GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS - MOTION PICTURE DRAMA

'The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - 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 Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama".

Contents

Past winners

"Best Actress - Motion Picture"

"Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama"

2000s

Past winners

"Best Actress - Motion Picture"

★ '1944' - Jennifer Jones, ''The Song of Bernadette''

★ '1945' - Ingrid Bergman, ''Gaslight''

★ '1946' - Ingrid Bergman, ''The Bells of St. Mary's''

★ '1947' - Rosalind Russell, ''Sister Kenny''

★ '1948' - Rosalind Russell, ''Mourning Becomes Electra''

★ '1949' - Jane Wyman, ''Johnny Belinda''

★ '1950' - Olivia de Havilland, ''The Heiress''

"Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama"

★ '1951' - Gloria Swanson, ''Sunset Boulevard''

★ '1952' - Jane Wyman, ''The Blue Veil''

★ '1953' - Shirley Booth, ''Come Back, Little Sheba''

★ '1954' - Audrey Hepburn, ''Roman Holiday''

★ '1955' - Grace Kelly, ''The Country Girl''

★ '1956' - Anna Magnani, ''The Rose Tattoo''

★ '1957' - Ingrid Bergman, ''Anastasia''

★ '1958' - Joanne Woodward, ''The Three Faces of Eve''

★ '1959' - Susan Hayward, ''I Want to Live!''

★ '1960' - Elizabeth Taylor, ''Suddenly, Last Summer''

★ '1961' - Greer Garson, ''Sunrise at Campobello''

★ '1962' - Geraldine Page, ''Summer and Smoke''

★ '1963' - Geraldine Page, ''Sweet Bird of Youth''

★ '1964' - Leslie Caron, ''The L-Shaped Room''

★ '1965' - Anne Bancroft, ''The Pumpkin Eater''

★ '1966' - Samantha Eggar, ''The Collector''

★ '1967' - Anouk Aimée, ''A Man and a Woman''

★ '1968' - Edith Evans, ''The Whisperers''

★ '1969' - Joanne Woodward, ''Rachel, Rachel''

★ '1970' - Geneviève Bujold, ''Anne of the Thousand Days''

★ '1971' - Ali MacGraw, ''Love Story''

★ '1972' - Jane Fonda, ''Klute''

★ '1973' - Liv Ullmann, ''The Emigrants''

★ '1974' - Marsha Mason, ''Cinderella Liberty''

★ '1975' - Gena Rowlands, ''A Woman Under the Influence''

★ '1976' - Louise Fletcher, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''

★ '1977' - Faye Dunaway, ''Network''

★ '1978' - Jane Fonda, ''Julia''

★ '1979' - Jane Fonda, ''Coming Home''

★ '1980' - Sally Field, ''Norma Rae''

★ '1981' - Mary Tyler Moore, ''Ordinary People''

★ '1982' - Meryl Streep, ''The French Lieutenant's Woman''

★ '1983' - Meryl Streep, ''Sophie's Choice''

★ '1984' - Shirley MacLaine, ''Terms of Endearment''

★ '1985' - Sally Field, ''Places in the Heart''

★ '1986' - Whoopi Goldberg, ''The Color Purple''

★ '1987' - Marlee Matlin, ''Children of a Lesser God''

★ '1988' - Sally Kirkland, ''Anna''

★ '1989' - Jodie Foster, ''The Accused''; Sigourney Weaver, ''Gorillas in the Mist''; Shirley MacLaine, Madame Sousatzka

★ '1990' - Michelle Pfeiffer, ''The Fabulous Baker Boys''

★ '1991' - Kathy Bates, ''Misery''

★ '1992' - Jodie Foster, ''The Silence of the Lambs''

★ '1993' - Emma Thompson, ''Howards End''

★ '1994' - Holly Hunter, ''The Piano''

★ '1995' - Jessica Lange, ''Blue Sky''

★ '1996' - Sharon Stone, ''Casino''

★ '1997' - Brenda Blethyn, ''Secrets and Lies''

★ '1998' - Judi Dench, ''Mrs. Brown''

★ '1999' - Cate Blanchett, ''Elizabeth''

2000s

★ '2000 Hilary Swank - ''Boys Don't Cry''

★ '2001 Julia Roberts - ''Erin Brockovich'' as Erin Brockovich

★
★ Björk - ''Dancer in the Dark'' as Selma Jezkova

★ '2002 Sissy Spacek - ''In the Bedroom'' as Ruth Fowler

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★ Halle Berry - ''Monster's Ball'' as Leticia Musgrove

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★ Judi Dench - ''Iris'' as Iris Murdoch

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★ Nicole Kidman - ''The Others'' as Grace Stewart

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★ Tilda Swinton - ''The Deep End'' as Margaret Hall

★ '2003 Nicole Kidman - ''The Hours'' as Virginia Woolf

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★ Salma Hayek - ''Frida'' as Frida Kahlo

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★ Diane Lane - ''Unfaithful'' as Connie Summer

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★ Julianne Moore - ''Far From Heaven'' as Cathy Whitaker

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★ Meryl Streep - ''The Hours'' as Clarissa Vaughan

★ '2004 Charlize Theron - ''Monster'' as Aileen Wuornos

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★ Cate Blanchett - ''Veronica Guerin'' as Veronica Guerin

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★ Scarlett Johansson - ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' as Griet

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★ Nicole Kidman - ''Cold Mountain'' as Ada Monroe

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★ Uma Thurman - ''Kill Bill Vol. 1'' as The Bride

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★ Evan Rachel Wood - ''Thirteen'' as Tracy Louise Freeland

★ '2005 Hilary Swank - ''Million Dollar Baby'' as Maggie Fitzgerald

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★ Scarlett Johansson - ''A Love Song for Bobby Long'' as Pursy Will

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★ Nicole Kidman - ''Birth'' as Anna

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★ Imelda Staunton - ''Vera Drake'' as Vera

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★ Uma Thurman - ''Kill Bill Vol. 2'' as Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride

★ '2006 Felicity Huffman - ''Transamerica'' as Bree

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★ Maria Bello - ''A History of Violence'' as Edie Stall

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★ Gwyneth Paltrow - ''Proof'' as Catherine

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★ Charlize Theron - ''North Country'' as Josey Aimes

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★ Ziyi Zhang - ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' as Chiyo/Sayuri

★ '2007 Helen Mirren - ''The Queen'' as Queen Elizabeth II

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★ Penélope Cruz - ''Volver'' as Raimunda

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★ Judi Dench - ''Notes on a Scandal'' as Barbara Covett

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★ Maggie Gyllenhaal - ''SherryBaby'' as Sherry Swanson

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★ Kate Winslet - ''Little Children'' as Sarah Pierce