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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama
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This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, since its institution in 1951. The organizer, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), is an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America.
When the awards were introduced, there was a single category for Best Picture. Starting with the 9th Golden Globe Awards, the Golden Globes split the Acting and Best Picture awards into Drama and Musical-or-Comedy categories.

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This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, since its institution in 1951. The organizer, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), is an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America.
When the awards were introduced, there was a single category for Best Picture. Starting with the 9th Golden Globe Awards, the Golden Globes split the Acting and Best Picture awards into Drama and Musical-or-Comedy categories. Since 1951, the only time the awards were reunified was in 1953.
In the following lists, the first titles listed are winners, these are also in bold and in blue background; those not in bold are nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
1950s
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"| 1954|| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | On the Waterfront || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Spiegel
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| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"| 1955|| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | East of Eden || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Elia Kazan
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| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1956|| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Around the World in Eighty Days || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Michael Anderson || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Kevin McClory
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|Giant || George Stevens || Henry Ginsberg
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|Lust for Life || Vincente Minnelli || John Houseman
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|The Rainmaker || Joseph Anthony || Hal B. Wallis
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|War and Peace || King Vidor || Dino De Laurentiis
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| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1957|| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Bridge on the River Kwai || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | David Lean || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Spiegel
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|12 Angry Men || Sidney Lumet || Henry Fonda
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|A Hatful of Rain || Fred Zinnemann || Buddy Adler
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|Sayonara || Joshua Logan || William Goetz
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|Witness for the Prosecution || Billy Wilder || Arthur Hornblow Jr.
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| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1958|| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | The Defiant Ones || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Stanley Kramer || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Stanley Kramer
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|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof || Richard Brooks || Lawrence Weingarten
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|Home Before Dark || Mervyn LeRoy || Mervyn LeRoy
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|I Want to Live! || Robert Wise || Claude Miller
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|Separate Tables || Delbert Mann || Harold Hecht
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| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"| 1959|| style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Ben-Hur || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | William Wyler || style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Sam Zimbalist
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|Anatomy of a Murder || Otto Preminger || Otto Preminger
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|The Diary of Anne Frank || George Stevens || George Stevens
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|The Nun's Story || Fred Zinnemann || Henry Blanke
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|On the Beach || Stanley Kramer || Stanley Kramer
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1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
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| 2000 | Gladiator | Ridley Scott | Douglas Wick | | Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | Charles Brand | | Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh | Danny DeVito | | Sunshine | István Szabó | András Hámori | | Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | Edward Zwick | | Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | Curtis Hanson | | 2001 | A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | Brian Grazer | | In the Bedroom | Todd Field | Todd Field | | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson | | The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | Pierre Edelman | | 2002 | The Hours | Stephen Daldry | Mark Huffam | | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne | Michael Besman | | Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | Alberto Grimaldi | | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson | | The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Roman Polanski | | 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Peter Jackson | Peter Jackson | | Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella | Albert Berger | | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Peter Weir | Peter Weir | | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | Robert Lorenz | | Seabiscuit | Gary Ross | Kathleen Kennedy | | 2004 | The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | Michael Mann | | Closer | Mike Nichols | Patrick Marber | | Finding Neverland | Marc Forster | Richard N. Gladstein | | Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | Terry George | | Kinsey | Bill Condon | Gail Mutrux | | Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | | 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | Diana Ossana | | The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | Simon Channing-Williams | | Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney | Grant Heslov | | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | Chris Bender | | Match Point | Woody Allen | Letty Aronson | | 2006 | Babel | Alejandro González Ińárritu | Steve Golin | | Bobby | Emilio Estevez | Anthony Hopkins | | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | Brad Grey | | Little Children | Todd Field | Albert Berger | | The Queen | Stephen Frears | François Ivernel | | 2007 | Atonement | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan | | American Gangster | Ridley Scott | Brian Grazer | | Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | Paul Webster | | The Great Debaters | Denzel Washington | Oprah Winfrey | | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | Sydney Pollack | | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, and Scott Rudin | | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | Paul Thomas Anderson | | 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | Christian Colson | | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ray Stark | | Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard | Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner | | The Reader | Stephen Daldry | Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin | | Revolutionary Road | Sam Mendes | Bobby Cohen, Sam Mendes, Scott Rudin |
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