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