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Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama
This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, since its institution in 1951. The organizer, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), is an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated...
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Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is a British filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire. For the latter Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including...
Joe Wright
Joe Wright (born 1972) is an English film director best known for 2005's Pride and Prejudice and 2007's Atonement.
Wright was born in London, where his parents founded the Little Angel Theatre, a puppet theatre in Islington.
Wright always had an...
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Spanish pronunciation: [aleˈxandɾo ɡonˈsales iˈɲaritu]) is an award-winning Mexican film director. He was the first Mexican director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
He was born on August 15, 1963,...
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger,...
Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his...
Peter Jackson
Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of King Kong and...
Stephen Daldry
Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1961) is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.
Daldry was born in Dorset, England the son of bank manager Patrick...
Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American film director and producer, as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show (credited as Ronny...
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail. His films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), 1492:...
Sam Mendes
Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage, film and commercial director at RSA US. He is known for his 1998 production of Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming, and his debut film, American Beauty, for which he won the...
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career of over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and adventure...
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator and Titanic. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$1.1 billion...
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 — 18 March 2008) was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
Minghella was born on the Isle of Wight...
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future films as well as the live...
Martin Brest
Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Brest graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1973 and from the AFI Conservatory with an M.F.A....
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. His films include Bugsy, The Natural and Rain Man.
Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Vi (née Krichinsky)...
Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, musician, producer, and director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award. Costner's...
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, probably best known for such films as The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma,...
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his...
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 — May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. Born in Lafayette, Indiana to Russian Jewish immigrants, Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where...
Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš Forman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtomaːʃ ˈforman]; born February 18, 1932), better known as Miloš Forman ([ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]), is a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York...
Mark Rydell
Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1934 in New York City) is an American actor, film director and producer.
Rydell began his career as an actor and first became known for his role as Walt Johnson on The Edge of Night and as Jeff Baker on As the World Turns...
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He received two Oscars...
Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the...
Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood. He is a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great...
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross (May 13, 1927 – October 9, 2001) was an American film director, producer, choreographer and actor.
Born Herbert David Ross in Brooklyn, New York, he made his stage debut as Third Witch with a touring company of Macbeth in 1942. His...
John G. Avildsen
John Guilbert Avildsen (born December 21, 1935) is an American film director.
His films include Guess What We Learned in School (1968), Cry Uncle! (1970), Joe (1970), Save the Tiger (1973), Rocky (1976), The Karate Kid (1984), Lean on Me (1989),...
Roman Polański
Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically-acclaimed director of both art house and...
William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born 29 August 1935) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The Exorcist and The French Connection in the early 1970s. His recent film is Bug (2006) for which he won the FIPRESCI.
After...
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied...
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller, O.C. (born 22 November 1923) is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story.
Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from University College, University...
Charles Jarrott
Charles Jarrott is an award-winning director.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey (born 3 June 1931) is a British filmmaker who started his career in the 1950s as a film editor, and moved into directing in the mid 1960s. Harvey has fifteen film credits as an editor, and he has directed thirteen films. The second...
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison, CC, O.Ont (born 21 July 1926) is a Canadian film director, producer, actor and founder of the Canadian Film Centre.
Jewison was born in Toronto, the son of Dorothy Irene (née Weaver) and Percy Joseph Jewison, who managed a...
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907–March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons.
Zinnemann was born to a Jewish family in Vienna,...
Peter Glenville
Peter Glenville (28 October 1913 – 3 June 1996), born Peter Patrick Brabazon Browne, was an English film and stage actor and director.
Born in Hampstead, London into a theatrical family, Glenville was the son of Shaun Glenville (born John Browne,...
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1906 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-born American film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir...
J. Lee Thompson
John Lee-Thompson (1 August 1914 - 30 August 2002), better known as J. Lee Thompson, was an English film director, active in England and Hollywood.
Thompson was born in Bristol, England to a theatrical family. After studying at Dover College, he...
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose...
William Wyler
William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a motion picture director.
Wyler was born Wilhelm Weiller to a Swiss father and a German mother, in Mulhouse in the French region of Alsace (then part of the German Empire). He was distantly related...
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Earl Kramer (29 September 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959),...
David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A Passage...
Michael Anderson
Michael Joseph Anderson (born 30 January 1920) is an English film director.
Anderson's was a theatrical family. His parents were the actors Lawrence and Beatrice Anderson. His great-aunt was Mary Anderson of Louisville, Kentucky, who became one of...
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan, (pronounced ē-LĒ-ä ka-ZAHN) (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), was a Turkish-born American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York...
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.
DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts...
George Stevens
George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Born in Oakland, California, Stevens broke into the movie business as a cameraman, working on many Laurel and Hardy shorts....
