Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

1984 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerTender MerciesRobert DuvallA broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.AmazonThe DresserTom CourtenayAn effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.Amazon1984 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesReuben, ReubenTom ContiAmazonScarfaceAl PacinoAmazonStar 80Eric RobertsAmazonThe DresserAlbert FinneyAmazonThe Grey FoxRichard FarnsworthAmazon

1985 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerAmadeusF. Murray AbrahamThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Amazon1985 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesAmadeusTom HulceAmazonStarmanJeff BridgesAmazonThe Killing FieldsSam WaterstonAmazonUnder the VolcanoAlbert FinneyAmazon

1986 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerRunaway TrainJon VoightTwo escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.Amazon1986 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesKiss of the Spider WomanWilliam HurtAmazonKiss of the Spider WomanRaul JuliaAmazonTwice in a LifetimeGene HackmanAmazonWitnessHarrison FordAmazon

1987 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerMona LisaBob HoskinsA man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.Amazon1987 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesChildren of a Lesser GodWilliam HurtAmazonRound MidnightDexter GordonAmazonThe Color of MoneyPaul NewmanAmazonThe MissionJeremy IronsAmazonThe Mosquito CoastHarrison FordAmazon

1988 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerWall StreetMichael DouglasA young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.Amazon1988 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesCry FreedomDenzel WashingtonAmazonIronweedJack NicholsonAmazonThe Last EmperorJohn LoneAmazonWeedsNick NolteAmazon

1989 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerRain ManDustin HoffmanSelfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.Amazon1989 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesBirdForest WhitakerAmazonDominick and EugeneTom HulceAmazonMississippi BurningGene HackmanAmazonStand and DeliverEdward James OlmosAmazon

1990 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerBorn on the Fourth of JulyTom CruiseThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.Amazon1990 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesDadJack LemmonAmazonDead Poets SocietyRobin WilliamsAmazonMy Left FootDaniel Day-LewisAmazonSea of LoveAl PacinoAmazon

1991 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerReversal of FortuneJeremy IronsWealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.Amazon1991 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesAwakeningsRobin WilliamsAmazonDances with WolvesKevin CostnerAmazonThe FieldRichard HarrisAmazonThe Godfather: Part IIIAl PacinoAmazon

2020 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerJokerJoaquin PhoenixIn Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker.Amazon2020 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesFord v FerrariChristian BaleAmazonMarriage StoryAdam DriverAmazonPain and GloryAntonio BanderasAmazonThe Two PopesJonathan PryceAmazon

1993 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama WinnerScent of a WomanAl PacinoA prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.Amazon1993 Golden Globe Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama NomineesA Few Good MenTom CruiseAmazonChaplinRobert Downey Jr.AmazonHoffaJack NicholsonAmazonMalcolm XDenzel WashingtonAmazon