Here's the movie that won best picture at the Golden Globes the year you were born
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Seventy-six films have been named best picture in the esteemed drama category at the Golden Globes since the first ceremony back in 1944.
This year, the Sam Mendes' World War I epic, "1917," took home the top prize.
Keep reading to see which film received the coveted title from the year you were born.
The Golden Globes is considered one of Hollywood's most prestigious film and television award ceremonies.
Its long history dates back to 1944, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held an informal ceremony at 20th Century Fox to honor achievements in film.
That year, "The Song of Bernadette" — a black-and-white picture about the life of Saint Bernadette — won best picture, and since then the popular awards show has grown and changed.
In 1951, the association decided to divide the best film, actor, and actress nominees into two categories — drama and musical or comedy — so that "no genre would be slighted."
Fast-forward to 2020 and the Golden Globes recognize achievements in 25 categories, with 14 in motion pictures and 11 in television.
This year, Sam Mendes' World War I epic, "1917," took home the top prize.
Insider has taken a look at the 76 films that have been named best picture in the esteemed drama category, which often predicts best-picture winner at the Oscars later in the year.
Scroll down to see every movie that has taken the title over the years.
1944: "The Song of Bernadette"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "A young peasant girl saw a divine miracle. The phenomenon became widely known and changed the lives of many."
Stars: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, William Eythe.
Source: IMDB
1945: "Going My Way"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "Father Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior."
Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown.
Source: IMDB
1946: "The Lost Weekend"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout."
Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry.
Source: IMDB
1947: "The Best Years of Our Lives"
RKO Radio Pictures
Plot: "Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed."
Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March.
Source: IMDB
1948: "Gentleman's Agreement"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred."
Stars: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Source: IMDB
1949 (tied): "Johnny Belinda"
Warner Brothers
Plot: "In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl."
Stars: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford.
Source: IMDB
1949 (tied): "The Treasure of Sierra Madre"
Warner brothers
Plot: "Greed and suspicion are the forces that destroy the lives of three gold prospectors in this magnificent Oscar-winning drama."
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt.
Source: IMDB
1950: "All the King's Men"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal."
Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru.
Source: IMDB
1951: "Sunset Boulevard"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return."
Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim.
Source: IMDB
1952: "A Place in the Sun"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women."
Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters.
Source: IMDB
1953: "The Greatest Show on Earth"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle."
Stars: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton.
Source: IMDB
1954: "The Robe"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterward."
Stars: Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature.
Source: IMDB
1955: "On the Waterfront"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses."
Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb.
Source: IMDB
1956: "East of Eden"
Warner Brothers
Plot: "A wilful young man contends against his brother for the attention of their religious father while reconnecting with his estranged mother and falling for his brother's girlfriend."
Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris.
Source: IMDB
1957: "Around the World in 80 Days"
United Artists
Plot: "A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days."
Stars: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine
Source: IMDB
1958: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors — while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it."
Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins.
Source: IMDB
1959: "The Defiant Ones"
United Nations
Plot: "Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture."
Stars: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel.
Source: IMDB
1960: "Ben Hur"
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Plot: "When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge."
Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd.
Source: IMDB
1961: "Spartacus"
Universal International
Plot: "The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic."
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons.
Source: IMDB
1962: "The Guns of Navarone"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel."
Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn.
Source: IMDB
1963: "Lawrence of Arabia"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks."
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn.
Source: IMDB
1964: "The Cardinal"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal."
Stars: Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider.
Source: IMDB
1965: "Becket"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's."
Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud.
Source: IMDB
1966: "Doctor Zhivago"
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Plot: "The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution."
Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin.
Source: IMDB
1967: "A Man for All Seasons"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage."
Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw.
Source: IMDB
1968: "In the Heat of the Night"
United Artists
Plot: "An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town."
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
Source: IMDB
1969: "The Lion in Winter"
AVCO Embassy Pictures
Plot: "1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him."
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins.
Source: IMDB
1970: "Anne of the Thousand Days"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn."
Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas.
Source: IMDB
1971: "Love Story"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes."
Stars: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley.
Source: IMDB
1972: "The French Connection"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection."
Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey.
Source: IMDB
1973: "The Godfather"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son."
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan.
Source: IMDB
1974: "The Exorcist"
Warner Brothers Pictures
Plot: "When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter."
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair.
Source: IMDB
1975: "Chinatown"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder."
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston.
Source: IMDB
1976: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Fantasy Films
Plot: "A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients."
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson.
Source: IMDB
1977: "Rocky"
MGM Distribution Co
Plot: "Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect."
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young.
Source: IMDB
1978: "The Turning Point"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "Jerry McKibbon is a tough, no-nonsense reporter, mentoring special prosecutor John Conroy in routing out corrupt officials in the city, which may even include Conroy's own police detective father as a suspect."
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Source: IMDB
1979: "Midnight Express"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison."
Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins.
Source: IMDB
1980: "Kramer vs. Kramer"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "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."
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander.
Source: IMDB
1981: "Ordinary People"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son."
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch.
Source: IMDB
1982: "On Golden Pond"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms."
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda.
Source: IMDB
1983: "ET"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world."
Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote.
Source: IMDB
1984: "Terms of Endearment"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems."
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson.
Source: IMDB
1985: "Amadeus"
Orion Pictures
Plot: "The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri — now confined to an insane asylum."
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson.
Source: IMDB
1986: "Out of Africa"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter."
Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Source: IMDB
1987: "Platoon"
Orion Pictures
Plot: "A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man."
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe.
Source: IMDB
1988: "The Last Emperor"
Columbia Pictures
Plot: "The story of the final Emperor of China."
Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole.
Source: IMDB
1989: "Rain Man"
MGM/UA Communications Company
Plot: "Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country."
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Goli.
Source: IMDB
1990: "Born on the Fourth of July"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "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."
Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry.
Source: IMDB
1991: "Dances with Wolves"
Orion Pictures
Plot: "Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military."
Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene.
Source: IMDB
1992: "Bugsy"
TriStar Pictures
Plot: "The story of how Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel started Las Vegas."
Stars: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel.
Source: IMDB
1993: "Scent of a Woman"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "A prep school student needing money agrees to 'babysit' a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated."
Stars: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn.
Source: IMDB
1994: "Schindler's List"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis."
Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley.
Source: IMDB
1995: "Forrest Gump"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him."
Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise.
Source: IMDB
1996: "Sense and Sensibility"
Sony Pictures
Plot: "Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites."
Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet.
Source: IMDB
1997: "The English Patient"
Miramax Films
Plot: "At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair."
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe.
Source: IMDB
1998: "Titanic"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic."
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane.
Source: IMDB
1999: "Saving Private Ryan"
Paramount Pictures
Plot: "Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action."
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore.
Source: IMDB
2000: "American Beauty"
DreamWorks
Plot: "A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend."
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch.
Source: IMDB
2001: "Gladiator"
DreamWorks
Plot: "When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge."
Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen.
Source: IMDB
2002: "A Beautiful Mind"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish."
Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly.
Source: IMDB
2003: "The Hours"
Miramax Films
Plot: "The story of how the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway' affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives."
Stars: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore.
Source: IMDB
2004: "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
New Line Cinema
Plot: "Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring."
Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen.
Source: IMDB
2005: "The Aviator"
Miramax FIlms
Plot: "A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s."
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale.
Source: IMDB
2006: "Brokeback Mountain"
Focus Features
Plot: "The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years."
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams.
Source: IMDB
2007: "Babel"
Paramount Vantage
Plot: "Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families."
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal.
Source: IMDB
2008: "Atonement"
Focus Features
Plot: "Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit."
Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn.
Source: IMDB
2009: "Slumdog Millionaire"
Warner Brothers Pictures
Plot: "A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'"
Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla.
Source: IMDB
2010: "Avatar"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home."
Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver.
Source: IMDB
2011: "The Social Network"
Sony Pictures
Plot: "As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business."
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake.
Source: IMDB
2012: "The Descendants"
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Plot: "A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident."
Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller.
Source: IMDB
2013: "Argo"
Warner Brothers Pictures
Plot: "Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980."
Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman.
Source: IMDB
2014: "12 Years a Slave"
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Plot: "In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery."
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender.
Source: IMDB
2015: "Boyhood"
Universal Pictures
Plot: "The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college."
Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke.
Source: IMDB
2016: "The Revenant"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team."
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter.
Source: IMDB
2017: "Moonlight"
A24
Plot: "A timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, 'Moonlight' chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami."
Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes.
Source: IMDB
2018: "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri"
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Plot: "A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit."
Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell.
Source: IMDB
2019: "Bohemian Rhapsody"
20th Century Fox
Plot: "The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985)."
Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee.
Source: IMDB
2020: "1917"
Universal
Universal
Plot: "Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldiers' brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap."
Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth.
Source: IMDB
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