Awards·Top prize, by year
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards · Best Picture – Drama winners by year.
Golden Globe Awards · Best Picture – Drama
41 winners on record · 1984–2024
2024
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet
2023
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
2022
The Fabelmans
Steven Spielberg
2021
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
2020
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
2019
1917
Sam Mendes
2018
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bryan Singer
2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh
2016
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2015
The Revenant
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2014
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2013
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
2012
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
2011
The Social Network
David Fincher
2010
Avatar
James Cameron
2009
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2008
Atonement
Joe Wright
2007
Babel
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2006
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2005
The Aviator
Martin Scorsese
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
2003
The Hours
Stephen Daldry
2002
A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard
2001
Gladiator
Ridley Scott
2000
American Beauty
Sam Mendes
1999
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
1998
Titanic
James Cameron
1997
The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
1996
Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee
1995
Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis
1994
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
1993
Scent of a Woman
Martin Brest
1992
Bugsy
Barry Levinson
1991
Dances with Wolves
Kevin Costner
1990
Born on the Fourth of July
Oliver Stone
1989
Rain Man
Barry Levinson
1988
The Last Emperor
Bernardo Bertolucci
1987
Platoon
Oliver Stone
1986
Out of Africa
Sydney Pollack
1985
Amadeus
Miloš Forman
1984
Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks