The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture", but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress – Comedy or Musical.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | |
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![]() The 2022 recipient: Cate Blanchett | |
Awarded for | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama |
Location | United States |
Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
Currently held by | Cate Blanchett for Tár (2022) |
Website | http://www.goldenglobes.com/ |
The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama". As of 2013, the wording is "Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama".
Winners and nomineesEdit
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Ingrid Bergman won three times for Gaslight (1944), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), and Anastasia (1956).
Jane Fonda won three times from five nominations for her roles in Klute (1971), Julia (1977), and Coming Home (1978).
Meryl Streep has received fourteen nominations for this category, winning three times for her roles in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), and The Iron Lady (2011).
1940sEdit
Year | Actress | Character | Film |
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1943 | Jennifer Jones | Bernadette Soubirous | The Song of Bernadette |
1944 | Ingrid Bergman | Paula Alquist Anton | Gaslight |
1945 | Ingrid Bergman | Sister Mary Benedict | The Bells of St. Mary's |
1946 | Rosalind Russell | Sister Elizabeth Kenny | Sister Kenny |
1947 | Rosalind Russell | Lavinia Mannon | Mourning Becomes Electra |
1948 | Jane Wyman | Belinda MacDonald | Johnny Belinda |
1949 | Olivia de Havilland | Catherine Sloper | The Heiress |
Deborah Kerr | Evelyn Boult | Edward, My Son |
1950sEdit
1960sEdit
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1990sEdit
2000sEdit
2010sEdit
2020sEdit
Year | Actress | Character | Film |
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2020 | Andra Day | Billie Holiday | The United States vs. Billie Holiday |
Viola Davis | Ma Rainey | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | |
Vanessa Kirby | Martha Weiss | Pieces of a Woman | |
Frances McDormand | Fern | Nomadland | |
Carey Mulligan | Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas | Promising Young Woman | |
2021 | Nicole Kidman | Lucille Ball | Being the Ricardos |
Jessica Chastain | Tammy Faye Bakker | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | |
Olivia Colman | Leda Caruso | The Lost Daughter | |
Lady Gaga | Patrizia Reggiani | House of Gucci | |
Kristen Stewart | Princess Diana | Spencer | |
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Cate Blanchett | Lydia Tár | Tár | |
Olivia Colman | Hilary Small | Empire of Light | |
Viola Davis | General Nanisca | The Woman King | |
Ana de Armas | Norma Jeane Mortenson / Marilyn Monroe | Blonde | |
Michelle Williams | Mitzi Fabelman | The Fabelmans |
Multiple nomineesEdit
Multiple awardsEdit
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FirstsEdit
Anna Magnani received two nominations and won one award. She was the first non—English native speaker actress to win the prize and the first Italian woman.
- Anouk Aimée became the first actress to win for a foreign language/non-english language performance when she won in 1967.
- Whoopi Goldberg became the first actress of African descent to win when she won in 1986.
- Marlee Matlin became the first deaf actress to win when she won in 1987.
See alsoEdit
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress
- Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead
- BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role