Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
| Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | |
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| Awarded for | Best Musical or Comedy Picture |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Currently held by | Emilia Pérez (2024) |
| Website | www.goldenglobes.com |
The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Eligibility
Eligible films must be at least 70 minutes in length, be commercially released for at least seven days in the "greater Los Angeles area", and screened for the HFPA membership.[1] The commercial release must begin during the calendar year prior to the awards ceremony, and the screening can occur no later than one week after commercial release.[1] For purposes of the award, a "musical" is "a comedy or a drama in which songs are used in addition to spoken dialogue to further the plot."[1]
Under the 2007 revised rules of the HFPA, animated films were no longer eligible in this or the category of Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, instead competing exclusively in the new category of Best Animated Feature Film; until 2023 prior of the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the rule is amended by Dick Clark Productions following controversies of splitting votes between the main categories, which animated films are still allowed to be eligible in this category or Drama as well as Animated at the same time in similar vein to Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and newly-established Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.[2]
Winners and nominations
1951–1957
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951[3][4] | An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed |
| 1952 | With a Song in My Heart | Walter Lang | Lamar Trotti |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Charles Vidor | Samuel Goldwyn | |
| I'll See You in My Dreams | Michael Curtiz | Louis F. Edelman | |
| Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | Arthur Freed | |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | Henry Koster | Lamar Trotti | |
| 1953 | No Award given. | ||
| 1954[5][6] | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | Otto Preminger |
| 1955[7][8] | Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Samuel Goldwyn |
| 1956 | The King and I | Walter Lang | Charles Brackett & Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Bus Stop | Joshua Logan | Buddy Adler | |
| The Opposite Sex | David Miller | Joe Pasternak | |
| The Solid Gold Cadillac | Richard Quine | Fred Kohlmar | |
| The Teahouse of the August Moon | Daniel Mann | Jack Cummings | |
| 1957 | Les Girls | George Cukor | Saul Chaplin & Sol C. Siegel |
| Don't Go Near the Water | Charles Walters | Lawrence Weingarten | |
| Love in the Afternoon | Billy Wilder | ||
| Pal Joey | George Sidney | Fred Kohlmar | |
| Silk Stockings | Rouben Mamoulian | Arthur Freed | |
1958–1962
| Year | Comedy | Director | Producer | Musical | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Auntie Mame | Morton DaCosta | Morton DaCosta | Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed |
| Bell, Book and Candle | Richard Quine | Julian Blaustein | Damn Yankees | George Abbott & Stanley Donen | George Abbott, Stanley Donen, Robert E. Griffith, & Harold Prince | |
| Indiscreet | Stanley Donen | Norman Krasna | South Pacific | Joshua Logan | Buddy Adler | |
| Me and the Colonel | Peter Glenville | William Goetz | tom thumb | George Pal | George Pal | |
| The Perfect Furlough | Blake Edwards | Robert Arthur | ||||
| 1959 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | Porgy and Bess | Otto Preminger | Samuel Goldwyn | |
| But Not for Me | Walter Lang | William Perlberg & George Seaton | The Five Pennies | Melville Shavelson | Jack Rose | |
| Operation Petticoat | Blake Edwards | Robert Arthur | Li'l Abner | Melvin Frank | Norman Panama | |
| Pillow Talk | Michael Gordon | Ross Hunter & Martin Melcher | A Private's Affair | Raoul Walsh | David Weisbart | |
| Who Was That Lady? | George Sidney | Norman Krasna | Say One for Me | Frank Tashlin | Frank Tashlin | |
| 1960 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Song Without End | George Cukor & Charles Vidor | William Goetz | |
| The Facts of Life | Melvin Frank & Norman Panama | Melvin Frank & Norman Panama | Bells Are Ringing | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed | |
| The Grass Is Greener | Stanley Donen | Stanley Donen & James H. Ware | Can-Can | Walter Lang | Saul Chaplin & Jack Cummings | |
| It Started in Naples | Melville Shavelson | Jack Rose | Let's Make Love | George Cukor | Jerry Wald | |
| Our Man in Havana | Carol Reed | Carol Reed | Pepe | George Sidney | ||
| 1961 | A Majority of One | Mervyn LeRoy | Mervyn LeRoy | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise | Robert Wise |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | Martin Jurow & Richard Shepherd | Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue | Walt Disney | |
| One, Two, Three | Billy Wilder | |||||
| The Parent Trap | David Swift | Walt Disney & George Golitzen | Flower Drum Song | Henry Koster | Ross Hunter | |
| Pocketful of Miracles | Frank Capra | |||||
| 1962 | That Touch of Mink | Delbert Mann | Robert Arthur, Martin Melcher, Edward Muhl, & Stanley Shapiro | The Music Man | Morton DaCosta | |
| The Best of Enemies | Guy Hamilton | Dino De Laurentiis | Billy Rose's Jumbo | Charles Walters | Martin Melcher & Joe Pasternak | |
| Boys' Night Out | Michael Gordon | Martin Ransohoff | Girls! Girls! Girls! | Norman Taurog | Hal B. Wallis | |
| If a Man Answers | Henry Levin | Ross Hunter | Gypsy | Mervyn LeRoy | ||
| Period of Adjustment | George Roy Hill | Lawrence Weingarten | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin & George Pal | George Pal | |
1963–1969
1970s
1980s
1990s
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Green Card | Peter Weir | |
| Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | ||
| Ghost | Jerry Zucker | Steven-Charles Jaffe, Lauren Ray, & Bruce Joel Rubin | |
| Home Alone | Chris Columbus | John Hughes | |
| Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | Laura Ziskin | |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise | Don Hahn |
| City Slickers | Ron Underwood | Billy Crystal & Irby Smith | |
| The Commitments | Alan Parker | Lynda Myles & Roger Randall-Cutler | |
| The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | Debra Hill, Tony Mark, & Lynda Obst | |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | Jon Avnet & Norman Lear | |
| 1992 | The Player | Robert Altman | David Brown, Michael Tolkin, & Nick Wechsler |
| Aladdin | Ron Clements & John Musker | Ron Clements & John Musker | |
| Enchanted April | Mike Newell | Matthew Hamilton, Simon Relph, Ann Scott, & Mark Shivas | |
| Honeymoon in Vegas | Andrew Bergman | Mike Lobell | |
| Sister Act | Emile Ardolino | Scott Rudin & Teri Schwartz | |
| 1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | Marsha Garces, Robin Williams & Mark Radcliffe |
| Dave | Ivan Reitman | Ivan Reitman & Lauren Shuler Donner | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Evans, & David Parfitt | |
| Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | Gary Foster | |
| Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | Antoinette Albert & Tristram Miall | |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff | Don Hahn |
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | Al Clark & Michael Hamlyn | |
| Ed Wood | Tim Burton | Tim Burton & Denise Di Novi | |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | Duncan Kenworthy | |
| Prêt-à-Porter | Robert Altman | Robert Altman & Scott Bushnell | |
| 1995 | Babe | Chris Noonan | Catherine Barber, Philip Hearnshaw, Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, & Daphne Paris |
| The American President | Rob Reiner | Barbara Maltby, Charles Newirth, Rob Reiner, & Jeffrey Stott | |
| Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher | |
| Sabrina | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack & Scott Rudin | |
| Toy Story | John Lasseter | Bonnie Arnold & Ralph Guggenheim | |
| 1996 | Evita | Alan Parker | Alan Parker & Robert Stigwood |
| The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | Marcello Danon, Michele Imperato, Neal Machlis, & Mike Nichols | |
| Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut | |
| Fargo | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen | |
| Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark, & Richard Sakai | |
| 1997 | As Good as It Gets | James L. Brooks | James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, & Kristi Zea |
| The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | Uberto Pasolini | |
| Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, & Steven Spielberg | |
| My Best Friend's Wedding | P. J. Hogan | Jerry Zucker, Ronald Bass, Gil Netter, & Patricia Whitcher | |
| Wag the Dog | Barry Levinson | Barry Levinson & Robert De Niro | |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, & Edward Zwick |
| Bulworth | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty & Pieter Jan Brugge | |
| The Mask of Zorro | Martin Campbell | Doug Claybourne & David Foster | |
| Patch Adams | Tom Shadyac | Mike Farrell, Barry Kemp, Marvin Minoff, & Charles Newirth | |
| Still Crazy | Brian Gibson | Amanda Marmot | |
| There's Something About Mary | Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly | Frank Beddor, Michael Steinberg, Bradley Thomas & Charles B. Wessler | |
| 1999 | Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | Karen Robert Jackson & Helene Plotkin |
| Analyze This | Harold Ramis | Jane Rosenthal & Paula Weinstein | |
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | Steve Golin, Vincent Landay, Sandy Stern, & Michael Stipe | |
| Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | Danny DeVito | |
| Notting Hill | Roger Michell | Duncan Kenworthy | |
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Jason Woliner | Sacha Baron Cohen, Monica Levinson, Anthony Hines |
| Hamilton | Thomas Kail | Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller | |
| Music | Sia | Sia, Vincent Landay | |
| Palm Springs | Max Barbakow | Chris Parker, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Dylan Sellers, Becky Sloviter, Jorma Taccone | |
| The Prom | Ryan Murphy | Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Adam Anders, Dori Berenstein, Bill Damaschke | |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Kevin McCollum |
| Cyrano | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Guy Heeley | |
| Don't Look Up | Adam McKay | Adam McKay, Kevin Messick | |
| Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson | Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| tick, tick... BOOM! | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Julie Oh, Lin-Manuel Miranda | |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh |
| Babylon | Damien Chazelle | Marc Platt, Matthew Plouffe, Olivia Hamilton | |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang | |
| Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson | |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober | |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | Emma Stone, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe |
| Air | Ben Affleck | David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, Jon Weinbach, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Madison Ainley, Jeff Robinov, Peter Guber, Jason Michael Berman | |
| American Fiction | Cord Jefferson | Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson | |
| Barbie | Greta Gerwig | Margot Robbie, Robbie Brenner, Tom Ackerley, David Heyman | |
| The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson | |
| May December | Todd Haynes | Natalie Portman, Sophie Mas, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Grant S. Johnson, Tyler W. Konney, Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell | |
| 2024[13][14] | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann & Anthony Vaccarello |
| A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | Ewa Peszczyńska, Jennifer Semler, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Ali Herting & Dave McCary | |
| Anora | Sean Baker | Alex Coco, Samantha Quan & Sean Baker | |
| Challengers | Luca Guadagnino | Amy Pascal, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya & Rachel O’Connor | |
| The Substance | Carolie Fargeat | Carolie Fargeat, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner | |
| Wicked | Jon M. Chu | Marc Platt & David Stone |
Notes and trivia
- Between 1989 and 2004, ten animated feature films were nominated for this award and three won:
- 1989 - The Little Mermaid (lost to Driving Miss Daisy)
- 1991 - Beauty and the Beast (won)
- 1992 - Aladdin (lost to The Player)
- 1994 - The Lion King (won)
- 1995 - Toy Story (lost to Babe)
- 1999 - Toy Story 2 (won)
- 2000 - Chicken Run (lost to Almost Famous)
- 2001 - Shrek (lost to Moulin Rouge!)
- 2003 - Finding Nemo (lost to Lost in Translation)
- 2004 - The Incredibles (lost to Sideways)
- Toy Story 2 and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm are the only sequels to have won this award without their respective nominated predecessors also winning.
- The 1961 and 2021 versions of West Side Story are the only films adapted from the same source material to win this award.
- Since 2023, Emilia Pérez is the first non-English-language film to win in that category.
See also
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- BAFTA Award for Best Film
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture
- Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy
- Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
- Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
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