Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Award
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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).
| Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Musical or Comedy Picture |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Dick Clark Productions |
| Currently held by | One Battle After Another (2025) |
| Website | goldenglobes |
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
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:
- 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