Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance

1959 film directed by Billy Wilder

1998 film by John Madden

2016 film directed by Damien Chazelle

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.

1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

2002 film by Rob Marshall

2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

2001 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

1990 film directed by Garry Marshall

2012 film directed by David O. Russell

1997 film directed by James L. Brooks

1967 film by Mike Nichols

1960 film directed by Billy Wilder

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. The film stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt. It follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway), an aspiring journalist who gets a job at a fashion magazine but finds herself at the mercy of her demanding editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep).

2013 American film directed by David O. Russell

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

2017 film directed by Greta Gerwig

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

1994 film by James Cameron

2018 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity who is fired by her producer due to her age and uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

2005 film by James Mangold

1972 film by Bob Fosse

1996 film directed by Alan Parker

2009 film by Nora Ephron

1984 film by Robert Zemeckis

2014 film by Tim Burton

2011 film directed by Simon Curtis

2015 film directed by David O. Russell

1988 film by Mike Nichols

2021 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1950 film directed by George Cukor

2010 film by Lisa Cholodenko

Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It stars Cher as a widowed Italian American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's hot-tempered, estranged younger brother, played by Nicolas Cage. The supporting cast includes Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, and Danny Aiello.

1968 film by William Wyler

1985 film by John Huston

1977 film directed by Herbert Ross

1954 film by George Cukor

1956 film by Walter Lang

2003 film directed by Nancy Meyers

Victor/Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Tony Adams and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Score.

1973 film directed by Richard Lester

1963 film by Billy Wilder

1976 film directed by Frank Pierson

1995 film by Gus Van Sant

2000 film by Neil LaBute

1980 film by Michael Apted

2004 film directed by Sebastián Szabó

1958 film directed by Morton DaCosta

2019 film directed by Lulu Wang

1973 film by Melvin Frank

1975 film by Ken Russell

1955 American musical film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

2008 film by Mike Leigh

1993 film by Brian Gibson

2020 film by J Blakeson

1983 film by Lewis Gilbert

1979 film by Mark Rydell