Globo de Ouro de melhor ator em filme dramático

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Notas

• "†" indica o vencedor do Óscar de melhor ator
• "‡" indica a nomeação para o Óscar de melhor ator

Melhor ator - filme

• 1942 - Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine
• 1943 - Alexander Knox, Wilson
• 1944 - Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
• 1945 - Gregory Peck, The Yearling
• 1946 - Ronald Colman, A Double Life
• 1947 - Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
• 1948 - Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men

Melhor ator - filme dramático

• 1949 - José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1950 - Fredric March, Death of a Salesman
• 1951 - Gary Cooper, High Noon
• 1952 - Spencer Tracy, The Actress
• 1953 - Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront
• 1954 - Ernest Borgnine, Marty
• 1955 - Kirk Douglas, Lust for Life
• 1956 - Alec Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai
• 1957 - David Niven, Separate Tables
• 1958 - Anthony Franciosa, Career
• 1959 - Burt Lancaster, Elmer Gantry
• 1960 - Maximilian Schell, Judgement at Nuremberg
• 1961 - Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird
• 1962 - Sidney Poitier, Lilies of the Field
• 1963 - Peter O'Toole, Becket
• 1964 - Omar Sharif, Doctor Zhivago
• 1965 - Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons
• 1966 - Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night
• 1967 - Peter O'Toole, The Lion in Winter
• 1968 - John Wayne, True Grit
• 1969 - George C. Scott, Patton
• 1970 - Gene Hackman, The French Connection
• 1971 - Marlon Brando, The Godfather
• 1972 - Al Pacino, Serpico
• 1973 - Jack Nicholson, Chinatown
• 1974 - Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• 1976 - Peter Finch, Network
• 1977 - Richard Burton, Equus
• 1978 - Jon Voight, Coming Home
• 1979 - Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer

Anos 1980

Anos 1990

Anos 2000

Ano	Ator	Personagem	Filme
2000	Tom Hanks ‡	Chuck Noland	Cast Away
	Javier Bardem ‡	Reinaldo Arenas	Before Night Falls
	Russell Crowe †	Maximus Decimus Meridius	Gladiator
	Michael Douglas	Grady Tripp	Wonder Boys
	Geoffrey Rush ‡	Marquês de Sade	Quills
2001	Russell Crowe ‡	John Forbes Nash Jr.	A Beautiful Mind
	Will Smith ‡	Muhammad Ali	Ali
	Kevin Spacey	Quoyle	The Shipping News
	Billy Bob Thornton	Ed Crane	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Denzel Washington †	Detetive Alonzo Harris	Training Day
2002	Jack Nicholson ‡	Warren Schmidt	About Schmidt
	Adrien Brody †	Władysław Szpilman	The Pianist
	Michael Caine ‡	Thomas Fowler	The Quiet American
	Daniel Day-Lewis ‡	William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting	Gangs of New York
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Frank Abagnale Jr.	Catch Me If You Can
2003	Sean Penn †	Jimmy Markum	Mystic River
	Russell Crowe	Capitão Jack Aubrey	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
	Tom Cruise	Capitão Nathan Algren	The Last Samurai
	Ben Kingsley	Massoud Behrani	House of Sand and Fog
	Jude Law ‡	W. P. Inman	Cold Mountain
2004	Leonardo DiCaprio ‡	Howard Hughes	The Aviator
	Javier Bardem	Ramón Sampedro	Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)
	Don Cheadle ‡	Paul Rusesabagina	Hotel Rwanda
	Johnny Depp ‡	James Matthew Barrie	Finding Neverland
	Liam Neeson	Alfred Kinsey	Kinsey
2005	Philip Seymour Hoffman †	Truman Capote	Capote
	Russell Crowe	James J. Braddock	Cinderella Man
	Terrence Howard ‡	DJay	Hustle & Flow
	Heath Ledger ‡	Ennis del Mar	Brokeback Mountain
	David Strathairn ‡	Edward R. Murrow	Good Night, and Good Luck.
2006	Forest Whitaker †	Idi Amin	The Last King of Scotland
	Leonardo DiCaprio ‡	Danny Archer	Blood Diamond
	Leonardo DiCaprio	William "Billy" Costigan, Jr.	The Departed
	Peter O'Toole ‡	Maurice	Venus
	Will Smith ‡	Chris Gardner	The Pursuit of Happyness
2007	Daniel Day-Lewis †	Daniel Plainview	There Will Be Blood
	George Clooney ‡	Michael Clayton	Michael Clayton
	James McAvoy	Robbie Turner	Atonement
	Viggo Mortensen ‡	Nikolai Luzhin	Eastern Promises
	Denzel Washington	Frank Lucas	American Gangster
2008	Mickey Rourke ‡	Randy "The Ram" Robinson	The Wrestler
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Frank Wheeler	Revolutionary Road
	Frank Langella ‡	Richard Nixon	Frost/Nixon
	Sean Penn †	Harvey Milk	Milk
	Brad Pitt ‡	Benjamin Button	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2009	Jeff Bridges †	Otis "Bad" Blake	Crazy Heart
	George Clooney ‡	Ryan Bingham	Up in the Air
	Colin Firth ‡	George Falconer	A Single Man
	Morgan Freeman ‡	Nelson Mandela	Invictus
	Tobey Maguire	Capitão Sam Cahill	Brothers

Anos 2010

Ano	Ator	Personagem	Filme
2010	Colin Firth †	Rei George VI do Reino Unido	The King's Speech
	Jesse Eisenberg ‡	Mark Zuckerberg	The Social Network
	James Franco ‡	Aron Ralston	127 Hours
	Ryan Gosling	Dean Hellers	Blue Valentine
	Mark Wahlberg	Micky Ward	The Fighter
2011	George Clooney ‡	Matt King	The Descendants
	Leonardo DiCaprio	J. Edgar Hoover	J. Edgar
	Michael Fassbender	Brandon Sullivan	Shame
	Ryan Gosling	Stephen Meyers	The Ides of March
	Brad Pitt ‡	Billy Beane	Moneyball
2012	Daniel Day-Lewis †	Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln
	Richard Gere	Robert Miller	Arbitrage
	John Hawkes	Mark O'Brien	The Sessions
	Joaquin Phoenix ‡	Freddie Quell	The Master
	Denzel Washington ‡	William "Whip" Whitaker	Flight
2013	Matthew McConaughey †	Ron Woodroof	Dallas Buyers Club
	Chiwetel Ejiofor ‡	Solomon Northup	12 Years a Slave
	Idris Elba	Nelson Mandela	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
	Tom Hanks	Capitão Richard Phillips	Captain Phillips
	Robert Redford	O Homem	All Is Lost
2014	Eddie Redmayne †	Stephen Hawking	The Theory of Everything
	Steve Carell ‡	John Eleuthère du Pont	Foxcatcher
	Benedict Cumberbatch ‡	Alan Turing	The Imitation Game
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Louis "Lou" Bloom	Nightcrawler
	David Oyelowo	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Selma
2015	Leonardo DiCaprio †	Hugh Glass	The Revenant
	Bryan Cranston ‡	Dalton Trumbo	Trumbo
	Michael Fassbender ‡	Steve Jobs	Steve Jobs
	Eddie Redmayne ‡	Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe	The Danish Girl
	Will Smith	Dr. Bennet Omalu	Concussion
2016	Casey Affleck †	Lee Chandler	Manchester by the Sea
	Joel Edgerton	Richard Loving	Loving
	Andrew Garfield ‡	Desmond T. Doss	Hacksaw Ridge
	Viggo Mortensen ‡	Ben Cash	Captain Fantastic
	Denzel Washington ‡	Troy Maxson	Fences
2017	Gary Oldman †	Winston Churchill	Darkest Hour
	Timothée Chalamet ‡	Elio Perlman	Call Me by Your Name
	Daniel Day-Lewis ‡	Reynolds Woodcock	Phantom Thread
	Tom Hanks	Ben Bradlee	The Post
	Denzel Washington ‡	Roman J. Israel	Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2018	Rami Malek †	Freddie Mercury	Bohemian Rhapsody
	Bradley Cooper ‡	Jackson Maine	A Star Is Born
	Willem Dafoe ‡	Vincent Van Gogh	At Eternity's Gate
	Lucas Hedges	Jared Eamons	Boy Erased
	John David Washington	Detetive Ron Stallworth	BlacKkKlansman
2019 [1]	Joaquin Phoenix †	Arthur Fleck / Coringa	Joker
	Christian Bale	Ken Miles	Ford v. Ferrari
	Antonio Banderas ‡	Salvador Mallo	Dolor y gloria (Pain and Glory)
	Adam Driver ‡	Charlie Barber	Marriage Story
	Jonathan Pryce ‡	Cardeal Jorge Mario Bergoglio	The Two Popes

Anos 2020

Ano	Ator	Personagem	Filme
2020 [2]	Chadwick Boseman ‡	Levee Green	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
	Gary Oldman ‡	Herman J. Mankiewicz	Mank
	Riz Ahmed ‡	Ruben Stone	Sound of Metal
	Anthony Hopkins †	Anthony	The Father
	Tahar Rahim	Mohamedou Ould Slahi	The Mauritanian
2021 [3]	Will Smith †	Richard Williams	King Richard
	Mahershala Ali	Cameron Turner	Swan Song
	Javier Bardem ‡	Desi Arnaz	Being the Ricardos
	Benedict Cumberbatch ‡	Phil Burbank	The Power of the Dog
	Denzel Washington ‡	Lord Macbeth	The Tragedy of Macbeth
2022 [4]	Austin Butler ‡	Elvis Presley	Elvis
	Brendan Fraser †	Charlie	The Whale
	Hugh Jackman	Peter Miller	The Son
	Bill Nighy ‡	Mr. Williams	Living
	Jeremy Pope	Ellis French	The Inspection
2023 [5]	Cillian Murphy	Robert Oppenheimer	Oppenheimer
	Leonardo DiCaprio	Ernest Burkhart	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Colman Domingo	Bayard Rustin	Rustin
	Bradley Cooper	Leonard Bernstein	Maestro
	Barry Keoghan	Oliver Quick	Saltburn
	Andrew Scott ‡	Adam	All of Us Strangers