List of Golden Globe Awards: Film, Best Actress, Drama
- 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
- 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 - Dame 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; Shirley MacLaine, Madame Sousatzka; Sigourney Weaver, Gorillas in the Mist
- 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
- 2000 - Hillary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
- 2001 - Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
- 2002 - Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom
- 2003 - Nicole Kidman, The Hours
See also Golden Globe Award
