The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950. 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 and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy".

Winners and nominees

1950s

1950: Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday

• Spring Byington - Louisa

• Betty Hutton - Annie Get Your Gun

1951: June Allyson - Too Young to Kiss
1952: Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart

• Katharine Hepburn - Pat and Mike

• Ginger Rogers - Monkey Business

1953: Ethel Merman - Call Me Madam
1954: Judy Garland - A Star Is Born
1955: Jean Simmons - Guys and Dolls
1956: Deborah Kerr - The King and I

• Judy Holliday - The Solid Gold Cadillac

• Machiko Kyō - The Teahouse of the August Moon

• Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop

• Debbie Reynolds - Bundle of Joy

1957: Kay Kendall - Les Girls & Taina Elg, Les Girls

• Cyd Charisse - Silk Stockings

• Audrey Hepburn - Love in the Afternoon

• Jean Simmons - This Could Be the Night

1958: Rosalind Russell - Auntie Mame

• Ingrid Bergman - Indiscreet

• Leslie Caron - Gigi

• Doris Day - The Tunnel of Love

• Mitzi Gaynor - South Pacific

1959: Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot

• Dorothy Dandridge - Porgy and Bess

• Doris Day - Pillow Talk

• Shirley MacLaine - Ask Any Girl

• Lilli Palmer - But Not for Me

1960s

1960: Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment

• Capucine - Song Without End

• Lucille Ball - The Facts of Life

• Sophia Loren - It Started in Naples

• Judy Holliday - Bells Are Ringing

1961: Rosalind Russell - A Majority of One

• Bette Davis - Pocketful of Miracles

• Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's

1962: Rosalind Russell - Gypsy

• Jane Fonda - Period of Adjustment

• Natalie Wood - Gypsy

1963: Shirley MacLaine - Irma la Douce

• Ann-Margret - Bye Bye Birdie

• Doris Day - Move Over, Darling

• Audrey Hepburn - Charade

• Hayley Mills - Summer Magic

• Molly Picon - Come Blow Your Horn

• Jill St. John - Come Blow Your Horn

• Joanne Woodward - A New Kind of Love

1964: Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins as Mary Poppins †

• Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady

• Sophia Loren - Marriage Italian-Style (Matrimonio all'italiana)

• Melina Mercouri - Topkapi

• Debbie Reynolds - The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1965: Julie Andrews - The Sound of Music

• Jane Fonda - Cat Ballou

• Barbara Harris - A Thousand Clowns

• Rita Tushingham - The Knack …and How to Get It

• Natalie Wood - Inside Daisy Clover

1966: Lynn Redgrave - Georgy Girl

• Jane Fonda - Any Wednesday

• Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road

• Shirley MacLaine - Gambit

• Vanessa Redgrave - Morgan!

1967: Anne Bancroft - The Graduate

• Julie Andrews - Thoroughly Modern Millie

• Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road

• Shirley MacLaine - Woman Times Seven

• Vanessa Redgrave - Camelot

1968: Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl †

• Julie Andrews - Star!

• Lucille Ball - Yours, Mine and Ours

• Petula Clark - Finian's Rainbow

• Gina Lollobrigida - Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

1969: Patty Duke - Me, Natalie

• Ingrid Bergman - Cactus Flower

• Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

• Kim Darby - Generation

• Mia Farrow - John and Mary

• Shirley MacLaine - Sweet Charity

• Anna Magnani - The Secret of Santa Vittoria

• Barbra Streisand - Hello, Dolly!

1970s

1970: Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife

• Julie Andrews - Darling Lili

• Sandy Dennis - The Out-of-Towners

• Angela Lansbury - Something for Everyone

• Barbra Streisand - The Owl and the Pussycat

1971: Twiggy - The Boy Friend

• Sandy Duncan - Star Spangled Girl

• Ruth Gordon - Harold and Maude

• Angela Lansbury - Bedknobs and Broomsticks

• Elaine May - A New Leaf

1972: Liza Minnelli - Cabaret †

• Carol Burnett - Pete 'n' Tillie

• Goldie Hawn - Butterflies Are Free

• Juliet Mills - Avanti!

• Maggie Smith - Travels with My Aunt

1973: Glenda Jackson - A Touch of Class †

• Yvonne Elliman - Jesus Christ Superstar

• Cloris Leachman - Charley and the Angel

• Tatum O'Neal - Paper Moon

• Liv Ullmann - 40 Carats

1974: Raquel Welch - The Three Musketeers

• Lucille Ball - Mame

• Diahann Carroll - Claudine

• Helen Hayes - Herbie Rides Again

• Cloris Leachman - Young Frankenstein

1975: Ann-Margret - Tommy

• Julie Christie - Shampoo

• Goldie Hawn - Shampoo

• Liza Minnelli - Lucky Lady

• Barbra Streisand - Funny Lady

1976: Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born

• Jodie Foster - Freaky Friday

• Barbara Harris - Family Plot

• Barbara Harris - Freaky Friday

• Goldie Hawn - The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

• Rita Moreno - The Ritz

1977: Diane Keaton - Annie Hall † and
1977: Marsha Mason - The Goodbye Girl

• Sally Field - Smokey and the Bandit

• Liza Minnelli - New York, New York

• Lily Tomlin - The Late Show

1978: Ellen Burstyn - Same Time, Next Year and
1978: Maggie Smith - California Suite †

• Jacqueline Bisset - Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

• Goldie Hawn - Foul Play

• Olivia Newton-John - Grease

1979: Bette Midler - The Rose

• Julie Andrews - 10

• Jill Clayburgh - Starting Over

• Shirley MacLaine - Being There

• Marsha Mason - Chapter Two

1980s

1980: Sissy Spacek - Coal Miner's Daughter †

• Irene Cara - Fame

• Goldie Hawn - Private Benjamin

• Bette Midler - Divine Madness!

• Dolly Parton - Nine to Five

1981: Bernadette Peters - Pennies from Heaven

• Blair Brown - Continental Divide

• Carol Burnett - The Four Seasons

• Jill Clayburgh - First Monday in October

• Liza Minnelli - Arthur

1982: Julie Andrews - Victor/Victoria

• Carol Burnett - Annie

• Sally Field - Kiss Me Good-Bye

• Goldie Hawn - Best Friends

• Dolly Parton - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

• Aileen Quinn - Annie

1983: Julie Walters - Educating Rita

• Anne Bancroft - To Be or Not to Be

• Jennifer Beals - Flashdance

• Linda Ronstadt - The Pirates of Penzance

• Barbra Streisand - Yentl

1984: Kathleen Turner - Romancing the Stone

• Anne Bancroft - Garbo Talks

• Mia Farrow - Broadway Danny Rose

• Shelley Long - Irreconcilable Differences

• Lily Tomlin - All of Me

1985: Kathleen Turner - Prizzi's Honor

• Rosanna Arquette - Desperately Seeking Susan

• Glenn Close - Maxie

• Mia Farrow - The Purple Rose of Cairo

• Sally Field - Murphy's Romance

1986: Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart

• Julie Andrews - That's Life!

• Melanie Griffith - Something Wild

• Bette Midler - Down and Out in Beverly Hills

• Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married

1987: Cher - Moonstruck †

• Jennifer Grey - Dirty Dancing

• Holly Hunter - Broadcast News

• Diane Keaton - Baby Boom

• Bette Midler - Outrageous Fortune

1988: Melanie Griffith - Working Girl

• Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda

• Amy Irving - Crossing Delancey

• Michelle Pfeiffer - Married to the Mob

• Susan Sarandon - Bull Durham

1989: Jessica Tandy - Driving Miss Daisy †

• Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine

• Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally...

• Meryl Streep - She-Devil

• Kathleen Turner - The War of the Roses

1990s

1990: Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

• Mia Farrow - Alice

• Andie MacDowell - Green Card

• Demi Moore - Ghost

• Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge

1991: Bette Midler - For the Boys

• Ellen Barkin - Switch

• Kathy Bates - Fried Green Tomatoes

• Anjelica Huston - The Addams Family

• Michelle Pfeiffer - Frankie and Johnny

1992: Miranda Richardson - Enchanted April

• Geena Davis - A League of Their Own

• Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Act

• Shirley MacLaine - Used People

• Meryl Streep - Death Becomes Her

1993: Angela Bassett - What's Love Got to Do with It as Tina Turner

• Stockard Channing - Six Degrees of Separation

• Anjelica Huston - Addams Family Values

• Diane Keaton - Manhattan Murder Mystery

• Meg Ryan - Sleepless in Seattle

1994: Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies

• Geena Davis - Speechless

• Andie MacDowell - Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Shirley MacLaine - Guarding Tess

• Emma Thompson - Junior

1995: Nicole Kidman - To Die For

• Annette Bening - The American President

• Sandra Bullock - While You Were Sleeping

• Toni Collette - Muriel's Wedding

• Vanessa Redgrave - A Month by the Lake

1996: Madonna - Evita as Eva Perón

• Glenn Close - 101 Dalmatians as Cruella de Vil

• Frances McDormand - Fargo as Marge Gunderson †

• Debbie Reynolds - Mother as Beatrice Henderson

• Barbra Streisand - The Mirror Has Two Faces as Rose Morgan

1997: Helen Hunt - As Good as It Gets as Carol Connelly †

• Joey Lauren Adams - Chasing Amy as Alyssa Jones

• Pam Grier - Jackie Brown as Jackie Brown

• Jennifer Lopez - Selena as Selena

• Julia Roberts - My Best Friend's Wedding as Julianne Potters

1998: Gwyneth Paltrow - Shakespeare in Love as Viola de Lesseps †

• Cameron Diaz - There's Something About Mary as Mary Jensen

• Jane Horrocks - Little Voice as Laura

• Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex as Deedee Truitt

• Meg Ryan - You've Got Mail as Kathleen Kelly

1999: Janet McTeer - Tumbleweeds as Mary Jo Walker

• Julianne Moore - An Ideal Husband as Mrs. Laura Cheveley

• Julia Roberts - Notting Hill as Anna Scott

• Sharon Stone - The Muse as Sarah Little

• Reese Witherspoon - Election as Tracy Flick

2000s

2000: Renée Zellweger – Nurse Betty as Betty Sizemore

• Juliette Binoche – Chocolat as Vianne Rocher

• Brenda Blethyn – Saving Grace as Grace Trevethyn

• Sandra Bullock – Miss Congeniality as Gracie Hart

• Tracey Ullman – Small Time Crooks as Frenchy

2001: Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge! as Satine

• Thora Birch – Ghost World as Enid

• Cate Blanchett – Bandits as Kate Wheeler

• Reese Witherspoon – Legally Blonde as Elle Woods

• Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget Jones

2002: Renée Zellweger - Chicago as Roxie Hart

• Maggie Gyllenhaal - Secretary as Lee Holloway

• Goldie Hawn - The Banger Sisters as Suzette

• Nia Vardalos - My Big Fat Greek Wedding as Toula Portokalos

• Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago as Velma Kelly

2003: Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give as Erica Jane Barry

• Jamie Lee Curtis - Freaky Friday as Tess Coleman

• Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation as Charlotte

• Diane Lane - Under the Tuscan Sun as Frances

• Helen Mirren - Calendar Girls as Chris Harper

2004: Annette Bening - Being Julia as Julia Lambert

• Ashley Judd - De-Lovely as Linda Porter

• Emmy Rossum - The Phantom of the Opera as Christine Daaé

• Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Clementine Kruczynski

• Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as Bridget Jones

2005: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line as June Carter †

• Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents as Laura Henderson

• Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice as Elizabeth Bennet

• Laura Linney - The Squid and the Whale as Joan Berkman

• Sarah Jessica Parker - The Family Stone as Meredith Morton

2006: Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada as Miranda Priestly

• Annette Bening - Running with Scissors as Deirdre Burroughs

• Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine as Sheryl Hoover

• Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls as Deena Jones

• Renée Zellweger - Miss Potter as Beatrix Potter

2007: Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose as Édith Piaf †

• Amy Adams - Enchanted as Giselle

• Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray as Tracy Turnblad

• Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Mrs. Lovett

• Ellen Page - Juno as Juno MacGuff

2008: Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky as Pauline "Poppy" Cross

• Rebecca Hall - Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Vicky

• Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading as Linda Litzke

• Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan

• Emma Thompson - Last Chance Harvey'' as Kate Walker

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