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Golden Globe Awards

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Most Wins for Best Actor (Drama)

This list features actors with the most wins for Best Actor in a Drama at the Golden Globe Awards.

RANK

ACTOR

NOMINATIONS

WINS

YEARS

1

Jack Nicholson

8

3

Chinatown (1974)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

About Schmidt (2002)

2

Tom Hanks

6

3

Philadelphia (1993)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Cast Away (2000)

3

Al Pacino

10

2

Serpico (1973)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

4

Leonardo Di Caprio

9

2

The Aviator (2004)

The Revenant (2015)

5

Daniel Day-Lewis

7

2

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Lincoln (2012)

6

Gregory Peck

5

2

The Yearling (1946)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

7

Peter O’Toole

5

2

Becket (1964)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

8

Dustin Hoffman

5

2

Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Rain Man (1988)

9

Jon Voight

5

2

Coming Home (1978)

Runaway Train (1985)

10

Marlon Brando

4

2

On the Waterfront (1954)

The Godfather (1972)

11

Denzel Washington

9

1

The Hurricane (1999)

12

Sidney Poitier

5

1

Lilies of the Field (1963)

13

Gene Hackman

5

1

The French Connection (1971)

14

Richard Burton

5

1

Equus (1977)

15

Russell Crowe

5

1

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

16

Spencer Tracy

4

1

The Actress (1953)

17

Burt Lancaster

4

1

Elmer Gantry (1960)

18

Robert De Niro

4

1

Raging Bull (1980)

19

Laurence Olivier

3

1

Hamlet (1948)

20

Fredric March

3

1

Death of a Salesman (1951)

21

George C. Scott

3

1

Patton (1970)

22

Tom Cruise

3

1

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

23

Nick Nolte

3

1

The Prince of Tides (1991)

24

Sean Penn

3

1

Mystic River (2003)

25

George Clooney

3

1

The Descendants (2011)

26

Ray Milland

2

1

The Lost Weekend (1945)

27

Kirk Douglas

2

1

Lust for Life (1956)

28

Maximilian Schell

2

1

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

29

Rod Steiger

2

1

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

30

Peter Finch

2

1

Network (1976)

31

Henry Fonda

2

1

On Golden Pond (1981)

32

Ben Kingsley

2

1

Gandhi (1982)

33

Jeremy Irons

2

1

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

34

Geoffrey Rush

2

1

Shine (1996)

35

Forest Whitaker

2

1

The Last King of Scotland (2006)

36

Jeff Bridges

2

1

Crazy Heart (2009)

37

Colin Firth

2

1

The King's Speech (2010)

38

Eddie Redmayne

2

1

The Theory of Everything (2014)

39

Gary Oldman

2

1

Darkest Hour (2017)

40

Joaquin Phoenix

2

1

Joker (2019)

41

Paul Lukas

1

1

Watch on the Rhine (1943)

42

Alexander Knox

1

1

Wilson (1944)

43

Ronald Colman

1

1

A Double Life (1947)

44

Broderick Crawford

1

1

All the King's Men (1949)

45

José Ferrer

1

1

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

46

Gary Cooper

1

1

High Noon (1952)

47

Ernest Borgnine

1

1

Marty (1955)

48

Alec Guinness

1

1

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

49

David Niven

1

1

Separate Tables (1958)

50

Anthony Franciosa

1

1

Career (1959)

51

Omar Sharif

1

1

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

52

Paul Scofield

1

1

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

53

Tom Courtenay

1

1

The Dresser (1983)

54

Robert Duvall

1

1

Tender Mercies (1983)

55

F. Murray Abraham

1

1

Amadeus (1984)

56

Bob Hoskins

1

1

Mona Lisa (1986)

57

Michael Douglas

1

1

Wall Street (1987)

58

Nicolas Cage

1

1

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

59

Peter Fonda

1

1

Ulee's Gold (1997)

60

Jim Carrey

1

1

The Truman Show (1998)

61

Philip Seymour Hoffman

1

1

Capote (2005)

62

Mickey Rourke

1

1

The Wrestler (2008)

63

Matthew McConaughey

1

1

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

64

Casey Affleck

1

1

Manchester by the Sea (2016)

65

Rami Malek

1

1

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

66

Chadwick Boseman

1

1

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

67

Austin Butler

1

1

Elvis (2022)

68

Cillian Murphy

1

1

Oppenheimer (2023)

69

Adrien Brody

1

1

The Brutalist (2024)

70

Wagner Moura

1

1

The Secret Agent (2025)


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References

Wikipedia contributors (n.d.) Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Multiple wins. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Motion_Picture_–_Drama#Multiple_wins (Accessed 1 December 2025).
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