Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Year Actress Character Film
1960 Greer Garson Eleanor Roosevelt Sunrise at Campobello
1960 Doris Day Kit Preston Midnight Lace
1960 Nancy Kwan Suzie Wong The World of Suzie Wong
1960 Jean Simmons Sharon Falconer Elmer Gantry
1960 Elizabeth Taylor Gloria Wandrous BUtterfield 8
1961 Geraldine Page Alma Winemiller Summer and Smoke
1961 Leslie Caron Fanny Fanny
1961 Shirley MacLaine Martha Dobie The Children 's Hour
1961 Claudia McNeil Lena Younger A Raisin in the Sun
1961 Natalie Wood Deanie Loomis Splendor in the Grass
1962 Geraldine Page Alexandra Del Lago Sweet Bird of Youth
1962 Anne Bancroft Anne Sullivan The Miracle Worker
1962 Bette Davis Jane Hudson What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ?
1962 Katharine Hepburn Mary Tyrone Long Day 's Journey into Night
1962 Glynis Johns Teresa Harnish The Chapman Report
1962 Melina Mercouri Phaedra Phaedra
1962 Lee Remick Kirsten Arnesen Clay Days of Wine and Roses
1962 Susan Strasberg Rosanna Hemingway 's Adventures of a Young Man
1962 Shelley Winters Charlotte Haze-Humbert Lolita
1962 Susannah York Cecily Koertner Freud : The Secret Passion
Winners and nominees -- 1960s
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Comedy or Musical. The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. , the wording is Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. It is notable for being the category in which the only three-way tie in Golden Globe Awards history occurred, when Jodie Foster, Shirley MacLaine, and Sigourney Weaver all won the award at the 46th Golden Globe Awards in 1989.