De Golden Globe voor beste film - drama (Best Motion Picture - Drama) is een jaarlijkse filmprijs van de Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Het is een van de belangrijkste Golden Globes. Enkel dramafilms komen in aanmerking voor deze prijs, de overige films komen in de categorie Golden Globe voor beste film - musical of komedie aan bod. De categorieën zijn gesplitst vanaf de negende uitreiking, voor films uit 1951, en werden voor eenmaal herenigd voor films uit 1953. Voor de splitsing werd de categorie aangeduid als beste film (Best Picture). De winnaars en genomineerden voor die categorie zijn hier vermeld.
Winnaars en genomineerden De winnaar staat bovenaan in vette letters, de overige genomineerden staan eronder in alfabetische volgorde.Winnaars en genomineerden zoals vermeld op: HFPA | Golden Globes: Winners & Nominees Picture (films uit 1943-1950) en HFPA | Golden Globes: Winners & Nominees Best Motion Picture - Drama (films uit 1951-...). Gearchiveerd op 13 juni 2023.
1943-1949 1943 (1e): The Song of Bernadette 1944 (2e): Going My Way 1945 (3e): The Lost Weekend 1946 (4e): The Best Years of Our Lives 1947 (5e): Gentleman's Agreement 1948 (6e): Johnny Belinda & The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949 (7e): All the King's Men Come to the Stable
1950-1959 1950 (8e): Sunset Boulevard All About Eve Born Yesterday Cyrano de Bergerac Harvey 1951 (9e): A Place in the Sun Bright Victory Detective Story Quo Vadis A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 (10e): The Greatest Show on Earth Come Back, Little Sheba The Happy Time High Noon The Thief 1953 (11e): The Robe 1954 (12e): On the Waterfront 1955 (13e): East of Eden 1956 (14e): Around the World in 80 Days Giant Lust for Life The Rainmaker War and Peace 1957 (15e): The Bridge on the River Kwai Sayonara 12 Angry Men Wild Is the Wind Witness for the Prosecution 1958 (16e): The Defiant Ones Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Home Before Dark I Want to Live! Separate Tables 1959 (17e): Ben-Hur Anatomy of a Murder The Diary of Anne Frank The Nun's Story On the Beach
1960-1969 1960 (18e): Spartacus Elmer Gantry Inherit the Wind Sons and Lovers Sunrise at Campobello 1961 (19e): The Guns of Navarone El Cid Fanny Judgment at Nuremberg Splendor in the Grass 1962 (20e): Lawrence of Arabia The Chapman Report Days of Wine and Roses Freud Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man Lisa The Longest Day The Miracle Worker Mutiny on the Bounty To Kill a Mockingbird 1963 (21e): The Cardinal America, America Captain Newman, M.D. The Caretakers Cleopatra The Great Escape Hud Lilies of the Field 1964 (22e): Becket The Chalk Garden Dear Heart The Night of the Iguana Zorba the Greek 1965 (23e): Doctor Zhivago The Collector The Flight of the Phoenix A Patch of Blue Ship of Fools 1966 (24e): A Man for All Seasons Born Free The Professionals The Sand Pebbles Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 (25e): In the Heat of the Night Bonnie and Clyde Far from the Madding Crowd Guess Who's Coming to Dinner In Cold Blood 1968 (26e): The Lion in Winter Charly The Fixer The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Shoes of the Fisherman 1969 (27e): 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?
1970-1979 1970 (28e): Love Story Airport Five Easy Pieces I Never Sang for My Father Patton 1971 (29e): The French Connection A Clockwork Orange The Last Picture Show Mary, Queen of Scots Summer of '42 1972 (30e): The Godfather Deliverance Frenzy The Poseidon Adventure Sleuth 1973 (31e): The Exorcist Cinderella Liberty The Day of the Jackal Last Tango in Paris Save the Tiger Serpico 1974 (32e): Chinatown The Conversation Earthquake The Godfather Part II A Woman Under the Influence 1975 (33e): One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Barry Lyndon Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville 1976 (34e): Rocky All the President's Men Bound for Glory Network Voyage of the Damned 1977 (35e): The Turning Point Close Encounters of the Third Kind I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Julia Star Wars 1978 (36e): Midnight Express Coming Home Days of Heaven The Deer Hunter An Unmarried Woman 1979 (37e): Kramer vs. Kramer Apocalypse Now The China Syndrome Manhattan Norma Rae
1980-1989 1980 (38e): Ordinary People The Elephant Man The Ninth Configuration Raging Bull The Stunt Man 1981 (39e): On Golden Pond The French Lieutenant's Woman Prince of the City Ragtime Reds 1982 (40e): E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Missing An Officer and a Gentleman Sophie's Choice The Verdict 1983 (41e): Terms of Endearment Reuben, Reuben The Right Stuff Silkwood Tender Mercies 1984 (42e): Amadeus The Cotton Club The Killing Fields Places in the Heart A Soldier's Story 1985 (43e): Out of Africa The Color Purple Kiss of the Spider Woman Runaway Train Witness 1986 (44e): Platoon Children of a Lesser God The Mission Mona Lisa A Room with a View Stand by Me 1987 (45e): The Last Emperor Cry Freedom Empire of the Sun Fatal Attraction La Bamba Nuts 1988 (46e): 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 (47e): Born on the Fourth of July Crimes and Misdemeanors Dead Poets Society Do the Right Thing Glory
1990-1999 1990 (48e): Dances with Wolves Avalon The Godfather Part III GoodFellas Reversal of Fortune 1991 (49e): Bugsy JFK The Prince of Tides The Silence of the Lambs Thelma & Louise 1992 (50e): Scent of a Woman The Crying Game A Few Good Men Howards End Unforgiven 1993 (51e): Schindler's List The Age of Innocence In the Name of the Father The Piano The Remains of the Day 1994 (52e): Forrest Gump Legends of the Fall Nell Pulp Fiction Quiz Show 1995 (53e): Sense and Sensibility Apollo 13 Braveheart The Bridges of Madison County Leaving Las Vegas 1996 (54e): The English Patient Breaking the Waves The People vs. Larry Flynt Secrets & Lies Shine 1997 (55e): Titanic Amistad The Boxer Good Will Hunting L.A. Confidential 1998 (56e): Saving Private Ryan Elizabeth Gods and Monsters The Horse Whisperer The Truman Show 1999 (57e): American Beauty The End of the Affair The Hurricane The Insider The Talented Mr. Ripley
2000-2009 2000 (58e): Gladiator Billy Elliot Erin Brockovich Sunshine Traffic Wonder Boys 2001 (59e): A Beautiful Mind In the Bedroom The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Man Who Wasn't There Mulholland Dr. 2002 (60e): The Hours About Schmidt Gangs of New York The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Pianist 2003 (61e): The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Cold Mountain Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Mystic River Seabiscuit 2004 (62e): The Aviator Closer Finding Neverland Hotel Rwanda Kinsey Million Dollar Baby 2005 (63e): Brokeback Mountain The Constant Gardener Good Night, and Good Luck A History of Violence Match Point 2006 (64e): Babel Bobby The Departed Little Children The Queen 2007 (65e): Atonement American Gangster Eastern Promises The Great Debaters Michael Clayton No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood 2008 (66e): Slumdog Millionaire The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon The Reader Revolutionary Road 2009 (67e): Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Up in the Air
2010-2019 2010 (68e): The Social Network Black Swan The Fighter Inception The King's Speech 2011 (69e): The Descendants The Help Hugo The Ides of March Moneyball War Horse 2012 (70e): Argo Django Unchained Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty 2013 (71e): 12 Years a Slave Captain Phillips Gravity Philomena Rush 2014 (72e): Boyhood Foxcatcher The Imitation Game Selma The Theory of Everything 2015 (73e): The Revenant Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Room Spotlight 2016 (74e): Moonlight Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Lion Manchester by the Sea 2017 (75e): Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Call Me by Your Name Dunkirk The Post The Shape of Water 2018 (76e): Bohemian Rhapsody BlacKkKlansman Black Panther If Beale Street Could Talk A Star Is Born 2019 (77e): 1917 The Irishman Joker Marriage Story The Two Popes 2020-2029 2020 (78e): Nomadland The Father Mank Promising Young Woman The Trial of the Chicago 7 2021 (79e): The Power of the Dog Belfast CODA Dune King Richard 2022 (80e): The Fabelmans Avatar: The Way of Water Elvis Tár Top Gun: Maverick 2023 (81e): Oppenheimer Anatomy of a Fall Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Past Lives The Zone of Interest
Beste film - drama