Every Movie to Win Best Drama at the Golden Globes Since 1944

“Terms of Endearment,” a comedy/drama about a widow looking for love and coming to terms with her daughter’s terminal cancer, won four Golden Globes, among them Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Shirley MacLaine, her fourth Globe), Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Jack Nicholson, his third Globe), and Best Screenplay – Motion Picture (James L. Brooks, his lone Globe). The three would also win at the Academy Awards.

“Amadeus,” about the life of composer Mozart as told by bitter rival Antonio Salieri, won four Golden Globes that included Best Director – Motion Picture (Miloš Forman) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (F. Murray Abraham). They would go on to win two of the eight Oscars “Amadeus” won.

Meryl Streep displayed her talent for accents when she played a Danish plantation owner living in what is now Kenya who has an affair with a hunter. Klaus Maria Brandauer won his lone Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, one of three Golden Globes won by the film, which would win seven Oscars.

Oliver Stone’s searing Vietnam War film in which soldiers confront moral issues in wartime won the controversial director one of the movie’s three Golden Globes, the second of his six Globes. He would also win the Best Director Oscar.

Four Golden Globes went to the sweeping epic “The Last Emperor,” from one of Italy’s greatest directors, Bernardo Bertolucci, who took home Globes for directing and screenplay. Bertolucci and Mark Peploe would also win the Oscar for screenplay, and the film would take a Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score.

Dustin Hoffman won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Golden Globe (his fifth) as well as the Academy Award in the same category for the story about a selfish yuppie (Tom Cruise) who has to care for his autistic savant older brother after their father dies. The film won four Academy Awards.

“Born on the Fourth of July” is a biopic about paralyzed Vietnam War veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic. The film won four Golden Globes, including two for director Oliver Stone for direction and screenplay, and a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama nod to Tom Cruise, the first of his three Globe triumphs. Stone would also win a Best Director Oscar for the film.

Kevin Costner directed and starred in this story about an American soldier who makes peace with wolves and Native Americans in the west and becomes an outcast among his peers. Costner won one of the film’s three Golden Globes for Best Director – Motion Picture, a feat he would equal at the Academy Awards, where “Dances with Wolves” took home seven Oscars.

The stylish biopic of how gangster Bugsy Siegel turned Las Vegas into a gambling mecca was produced by and starred Warren Beatty. “Bugsy” was nominated for eight Golden Globes and won for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The movie would win two Academy Awards.

Al Pacino won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (the second of his four Globe wins) playing a blind veteran who develops a bond with a prep student who cares for him over the Thanksgiving holiday. Pacino would also win his first and only Oscar for this role. “Scent of a Woman” won three Golden Globes.