Golden Globe voor beste film - drama
De Golden Globe voor beste film - drama (Best Motion Picture - Drama) is een jaarlijkse filmprijs van de Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Het is een van de belangrijkste Golden Globes. Enkel dramafilms komen in aanmerking voor deze prijs, de overige films komen in de categorie Golden Globe voor beste film - musical of komedie aan bod. De categorieën zijn gesplitst vanaf de negende uitreiking, voor films uit 1951, en werden voor eenmaal herenigd voor films uit 1953. Voor de splitsing werd de categorie aangeduid als beste film (Best Picture). De winnaars en genomineerden voor die categorie zijn hier vermeld.

Winnaars en genomineerden 
De winnaar staat bovenaan in vette letters, de overige genomineerden staan eronder in alfabetische volgorde.

1943-1949 
1943 (1e): The Song of Bernadette
1944 (2e): Going My Way
1945 (3e): The Lost Weekend
1946 (4e): The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 (5e): Gentleman's Agreement
1948 (6e): Johnny Belinda & The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949 (7e): All the King's Men
Come to the Stable

1950-1959 
1950 (8e): Sunset Boulevard
All About Eve
Born Yesterday
Cyrano de Bergerac
Harvey
1951 (9e): A Place in the Sun
Bright Victory
Detective Story
Quo Vadis
A Streetcar Named Desire
1952 (10e): The Greatest Show on Earth
Come Back, Little Sheba
The Happy Time
High Noon
The Thief
1953 (11e): The Robe
1954 (12e): On the Waterfront
1955 (13e): East of Eden
1956 (14e): Around the World in 80 Days
Giant
Lust for Life
The Rainmaker
War and Peace
1957 (15e): The Bridge on the River Kwai
Sayonara
12 Angry Men
Wild Is the Wind
Witness for the Prosecution
1958 (16e): The Defiant Ones
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Home Before Dark
I Want to Live!
Separate Tables
1959 (17e): Ben-Hur
Anatomy of a Murder
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Nun's Story
On the Beach

1960-1969 
1960 (18e): Spartacus
Elmer Gantry
Inherit the Wind
Sons and Lovers
Sunrise at Campobello
1961 (19e): The Guns of Navarone
El Cid
Fanny
Judgment at Nuremberg
Splendor in the Grass
1962 (20e): Lawrence of Arabia
The Chapman Report
Days of Wine and Roses
Freud
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Lisa
The Longest Day
The Miracle Worker
Mutiny on the Bounty
To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 (21e): The Cardinal
America, America
Captain Newman, M.D.
The Caretakers
Cleopatra
The Great Escape
Hud
Lilies of the Field
1964 (22e): Becket
The Chalk Garden
Dear Heart
The Night of the Iguana
Zorba the Greek
1965 (23e): Doctor Zhivago
The Collector
The Flight of the Phoenix
A Patch of Blue
Ship of Fools
1966 (24e): A Man for All Seasons
Born Free
The Professionals
The Sand Pebbles
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 (25e): In the Heat of the Night
Bonnie and Clyde
Far from the Madding Crowd
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
In Cold Blood
1968 (26e): The Lion in Winter
Charly
The Fixer
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1969 (27e):  Anne of the Thousand Days
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Midnight Cowboy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1970-1979 
1970 (28e): Love Story
Airport
Five Easy Pieces
I Never Sang for My Father
Patton
1971 (29e): The French Connection
A Clockwork Orange
The Last Picture Show
Mary, Queen of Scots
Summer of '42
1972 (30e): The Godfather
Deliverance
Frenzy
The Poseidon Adventure
Sleuth
1973 (31e): The Exorcist
Cinderella Liberty
The Day of the Jackal
Last Tango in Paris
Save the Tiger
Serpico
1974 (32e): Chinatown
The Conversation
Earthquake
The Godfather Part II
A Woman Under the Influence
1975 (33e): One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Barry Lyndon
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
Nashville
1976 (34e): Rocky
All the President's Men
Bound for Glory
Network
Voyage of the Damned
1977 (35e): The Turning Point
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Julia
Star Wars
1978 (36e): Midnight Express
Coming Home
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
An Unmarried Woman
1979 (37e): Kramer vs. Kramer
Apocalypse Now
The China Syndrome
Manhattan
Norma Rae

1980-1989 
1980 (38e): Ordinary People
The Elephant Man
The Ninth Configuration
Raging Bull
The Stunt Man
1981 (39e): On Golden Pond
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Prince of the City
Ragtime
Reds
1982 (40e): E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Missing
An Officer and a Gentleman
Sophie's Choice
The Verdict
1983 (41e): Terms of Endearment
Reuben, Reuben
The Right Stuff
Silkwood
Tender Mercies
1984 (42e): Amadeus
The Cotton Club
The Killing Fields
Places in the Heart
A Soldier's Story
1985 (43e): Out of Africa
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Runaway Train
Witness
1986 (44e): Platoon
Children of a Lesser God
The Mission
Mona Lisa
A Room with a View
Stand by Me
1987 (45e): The Last Emperor
Cry Freedom
Empire of the Sun
Fatal Attraction
La Bamba
Nuts
1988 (46e): Rain Man
The Accidental Tourist
A Cry in the Dark
Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey
Mississippi Burning
Running on Empty
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1989 (47e): Born on the Fourth of July
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing
Glory

1990-1999 
1990 (48e): Dances with Wolves
Avalon
The Godfather Part III
GoodFellas
Reversal of Fortune
1991 (49e): Bugsy
JFK
The Prince of Tides
The Silence of the Lambs
Thelma & Louise
1992 (50e): Scent of a Woman
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Howards End
Unforgiven
1993 (51e): Schindler's List
The Age of Innocence
In the Name of the Father
The Piano
The Remains of the Day
1994 (52e): Forrest Gump
Legends of the Fall
Nell
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
1995 (53e): Sense and Sensibility
Apollo 13
Braveheart
The Bridges of Madison County
Leaving Las Vegas
1996 (54e): The English Patient
Breaking the Waves
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Secrets & Lies
Shine
1997 (55e): Titanic
Amistad
The Boxer
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
1998 (56e): Saving Private Ryan
Elizabeth
Gods and Monsters
The Horse Whisperer
The Truman Show
1999 (57e): American Beauty
The End of the Affair
The Hurricane
The Insider
The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000-2009 
 2000 (58e): Gladiator
Billy Elliot
Erin Brockovich
Sunshine
Traffic
Wonder Boys
2001 (59e): A Beautiful Mind
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Man Who Wasn't There
Mulholland Dr.
2002 (60e): The Hours
About Schmidt
Gangs of New York
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
2003 (61e): The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Cold Mountain
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mystic River
Seabiscuit
2004 (62e): The Aviator
Closer
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
2005 (63e): Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Good Night, and Good Luck
A History of Violence
Match Point
2006 (64e): Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen
2007 (65e): Atonement
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
The Great Debaters
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men 
There Will Be Blood
2008 (66e): Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
2009 (67e): Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Up in the Air

2010-2019 
2010 (68e): The Social Network
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
2011 (69e): The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March 
Moneyball
War Horse
2012 (70e): Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
2013 (71e): 12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush
2014 (72e): Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
2015 (73e): The Revenant
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
Spotlight
2016 (74e): Moonlight
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
2017 (75e): Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water
2018 (76e): Bohemian Rhapsody
 BlacKkKlansman
 Black Panther
 If Beale Street Could Talk
 A Star Is Born
2019 (77e): 1917
 The Irishman
 Joker
 Marriage Story
 The Two Popes

Beste film - drama