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
| Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Producer
|
| 1963
|
Tom Jones |
Tony Richardson |
Michael Balcon, Michael Holden, Oscar Lewenstein, & Tony Richardson
|
| Bye Bye Birdie |
George Sidney |
Irving Brecher & Michael Stewart
|
| Irma la Douce |
Billy Wilder |
Edward L. Alperson, I.A.L. Diamond, Doane Harrison, Alexandre Trauner, & Billy Wilder
|
| It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Stanley Kramer
|
| A Ticklish Affair |
George Sidney |
Joe Pasternak
|
| Under the Yum Yum Tree |
David Swift
|
| 1964
|
My Fair Lady |
George Cukor |
Jack L. Warner
|
| Father Goose |
Ralph Nelson |
Robert Arthur
|
| Mary Poppins |
Robert Stevenson |
Walt Disney & Bill Walsh
|
| The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
Charles Walters |
Lawrence Weingarten
|
| The World of Henry Orient |
George Roy Hill |
Jerome Hellman
|
| 1965
|
The Sound of Music |
Robert Wise
|
| Cat Ballou |
Elliot Silverstein |
Walter Newman
|
| The Great Race |
Blake Edwards |
Martin Jurow
|
| Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines |
Ken Annakin |
Stan Margulies
|
| A Thousand Clowns |
Fred Coe
|
| 1966
|
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
Norman Jewison
|
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
Richard Lester |
Melvin Frank
|
| Gambit |
Ronald Neame |
Leo L. Fuchs
|
| Not with My Wife, You Don't! |
Norman Panama
|
| You're a Big Boy Now |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Phil Feldman
|
| 1967
|
The Graduate |
Mike Nichols |
Joseph E. Levine & Lawrence Turman
|
| Camelot |
Joshua Logan |
Jack Warner
|
| Doctor Dolittle |
Richard Fleischer |
Arthur P. Jacobs
|
| The Taming of the Shrew |
Franco Zeffirelli |
Richard McWhorter & Elizabeth Taylor
|
| Thoroughly Modern Millie |
George Roy Hill |
Ross Hunter
|
| 1968
|
Oliver! |
Carol Reed |
John Woolf
|
| Finian's Rainbow |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Joseph Landon
|
| Funny Girl |
William Wyler |
Ray Stark
|
| The Odd Couple |
Gene Saks |
Howard W. Koch
|
| Yours, Mine and Ours |
Melville Shavelson |
Robert F. Blumofe
|
| 1969
|
The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
Stanley Kramer |
George Glass & Stanley Kramer
|
| Cactus Flower |
Gene Saks |
M.J. Frankovich
|
| Goodbye, Columbus |
Larry Peerce |
Stanley R. Jaffe
|
| Hello, Dolly! |
Gene Kelly |
Ernest Lehman
|
| Paint Your Wagon |
Joshua Logan |
Alan Jay Lerner
|
1970s
