Best movies that are golden globes winners in best actor - motion picture drama category

Raging Bull(1980)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.



Cast Away(2000)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a deserted island.



The Last King of Scotland(2006)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970's.



One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.





Chinatown(1974)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.



Network(1976)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.



Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.



Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.



Rain Man(1988)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.



Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



Serpico(1973)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



Born on the Fourth of July(1989)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.



Philadelphia(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.



Reversal of Fortune(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.



Wall Street(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.




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