The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - 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 - Musical or Comedy.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama".
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| Year | Actress | Character | Film |
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| 1943 | Jennifer Jones † | Bernadette Soubirous | The Song of Bernadette |
| 1944 | Ingrid Bergman † | Paula Alquist Anton | Gaslight |
| 1945 | Ingrid Bergman | Sister Mary Benedict | The Bells of St. Mary's |
| 1946 | Rosalind Russell | Sister Elizabeth Kenny | Sister Kenny |
| 1947 | Rosalind Russell | Lavinia Mannon | Mourning Becomes Electra |
| 1948 | Jane Wyman † | Belinda MacDonald | Johnny Belinda |
| 1949 | Olivia de Havilland † | Catherine Sloper | The Heiress |
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