GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR - MOTION PICTURE DRAMA

The 'Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama' 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 and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama".

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Winners

Winners

Year	Winner	Film
1943	Paul Lukas	''Watch on the Rhine''
1944	Alexander Knox	''Wilson''
1945	Ray Milland	''The Lost Weekend''
1946	Gregory Peck	''The Yearling''
1947	Ronald Colman	''A Double Life''
1948	Laurence Olivier	''Hamlet''
1949	Broderick Crawford	''All the King's Men''
1950	José Ferrer	''Cyrano de Bergerac''
1951	Fredric March	''Death of a Salesman''
1952	Gary Cooper	''High Noon''
1953	Spencer Tracy	''The Actress''
1954	Marlon Brando	''On the Waterfront''
1955	Ernest Borgnine	''Marty''
1956	Kirk Douglas	''Lust for Life''
1957	Alec Guinness	''The Bridge on the River Kwai''
1958	David Niven	''Separate Tables''
1959	Anthony Franciosa	''Career''
1960	Burt Lancaster	''Elmer Gantry''
1961	Maximilian Schell	''Judgment at Nuremberg''
1962	Gregory Peck	''To Kill a Mockingbird''
1963	Sidney Poitier	''Lilies of the Field''
1964	Peter O'Toole	''Becket''
1965	Omar Sharif	''Doctor Zhivago''
1966	Paul Scofield	''A Man for All Seasons''
1967	Rod Steiger	''In the Heat of the Night''
1968	Peter O'Toole	''The Lion in Winter''
1969	John Wayne	''True Grit''
1970	George C. Scott	''Patton''
1971	Gene Hackman	''The French Connection''
1972	Marlon Brando	''The Godfather''
1973	Al Pacino	''Serpico''
1974	Jack Nicholson	''Chinatown''
1975	Jack Nicholson	''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''
1976	Peter Finch	''Network''
1977	Richard Burton	''Equus''
1978	Jon Voight	''Coming Home''
1979	Dustin Hoffman	''Kramer vs. Kramer''
1980	Robert De Niro	''Raging Bull''
1981	Henry Fonda	''On Golden Pond''
1982	Ben Kingsley	''Gandhi''
1983	Tom Courtenay	''The Dresser''
	Robert Duvall	''Tender Mercies''
1984	F. Murray Abraham	''Amadeus''
1985	Jon Voight	''Runaway Train''
1986	Bob Hoskins	''Mona Lisa''
1987	Michael Douglas	''Wall Street''
1988	Dustin Hoffman	''Rain Man''
1989	Tom Cruise	''Born on the Fourth of July''
1990	Jeremy Irons	''Reversal of Fortune''
1991	Nick Nolte	''The Prince of Tides''
1992	Al Pacino	''Scent of a Woman''
1993	Tom Hanks	''Philadelphia''
1994	Tom Hanks	''Forrest Gump''
1995	Nicolas Cage	''Leaving Las Vegas''
1996	Geoffrey Rush	''Shine''
1997	Peter Fonda	''Ulee's Gold''
1998	Jim Carrey	''The Truman Show''
1999	Denzel Washington	''The Hurricane''
2000	Tom Hanks	''Cast Away''
2001	Russell Crowe	''A Beautiful Mind''
2002	Jack Nicholson	''About Schmidt''
2003	Sean Penn	''Mystic River''
2004	Leonardo DiCaprio	''The Aviator''
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman	''Capote''
2006	Forest Whitaker	''The Last King of Scotland''