Golden Globe Award For Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor – Musical or Comedy.
The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama". As of 2013, the wording is "Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama".
Winners and nominees
1940s
Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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1943 | Paul Lukas | Kurt Muller | Watch on the Rhine | |
1944 | Alexander Knox | Woodrow Wilson | Wilson | |
1945 | Ray Milland | Don Birnam | The Lost Weekend | |
1946 | Gregory Peck | Penny Baxter | The Yearling | |
1947 | Ronald Colman | Anthony John | A Double Life | |
1948 | Laurence Olivier | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | Hamlet | |
1949 | Broderick Crawford | Willie Stark | All the King's Men | |
Richard Todd | Cpl. Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan | The Hasty Heart |
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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2020 | Chadwick Boseman (posthumous) | Levee Green | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | |
Riz Ahmed | Ruben Stone | Sound of Metal | ||
Anthony Hopkins | Anthony | The Father | ||
Gary Oldman | Herman J. Mankiewicz | Mank | ||
Tahar Rahim | Mohamedou Ould Salahi | The Mauritanian | ||
2021 | Will Smith | Richard Williams | King Richard | |
Mahershala Ali | Cameron Turner | Swan Song | ||
Javier Bardem | Desi Arnaz | Being the Ricardos | ||
Benedict Cumberbatch | Phil Burbank | The Power of the Dog | ||
Denzel Washington | Lord Macbeth | The Tragedy of Macbeth | ||
2022 | Austin Butler | Elvis Presley | Elvis | |
Brendan Fraser | Charlie | The Whale | ||
Hugh Jackman | Peter Miller | The Son | ||
Bill Nighy | Mr. Williams | Living | ||
Jeremy Pope | Ellis French | The Inspection | ||
2023 | Cillian Murphy | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Oppenheimer | |
Bradley Cooper | Leonard Bernstein | Maestro | ||
Leonardo DiCaprio | Ernest Burkhart | Killers of the Flower Moon | ||
Colman Domingo | Bayard Rustin | Rustin | ||
Barry Keoghan | Oliver Quick | Saltburn | ||
Andrew Scott | Adam | All of Us Strangers |
Multiple nominations
Multiple wins
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See also
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role