freud: The Secret Passion
  • Hemingway's Adventures of aYoung Man
  • The Inspector
  • The Longest Day
  • The Miracle Worker
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • To Kill a Mockingbird

• 1963: The Cardinal
  • America America
  • Captain Newman, M.D.
  • The Caretakers
  • Cleopatra
  • The Great Escape
  • Hud
  • Lilies of the Field

• 1964: Becket
  • The Chalk Garden
  • Dear Heart
  • The Night of the Iguana
  • Zorba the Greek

• 1965: Doctor Zhivago
  • The Collector
  • The Flight Of The Phoenix
  • A Patch of Blue
  • Ship of Fools

• 1966: A Man for All Seasons
  • Born Free
  • The Professionals
  • The Sand Pebbles
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• 1967: In the Heat of the Night
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • Far from the Madding Crowd
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • In Cold Blood

• 1968: The Lion in Winter
  • Charly
  • The Fixer
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • The Shoes Of The Fisherman

• 1969: Anne of the Thousand Days
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Midnight Cowboy
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1970s

• 1970: Love Story
  • Airport
  • Five Easy Pieces
  • I Never Sang for My Father
  • Patton

• 1971: The French Connection
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • The Last Picture Show
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Summer of '42

• 1972: The Godfather
  • Deliverance
  • Frenzy
  • The Poseidon Adventure
  • Sleuth

• 1973: The Exorcist
  • Cinderella Liberty
  • The Day of the Jackal
  • Last Tango in Paris
  • Save the Tiger
  • Serpico

• 1974: Chinatown
  • The Conversation
  • Earthquake
  • The Godfather Part II
  • A Woman Under the Influence

• 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Jaws
  • Nashville

• 1976: Rocky
  • All the President's Men
  • Bound for Glory
  • Network
  • Voyage of the Damned

• 1977: The Turning Point
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
  • Julia
  • A New Hope

• 1978: Midnight Express
  • Coming Home
  • Days of Heaven
  • The Deer Hunter
  • An Unmarried Woman

• 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Apocalypse Now
  • The China Syndrome
  • Manhattan
  • Norma Rae

1980s

• 1980: Ordinary People
  • The Elephant Man
  • The Ninth Configuration
  • Raging Bull
  • The Stunt Man

• 1981: On Golden Pond
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Prince of the City
  • Ragtime
  • Reds

• 1982: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
  • missing.
  • An Officer and a Gentleman
  • Sophie's Choice
  • The Verdict

• 1983: Terms of Endearment
  • Reuben, Reuben
  • The Right Stuff
  • Silkwood
  • Tender Mercies

• 1984: Amadeus
  • The Cotton Club
  • The Killing Fields
  • Places in the Heart
  • A Soldier's Story

• 1985: Out of Africa
  • The Color Purple (1985)
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Runaway Train
  • Witness

• 1986: Platoon
  • Children of a Lesser God
  • The Mission
  • Mona Lisa
  • A Room with a View
  • Stand by Me

• 1987: The Last Emperor
  • Cry Freedom
  • Fatal Attraction
  • La Bamba
  • Nuts

• 1988: Rain Man
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • A Cry in the Dark
  • Gorillas in the Mist
  • Mississippi Burning
  • Running on Empty
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

• 1989: Born on the Fourth of July
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Dead Poets Society
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Glory

1990s

• 1990: Dances with Wolves
  • Avalon (2001)
  • The Godfather Part III
  • Goodfellas
  • Reversal of Fortune

• 1991: Bugsy
  • JFK
  • The Prince of Tides
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • Thelma & Louise

• 1992: Scent of a Woman
  • The Crying Game
  • A Few Good Men
  • Howards End
  • Unforgiven

• 1993: Schindler's List
  • The Age of Innocence
  • In the Name of the Father
  • The Piano
  • The Remains of the Day

• 1994: Forrest Gump
  • Legends of the Fall
  • Nell
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Quiz Show

• 1995: Sense and Sensibility
  • Apollo 13
  • Braveheart
  • The Bridges of Madison County
  • Leaving Las Vegas

• 1996: The English Patient
  • Breaking the Waves
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • Secrets & Lies
  • Shine

• 1997: Titanic
  • Amistad
  • The Boxer
  • Good Will Hunting
  • L.A. Confidential

• 1998: Saving Private Ryan
  • Elizabeth
  • Gods and Monsters
  • The Horse Whisperer
  • The Truman Show

• 1999: American Beauty
  • The End of the Affair
  • The Hurricane
  • The Insider
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

• 2000: Gladiator
  • Billy Elliot
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Sunshine
  • Traffic
  • Wonder Boys

• 2001: A Beautiful Mind
  • In the Bedroom
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Man Who Wasnt There
  • Mulholland Dr.

• 2002: The Hours
  • About Schmidt
  • Gangs of New York
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • The Pianist

• 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Cold Mountain
  • Master and Commander
  • Mystic River
  • Seabiscuit

• 2004: The Aviator
  • Closer
  • Finding Neverland
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Kinsey
  • Million Dollar Baby

• 2005: Brokeback Mountain
  • The Constant Gardener
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • A History of Violence
  • Match Point

• 2006: Babel
  • Bobby
  • The Departed
  • Little Children
  • The Queen

• 2007: Atonement
  • American Gangster
  • Eastern Promises
  • The Great Debaters
  • Michael Clayton
  • No Country for Old Men
  • There Will Be Blood

• 2008: Slumdog Millionaire
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Frost/Nixon
  • The Reader
  • Revolutionary Road

• 2009: Avatar
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Precious
  • Up in the Air

2010s

• 2010: The Social Network
  • Black Swan
  • The Fighter
  • Inception
  • The King's Speech

• 2011: The Descendants
  • The Help
  • Hugo
  • The Ides of March
  • Moneyball
  • War Horse

• 2012: Argo
  • Django Unchained
  • Life of Pi
  • Lincoln
  • Zero Dark Thirty

• 2013: 12 Years a Slave
  • Captain Phillips
  • Gravity
  • Philomena
  • Rush

• 2014: Boyhood
  • Foxcatcher
  • The Imitation Game
  • Selma
  • The Theory of Everything

• 2015: The Revenant
  • Carol
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Room
  • Spotlight

• 2016: Moonlight
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • Hell or High Water
  • Lion
  • Manchester by the Sea

• 2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Dunkirk
  • The Post
  • The Shape of Water

• 2018: Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Black Panther
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • A Star Is Born

• 2019: 1917
  • The Irishman
  • Joker
  • Marriage Story
  • The Two Popes

2020s

• 2020: Nomadland
  • The Father
  • Mank
  • Promising Young Woman
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

• 2021: The Power of the Dog
  • Belfast
  • CODA
  • Dune
  • King Richard

• 2022: The Fabelmans
  • Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Elvis
  • Tár
  • Top Gun: Maverick

• 2023: Oppenheimer
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Maestro
  • Past Lives
  • The Zone of Interest

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