The Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy has been awarded annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Eligibility [ edit ]
Currently, eligible films must be at least 70 minutes in length, and 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 "defined as a comedy or drama where the songs are used in place of spoken dialogue to further the plot."[ 1] In addition, the film must have its principal dialogue in English.[ 2]
Animated Films [ edit ]
There have been many animated films that have been nominated for Best Picture in the Musical or Comedy category. Though only three films (Beauty and the Beast , The Lion King , and Toy Story 2 ) have won, there have been many other nominated animated feature films. They include Aladdin , Toy Story , Shrek , Finding Nemo , and The Incredibles .
1951–1957 [ edit ]
1958–1962 [ edit ]
1963–1969 [ edit ]
Year
Film
Director[ 3]
Producer[ 4]
1963
Tom Jones †
Tony Richardson
Michael Balcon , Michael Holden , Oscar Lewenstein , & Tony Richardson
Bye Bye Birdie
George Sidney
Irving Brecher & Michael Stewart
Irma la Douce
Billy Wilder
Edward L. Alperson, I.A.L. Diamond , Doane Harrison , Alexandre Trauner , & Billy Wilder
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
A Ticklish Affair
George Sidney
Joe Pasternak
Under the Yum Yum Tree
David Swift
David Swift
1964
My Fair Lady †
George Cukor
Jack L. Warner
Father Goose
Ralph Nelson
Robert Arthur
Mary Poppins *
Robert Stevenson
Walt Disney & Bill Walsh
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Charles Walters
Lawrence Weingarten
The World of Henry Orient
George Roy Hill
Jerome Hellman
1965
The Sound of Music †
Robert Wise
Robert Wise
Cat Ballou
Elliot Silverstein
Walter Newman
The Great Race
Blake Edwards
Martin Jurow
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Ken Annakin
Stan Margulies
A Thousand Clowns *
Fred Coe
Fred Coe
1966
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming *
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Richard Lester
Melvin Frank
Gambit
Ronald Neame
Leo L. Fuchs
Not with My Wife, You Don't!
Norman Panama
Norman Panama
You're a Big Boy Now
Francis Ford Coppola
Phil Feldman
1967
The Graduate *
Mike Nichols
Joseph E. Levine & Lawrence Turman
Camelot
Joshua Logan
Jack Warner
Doctor Dolittle *
Richard Fleischer
Arthur P. Jacobs
The Taming of the Shrew
Franco Zeffirelli
Producer
Thoroughly Modern Millie
George Roy Hill
Ross Hunter
1968
Oliver! †
Carol Reed
John Woolf
Finian's Rainbow
Francis Ford Coppola
Joseph Landon
Funny Girl *
William Wyler
Ray Stark
The Odd Couple
Gene Saks
Howard W. Koch
Yours, Mine and Ours
Melville Shavelson
Robert F. Blumofe
1969
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Stanley Kramer
George Glass & Stanley Kramer
Cactus Flower
Gene Saks
M.J. Frankovich
Goodbye, Columbus
Larry Peerce
Stanley R. Jaffe
Hello, Dolly! *
Gene Kelly
Ernest Lehman
Paint Your Wagon
Joshua Logan
Alan Jay Lerner
Year
Film
Director[ 3]
Producer[ 4]
1980
Coal Miner's Daughter *
Michael Apted
Bernard Schwartz
Airplane!
Jim Abrahams , David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
Jon Davison & Howard W. Koch
Fame
Alan Parker
David De Silva & Alan Marshall
The Idolmaker
Taylor Hackford
Gene Kirkwood & Howard W. Koch Jr.
Melvin and Howard
Jonathan Demme
Art Linson & Don Phillips
1981
Arthur
Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon
The Four Seasons
Alan Alda
Martin Bergman
Pennies from Heaven
Herbert Ross
Nora Kaye , Rick McCallum , & Herbert Ross
S.O.B.
Blake Edwards
Tony Adams & Blake Edwards
Zoot Suit
Luis Valdez
Peter Burrell
1982
Tootsie *
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack & Dick Richards
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Colin Higgins
Robert L. Boyett & Colin Higgins
Diner
Barry Levinson
Jerry Weintraub
My Favorite Year
Richard Benjamin
Michael Gruskoff
Victor Victoria
Blake Edwards
Tony Adams & Blake Edwards
1983
Yentl
Barbra Streisand
Larry DeWaay, Rusty Lemorande , & Barbra Streisand
The Big Chill *
Lawrence Kasdan
Michael Shamberg
Flashdance
Adrian Lyne
Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson
Trading Places
John Landis
George Folsey Jr. , Aaron Russo, Irwin Russo, & Sam Williams
Zelig
Woody Allen
Robert Greenhut
1984
Romancing the Stone
Robert Zemeckis
Michael Douglas
Beverly Hills Cop
Martin Brest
Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson
Ghostbusters
Ivan Reitman
Bernie Brillstein & Ivan Reitman
Micki + Maude
Blake Edwards
Tony Adams, Lou Antonio , Trish Caroselli, & Jonathan D. Krane
Splash
Ron Howard
Brian Grazer
1985
Prizzi's Honor *
John Huston
John Foreman
Back to the Future
Robert Zemeckis
Neil Canton & Bob Gale
A Chorus Line
Richard Attenborough
Cy Feuer
Cocoon
Ron Howard
David Brown & Richard D. Zanuck
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Woody Allen
Robert Greenhut
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters *
Woody Allen
Robert Greenhut
Crimes of the Heart
Bruce Beresford
Freddie Fields
"Crocodile" Dundee
Peter Faiman
John Cornell
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Paul Mazursky
Pato Guzman & Paul Mazursky
Little Shop of Horrors
Frank Oz
David Geffen
Peggy Sue Got Married
Francis Ford Coppola
Paul R. Gurian
1987
Hope and Glory *
John Boorman
John Boorman & Michael Dryhurst
Baby Boom
Charles Shyer
Bruce A. Block & Nancy Meyers
Broadcast News *
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks
Dirty Dancing
Emile Ardolino
Linda Gottlieb
Moonstruck *
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison
1988
Working Girl *
Mike Nichols
Douglas Wick
Big
Penny Marshall
James L. Brooks & Robert Greenhut
A Fish Called Wanda
Charles Crichton
Michael Shamberg
Midnight Run
Martin Brest
Martin Brest
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Richard Williams & Robert Zemeckis
Frank Marshall & Robert Watts
1989
Driving Miss Daisy †
Bruce Beresford
Lili Fini Zanuck & Richard D. Zanuck
The Little Mermaid
Ron Clements & John Musker
Howard Ashman & John Musker
Shirley Valentine
Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert
The War of the Roses
Danny DeVito
James L. Brooks & Arnon Milchan
When Harry Met Sally...
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner & Andrew Scheinman
Year
Film
Director[ 3]
Producer[ 4]
1990
Green Card
Peter Weir
Peter Weir
Dick Tracy
Warren Beatty
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
Laura Ziskin
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
Producer
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
Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly
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
Year
Film
Director[ 3]
Producer[ 4]
2000 [ 11]
Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe
Ian Bryce & Cameron Crowe
Best in Show
Christopher Guest
Gordon Mark & Karen Murphy
Chicken Run
Peter Lord & Nick Park
Peter Lord, Nick Park, & David Sproxton
Chocolat *
Lasse Hallström
Harvey Weinstein
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Joel Coen
Tim Bevan , Ethan Coen, & Eric Fellner
2001
Moulin Rouge! *
Baz Luhrmann
Fred Baron , Martin Brown, & Baz Luhrmann
Bridget Jones's Diary
Sharon Maguire
Tim Bevan, Jonathan Cavendish , & Eric Fellner
Gosford Park *
Robert Altman
Robert Altman, Bob Balaban , & David Levy
Legally Blonde
Robert Luketic
Ric Kidney & Marc E. Platt
Shrek
Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
Jeffrey Katzenberg , Aron Warner , & John H. Williams
2002
Chicago †
Rob Marshall
Meryl Poster, Martin Richards , Bob Weinstein , Harvey Weinstein, & Craig Zadan
About a Boy
Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz
Tim Bevan, Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Eric Fellner, & Jane Rosenthal
Adaptation.
Spike Jonze
Jonathan Demme , Vincent Landay, & Edward Saxon
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Joel Zwick
Gary Goetzman , Tom Hanks , & Rita Wilson
Nicholas Nickleby
Douglas McGrath
Simon Channing-Williams , John Hart , & Jeffrey Sharp
2003
Lost in Translation *
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola & Ross Katz
Bend It Like Beckham
Gurinder Chadha
Gurinder Chadha & Deepak Nayar
Big Fish
Tim Burton
Bruce Cohen , Dan Jinks , & Richard D. Zanuck
Finding Nemo
Andrew Stanton
Graham Walters
Love Actually
Richard Curtis
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, & Duncan Kenworthy
2004
Sideways *
Alexander Payne
Michael London
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry
Anthony Bregman & Steve Golin
The Incredibles
Brad Bird
John Walker
The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Ray *
Taylor Hackford
Howard Baldwin , Karen Baldwin , Stuart Benjamin , & Taylor Hackford
2005
Walk the Line
James Mangold
James Keach & Cathy Konrad
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Stephen Frears
Norma Heyman
Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, & Paul Webster
The Producers
Susan Stroman
Mel Brooks
The Squid and the Whale
Noah Baumbach
Wes Anderson
2006
Dreamgirls
Bill Condon
Laurence Mark
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Larry Charles
Sacha Baron Cohen & Jay Roach
The Devil Wears Prada
David Frankel
Wendy Finerman & Karen Rosenfelt
Little Miss Sunshine *
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Albert Berger, David T. Friendly , Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, & Ron Yerxa
Thank You for Smoking
Jason Reitman
Edward R. Pressman & David O. Sacks
2007
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton
John Logan , Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, & Richard D. Zanuck
Across the Universe
Julie Taymor
Charles Newirth, Jennifer Todd , & Suzanne Todd
Charlie Wilson's War
Mike Nichols
Tom Hanks
Hairspray
Adam Shankman
Toby Emmerich , Neil Meron , Marc Shaiman , Adam Shankman, Bob Shaye , Scott Wittman , & Craig Zadan
Juno *
Jason Reitman
Lianne Halfon , John Malkovich , Mason Novick , & Russell Smith
2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen
Letty Aronson , Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum, & Gareth Wiley
Burn After Reading
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh
Simon Channing-Williams
In Bruges
Martin McDonagh
Graham Broadbent & Peter Czernin
Mamma Mia!
Phyllida Lloyd
Benny Andersson , Judy Craymer, Tom Hanks, Phyllida Lloyd, Björn Ulvaeus , & Rita Wilson
2009
The Hangover
Todd Phillips
Daniel Goldberg & Todd Phillips
(500) Days of Summer
Marc Webb
Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters , & Steven J. Wolfe
It's Complicated
Nancy Meyers
Nancy Meyers & Scott Rudin
Julie & Julia
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron, Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson , & Eric Steel
Nine
Rob Marshall
John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Marc Platt , Harvey Weinstein, & Maury Yeston
Year
Film
Director[ 3]
Producer[ 4]
2010 [ 11]
The Kids Are All Right *
Lisa Cholodenko
Jeff Levy-Hinte , Gary Gilbert , Jordan Horowitz, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg & Philippe Hellmann
Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton
Richard D. Zanuck , Joe Roth , Suzanne Todd & Jennifer Todd
Burlesque
Steven Antin
Donald De Line
Red
Robert Schwentke
Lorenzo di Bonaventura & Mark Vahradian
The Tourist
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Graham King , Tim Headington, Roger Birnbaum , Gary Barber & Jonathan Glickman
2011
The Artist †
Michel Hazanavicius
Thomas Langmann
50/50
Jonathan Levine
Evan Goldberg , Ben Karlin , Seth Rogen
Bridesmaids
Paul Feig
Judd Apatow , Barry Mendel , Clayton Townsend
Midnight in Paris *
Woody Allen
Letty Aronson , Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum
My Week with Marilyn
Simon Curtis
David Parfitt , Harvey Weinstein
2012 [ 12]
Les Misérables *
Tom Hooper
Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner , Debra Hayward & Cameron Mackintosh
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
John Madden
Graham Broadbent & Peter Czernin
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson
Jeremy Dawson, Scott Rudin , Wes Anderson & Steven M. Rales
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Lasse Hallström
Paul Webster
Silver Linings Playbook *
David O. Russell
Bruce Cohen & Donna Gigliotti
2013 [ 13]
American Hustle *
David O. Russell
Charles Roven , Megan Ellison , Richard Suckle , & Jonathan Gordon
Her *
Spike Jonze
Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, & Vincent Landay
Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel & Ethan Coen
Scott Rudin , Joel Coen, & Ethan Coen
Nebraska *
Alexander Payne
Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa
The Wolf of Wall Street *
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio , Riza Aziz, Emma Tillinger Koskoff , & Joey McFarland
2014 [ 14]
The Grand Budapest Hotel *
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales , & Scott Rudin
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) †
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan , & James W. Skotchdopole
Into the Woods
Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Marc Platt , & Callum McDougall
Pride
Matthew Warchus
David Livingstone
St. Vincent
Theodore Melfi
Fred Roos , Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin , Theodore Melfi
Between 1989 and 2004, 10 animated feature films were nominated for the Golden Globe Award and 3 won:
1989 The Little Mermaid (nominated) (lost to Driving Miss Daisy )
1991 Beauty and the Beast (WON )
1992 Aladdin (nominated) (lost to The Player )
1994 The Lion King (WON )
1995 Toy Story (nominated) (lost to Babe )
1999 Toy Story 2 (WON )
2000 Chicken Run (nominated) (lost to Almost Famous )[ 11]
2001 Shrek (nominated) (lost to Moulin Rouge! )
2003 Finding Nemo (nominated) (lost to Lost in Translation )
2004 The Incredibles (nominated) (lost to Sideways )
Under the 2007 revised rules of the HFPA, animated pictures are 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 .
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
Current awards
(Film)
Current awards
(Television)
Retired awards
Ceremonies
(years are of film release; ceremonies are following year)
Miscellaneous
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy