Golden Globe Award / Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
Winner and nominee for the Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actress - Comedy or Musical (since 2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy ), which honors the most outstanding acting achievements of the past calendar year. The category was launched in 1951. From 1944 to 1950 the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) awarded an actor's award (Best Actress in a Motion Picture) without subdivision by film genre (see Golden Globe Award / Best Actress - Drama ).
The best comedy or musical actress was later awarded the Oscar 16 times , most recently in 2019 when Olivia Colman was awarded the prize ( The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity ) . In 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1995–1997, 2001, 2009, 2015 and 2020, the award-winning film role was not considered for the Oscar . The 1979 winner for The Crazy California Hotel , Maggie Smith , later won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Role . The rare honor of being nominated for two different film roles in one year was given to the American in 1977Barbara Harris ( Family Grave , A Crazy Friday ).
American actresses have won the Acting Award 56 times (including actresses with dual citizenship such as Ann-Margret and Nicole Kidman ), followed by their colleagues from Great Britain (16 wins). In the past, an actress from German-speaking countries competed in vain for the award: 1960 Lilli Palmer for the English-language production Bei mir nicht . In 2008, the French actress Marion Cotillard ( La vie en rose ), who later won an Oscar, was honored for the first time as an actor in a non-English language film.
statistics | Surname | number | year |
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Most frequent awards | Julie Andrews | 3 | 1965, 1966, 1983 |
Rosalind Russell | 3 | 1959, 1962, 1963 | |
Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Meryl Streep | 10 | 1990, 1991, 1993, 2007 *, 2009, 2010 *, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017 |
Most frequent nominations without a win | Goldie Hawn | 7th | 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 2003 |
The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1950s
Judy Holliday ¹ - She is not from yesterday (Born Yesterday)
- Spring Byington - Age Doesn't Protect From Love (Louisa)
- Betty Hutton - Duel in the Manege (Annie Get Your Gun)
June Allyson - Too young for kissing (Too Young to Kiss)
Susan Hayward - With a Song in My Heart (With a Song in My Heart)
- Katharine Hepburn - Pat and Mike (Pat and Mike)
- Ginger Rogers - Honey, I'm Getting Younger (Monkey Business)
Ethel Merman - Madame Makes History (s) (Call Me Madam)
Judy Garland - A new star in the sky (A Star Is Born)
Jean Simmons - Heavy Boys - Easy Girls (Guys and Dolls)
Deborah Kerr - The King and I (The King and I)
- Judy Holliday - The woman in golden Cadillac (The Solid Gold Cadillac)
- Machiko Kyo - The little tea house (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
- Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop
- Debbie Reynolds - Well, well, Miss Mommy! (Bundle of Joy)
Taina Elg - Die Girls (Les Girls)
Kay Kendall - Die Girls (Les Girls)
- Cyd Charisse - Silk Stockings (Silk Stockings)
- Audrey Hepburn - Ariane - Love in the Afternoon
- Jean Simmons - No Place for Fine Ladies (This Could Be the Night)
Rosalind Russell - The Great Aunt (Auntie Mame)
- Ingrid Bergman - Indiscreet (Indiscreet)
- Leslie Caron - Gigi
- Doris Day - Babies to Order (The Tunnel of Love)
- Mitzi Gaynor - South Pacific
1960s
Marilyn Monroe - Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot)
- Dorothy Dandridge - Porgy and Bess (Porgy and Bess)
- Doris Day - Pillow Talk (Pillow Talk)
- Shirley MacLaine - Always The Darn Women (Ask Any Girl)
- Lilli Palmer - With me not (But Not for Me)
Shirley MacLaine - The Apartment (The Apartment)
- Lucille Ball - Such An Affair (The Facts of Life)
- Capucine - Few Are Chosen (Song Without End)
- Judy Holliday - just give us a call - come into the house (Bells Are Ringing)
- Sophia Loren - It Started in Naples (It Started in Naples)
Rosalind Russell - 1000 Miles to Yokohama (A Majority of One)
- Bette Davis - The Lower Ten Thousand (Pocketful of Miracles)
- Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
- Hayley Mills - Announcing Her Parents' Wedding (The Parent Trap)
- Miyoshi Umeki - Almond Eyes and Lotus Blossoms (Flower Drum Song)
Rosalind Russell - Gypsy - Queen of the Night (Gypsy)
- Doris Day - Play With Me (Billy Rose's Jumbo)
- Jane Fonda - time adjusting (Period of Adjustment)
- Shirley Jones - Music Man (The Music Man)
- Natalie Wood - Gypsy - Queen of the Night (Gypsy)
Shirley MacLaine - The Girl Irma la Douce (Irma la Douce)
- Ann-Margret - Bye Bye Birdie
- Doris Day - One Too Many In Bed (Move Over, Darling)
- Audrey Hepburn - Charade
- Hayley Mills - Summer Magic
- Molly Picon - If My Bedroom Could Talk (Come Blow Your Horn)
- Jill St. John - If My Bedroom Could Talk (Come Blow Your Horn)
- Joanne Woodward - A New Kind of Love (A New Kind of Love)
Julie Andrews¹ - Mary Poppins
- Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady
- Sophia Loren - Wedding in Italian (Matrimonio all'italiana)
- Melina Mercouri - Topkapi
- Debbie Reynolds - Gold Digger-Molly (The Unsinkable Molly Brown)
1966
Julie Andrews - My Songs - My Dreams (The Sound of Music)
- Jane Fonda - Cat Ballou - You should hang in Wyoming (Cat Ballou)
- Barbara Harris - Thousand Clowns (A Thousand Clowns)
- Rita Tushingham - The Knack (The Knack)
- Natalie Wood - Damn, Sweet World (Inside Daisy Clover)
1967
- Jane Fonda - Every Wednesday (Any Wednesday)
- Elizabeth Hartman - Big Boy - You're a Big Boy Now
- Shirley MacLaine - The Girl from the Cherry Bar (Gambit)
- Vanessa Redgrave - Protest (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment)
1968
Anne Bancroft - The Graduate (The Graduate)
- Julie Andrews - Modern Millie (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
- Audrey Hepburn - Two for the Road (Two for the Road)
- Shirley MacLaine - Woman Times Seven (Woman Times Seven)
- Vanessa Redgrave - Camelot - At the court of King Arthur (Camelot)
1969
Barbra Streisand¹ - Funny Girl
- Julie Andrews - Star!
- Lucille Ball - Yours, Mine and Ours (Yours, Mine and Ours)
- Petula Clark - The Golden Rainbow (Finian's Rainbow)
- Gina Lollobrigida - Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1970s
1970
Patty Duke - Me, Natalie (Me, Natalie)
- Ingrid Bergman - The Cactus Flower
- Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
- Kim Darby - Generation
- Mia Farrow - John and Mary (John and Mary)
- Shirley MacLaine - Sweet Charity
- Anna Magnani - The Secret of Santa Vittoria (The Secret of Santa Vittoria)
- Barbra Streisand - Hello, Dolly!
1971
Carrie Snodgress - Diary of adultery (Diary of a Mad Housewife)
- Julie Andrews - Darling Lili
- Sandy Dennis - Never Again New York (The Out of Towners)
- Angela Lansbury - Something for Everyone
- Barbra Streisand - The Owl and the Pussycat (The Owl and the Pussycat)
1972
Twiggy - Boyfriend (The Boy Friend)
- Sandy Duncan - Star Spangled Girl
- Ruth Gordon - Harold and Maude (Harold and Maude)
- Angela Lansbury - The Daredevil Witch in Her Flying Bed (Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
- Elaine May - Nobody Kills As Badly As I Do (A New Leaf)
1973
- Carol Burnett - Peter and Tillie (Pete 'n' Tillie)
- Goldie Hawn - Butterflies Are Free (Butterflies Are Free)
- Juliet Mills - Avanti, Avanti! (Avanti!)
- Maggie Smith - Travels with My Aunt (Travels with My Aunt)
1974
Glenda Jackson¹ - Man, you are great! (A Touch of Class)
- Yvonne Elliman - Jesus Christ Superstar
- Cloris Leachman - Charley and the Angel (Charley and the Angel)
- Tatum O'Neal² - Paper Moon
- Liv Ullmann - Forty Carats (40 Carats)
1975
Raquel Welch - The Three Musketeers (The Three Musketeers)
- Lucille Ball - Mame
- Diahann Carroll - Claudine
- Helen Hayes - Herbie Rides Again (Herbie Rides Again)
- Cloris Leachman - Frankenstein Junior (Young Frankenstein)
- Julie Christie - Shampoo
- Goldie Hawn - shampoo
- Liza Minnelli - Adventurer on the Lucky Lady (Lucky Lady)
- Barbra Streisand - Funny Lady
1977
Barbra Streisand - A Star Is Born (A Star Is Born)
- Jodie Foster - Freaky Friday (Freaky Friday)
- Barbara Harris - family grave (Family Plot)
- Barbara Harris - Freaky Friday (Freaky Friday)
- Goldie Hawn - Who likes to swallow blue beans? (The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox)
- Rita Moreno - The killer lurks in the sauna (The Ritz)
1978
Diane Keaton¹ - The Urban Neurotic (Annie Hall)
Marsha Mason - The Subtenant (The Goodbye Girl)
- Sally Field - Smokey and the Bandit (Smokey and the Bandit)
- Liza Minnelli - New York, New York
- Lily Tomlin - The Cat Knows the Killer (The Late Show)
1979
Ellen Burstyn - Next Year (Same Time, Next Year)
Maggie Smith² - The Crazy California Hotel (California Suite)
- Jacqueline Bisset - Die Schlemmer-Orgy (Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?)
- Goldie Hawn - A Very Crooked Tour (Foul Play)
- Olivia Newton-John - Grease
1980s
1980
- Julie Andrews - Ten - The Dream Woman (10)
- Jill Clayburgh - Many happy returns (Starting Over)
- Shirley MacLaine - Welcome Mr. Chance (Being There)
- Marsha Mason - The second chapter (Chapter Two)
1981
Sissy Spacek ¹ - Nashville Lady (Coal Miner's Daughter)
- Irene Cara - Fame - The Road to Fame (Fame)
- Goldie Hawn - Sagittarius Benjamin (Private Benjamin)
- Bette Midler - Divine Madness (Divine Madness!)
- Dolly Parton - Why actually ... don't we kill the boss? (Nine to Five)
1982
Bernadette Peters - Dance in the Clouds (Pennies from Heaven)
- Blair Brown - Two like a cat and a mouse (Continental Divide)
- Jill Clayburgh - A Monday in October (First Monday in October)
- Liza Minnelli - Arthur - No Child of Sadness (Arthur)
- Carol Burnett - Four Seasons (The Four Seasons)
1983
Julie Andrews - Victor / Victoria (Victor Victoria)
- Carol Burnett - Annie
- Sally Field - From Hereafter (Kiss Me Goodbye)
- Goldie Hawn - Two close friends (Best Friends)
- Dolly Parton - The most beautiful House of Pleasure in Texas (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
- Aileen Quinn - Annie
1984
Julie Walters - Rita finally wants to know (Educating Rita)
- Anne Bancroft - To be or not (To Be or Not To Be)
- Jennifer Beals - Flashdance
- Linda Ronstadt - The Pirates of Penzance ( The Pirates of Penzance )
- Barbra Streisand - Yentl
1985
Kathleen Turner - The Hunt for the Green Diamond (Romancing the Stone)
- Anne Bancroft - The Divine (Garbo Talks)
- Mia Farrow - Broadway Danny Rose
- Shelley Long - Triple Trouble (Irreconcilable Differences)
- Lily Tomlin - Solo for 2 (All of Me)
Kathleen Turner - Prizzi's Honor (The Prizzi's Honor)
- Rosanna Arquette - Susan ... Desperately Seeking Susan
- Glenn Close - Maxie
- Mia Farrow - The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Sally Field - The Second Choice - A Romance (Murphy's Romance)
Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart (Crimes of the Heart)
- Julie Andrews - That's Life! That's life (That's Life!)
- Melanie Griffith - Dangerous Girlfriend (Something Wild)
- Bette Midler - Zoff in Beverly Hills (Down and Out in Beverly Hills)
- Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married (Peggy Sue Got Married)
Cher ¹ - Mondsüchtig (Moonstruck)
- Jennifer Gray - Dirty Dancing
- Holly Hunter - News Fever (Broadcast News)
- Diane Keaton - Baby Boom - Baby Boom
- Bette Midler - Nothing But Trouble With The Guy (Outrageous Fortune)
Melanie Griffith - The Weapons of Women (Working Girl)
- Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda)
- Amy Irving - Sarah and Sam (Crossing Delancey)
- Michelle Pfeiffer - The Mafiosi Bride (Married to the Mob)
- Susan Sarandon - Annie's Men (Bill Durham)
1990s
Jessica Tandy ¹ - Miss Daisy and her chauffeur (Driving Miss Daisy)
- Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine - Goodbye, My Dear Man (Shirley Valentine)
- Meg Ryan - Harry and Sally (When Harry Met Sally ...)
- Meryl Streep - The She-Devil
- Kathleen Turner - War of the Roses (The War of the Roses)
- Mia Farrow - Alice
- Andie MacDowell - Green Card - Sham marriage with obstacles (Green Card)
- Demi Moore - Ghost - Message from Sam (Ghost)
- Meryl Streep - Greetings from Hollywood (Postcards from the Edge)
Bette Midler - For the Boys - Days of Glory, Days of Love (For the Boys)
- Ellen Barkin - Switch - The Woman in the Man (Switch)
- Kathy Bates - green tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes)
- Anjelica Huston - Addams Family (The Addams Family)
- Michelle Pfeiffer - Frankie & Johnny (Frankie and Johnny)
Miranda Richardson - Enchanted April (Enchanted April)
- Geena Davis - A League of Their Own (A League of Their Own)
- Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Act - A Heavenly Career (Sister Act)
- Shirley MacLaine - Die Herbstzeitlosen (Used People)
- Meryl Streep - Death Becomes Her (Death Becomes Her)
Angela Bassett - Tina - What's Love Got to Do with It? (What's Love Got to Do with It)
- Stockard Channing - Das Leben - A Six Degrees of Separation
- Anjelica Huston - The Addams Family in Crazy Tradition (Addams Family Values)
- Diane Keaton - Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Meg Ryan - Sleepless in Seattle (Sleepless in Seattle)
Jamie Lee Curtis - True Lies (True Lies)
- Geena Davis - Speechless (Speechless)
- Andie MacDowell - Four Weddings and a Funeral (Four Weddings and a Funeral)
- Shirley MacLaine - Tess and Her Bodyguard (Guarding Tess)
- Emma Thompson - Junior
- Annette Bening - Hello, Mr. President (The American President)
- Sandra Bullock - While You Were Sleeping (While You Were Sleeping)
- Toni Collette - Muriel's Wedding (Muriel's Wedding)
- Vanessa Redgrave - A Month by the Lake (A Month by the Lake)
- Glenn Close - 101 Dalmatians (101 Dalmatians)
- Frances McDormand¹ - Fargo
- Debbie Reynolds - Mother
- Barbra Streisand - Love Has Two Faces (The Mirror Has Two Faces)
Helen Hunt ¹ - Good As It Gets (As Good as It Gets)
- Joey Lauren Adams - Chasing Amy
- Pam Grier - Jackie Brown
- Jennifer Lopez - Selena - An American Dream (Selena)
- Julia Roberts - The Best Friend's Wedding (My Best Friend's Wedding)
Gwyneth Paltrow¹ - Shakespeare in Love
- Cameron Diaz - Mad About Mary (There's Something About Mary)
- Jane Horrocks - Little Voice
- Christina Ricci - The Opposite of Sex (The Opposite of Sex)
- Meg Ryan - em @ il for you (You've Got Mail)
2000s
- Julianne Moore - A Perfect Husband (To Ideal Husband)
- Julia Roberts - Notting Hill
- Sharon Stone - The Muse (The Muse)
- Reese Witherspoon - Election
- Juliette Binoche - Chocolat - A small bite is enough (Chocolat)
- Brenda Blethyn - Saving Grace (Saving Grace)
- Sandra Bullock - Miss Undercover (Miss Congeniality)
- Tracey Ullman - Small Time Crooks (Small Time Crooks)
Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge ( Moulin Rouge! )
- Thora Birch - Ghost World
- Cate Blanchett - Bandits! (Bandits)
- Reese Witherspoon - Legally Blonde (Legally Blonde)
- Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast (Bridget Jones's Diary)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal - Secretary
- Goldie Hawn - Groupies Forever (The Banger Sisters)
- Nia Vardalos - My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Wedding in Greek ( My Big Fat Greek Wedding )
- Catherine Zeta- Jones² - Chicago
Diane Keaton - Something's Gotta Give (Something's Gotta Give)
- Jamie Lee Curtis - Freaky Friday (Freaky Friday)
- Diane Lane - Under the Tuscan Sun (Under the Tuscan Sun)
- Scarlett Johansson - Lost in Translation
- Helen Mirren - Calendar Girls (Calendar Girls)
- Ashley Judd - De-Lovely - The Cole Porter Story (De-Lovely)
- Emmy Rossum - The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)
- Kate Winslet - Forget Mine Don't! (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jones - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Reese Witherspoon¹ - Walk the Line
- Judi Dench - Lady Henderson Presents (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
- Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice (Pride & Prejudice)
- Laura Linney - The Squid and the Whale (The Squid and the Whale)
- Sarah Jessica Parker - The Stone Family - No Engagements! (The Family Stone)
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada)
- Annette Bening - Krass (Running with Scissors)
- Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine
- Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls
- Renée Zellweger - Miss Potter
Marion Cotillard ¹ - La vie en rose (La Môme)
- Amy Adams - Enchanted (Enchanted)
- Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray
- Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd - The Devil Barber of Fleet Street (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
- Ellen Page - Juno
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
- Rebecca Hall - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading - Who's Burning Their Fingers Here? ( Burn After Reading )
- Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!
- Emma Thompson - Love At Second Sight ( Last Chance Harvey )
2010s
- Sandra Bullock - Itself is the Bride (The Proposal)
- Marion Cotillard - Nine
- Julia Roberts - Duplicity - Shared Secret Matter (Duplicity)
- Meryl Streep - If Love Was That Simple (It's Complicated)
Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right
- Anne Hathaway - Love and Other Drugs - Side Effects Included (Love and Other Drugs)
- Angelina Jolie - The Tourist
- Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right
- Emma Stone - Easy A (Easy A)
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
- Jodie Foster - The God of Slaughter (Carnage)
- Charlize Theron - Young Adult
- Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids (Bridesmaids)
- Kate Winslet - The God of Slaughter (Carnage)
Jennifer Lawrence ¹ - Silver Linings (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Emily Blunt - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)
- Judi Dench - Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)
- Maggie Smith - Quartet (Quartet)
- Meryl Streep - Like the first time (Hope Springs)
- Julie Delpy - Before Midnight
- Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Enough said (Enough Said)
- Meryl Streep - In August in Osage County (August: Osage County)
- Emily Blunt - Into the Woods
- Helen Mirren - Madame Mallory and the Scent of Curry (The Hundred-Foot Journey)
- Julianne Moore - Maps to the Stars
- Quvenzhané Wallis - Annie
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy - Anything but Ordinary (Joy)
- Melissa McCarthy - Spy - Susan Cooper Undercover (Spy)
- Amy Schumer - Dating Queen (Trainwreck)
- Lily Tomlin - Grandma
- Maggie Smith - The Lady in the Van
Emma Stone¹ - La La Land
- Annette Bening - Century Women (20th Century Women)
- Lily Collins - rules do not matter (Rules Do not Apply)
- Hailee Steinfeld - The Edge of Seventeen - The Year of Decision (The Edge of Seventeen)
- Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
- Judi Dench - Victoria & Abdul
- Helen Mirren - The Glow of Memory (The Leisure Seeker)
- Margot Robbie - I, Tonya
- Emma Stone - Battle of the Sexes - The Titans (Battle of the Sexes)
Olivia Colman¹ - The Favorite - Intrigue and Madness (The Favorite)
- Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins' return (Mary Poppins Returns)
- Elsie Fisher - Eighth Grade
- Charlize Theron - Tully
- Constance Wu - Crazy Rich (Crazy Rich Asians)
2020s
- Ana de Armas - Knives Out - Murder is a family matter (Knives Out)
- Cate Blanchett - Bernadette (Where'd You Go, Bernadette?)
- Beanie Feldstein - Booksmart
- Emma Thompson - Late Night
¹ = actresses who later won the Oscar for Best Actress of the Year for their role .
² = Actresses who later won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress of the Year for their role .