The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture â 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 Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor â Musical or Comedy.
The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture â Drama". , the wording is "Best Actor in a Motion Picture â Drama".
Winners and nominees
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Multiple nominations
10 nominations
9 nominations
8 nominations
7 nominations
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
Multiple wins
3 wins
2 wins
Firsts
- José Ferrer became the first Latino as well as the first Puerto Rican actor to win in 1951.
- Sidney Poitier became the first actor of African descent as well as the first Bahamian actor to win in 1963.
- Omar Sharif became the first actor of Middle Eastern descent as well as the first Egyptian actor to win in 1966.
- Peter Finch became the first actor to win posthumously in 1977.
- Ben Kingsley became the first actor of Asian descent to win in 1983.
- Wagner Moura became the first actor to win for a foreign language/non-English language performance in 2025.
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