Best Drama Picture Golden Globe winners

Titanic is a 1997 American epic historical romance film written and directed by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictional aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage. The ensemble cast includes Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton.

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

2000 film by Ridley Scott

1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2003 film by Peter Jackson

2008 film directed by Danny Boyle

2001 film by Ron Howard

1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2005 film directed by Ang Lee

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

1999 US film directed by Sam Mendes

1959 American epic historical drama film by William Wyler

1962 film directed by David Lean

2013 film directed by Steve McQueen

1975 film directed by Miloš Forman

2010 film by David Fincher

2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1988 film directed by Barry Levinson

Rocky is a 1976 American independent sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector from Philadelphia, gets an unlikely once in a lifetime shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).

1957 film directed by David Lean

1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella

1984 film directed by Miloš Forman

1990 film directed by Kevin Costner

1982 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1986 film directed by Oliver Stone

2012 film directed by Ben Affleck

1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2018 film directed by Bryan Singer

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1973 film directed by William Friedkin

1979 film by Robert Benton

1985 film by Sydney Pollack

1954 film by Elia Kazan

2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1965 film directed by David Lean

1974 film directed by Roman Polański

1992 film by Martin Brest

2019 film by Sam Mendes

1950 film by Billy Wilder

2002 film directed by Stephen Daldry

2017 film directed by Martin McDonagh

2016 film directed by Barry Jenkins

1971 film by William Friedkin

2007 film directed by Joe Wright

1967 film by Norman Jewison

2011 film directed by Alexander Payne

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to drift around the United States in her van. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2014 film directed by Richard Linklater

1945 film by Billy Wilder

1970 film directed by Arthur Hiller

1966 film by Fred Zinnemann

1956 film directed by Michael Anderson

1995 film directed by Ang Lee

1944 film by Leo McCarey

1949 film by Robert Rossen