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2020 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Judy
Renée Zellweger
2019 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Wife
Glenn Close
2018 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Frances McDormand
2017 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Elle
Isabelle Huppert
2016 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Room
Brie Larson
2015 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Still Alice
Julianne Moore
2014 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett
2013 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Chastain
2012 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep
2011 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Black Swan
Natalie Portman
2010 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Blind Side
Sandra Bullock
2009 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet
2008 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Away from Her
Julie Christie
2007 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Queen
Helen Mirren
2006 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Transamerica
Felicity Huffman
2005 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Million Dollar Baby
Hilary Swank
2004 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Monster
Charlize Theron
2003 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Hours
Nicole Kidman
2002 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
In the Bedroom
Sissy Spacek
2001 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts
2000 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Boys Don’t Cry
Hilary Swank
1999 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Elizabeth
Cate Blanchett
1998 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Mrs Brown
Judi Dench
1997 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Secrets & Lies
Brenda Blethyn
1996 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Casino
Sharon Stone
1995 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Blue Sky
Jessica Lange
1994 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Piano
Holly Hunter
1993 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Howards End
Emma Thompson
1992 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster
1991 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Misery
Kathy Bates
1990 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Michelle Pfeiffer
1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Gorillas in the Mist
Sigourney Weaver
1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Madame Sousatzka
Shirley MacLaine
1989 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Accused
Jodie Foster
1988 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Anna
Sally Kirkland
1987 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Children of a Lesser God
Marlee Matlin
1986 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Color Purple
Whoopi Goldberg
1985 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Places in the Heart
Sally Field
1984 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine
1983 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sophie’s Choice
Meryl Streep
1982 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Meryl Streep
1981 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Ordinary People
Mary Tyler Moore
1980 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Norma Rae
Sally Field
1979 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Coming Home
Jane Fonda
1978 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Julia
Jane Fonda
1977 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Network
Faye Dunaway
1976 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Louise Fletcher
1975 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
A Woman Under the Influence
Gena Rowlands
1974 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cinderella Liberty
Marsha Mason
1973 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Emigrants
Liv Ullmann
1972 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Klute
Jane Fonda
1971 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Love Story
Ali MacGraw
1970 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Anne of the Thousand Days
Geneviève Bujold
1969 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Rachel, Rachel
Joanne Woodward
1968 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Whisperers
Edith Evans
1967 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
A Man and a Woman
Anouk Aimée
1966 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Collector
Samantha Eggar
1965 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Pumpkin Eater
Anne Bancroft
1964 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The L-Shaped Room
Leslie Caron
1963 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sweet Bird of Youth
Geraldine Page
1962 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Summer and Smoke
Geraldine Page
1961 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sunrise at Campobello
Greer Garson
1960 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor
1959 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
I Want to Live!
Susan Hayward
1958 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Three Faces of Eve
Joanne Woodward
1957 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Anastasia
Ingrid Bergman
1956 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Rose Tattoo
Anna Magnani
1955 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Country Girl
Grace Kelly
1954 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Roman Holiday
Audrey Hepburn
1953 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Come Back, Little Sheba
Shirley Booth
1952 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Blue Veil
Jane Wyman
1951 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sunset Blvd.
Gloria Swanson
1950 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Heiress
Olivia de Havilland
1949 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Johnny Belinda
Jane Wyman
1948 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Mourning Becomes Electra
Rosalind Russell
1947 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sister Kenny
Rosalind Russell
1946 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
The Bells of St. Mary’s
Ingrid Bergman
1945 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Gaslight
Ingrid Bergman
1944 Golden Globe Awards – Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
