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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical

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The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical 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.

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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 2014, the wording is "Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical".[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)
Publicity photo of Marilyn Monroe in 1953.
Marilyn Monroe won for Some Like It Hot (1959)
Publicity photo of Shirley MacLaine in 1960.
Shirley MacLaine won twice for The Apartment (1960) and Irma la Douce (1963)
Rosalind Russell won three times, twice consecutive for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962)
Photo of Julie Andrews in Sydney, Australia in 2013.
Julie Andrews won thrice for Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Victor/Victoria (1982)
Anne Bancroft won for The Graduate (1967)
Publicity photo of Barbra Streisand in 1966.
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)
Photo of Maggie Smith in 2007.
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)
Publicity photo of Cher in the 1970s.
Cher won for Moonstruck (1987)
Melanie Griffith won for Working Girl (1988)
Publicity photo of Jessica Tandy in the 1950s.
At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner in this category for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Photo of Julia Roberts at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Julia Roberts won for Pretty Woman (1990)
Angela Bassett won for Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Photo of Jamie Lee Curtis at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International.
Jamie Lee Curtis won for True Lies (1994)
Photo of Nicole Kidman at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Nicole Kidman won twice for To Die For (1995) and Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Photo of Madonna performing during the Rebel Heart Tour in Stockholm in 2015.
Madonna won for playing Eva Perón in Evita (1996)
Helen Hunt won for As Good as It Gets (1997)
Photo of Gwyneth Paltrow in Paris in 2013.
Gwyneth Paltrow won for Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Renée Zellweger won twice for Nurse Betty (2000) and Chicago (2002)
Photo of Annette Bening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Annette Bening won twice for her Being Julia (2004) and The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Photo of Reese Witherspoon at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Reese Witherspoon won playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005)
Publicity photo of Meryl Streep circa 1976 and 1979.
Meryl Streep won twice for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009)
Photo of Marion Cotillard at the 2017 Cabourg Film Festival.
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)
Photo of Jennifer Lawrence at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International.
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)
Photo of Emma Stone at the 2016 Mill Valley Film Festival.
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)
Rachel Zegler won for West Side Story (2021)
Michelle Yeoh won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

1950s

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1990s

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2000s

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2010s

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2020s

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Multiple nominees

Multiple wins

Firsts

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