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Best Actor Drama Golden Globe

Best Actor Drama Golden Globe

Established

1951

First Winner

Fredric March

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Best Actor Drama Golden Globe

About

Honor awarded for the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The award is handed out at the annual Golden Globe Award ceremony.

Trivia

The category was originally the singular Best Actor in a Motion Picture category before being divided into the separate Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama and Best Actor - Musical or Comedy categories.

#6 award

Best Actor Drama Golden Globe Winners

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio, 49

2004, 2015

1

Will Smith

Will Smith, 55

2021

2

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise, 62

1989

3

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks, 67

1993, 1994, 2000

4

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey, 62

1998

5

Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020)

2020

6

Matthew McConaughey

Matthew McConaughey, 54

2013

7

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington, 69

1999

8

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage, 60

1995

9

Robert De Niro

Robert De Niro, 80

1980

10

Al Pacino

Al Pacino, 84

1973, 1992

11

Eddie Redmayne

Eddie Redmayne, 42

2014

12

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix, 49

2019

13

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson, 87

1974, 1975, 2002

14

John Wayne

John Wayne (1907-1979)

1969

15

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando (1924-2004)

1954, 1972

16

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman, 86

1979, 1988

17

Michael Douglas

Michael Douglas, 79

1987

18

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck (1916-2003)

1962

19

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (1916-2020)

1956

20

Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)

1963

21

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons, 75

1990

22

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis, 67

2007, 2012

23

Ben Kingsley

Ben Kingsley, 80

1982

24

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)

2005

25

Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman, 94

1971

26

Jon Voight

Jon Voight, 85

1978, 1985

27

Nick Nolte

Nick Nolte, 83

1991

28

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness (1914-2000)

1957

29

Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (1901-1961)

1952

30

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda (1905-1982)

1981

31

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012)

1955

32

Peter O'Toole

Peter O'Toole (1932-2013)

1964, 1968

33

Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif (1932-2015)

1965

34

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins (1942-2014)

1986

35

Richard Burton

Richard Burton (1925-1984)

1977

36

George C. Scott

George C. Scott (1927-1999)

1970

37

Spencer Tracy

Spencer Tracy (1900-1967)

1953

38

F. Murray Abraham

F. Murray Abraham, 84

1984

39

Rod Steiger

Rod Steiger (1925-2002)

1967

40

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster (1913-1994)

1960

41

David Niven

David Niven (1910-1983)

1958

42

Peter Finch

Peter Finch (1916-1977)

1976

43

Fredric March

Fredric March (1897-1975)

1951

44

Paul Scofield

Paul Scofield (1922-2008)

1966

45

Anthony Franciosa

Anthony Franciosa (1928-2006)

1959

46

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (1930-2014)

1961

47

Tom Courtenay

Tom Courtenay, 87

1983

48

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