Every Golden Globe Winners of the past Two Decades in Drama with Best Motion Picture, Ranked

Some of the Golden Globe Winners on this list may have reached legendary status by now, but are you familiar with the Golden Globe winners of the past 3 years in Best Motion Picture? We won’t test your knowledge of that with a trivia, but in the many years that Golden Globe Awards has been around, we continue to be impressd by the level of expertise invovled in all of these moves. In this list of movies which happen to encompass a wide range of genres, take your pick!

1

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Peter Jackson
2003

Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam take the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.

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8.9 IMDB
2

Gladiator

Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Ridley Scott
2000

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

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8.5 IMDB
3

1917

George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong
Sam Mendes
2019

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

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8.3 IMDB
4

American Beauty

Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Sam Mendes
1999

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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8.3 IMDB
5

A Beautiful Mind

Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
Ron Howard
2001

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

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8.2 IMDB
6

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Martin McDonagh
2017

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

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8.2 IMDB
7

12 Years a Slave

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong\'o
Steve McQueen
2013

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

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8.1 IMDB
8

Slumdog Millionaire

Dev Patel, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Danny Boyle
2008

Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

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8 IMDB
9

The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson
Alejandro González Iñárritu
2015

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

8 IMDB
10

Bohemian Rhapsody

Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy
Bryan Singer
2018

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

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8 IMDB
11

Boyhood

Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke
Richard Linklater
2014

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

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7.9 IMDB
12

Atonement

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai
Joe Wright
2007

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

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7.8 IMDB
13

Avatar

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang
James Cameron
2009

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

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7.8 IMDB
14

Brokeback Mountain

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams
Ang Lee
2005

Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.

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7.7 IMDB
15

Argo

Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston
Ben Affleck
2012

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

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7.7 IMDB
16

The Social Network

Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
David Fincher
2010

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

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7.7 IMDB
17

The Hours

Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep
Stephen Daldry
2002

"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

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7.5 IMDB
18

The Aviator

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Martin Scorsese
2004

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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7.5 IMDB
19

Moonlight

Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe
Barry Jenkins
2016

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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7.4 IMDB
20

Babel

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal
Alejandro González Iñárritu
2006

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

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7.4 IMDB
21

The Descendants

George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Alexander Payne
2011

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

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7.3 IMDB