From Jose Ferrer ("Cyrano de Bergerac") in 1950 to Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood") in 2008, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has recognized great performances by leading actors throughout the years.
Multiple winners of Golden Globes for actor in a motion picture drama have included Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Al Pacino, Peter O'Toole, and Marlon Brando.
Golden Globes for Motion Picture Actor (Drama)
| 2010 Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart") | |
| Other Nominees: George Clooney (Up In The Air); Colin Firth (A Single Man); Morgan Freeman (Invictus); Tobey Maguire (Brothers) | |
| 2009 Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler") | |
| Other Nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road); Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon); Sean Penn (Milk); Brad Pitt (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button) | |
| 2008 Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood") |    |
| Other Nominees: George Clooney (Michael Clayton); James McAvoy (Atonement); Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises); Denzel Washington (American Gangster) | |
| 2007 Forest Whitaker ("The Last King Of Scotland") |  |
| Other Nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond); Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed); Peter O'Toole (Venus); Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happiness) | |
| 2006 Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote") |  |
| Other Nominees: Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man); Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow); Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain); David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck) | |
| 2005 Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Aviator") |  |
| Other Nominees: Javier Bardem (The Sea Inside); Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda); Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland); Liam Neeson (Kinsey) | |
| 2004 Sean Penn ("Mystic River") |  |
| Other Nominees: Russell Crowe (Master and Commander); Tom Cruise (The Last Samurai); Ben Kingsley (House of Sand and Fog); Jude Law (Cold Mountain) | |
| 2003 Jack Nicholson ("About Schmidt") |  |
| Other Nominees: Adrien Brody (The Pianist); Michael Caine (The Quiet American); Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York); Leonardo DiCaprio (Catch Me If You Can) | |
| 2002 Russell Crowe ("A Beautiful Mind") |  |
| Other Nominees: Kevin Spacey (The Shipping News); Will Smith (Ali); Billy Bob Thornton (The Man Who Wasn't There); Denzel Washington (Training Day) | |
| 2001 Tom Hanks ("Cast Away") | |
| Other Nominees: Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls); Russell Crowe (Gladiator); Michael Douglas (Wonder Boys); Geoffrey Rush (Quills) | |
| 2000 Denzel Washington ("The Hurricane") | |
| Other Nominees: Russell Crowe (The Insider); Matt Damon (The Talented Mr Ripley); Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story); Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) | |
| 1999 Jim Carrey ("The Truman Show") | |
| Other Nominees: Stephen Fry (Wilde); Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan); Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters); Nick Nolte (Affliction) | |
| 1998 Peter Fonda ("Ulee's Gold") | |
| Other Nominees: Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting); Daniel Day-Lewis (The Boxer); Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic); Djimon Hounsou (Amistad) | |
| 1997 Geoffrey Rush ("Shine") | |
| Other Nominees: Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient); Mil Gibson (Ransom); Woody Harrelson (The People vs Larry Flint); Liam Neeson (Michael Collins) | |
| 1996 Nicolas Cage ("Leaving Las Vegas") | |
| Other Nominees: Richard Dreyfuss (Mr Holland's Opus); Anthony Hopkins (Nixon); Ian McKellen (Richard III); Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking) | |
| 1995 Tom Hanks ("Forrest Gump") |  |
| Other Nominees: Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption); Paul Newman (Nobody's Fool); Brad Pitt (Legends Of the Fall); John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) | |
| 1994 Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia") | |
| Other Nominees: Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father); Harrison Ford (The Fugitive); Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day); Liam Neeson (Schindler's List) | |
| 1993 Al Pacino ("Scent of a Woman") | |
| Other Nominees: Tom Cruise (A Few Good Men); Robert Downey Jr (Chaplin); Jack Nicholson (Hoffa); Denzel Washington (Malcolm X) | |
| 1992 Nick Nolte ("The Prince of Tides") | |
| Other Nominees: Warren Beatty (Bugsy); Kevin Costner (JFK); Robert DeNiro (Cape Fear); Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) | |
| 1991 Jeremy Irons ("Reversal of Fortune") | |
| Other Nominees: Kevin Costner (Dances With Wolves); Richard Harris (The Field); Al Pacino (The Godfather Part III); Robin Williams (Awakenings) | |
| 1990 Tom Cruise ("Born On the Fourth of July") | |
| Other Nominees: Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot); Jack Lemmon (Dad); Al Pacino (Sea of Love); Robin Williams (Dead Poets Society) | |
| 1989 Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man") |  |
| Other Nominees: Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning); Tom Hulce (Dominick and Eugene); Edward James Olmos (Stand and Deliver); Forest Whitaker (Bird) | |
| 1988 Michael Douglas ("Wall Street") | |
| Other Nominees: John Lone (The Last Emperor); Jack Nicholson (Ironweed); Nick Nolte (Weeds); Denzel Washington (Cry Freedom) | |
| 1987 Bob Hoskins ("Mona Lisa") | |
| Other Nominees: Harrison Ford (The Mosquito Coast); Dexter Gordon ('Round Midnight); William Hurt (Children Of A Lesser God); Paul Newman (The Color of Money) | |
| 1986 Jon Voight ("Runaway Train") | |
| Other Nominees: Harrison Ford (Witness); Gene Hackman (Twice In A Lifetime); William Hurt (Kiss Of the Spider Woman); Raul Julia (Kiss of the Spider Woman) | |
| 1985 F Murray Abraham ("Amadeus") |  |
| Other Nominees: Jeff Bridges (Starman); Albert Finney (Under the Volcano); Tom Hulce (Amadeus); Sam Waterston (The Killing Fields) | |
| 1984 Tom Courtenay ("The Dresser") | |
| Other Nominees: Tom Conti (Reuben Reuben); Richard Farnsworth (The Grey Fox); Albert Finney (The Dresser); Al Pacino (Scarface); Eric Robert (Star 80) | |
| 1984 Robert Duvall ("Tender Mercies") | |
| Other Nominees: Tom Conti (Reuben Reuben); Richard Farnsworth (The Grey Fox); Albert Finney (The Dresser); Al Pacino (Scarface); Eric Robert (Star 80) | |
| 1983 Ben Kingsley ("Gandhi") | |
| Other Nominees: Albert Finney (Shoot the Moon); Richard Gere (And Officer and a Gentleman); Jack Lemmon (Missing); Paul Newman (The Verdict) | |
| 1982 Henry Fonda ("On Golden Pond") | |
| Other Nominees: Warren Beatty (Reds); Timothy Hutton (Taps); Burt Lancaster (Atlantic City); Treat Williams (Prince of the City) | |
| 1981 Robert De Niro ("Raging Bull") | |
| Other Nominees: John Hurt (The Elephant Man); Jack Lemmon (Tribute); Peter O'Toole (The Stunt Man); Donald Sutherland (Ordinary People) | |
| 1980 Dustin Hoffman ("Kramer vs Kramer") | |
| Other Nominees: Jack Lemmon (The China Syndrome); Al Pacino (And Justice For All); Jon Voight (The Champ); James Woods (The Onion Field) | |
| 1979 Jon Voight ("Coming Home") | |
| Other Nominees: Brad Davis (Midnight Express); Robert De Niro (The Deer Hunter); Anthony Hopkins (Magic); Gregory Peck (The Boys From Brazil) | |
| 1978 Richard Burton ("Equus") | |
| Other Nominees: Marcello Mastroianni (A Special Day); Al Pacino (Bobby Deerfield); Gregory Peck (MacArthur); Henry Winkler (Heroes) | |
| 1977 Peter Finch ("Network") | |
| Other Nominees: David Carradine (Bound For Glory); Robert De Niro (Taxi Driver); Dustin Hoffman (Marathon Man); Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) | |
| 1976 Jack Nicholson ("One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest") | |
| Other Nominees: Gene Hackman (French Connection II); Al Pacino (Dog Day Afternoon); Maximilian Schell (The Man in the Glass Booth); James Whitmore (Give 'Em Hell Harry!) | |
| 1975 Jack Nicholson ("Chinatown") | |
| Other Nominees: James Caan (The Gambler); Gene Hackman (The Conversation); Dustin Hoffman (Lenny); Al Pacino (The Godfather Part II) | |
| 1974 Al Pacino ("Serpico") | |
| Other Nominees: Robert Blake (Electra Glide In Blue); Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger); Steve McQueen (Papillon); Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail) | |
| 1973 Marlon Brando ("The Godfather") | |
| Other Nominees: Michael Caine (Sleuth); Laurence Olivier (Sleuth); Al Pacino (The Godfather); Jon Voight (Deliverance) | |
| 1972 Gene Hackman ("The French Connection") | |
| Other Nominees: Peter Finch (Sunday Bloody Sunday); Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange); Jack Nicholson (Carnal Knowledge); George C Scott (The Hospital) | |
| 1971 George C Scott ("Patton") | |
| Other Nominees: Melvyn Douglas (I Never Sang For My Father); James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope); Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces); Ryan O'Neal (Love Story) | |
| 1970 John Wayne ("True Grit") | |
| Other Nominees: Alan Arkin (Popi); Richard Burton (Anne Of The Thousand Days); Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy); Jon Voight (Midnight Cowboy) | |
| 1969 Peter O'Toole ("The Lion In Winter") | |
| Other Nominees: Alan Arkin (The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter); Alan Bates (The Fixer); Tony Curtis (The Boston Strangler); Cliff Robertson (Charly) | |
| 1968 Rod Steiger ("In The Heat Of The Night") | |
| Other Nominees: Alan Bates (Far From the Madding Crowd); Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde); Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke); Sidney Poitier (In the Heat Of the Night); Spencer Tracy (Guess Who's Coming To Dinner) | |
| 1967 Paul Scofield ("A Man For All Seasons") |  |
| Other Nominees: Richard Burton (Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?); Michael Caine (Alfie); Steve McQueen (The Sand Pebbles); Max von Sydow (Hawaii) | |
| 1966 Omar Sharif ("Doctor Zhivago") | |
| Other Nominees: Rex Harrison (The Agony and the Ecstasy); Sidney Poitier (A Patch of Blue); Rod Steiger (The Pawnbroker); Oskar Werner (Ship of Fools) | |
| 1965 Peter O'Toole ("Becket") | |
| Other Nominees: Richard Burton (Becket); Anthony Franciosa (Rio Conchos); Fredric March (Seven Days In May); Anthony Quinn (Zorba the Greek) | |
| 1964 Sidney Poitier ("Lilies Of The Field") | |
| Other Nominees: Marlon Brando (The Ugly American); Stathis Giallelis (America America); Rex Harrison (Cleopatra); Steve McQueen (Love With the Proper Stranger); Paul Newman (Hud); Gregory Peck (Captain Newman MD); Tom Tryon (The Cardinal) | |
| 1963 Gregory Peck ("To Kill A Mockingbird") | |
| Other Nominees: Bobby Darin (Pressure Point); Jackie Gleason (Gigot); Laurence Harvey (The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm); Burt Lancaster (Birdman of Alcatraz); Jack Lemmon (Days of Wine and Roses); James Mason (Lolita); Paul Newman (Sweet Bird of Youth); Peter O | |
| 1962 Maximilian Schell ("Judgment at Nuremberg") | |
| Other Nominees: Warren Beatty (Splendor In the Grass); Maurice Chevalier (Fanny); Paul Newman (The Hustler); Sidney Poitier (A Raisin In the Sun) | |
| 1961 Burt Lancaster ("Elmer Gantry") | |
| Other Nominees: Trevor Howard (Sons and Lovers); Laurence Olivier (Spartacus); Dean Stockwell (Sons and Lovers); Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind) | |
| 1960 Anthony Franciosa ("Career") | |
| Other Nominees: Richard Burton (Look Back In Anger); Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur); Fredric March (Middle of the Night); Joseph Schildkraut (The Diary of Anne Frank) | |
| 1959 David Niven ("Separate Tables") | |
| Other Nominees: Tony Curtis (The Defiant Ones); Robert Donat (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness); Sidney Poitier (The Defiant Ones); Spencer Tracy (The Old Man and the Sea) | |
| 1958 Alec Guinness ("The Bridge On The River Kwai") | |
| Other Nominees: Marlon Brando (Sayonara); Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men); Anthony Franciosa (A Hatful of Rain); Charles Laughton (Witness For the Prosecution) | |
| 1957 Kirk Douglas ("Lust For Life") | |
| Other Nominees: Gary Cooper (Friendly Persuasion); Charlton Heston (The Ten Commandments); Burt Lancaster (The Rainmaker); Karl Malden (Baby Doll) | |
| 1956 Ernest Borgnine ("Marty") | |
| 1955 Marlon Brando ("On The Waterfront") | |
| 1954 Spencer Tracy ("The Actress") | |
| 1953 Gary Cooper ("High Noon") | |
| Other Nominees: Charles Boyer (The Happy Time); Ray Milland (The Thief) | |
| 1952 Fredric March ("Death Of A Salesman") | |
| Other Nominees: Kirk Douglas (Detective Story); Arthur Kennedy (Bright Victory) | |
| 1951 Jose Ferrer ("Cyrano de Bergerac") | |
| Other Nominees: Louis Calhern (The Magnificent Yankee); James Stewart (Harvey) | |
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