Who Won Best Actress in a Drama Film at 2025 Golden Globes?

Some of the most revered actresses in Hollywood went head-to-head at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards.

I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres took home the trophy for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama during the Sunday, January 5, ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

“My god, I did not prepare anything … This is such an amazing year for female performances, so many actresses here that I admire so much,” Torres, 59, said during her acceptance speech, while dedicating the award to her mom. “You have no idea, she was here 25 years ago and this is, like, proof that art can endure.”

There were five other nominees in the category, including Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl, Angelina Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Tilda Swinton for The Room Next Door and Kate Winslet for Lee.

The category was stacked with talent from the get-go. Kidman, 57, led the pack with a total of six wins and 18 nominations throughout her career. She previously secured awards for To Die For in 1996, Moulin Rouge! in 2002, The Hours in 2003, Big Little Lies in 2018 and Being the Ricardos in 2022, while also earning nods for Billy Bathgate, The Others, Cold Mountain, Birth, Rabbit Hole, Hemingway & Gellhorn, The Paperboy, Lion, Destroyer, Big Little Lies season 2 and The Undoing.

Winslet, 49, followed closely behind with five wins — for The Reader and Revolutionary Road in 2009, Mildred Pierce in 2012, Steve Jobs in 2016 and Mare of Easttown in 2022 — and 14 nominations for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, Carnage and Labor Day. This year, she landed a second nod in a different category: Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for the HBO miniseries The Regime.

For her part, Jolie, 49, already had three wins under her belt for George Wallace in 1998, Gia in 1999 and Girl, Interrupted in 2000. She also had a total of nine career nominations, including for A Mighty Heart, Changeling, The Tourist, In the Land of Blood and Honey and First They Killed My Father.

Prior to the 2025 ceremony, Swinton, 64, received three previous nods for The Deep End in 2002, Michael Clayton in 2008 and We Need to Talk About Kevin in 2012.

As for Anderson, 57, and Torres, 59, this year marked their first-ever Golden Globes nominations.