Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama

1940s

The Song of Bernadette – Henry King and William Perlberg (1943)
Going My Way – Leo McCarey (1944)
The Lost Weekend – Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives – William Wyler and Samuel Goldwyn (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement – Elia Kazan and Darryl F. Zanuck (1947)
Johnny Belinda – Jean Negulesco and Jerry Wald / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre – John Huston and Henry Blanke (1948)
All the King's Men – Robert Rossen (1949)

1950s

Sunset Boulevard – Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett (1950)
A Place in the Sun – George Stevens (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth – Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
The Robe – Henry Koster and Frank Ross (1953)
On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan and Sam Spiegel (1954)
East of Eden – Elia Kazan (1955)
Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Anderson and Kevin McClory (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai – David Lean and Sam Spiegel (1957)
The Defiant Ones – Stanley Kramer (1958)
Ben-Hur – William Wyler and Sam Zimbalist (1959)

1960s

Spartacus – Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas (1960)
The Guns of Navarone – J. Lee Thompson and Carl Foreman (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean and Sam Spiegel (1962)
The Cardinal – Otto Preminger and Martin C. Schute (1963)
Becket – Peter Glenville and Hal B. Wallis (1964)
Doctor Zhivago – David Lean and Carlo Ponti (1965)
A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1966)
In the Heat of the Night – Norman Jewison and Walter Mirisch (1967)
The Lion in Winter – Anthony Harvey and Martin Poll (1968)
Anne of the Thousand Days – Charles Jarrott and Hal B. Wallis (1969)

1970s

Love Story – Arthur Hiller and Howard G. Minsky (1970)
The French Connection – William Friedkin and Philip D'Antoni (1971)
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Albert S. Ruddy (1972)
The Exorcist – William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty (1973)
Chinatown – Roman Polanski and Robert Evans (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Miloš Forman and Michael Douglas (1975)
Rocky – John G. Avildsen, Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
The Turning Point – Herbert Ross and Arthur Laurents (1977)
Midnight Express – Alan Parker and Alan Marshall (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton and Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)

1980s

Ordinary People – Robert Redford and Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
On Golden Pond – Mark Rydell and Bruce Gilbert (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Steven Spielberg (1982)
Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks (1983)
Amadeus – Miloš Forman and Saul Zaentz (1984)
Out of Africa – Sydney Pollack (1985)
Platoon – Oliver Stone and Arnold Kopelson (1986)
The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1987)
Rain Man – Barry Levinson and Mark Johnson (1988)
Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and A. Kitman Ho (1989)

1990s

Dances with Wolves – Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
Bugsy – Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty (1991)
Scent of a Woman – Martin Brest (1992)
Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg (1993)
Forrest Gump – Robert Zemeckis and Wendy Finerman (1994)
Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Laurie Borg (1995)
The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
Titanic – James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
Saving Private Ryan – Steven Spielberg (1998)
American Beauty – Sam Mendes and Bruce Cohen (1999)

2000s

Gladiator – Ridley Scott and Douglas Wick (2000)
A Beautiful Mind – Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (2001)
The Hours – Stephen Daldry, Robert Fox, and Scott Rudin (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
The Aviator – Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann (2004)
Brokeback Mountain – Ang Lee and Diana Ossana (2005)
Babel – Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Steve Golin (2006)
Atonement – Joe Wright and Tim Bevan (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle and Christian Colson (2008)
Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau (2009)

2010s

The Social Network – David Fincher, Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin (2010)
The Descendants – Alexander Payne, Jim Burke, and Jim Taylor (2011)
Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen, Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, and Bill Pohlad (2013)
Boyhood – Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
The Revenant – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Golin, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
Moonlight – Barry Jenkins, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Adele Romanski (2016)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, and Peter Czernin (2017)
Bohemian Rhapsody – Bryan Singer, Jim Beach, and Graham King (2018)
1917 – Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Brian Oliver, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s
Nomadland – Chloé Zhao, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, and Peter Spears (2020) The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021) The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Tony Kushner (2022) Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas (2023)

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