The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama".
Notes: "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award. "‡" indicates a Golden Globe Award winner who wasn't nominated for an Academy Award.
[edit] "Best Actress - Motion Picture"
[edit] "Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama"
1950: Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard
1951: Jane Wyman - The Blue Veil
1952: Shirley Booth - Come Back, Little Sheba †
1953: Audrey Hepburn - Roman Holiday †
1954: Grace Kelly - The Country Girl †
1955: Anna Magnani - The Rose Tattoo †
1956: - Ingrid Bergman - Anastasia †
1957: - Joanne Woodward - The Three Faces of Eve †
1958: Susan Hayward - I Want to Live!
1959: Elizabeth Taylor - Suddenly, Last Summer
1960: Greer Garson - Sunrise at Campobello
1961: Geraldine Page - Summer and Smoke
1962: Geraldine Page - Sweet Bird of Youth
1963: Leslie Caron - The L-Shaped Room
1964: Anne Bancroft - The Pumpkin Eater
1965: Samantha Eggar - The Collector as Miranda Grey
1966: Anouk Aimée - A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) as Anne Gauthier
1967: Edith Evans - The Whisperers as Maggie Ross
1968: Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel as Rachel Cameron
1969: Geneviève Bujold - Anne of the Thousand Days as Anne Boleyn
1970: Ali MacGraw - Love Story as Jennifer Cavalleri
1971: Jane Fonda - Klute as Bree Daniels †
1972: Liv Ullmann - The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) as Kristina
1973: Marsha Mason - Cinderella Liberty as Maggie Paul
1974: Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence as Mabel Longhetti
1975: Louise Fletcher - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Nurse Ratched †
1976: Faye Dunaway - Network as Diana Christensen †
1977: Jane Fonda - Julia as Lillian Hellman
1978: Jane Fonda - Coming Home as Sally Hyde †
1979: Sally Field - Norma Rae as Norma Rae Webster †
1980: Mary Tyler Moore - Ordinary People as Beth Jarrett
1981: Meryl Streep - The French Lieutenant's Woman as Sarah/Anna
1982: Meryl Streep - Sophie's Choice as Sophie Zawistowska †
1983: Shirley MacLaine - Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway †
1984: Sally Field - Places in the Heart as Edna Spalding †
1985: Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple as Celie
1986: Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God as Sarah Norman †
1987: Sally Kirkland - Anna as Anna
1988: tie
Jodie Foster - The Accused as Sarah Tobias † and
Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist as Dian Fossey and
Shirley MacLaine - Madame Sousatzka as Yuvline Sousatzka‡
1989: Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys as Susie Diamond
1990: Kathy Bates – Misery as Annie Wilkes †
1991: Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling †
1992: Emma Thompson – Howards End as Margaret Schlegel †
1993: Holly Hunter – The Piano as Ada McGrath †
1994: Jessica Lange – Blue Sky as Carly Marshall †
1995: Sharon Stone – Casino as Ginger McKenna
1996: Brenda Blethyn – Secrets and Lies as Cynthia Rose Purley
1997: Judi Dench – Mrs. Brown as Queen Victoria
1998: Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I
1999: Hilary Swank – Boys Don't Cry as Brandon Teena †
2000: Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich as Erin Brockovich †
2001: Sissy Spacek – In The Bedroom as Ruth Fowler
2002: Nicole Kidman – The Hours as Virginia Woolf †
2003: Charlize Theron – Monster as Aileen Wuornos †
2004: Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Maggie Fitzgerald †
2005: Felicity Huffman – Transamerica as Bree Osbourne
2006: Helen Mirren – The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II †
2007: Julie Christie – Away from Her as Fiona Anderson
2008: Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler ‡
| Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama | | | 1943-1960 | | | | 1961-1980 | | | | 1981-2000 | | | | 2001-present | | | | | |
