Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award that 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 – Drama .
The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical ".[ 1] As of 2024[update] , the wording is "Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy".[ 2]
Winners and nominees
indicates the winner
Judy Holiday won for Born Yesterday (1950)
Ethel Merman won for Call Me Madam (1953)
Judy Garland won for A Star is Born (1954)
Marilyn Monroe won for Some Like It Hot (1959)
Shirley MacLaine won twice for The Apartment (1960) and Irma la Douce (1963)
Rosalind Russell won three times, twice consecutive, for Auntie Mame (1958), A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962)
Julie Andrews won three times for Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965) and Victor/Victoria (1982)
Anne Bancroft won for The Graduate (1967)
Barbra Streisand won twice for Funny Girl (1968) and A Star Is Born (1976)
Liza Minnelli won for Cabaret (1972)
Diane Keaton won twice for Annie Hall (1977) and Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Glenda Jackson won for A Touch of Class (1973)
Ann-Margret won for Tommy (1975)
Maggie Smith won for California Suite (1978)
Ellen Burstyn won for Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Bette Midler won for The Rose (1979)
Sissy Spacek won twice for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Julie Walters won for Educating Rita (1983)
Cher won for Moonstruck (1987)
Melanie Griffith won for Working Girl (1988)
At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner in this category for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Julia Roberts won for Pretty Woman (1990)
Angela Bassett won for Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Jamie Lee Curtis won for True Lies (1994)
Nicole Kidman won twice for To Die For (1995) and Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Madonna won for playing Eva Perón in Evita (1996)
Helen Hunt won for As Good as It Gets (1997)
Gwyneth Paltrow won for Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Renée Zellweger won twice for Nurse Betty (2000) and Chicago (2002)
Annette Bening won twice for her Being Julia (2004) and The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Reese Witherspoon won playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005)
Meryl Streep won twice for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009)
Marion Cotillard won for playing Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007)
Sally Hawkins won for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
Michelle Williams won for playing Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Jennifer Lawrence won twice for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and for Joy (2015)
Amy Adams won twice for American Hustle (2013) and Big Eyes (2014)
Emma Stone won twice for La La Land (2016) and Poor Things (2023)
Saoirse Ronan won for Lady Bird (2017)
Olivia Colman won for The Favourite (2018)
Rosamund Pike won for I Care a Lot (2020)
Rachel Zegler won for West Side Story (2021)
Michelle Yeoh won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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Multiple nominees
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Multiple wins
Firsts
See also
References
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