Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Film awards for lead actor
Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | |
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The 2023 recipient: Cillian Murphy | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Drama |
Location | United States |
Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
Currently held by | Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023) |
Website | goldenglobes.com |
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[update], the wording is "Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama".
Winners and nominees
1940s
Year | Actor | Character | Film |
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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
Year | Actor | Character | Film |
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1950 | José Ferrer | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
Louis Calhern | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Magnificent Yankee | |
James Stewart | Elwood P. Dowd | Harvey | |
1951 | Fredric March | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman |
Kirk Douglas | Det. James McLeod | Detective Story | |
Arthur Kennedy | Larry Nevins | Bright Victory | |
1952 | Gary Cooper | Marshal Will Kane | High Noon |
Ray Milland | Allan Fields | The Thief | |
Charles Boyer | Jacques Bonnard | The Happy Time | |
1953 | Spencer Tracy | Clinton Jones | The Actress |
1954 | Marlon Brando | Terry Malloy | On the Waterfront |
1955 | Ernest Borgnine | Marty Piletti | Marty |
1956 | Kirk Douglas | Vincent van Gogh | Lust for Life |
Karl Malden | Archie Lee Meighan | Baby Doll | |
Gary Cooper | Jess Birdwell | Friendly Persuasion | |
Burt Lancaster | Bill Starbuck | The Rainmaker | |
Charlton Heston | Moses | The Ten Commandments | |
1957 | Alec Guinness | Colonel Nicholson | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
Marlon Brando | Maj. Lloyd "Ace" Gruver | Sayonara | |
1958 | David Niven | Major Pollock | Separate Tables |
Tony Curtis | John "Joker" Jackson | The Defiant Ones | |
Robert Donat | The Mandarin of Yang Cheng | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | |
Sidney Poitier | Noah Cullen | The Defiant Ones | |
Spencer Tracy | Santiago (The Old Man) | The Old Man and the Sea | |
1959 | Anthony Franciosa | Sam Lawson | Career |
Richard Burton | Jimmy Porter | Look Back in Anger | |
Charlton Heston | Judah Ben-Hur | Ben-Hur | |
Fredric March | Jerry Kingsley | Middle of the Night | |
Joseph Schildkraut | Otto Frank | The Diary of Anne Frank |
1960s
Year | Actor | Character | Film |
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1960 | Burt Lancaster | Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry |
Trevor Howard | Walter Morel | Sons and Lovers | |
Laurence Olivier | Crassus | Spartacus | |
Dean Stockwell | Paul Morel | Sons and Lovers | |
Spencer Tracy | Henry Drummond | Inherit the Wind | |
1961 | Maximilian Schell | Hans Rolfe | Judgment at Nuremberg |
Warren Beatty | Bud Stamper | Splendor in the Grass | |
Maurice Chevalier | Pannisse | Fanny | |
Paul Newman | Fast Eddie Felson | The Hustler | |
Sidney Poitier | Walter Lee Younger | A Raisin in the Sun | |
1962 | Gregory Peck | Atticus Finch | To Kill a Mockingbird |
Laurence Harvey | Wilhelm Grimm/The Cobbler | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | |
Burt Lancaster | Robert Franklin Stroud | Birdman of Alcatraz | |
Jack Lemmon | Joe Clay | Days of Wine and Roses | |
James Mason | Humbert Humbert | Lolita | |
Paul Newman | Chance Wayne | Sweet Bird of Youth | |
Peter O'Toole | T. E. Lawrence | Lawrence of Arabia | |
Anthony Quinn | Auda ibu Tayi | ||
1963 | Sidney Poitier | Homer Smith | Lilies of the Field |
Marlon Brando | Harrison Carter MacWhite | The Ugly American | |
Stathis Giallelis | Stavros Topouzoglou | America America | |
Rex Harrison | Julius Caesar | Cleopatra | |
Steve McQueen | Rocky Papasano | Love with the Proper Stranger | |
Paul Newman | Hud Bannon | Hud | |
Gregory Peck | Captain Josiah Newman | Captain Newman, M.D. | |
Tom Tryon | Stephen Fermoyle | The Cardinal | |
1964 | Peter O'Toole | King Henry II | Becket |
Richard Burton | Thomas Becket | Becket | |
Anthony Franciosa | Juan Luis Rodriguez | Rio Conchos | |
Fredric March | President Lyman | Seven Days in May | |
Anthony Quinn | Alexis Zorba | Zorba the Greek | |
1965 | Omar Sharif | Yuri Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago |
Rex Harrison | Pope Julius II | The Agony and the Ecstasy | |
Sidney Poitier | Gordon Ralfe | A Patch of Blue | |
Rod Steiger | Sol Nazerman | The Pawnbroker | |
Oskar Werner | Willie Schumann | Ship of Fools | |
1966 | Paul Scofield | Sir Thomas More | A Man for All Seasons |
Richard Burton | George | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
Michael Caine | Alfie | Alfie | |
Steve McQueen | Machinist's Mate 1st Class Jake Holman | The Sand Pebbles | |
Max von Sydow | Reverend Abner Hale | Hawaii | |
1967 | Rod Steiger | Police Chief Bill Gillespie | In the Heat of the Night |
Alan Bates | Gabriel Oak | Far from the Madding Crowd | |
Warren Beatty | Clyde Barrow | Bonnie and Clyde | |
Paul Newman | Lucas "Luke" Jackson | Cool Hand Luke | |
Sidney Poitier | Detective Virgil Tibbs | In the Heat of the Night | |
Spencer Tracy | Matt Drayton | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | |
1968 | Peter O'Toole | King Henry II | The Lion in Winter |
Alan Arkin | John Singer | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | |
Alan Bates | Yakov Bok | The Fixer | |
Tony Curtis | Albert DeSalvo | The Boston Strangler | |
Cliff Robertson | Charlie Gordon | Charly | |
1969 | John Wayne | Rooster Cogburn | True Grit |
Alan Arkin | Abraham "Popi" Rodriguez | Popi | |
Richard Burton | King Henry VIII | Anne of the Thousand Days | |
Dustin Hoffman | Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo | Midnight Cowboy | |
Jon Voight | Joe Buck |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Actor | Character | Film |
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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
References
- ^ "Golden Globes announce TV, film award nominees". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. December 22, 2000. p. 8B. Retrieved August 22, 2010.
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