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 | |
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| Awarded for | Best Musical or Comedy Picture |
| Location | United States |
| Presented by | Hollywood Foreign Press Association |
| Currently held by | Poor Things (2023) |
| Website | www.goldenglobes.com |
Eligibility
editEligible 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]
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.[3]
Winners and nominations
edit1951–1957
edit1958–1962
edit1963–1969
edit1970s
edit1980s
edit1990s
edit2000s
edit2010s
edit2020s
editNotes and trivia
edit- 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)[10]
- 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.
See also
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hollywood Foreign Press Association. "Golden Globe Award Consideration: Best Foreign Language Film Submission" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2011. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
- ^ "The 9th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1952)". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-04-12. Retrieved 2007-06-26.The nominees' names are not listed for this year.
- ^ "1951 9th Golden Globe Awards". Los Angeles Times The Envelope Awards Site. Archived from the original on 2007-05-21. Retrieved 2007-06-29.
nominee list no longer exists
- ^ "The 12th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1955)". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-04-11. Retrieved 2007-06-26. The nominees' names are not listed for this year.
- ^ "1954 12th Golden Globe Awards". Los Angeles Times The Envelope Awards Site. Archived from the original on 2007-05-17. Retrieved 2007-06-29.
nominee list no longer exists
- ^ "The 13th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1956)". Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-06-26. The nominees' names are not listed for this year.
- ^ "1955 13th Golden Globe Awards". Los Angeles Times The Envelope Awards Site. Archived from the original on 2007-05-17. Retrieved 2007-06-29.
nominee list no longer exists
- ^ a b c "Golden Globes announce TV, film award nominees". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. December 22, 2000. p. 8B. Retrieved 2010-08-22.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "'Lincoln,' 'Django Unchained,' 'Argo' among Golden Globe nominees – Entertainment". entertainment.nbcnews.com. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Best Motion Picture, Drama | Golden Globes Awards". goldenglobes.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Golden Globes Awards | The Hollywood Foreign Press Association®". goldenglobes.com. Archived from the original on 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ^ "Golden Globes Awards | The Hollywood Foreign Press Association®" (PDF). goldenglobes.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2015-12-10.