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Golden Globe Awards · 339 nominations across 74 ceremonies · 74 wins
82nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Brutalist · Brady Corbet
- Nominee Emilia Pérez · Jacques Audiard
- Nominee Anora · Sean Baker
- Nominee Conclave · Edward Berger
- Nominee The Substance · Coralie Fargeat
- Nominee All We Imagine as Light · Payal Kapadia
81st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Oppenheimer · Christopher Nolan
- Nominee Maestro · Bradley Cooper
- Nominee Barbie · Greta Gerwig
- Nominee Poor Things · Yorgos Lanthimos
- Nominee Killers of the Flower Moon · Martin Scorsese
- Nominee Past Lives · Celine Song
80th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Fabelmans · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee Avatar: The Way of Water · James Cameron
- Nominee Everything Everywhere All at Once · Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
- Nominee Elvis · Baz Luhrmann
- Nominee The Banshees of Inisherin · Martin McDonagh
79th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Power of the Dog · Jane Campion
- Nominee Belfast · Kenneth Branagh
- Nominee The Lost Daughter · Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Nominee West Side Story · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee Dune · Denis Villeneuve
78th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Nomadland · Chloé Zhao
- Nominee Promising Young Woman · Emerald Fennell
- Nominee Mank · David Fincher
- Nominee One Night in Miami... · Regina King
- Nominee The Trial of the Chicago 7 · Aaron Sorkin
77th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner 1917 · Sam Mendes
- Nominee Parasite · Bong Joon-ho
- Nominee Joker · Todd Phillips
- Nominee The Irishman · Martin Scorsese
- Nominee Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · Quentin Tarantino
76th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Roma · Alfonso Cuarón
- Nominee A Star Is Born · Bradley Cooper
- Nominee Green Book · Peter Farrelly
- Nominee BlacKkKlansman · Spike Lee
- Nominee Vice · Adam McKay
75th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Shape of Water · Guillermo del Toro
- Nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri · Martin McDonagh
- Nominee Dunkirk · Christopher Nolan
- Nominee All the Money in the World · Ridley Scott
- Nominee The Post · Steven Spielberg
74th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner La La Land · Damien Chazelle
- Nominee Nocturnal Animals · Tom Ford
- Nominee Hacksaw Ridge · Mel Gibson
- Nominee Moonlight from Sabrina · Barry Jenkins
- Nominee Manchester by the Sea · Kenneth Lonergan
73rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Revenant · Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Nominee Carol · Todd Haynes
- Nominee Spotlight · Tom McCarthy
- Nominee Mad Max: Fury Road · George Miller
- Nominee The Martian · Ridley Scott
72nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Boyhood · Richard Linklater
- Nominee The Grand Budapest Hotel · Wes Anderson
- Nominee Selma · Ava DuVernay
- Nominee Gone Girl · David Fincher
- Nominee Birdman · Alejandro González Iñárritu
71st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Gravity · Alfonso Cuarón
- Nominee Captain Phillips · Paul Greengrass
- Nominee 12 Years a Slave · Steve McQueen
- Nominee Nebraska · Alexander Payne
- Nominee American Hustle · David O. Russell
63rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Brokeback Mountain · Ang Lee
- Nominee Match Point · Woody Allen
- Nominee Good Night, and Good Luck. · George Clooney
- Nominee King Kong · Peter Jackson
- Nominee The Constant Gardener · Fernando Meirelles
- Nominee Munich · Steven Spielberg
62nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Million Dollar Baby · Clint Eastwood
- Nominee Finding Neverland · Marc Forster
- Nominee Closer · Mike Nichols
- Nominee Sideways · Alexander Payne
- Nominee The Aviator · Martin Scorsese
61st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · Peter Jackson
- Nominee Lost in Translation · Sofia Coppola
- Nominee Mystic River · Clint Eastwood
- Nominee Cold Mountain · Anthony Minghella
- Nominee Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · Peter Weir
60th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Gangs of New York · Martin Scorsese
- Nominee The Hours · Stephen Daldry
- Nominee The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers · Peter Jackson
- Nominee Adaptation. · Spike Jonze
- Nominee Chicago · Rob Marshall
- Nominee About Schmidt · Alexander Payne
59th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Gosford Park · Robert Altman
- Nominee A Beautiful Mind · Ron Howard
- Nominee The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · Peter Jackson
- Nominee Moulin Rouge! · Baz Luhrmann
- Nominee Mulholland Drive · David Lynch
- Nominee A.I. Artificial Intelligence · Steven Spielberg
58th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · Ang Lee
- Nominee Gladiator · Ridley Scott
- Nominee Erin Brockovich · Steven Soderbergh
- Nominee Sunshine · Istvan Szabo
57th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner American Beauty · Sam Mendes
- Nominee The Hurricane · Norman Jewison
- Nominee The End of the Affair · Neil Jordan
- Nominee The Insider · Michael Mann
- Nominee The Talented Mr. Ripley · Anthony Minghella
56th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Saving Private Ryan · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee Elizabeth · Shekhar Kapur
- Nominee Shakespeare in Love · John Madden
- Nominee The Horse Whisperer · Robert Redford
- Nominee The Truman Show · Peter Weir
55th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Titanic · James Cameron
- Nominee As Good as It Gets · James L. Brooks
- Nominee L.A. Confidential · Curtis Hanson
- Nominee The Boxer · Jim Sheridan
- Nominee Amistad · Steven Spielberg
54th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The People vs. Larry Flynt · Miloš Forman
- Nominee Fargo · Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Nominee Shine · Scott Hicks
- Nominee The English Patient · Anthony Minghella
- Nominee Evita · Alan Parker
53rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Braveheart · Mel Gibson
- Nominee Leaving Las Vegas · Mike Figgis
- Nominee Apollo 13 · Ron Howard
- Nominee Sense and Sensibility · Ang Lee
- Nominee The American President · Rob Reiner
- Nominee Casino · Martin Scorsese
52nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Forrest Gump · Robert Zemeckis
- Nominee Quiz Show · Robert Redford
- Nominee Natural Born Killers · Oliver Stone
- Nominee Pulp Fiction · Quentin Tarantino
- Nominee Legends of the Fall · Edward Zwick
51st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Schindler's List · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee The Piano · Jane Campion
- Nominee The Fugitive · Andrew Davis
- Nominee The Remains of the Day · James Ivory
- Nominee The Age of Innocence · Martin Scorsese
50th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Unforgiven · Clint Eastwood
- Nominee The Player · Robert Altman
- Nominee Howards End · James Ivory
- Nominee A River Runs Through It · Robert Redford
- Nominee A Few Good Men · Rob Reiner
49th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Oliver Stone
- Nominee Bugsy · Barry Levinson
- Nominee The Silence of the Lambs · Jonathan Demme
- Nominee The Fisher King · Terry Gilliam
- Nominee The Prince of Tides · Barbra Streisand
48th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Dances with Wolves · Kevin Costner
- Nominee The Sheltering Sky · Bernardo Bertolucci
- Nominee The Godfather Part III · Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee Reversal of Fortune · Barbet Schroeder
- Nominee Goodfellas · Martin Scorsese
46th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Bird · Clint Eastwood
- Nominee Rain Man · Barry Levinson
- Nominee Running on Empty · Sidney Lumet
- Nominee Working Girl · Mike Nichols
- Nominee Mississippi Burning · Alan Parker
- Nominee Evil Angels · Fred Schepisi
45th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Last Emperor · Bernardo Bertolucci
- Nominee Cry Freedom from Cry Freedom · Richard Attenborough
- Nominee Hope and Glory · John Boorman
- Nominee Broadcast News · James L. Brooks
- Nominee Fatal Attraction · Adrian Lyne
44th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Platoon · Oliver Stone
- Nominee Hannah and Her Sisters · Woody Allen
- Nominee A Room with a View · James Ivory
- Nominee The Mission · Roland Joffé
- Nominee Stand by Me · Rob Reiner
43rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Prizzi's Honor · John Huston
- Nominee A Chorus Line · Richard Attenborough
- Nominee Out of Africa · Sydney Pollack
- Nominee The Color Purple · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee Witness · Peter Weir
42nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Amadeus · Miloš Forman
- Nominee The Cotton Club · Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee The Killing Fields · Roland Joffé
- Nominee A Passage to India · David Lean
- Nominee Once Upon a Time in America · Sergio Leone
41st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Yentl · Barbra Streisand
- Nominee Tender Mercies from Tender Mercies · Bruce Beresford
- Nominee Fanny and Alexander · Ingmar Bergman
- Nominee Terms of Endearment · James L. Brooks
- Nominee Silkwood · Mike Nichols
- Nominee The Dresser · Peter Yates
40th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Gandhi · Richard Attenborough
- Nominee Missing · Costa-Gavras
- Nominee The Verdict · Sidney Lumet
- Nominee Tootsie · Sydney Pollack
- Nominee E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · Steven Spielberg
39th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Reds · Warren Beatty
- Nominee Ragtime · Miloš Forman
- Nominee Prince of the City · Sidney Lumet
- Nominee Atlantic City · Louis Malle
- Nominee On Golden Pond · Mark Rydell
- Nominee Raiders of the Lost Ark · Steven Spielberg
38th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Ordinary People · Robert Redford
- Nominee The Elephant Man · David Lynch
- Nominee Tess · Roman Polanski
- Nominee The Stunt Man · Richard Rush
- Nominee Raging Bull · Martin Scorsese
37th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Apocalypse Now · Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee Being There · Hal Ashby
- Nominee Kramer vs. Kramer · Robert Benton
- Nominee The China Syndrome · James Bridges
- Nominee Breaking Away · Peter Yates
36th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Deer Hunter · Michael Cimino
- Nominee Interiors · Woody Allen
- Nominee Coming Home from Country Strong · Hal Ashby
- Nominee Days of Heaven · Terrence Malick
- Nominee An Unmarried Woman · Paul Mazursky
- Nominee Midnight Express · Alan Parker
35th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Turning Point · Herbert Ross
- Nominee Annie Hall · Woody Allen
- Nominee Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · George Lucas
- Nominee Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee Julia · Fred Zinnemann
34th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Network · Sidney Lumet
- Nominee Bound for Glory · Hal Ashby
- Nominee Rocky · John G. Avildsen
- Nominee All the President's Men · Alan J. Pakula
- Nominee Marathon Man · John Schlesinger
33rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · Miloš Forman
- Nominee Nashville · Robert Altman
- Nominee Barry Lyndon · Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee Dog Day Afternoon · Sidney Lumet
- Nominee Jaws · Steven Spielberg
32nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Chinatown · Roman Polanski
- Nominee A Woman Under the Influence · John Cassavetes
- Nominee The Conversation · Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee Lenny · Bob Fosse
31st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Exorcist · William Friedkin
- Nominee Last Tango in Paris · Bernardo Bertolucci
- Nominee Paper Moon · Peter Bogdanovich
- Nominee American Graffiti · George Lucas
- Nominee The Day of the Jackal · Fred Zinnemann
30th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Godfather · Francis Ford Coppola
- Nominee Deliverance · John Boorman
- Nominee Cabaret · Bob Fosse
- Nominee Frenzy · Alfred Hitchcock
- Nominee Avanti! · Billy Wilder
29th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The French Connection · William Friedkin
- Nominee The Last Picture Show · Peter Bogdanovich
- Nominee Fiddler on the Roof · Norman Jewison
- Nominee A Clockwork Orange · Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee Summer of '42 · Robert Mulligan
28th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Love Story · Arthur Hiller
- Nominee MASH · Robert Altman
- Nominee Five Easy Pieces · Bob Rafelson
- Nominee Women in Love · Ken Russell
- Nominee Patton · Franklin J. Schaffner
27th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Anne of the Thousand Days · Charles Jarrott
- Nominee Hello, Dolly! · Gene Kelly
- Nominee The Secret of Santa Vittoria · Stanley Kramer
- Nominee They Shoot Horses, Don't They? · Sydney Pollack
- Nominee Midnight Cowboy · John Schlesinger
26th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Rachel, Rachel · Paul Newman
- Nominee The Lion in Winter · Anthony Harvey
- Nominee Oliver! · Carol Reed
- Nominee Funny Girl · William Wyler
- Nominee Romeo and Juliet · Franco Zeffirelli
25th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Graduate · Mike Nichols
- Nominee In the Heat of the Night · Norman Jewison
- Nominee Guess Who's Coming to Dinner · Stanley Kramer
- Nominee Bonnie and Clyde · Arthur Penn
- Nominee The Fox · Mark Rydell
24th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner A Man for All Seasons · Fred Zinnemann
- Nominee Alfie · Lewis Gilbert
- Nominee A Man and a Woman · Claude Lelouch
- Nominee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? · Mike Nichols
- Nominee The Sand Pebbles · Robert Wise
23rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Doctor Zhivago · David Lean
- Nominee A Patch of Blue · Guy Green
- Nominee Darling · John Schlesinger
- Nominee The Sound of Music · Robert Wise
- Nominee The Collector · William Wyler
22nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner My Fair Lady · George Cukor
- Nominee Zorba the Greek · Michael Cacoyannis
- Nominee Seven Days in May · John Frankenheimer
- Nominee Becket · Peter Glenville
- Nominee The Night of the Iguana · John Huston
21st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner America America · Elia Kazan
- Nominee The Caretakers · Hall Bartlett
- Nominee The Ugly American · George Englund
- Nominee Cleopatra · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Nominee The Cardinal · Otto Preminger
- Nominee Tom Jones · Tony Richardson
- Nominee Hud · Martin Ritt
- Nominee The Haunting · Robert Wise
20th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Lawrence of Arabia · David Lean
- Nominee The Chapman Report · George Cukor
- Nominee The Music Man · Morton DaCosta
- Nominee Days of Wine and Roses · Blake Edwards
- Nominee The Manchurian Candidate · John Frankenheimer
- Nominee Freud: The Secret Passion · John Huston
- Nominee Lolita · Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee Gypsy · Mervyn LeRoy
- Nominee To Kill a Mockingbird · Robert Mulligan
- Nominee Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man · Martin Ritt
- Nominee My Son, the Hero · Ismael Rodríguez
19th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Judgment at Nuremberg · Stanley Kramer
- Nominee El Cid · Anthony Mann
- Nominee West Side Story · Jerome Robbins
- Nominee The Guns of Navarone · J. Lee Thompson
- Nominee The Children's Hour · William Wyler
18th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Sons and Lovers · Jack Cardiff
- Nominee Elmer Gantry · Richard Brooks
- Nominee Spartacus · Stanley Kubrick
- Nominee The Apartment · Billy Wilder
- Nominee The Sundowners · Fred Zinnemann
17th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Ben-Hur · William Wyler
- Nominee On the Beach · Stanley Kramer
- Nominee Anatomy of a Murder · Otto Preminger
- Nominee The Diary of Anne Frank · George Stevens
- Nominee The Nun's Story · Fred Zinnemann
16th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Gigi · Vincente Minnelli
- Nominee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof · Richard Brooks
- Nominee The Defiant Ones · Stanley Kramer
- Nominee Separate Tables · Delbert Mann
- Nominee I Want to Live! · Robert Wise
15th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Bridge on the River Kwai · David Lean
14th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Baby Doll · Elia Kazan
- Nominee Around the World in 80 Days · Michael Anderson
- Nominee Lust for Life · Vincente Minnelli
- Nominee Giant · George Stevens
- Nominee War and Peace · King Vidor
13th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Picnic · Joshua Logan
12th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner On the Waterfront · Elia Kazan
11th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner From Here to Eternity · Fred Zinnemann
10th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Greatest Show on Earth · Cecil B. DeMille
- Nominee The Happy Time · Richard Fleischer
- Nominee The Quiet Man · John Ford
9th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Death of a Salesman · László Benedek
- Nominee An American in Paris · Vincente Minnelli
- Nominee A Place in the Sun · George Stevens
8th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Sunset Boulevard · Billy Wilder
- Nominee Born Yesterday · George Cukor
- Nominee The Asphalt Jungle · John Huston
- Nominee All About Eve · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
7th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner All the King's Men · Robert Rossen
- Nominee The Heiress · William Wyler
6th Golden Globe Awards
5th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Gentleman's Agreement · Elia Kazan
4th Golden Globe Awards
- Winner It's a Wonderful Life · Frank Capra
3rd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Lost Weekend · Billy Wilder
2nd Golden Globe Awards
- Winner Going My Way · Leo McCarey
1st Golden Globe Awards
- Winner The Song of Bernadette · Henry King