The Golden Globe Award: Best Motion Pictures - Drama
- 2007 Atonement
- 2006 Babel
- 2005 Brokeback Mountain
- 2004 The Aviator
- 2003 The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- 2002 The Hours
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind
- 2000 Gladiator
- 1999 American Beauty
- 1998 Saving Private Ryan
- 1997 Titanic
- 1996 The English Patient
- 1995 Sense & Sensibility
- 1994 Forrest Gump
- 1993 Schindler's List
- 1992 Scent of a Woman
- 1991 Bugsy
- 1990 Dances with Wolves
- 1989 Born on the Fourth of July
- 1988 Rain Man
- 1987 The Last Emperor
- 1986 Platoon
- 1985 Out of Africa
- 1984 Amadeus
- 1983 Terms of Endearment
- 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- 1981 On Golden Pond
- 1980 Ordinary People
- 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
- 1978 Midnight Express
- 1977 The Turning Point
- 1976 Rocky
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- 1974 Chinatown
- 1973 The Exorcist
- 1972 The Godfather
- 1971 The French Connection
- 1970 Love Story
- 1969 Anne of the Thousand Days
- 1968 The Lion in Winter
- 1967 In the Heat of the Night
- 1966 A Man for All Seasons
- 1965 Doctor Zhivago
- 1964 Becket
- 1963 The Cardinal
- 1962 Lawrence of Arabia
- 1961 The Guns of Navarone
- 1960 Spartacus
- 1959 Ben-Hur
- 1958 The Defiant Ones
- 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1956 Around the World in 80 Days
- 1955 East of Eden
- 1954 On the Waterfront
- 1953 The Robe
- 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
- 1951 A Place in the Sun
- 1950 Sunset Boulevard
- 1949 All the King's Men
- 1948 Johnny Belinda / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 1947 Gentleman's Agreement
- 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1945 The Lost Weekend
- 1944 Going My Way
- 1943 The Song of Bernadette