Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
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The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama is an annual award. It is part of the Golden Globe Awards. It is given by Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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| Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama | |
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg) The 2021 recipient: Will Smith | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Drama |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Currently held by | Will Smith for King Richard (2021) |
| Website | www.goldenglobes.com |
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The following actors have multiple awards: Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dustin Hoffman, Peter O'Toole, Al Pacino, Gregory Peck and Jon Voight. The actors with more than five nominations are: Al Pacino, Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Newman, Tom Hanks and Jack Lemmon.
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Nominations and Awards
1940s
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| 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 |
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1950s
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| 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 |
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1960s
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| 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 |
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1970s
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| Year | Actor | Character | Film |
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| 1970 | George C. Scott | George S. Patton | Patton |
| Melvyn Douglas | Tom Garrison | I Never Sang for My Father | |
| James Earl Jones | Jack Jefferson | The Great White Hope | |
| Jack Nicholson | Robert Eroica Dupea | Five Easy Pieces | |
| Ryan O'Neal | Oliver Barret IV | Love Story | |
| 1971 | Gene Hackman | Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | The French Connection |
| Peter Finch | Daniel Hirsh | Sunday Bloody Sunday | |
| Malcolm McDowell | Alex DeLarge | A Clockwork Orange | |
| Jack Nicholson | Jonathan Fuerst | Carnal Knowledge | |
| George C. Scott | Dr. Herbert Bock | The Hospital | |
| 1972 | Marlon Brando | Vito Corleone | The Godfather |
| Michael Caine | Milo Tindle | Sleuth | |
| Laurence Olivier | Andrew Wyke | ||
| Al Pacino | Michael Corleone | The Godfather | |
| Jon Voight | Ed | Deliverance | |
| 1973 | Al Pacino | Frank Serpico | Serpico |
| Robert Blake | John Wintergreen | Electra Glide in Blue | |
| Jack Lemmon | Harry Stoner | Save the Tiger | |
| Steve McQueen | Henri "Papillon" Charrière | Papillon | |
| Jack Nicholson | Signalman 1st Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky | The Last Detail | |
| 1974 | Jack Nicholson | J. J. "Jake" Gittes | Chinatown |
| James Caan | Axel Freed | The Gambler | |
| Gene Hackman | Harry Caul | The Conversation | |
| Dustin Hoffman | Lenny Bruce | Lenny | |
| Al Pacino | Michael Corleone | The Godfather Part II | |
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | Randle Patrick "Mac" McMurphy | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Gene Hackman | Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle | French Connection II | |
| Al Pacino | Sonny Wortzik | Dog Day Afternoon | |
| Maximilian Schell | Arthur Goldman | The Man in the Glass Booth | |
| James Whitmore | Harry S. Truman | Give 'em Hell, Harry! | |
| 1976 | Peter Finch (posthumous) | Howard Beale | Network |
| David Carradine | Woody Guthrie | Bound for Glory | |
| Robert De Niro | Travis Bickle | Taxi Driver | |
| Dustin Hoffman | "Babe" Levy | Marathon Man | |
| Sylvester Stallone | Rocky Balboa | Rocky | |
| 1977 | Richard Burton | Dr. Martin Dysart | Equus |
| Marcello Mastroianni | Gabriele | A Special Day | |
| Al Pacino | Bobby Deerfield | Bobby Deerfield | |
| Gregory Peck | Douglas MacArthur | MacArthur | |
| Henry Winkler | Jack Dunne | Heroes | |
| 1978 | Jon Voight | Luke Martin | Coming Home |
| Brad Davis | Billy Hayes | Midnight Express | |
| Robert De Niro | Michael Vronsky | The Deer Hunter | |
| Anthony Hopkins | Corky Withers / "Fats" | Magic | |
| Gregory Peck | Dr. Josef Mengele | The Boys from Brazil | |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Ted Kramer | Kramer vs. Kramer |
| Jack Lemmon | Jack Godell | The China Syndrome | |
| Al Pacino | Arthur Kirkland | ...And Justice for All | |
| Jon Voight | Billy Flynn | The Champ | |
| James Woods | Gregory Powell | The Onion Field |
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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2020s
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| 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 |
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