Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Award

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] In addition, the film must have its principal dialogue in English.^[2]

Winners and nominations

1951–1957

1958–1962

1963–1969

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Notes and trivia

• Between 1989 and 2004, ten animated feature films were nominated for this award and three won:

1. 1989 - The Little Mermaid (lost to Driving Miss Daisy)
2. 1991 - Beauty and the Beast (won)
3. 1992 - Aladdin (lost to The Player)
4. 1994 - The Lion King (won)
5. 1995 - Toy Story (lost to Babe)
6. 1999 - Toy Story 2 (won)
7. 2000 - Chicken Run (lost to Almost Famous)^[9]
8. 2001 - Shrek (lost to Moulin Rouge!)
9. 2003 - Finding Nemo (lost to Lost in Translation)
10. 2004 - The Incredibles (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; until 2023, the rule is amended following controversies of best motion picture category frustrations, as animated pictures will be still allowed to eligible in this category or Drama in the future.

• 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.

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

References

1. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "Golden Globe Award Consideration: Motion Picture – Submission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-21. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
2. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "Golden Globe Award Consideration: Best Foreign Language Film Submission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-21. Retrieved 2012-04-01. Films that qualify for the best foreign language film award also qualify for Golden Globe awards in all other categories except best motion picture drama and best motion picture musical or comedy which are for English-language films exclusively.
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