# Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

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. 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. 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."
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.

## Winners and nominations
### 1951–1957

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 1951 | An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed |
| 1952 | With a Song in My Heart | Walter Lang | Lamar Trotti |
| 1952 | Hans Christian Andersen | Charles Vidor | Samuel Goldwyn |
| 1952 | I'll See You in My Dreams | Michael Curtiz | Louis F. Edelman |
| 1952 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly | Arthur Freed |
| 1952 | Stars and Stripes Forever | Henry Koster | Lamar Trotti |
| 1953 | No Award given. | No Award given. | No Award given. |
| 1954 | Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | Otto Preminger |
| 1955 | Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Samuel Goldwyn |
| 1956 | The King and I | Walter Lang | Charles Brackett & Darryl F. Zanuck |
| 1956 | Bus Stop | Joshua Logan | Buddy Adler |
| 1956 | The Opposite Sex | David Miller | Joe Pasternak |
| 1956 | The Solid Gold Cadillac | Richard Quine | Fred Kohlmar |
| 1956 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | Daniel Mann | Jack Cummings |
| 1957 | Les Girls | George Cukor | Saul Chaplin & Sol C. Siegel |
| 1957 | Don't Go Near the Water | Charles Walters | Lawrence Weingarten |
| 1957 | Love in the Afternoon | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder |
| 1957 | Pal Joey | George Sidney | Fred Kohlmar |
| 1957 | Silk Stockings | Rouben Mamoulian | Arthur Freed |

### 1958–1962

| Year | Comedy | Director | Producer | Musical | Director | Producer |
| 1958 | Auntie Mame | Morton DaCosta | Morton DaCosta | Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed |
| 1958 | Bell, Book and Candle | Richard Quine | Julian Blaustein | Damn Yankees | George Abbott & Stanley Donen | George Abbott, Stanley Donen, Robert E. Griffith, & Harold Prince |
| 1958 | Indiscreet | Stanley Donen | Norman Krasna | South Pacific | Joshua Logan | Buddy Adler |
| 1958 | Me and the Colonel | Peter Glenville | William Goetz | tom thumb | George Pal | George Pal |
| 1958 | The Perfect Furlough | Blake Edwards | Robert Arthur | tom thumb | George Pal | George Pal |
| 1959 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | Porgy and Bess | Otto Preminger | Samuel Goldwyn |
| 1959 | But Not for Me | Walter Lang | William Perlberg & George Seaton | The Five Pennies | Melville Shavelson | Jack Rose |
| 1959 | Operation Petticoat | Blake Edwards | Robert Arthur | Li'l Abner | Melvin Frank | Norman Panama |
| 1959 | Pillow Talk | Michael Gordon | Ross Hunter & Martin Melcher | A Private's Affair | Raoul Walsh | David Weisbart |
| 1959 | Who Was That Lady? | George Sidney | Norman Krasna | Say One for Me | Frank Tashlin | Frank Tashlin |
| 1960 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | Song Without End | George Cukor & Charles Vidor | William Goetz |
| 1960 | The Facts of Life | Melvin Frank & Norman Panama | Melvin Frank & Norman Panama | Bells Are Ringing | Vincente Minnelli | Arthur Freed |
| 1960 | The Grass Is Greener | Stanley Donen | Stanley Donen & James H. Ware | Can-Can | Walter Lang | Saul Chaplin & Jack Cummings |
| 1960 | It Started in Naples | Melville Shavelson | Jack Rose | Let's Make Love | George Cukor | Jerry Wald |
| 1960 | Our Man in Havana | Carol Reed | Carol Reed | Pepe | George Sidney | George Sidney |
| 1961 | A Majority of One | Mervyn LeRoy | Mervyn LeRoy | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise | Robert Wise |
| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | Martin Jurow & Richard Shepherd | Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue | Walt Disney |
| 1961 | One, Two, Three | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | | Babes in Toyland | Jack Donohue | Walt Disney |
| 1961 | The Parent Trap | David Swift | Walt Disney & George Golitzen | Flower Drum Song | Henry Koster | Ross Hunter |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles | Frank Capra | Frank Capra | | Flower Drum Song | Henry Koster | Ross Hunter |
| 1962 | That Touch of Mink | Delbert Mann | Robert Arthur, Martin Melcher, Edward Muhl, & Stanley Shapiro | The Music Man | Morton DaCosta | Morton DaCosta |
| 1962 | The Best of Enemies | Guy Hamilton | Dino De Laurentiis | Billy Rose's Jumbo | Charles Walters | Martin Melcher & Joe Pasternak |
| 1962 | Boys' Night Out | Michael Gordon | Martin Ransohoff | Girls! Girls! Girls! | Norman Taurog | Hal B. Wallis |
| 1962 | If a Man Answers | Henry Levin | Ross Hunter | Gypsy | Mervyn LeRoy | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 1962 | Period of Adjustment | George Roy Hill | Lawrence Weingarten | The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | Henry Levin & George Pal | George Pal |

### 1963–1969

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

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 1970 | MASH | Robert Altman | Ingo Preminger |
| 1970 | Darling Lili | Blake Edwards | Blake Edwards |
| 1970 | Diary of a Mad Housewife | Frank Perry | Frank Perry |
| 1970 | Lovers and Other Strangers | Cy Howard | David Susskind |
| 1970 | Scrooge | Ronald Neame | Robert H. Solo |
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Norman Jewison | Norman Jewison |
| 1971 | The Boy Friend | Ken Russell | Harry Benn & Ken Russell |
| 1971 | Kotch | Jack Lemmon | Richard Carter |
| 1971 | A New Leaf | Elaine May | Hillard Elkins |
| 1971 | Plaza Suite | Arthur Hiller | Howard W. Koch |
| 1972 | Cabaret | Bob Fosse | Cy Feuer |
| 1972 | Avanti! | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder |
| 1972 | Butterflies Are Free | Milton Katselas | M.J. Frankovich |
| 1972 | 1776 | Peter H. Hunt | Jack Warner |
| 1972 | Travels with My Aunt | George Cukor | James Cresson & Robert Fryer |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola & Gary Kurtz |
| 1973 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Norman Jewison | Norman Jewison, Patrick Palmer, & Robert Stigwood |
| 1973 | Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | Peter Bogdanovich & Frank Marshall |
| 1973 | Tom Sawyer | Don Taylor | Frank Capra Jr. & Arthur P. Jacobs |
| 1973 | A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank | Melvin Frank |
| 1974 | The Longest Yard | Robert Aldrich | Albert S. Ruddy |
| 1974 | The Front Page | Billy Wilder | Paul Monash |
| 1974 | Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky | Paul Mazursky |
| 1974 | The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | Stanley Donen |
| 1974 | The Three Musketeers | Richard Lester | Alexander Salkind, Ilya Salkind, & Pierre Spengler |
| 1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Herbert Ross | Ray Stark |
| 1975 | Funny Lady | Herbert Ross | Ray Stark |
| 1975 | The Return of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | Blake Edwards |
| 1975 | Shampoo | Hal Ashby | Warren Beatty |
| 1975 | Tommy | Ken Russell | Ken Russell & Robert Stigwood |
| 1976 | A Star Is Born | Frank Pierson | Jon Peters |
| 1976 | Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | Alan Marshall |
| 1976 | The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Blake Edwards | Blake Edwards |
| 1976 | The Ritz | Richard Lester | Denis O'Dell |
| 1976 | Silent Movie | Mel Brooks | Michael Hertzberg |
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | Ray Stark |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Charles H. Joffe |
| 1977 | High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks |
| 1977 | New York, New York | Martin Scorsese | Robert Chartoff & Irwin Winkler |
| 1977 | Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | Robert Stigwood |
| 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty & Buck Henry | Warren Beatty |
| 1978 | California Suite | Herbert Ross | Ray Stark |
| 1978 | Foul Play | Colin Higgins | Edward K. Milkins & Thomas L. Miller |
| 1978 | Grease | Randal Kleiser | Allan Carr & Robert Stigwood |
| 1978 | Movie Movie | Stanley Donen | Stanley Donen |
| 1979 | Breaking Away | Peter Yates | Steve Tesich |
| 1979 | Being There | Hal Ashby | Andrew Braunsberg |
| 1979 | Hair | Miloš Forman | Michael Butler & Lester Persky |
| 1979 | The Rose | Mark Rydell | Anthony Ray, Aaron Russo, & Marvin Worth |
| 1979 | 10 | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams & Blake Edwards |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | Bernard Schwartz |
| 1980 | Airplane! | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker | Jon Davison & Howard W. Koch |
| 1980 | Fame | Alan Parker | David De Silva & Alan Marshall |
| 1980 | The Idolmaker | Taylor Hackford | Gene Kirkwood & Howard W. Koch Jr. |
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | Art Linson & Don Phillips |
| 1981 | Arthur | Steve Gordon | Steve Gordon |
| 1981 | The Four Seasons | Alan Alda | Martin Bregman |
| 1981 | Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | Nora Kaye, Rick McCallum, & Herbert Ross |
| 1981 | S.O.B. | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams & Blake Edwards |
| 1981 | Zoot Suit | Luis Valdez | Peter Burrell |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack & Dick Richards |
| 1982 | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Colin Higgins | Robert L. Boyett & Colin Higgins |
| 1982 | Diner | Barry Levinson | Jerry Weintraub |
| 1982 | My Favorite Year | Richard Benjamin | Michael Gruskoff |
| 1982 | Victor Victoria | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams & Blake Edwards |
| 1983 | Yentl | Barbra Streisand | Larry DeWaay, Rusty Lemorande, & Barbra Streisand |
| 1983 | The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan | Michael Shamberg |
| 1983 | Flashdance | Adrian Lyne | Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson |
| 1983 | Trading Places | John Landis | George Folsey Jr., Aaron Russo, Irwin Russo, & Sam Williams |
| 1983 | Zelig | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| 1984 | Romancing the Stone | Robert Zemeckis | Michael Douglas |
| 1984 | Beverly Hills Cop | Martin Brest | Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Bernie Brillstein & Ivan Reitman |
| 1984 | Micki + Maude | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams, Lou Antonio, Trish Caroselli, & Jonathan D. Krane |
| 1984 | Splash | Ron Howard | Brian Grazer |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | John Foreman |
| 1985 | Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Neil Canton & Bob Gale |
| 1985 | A Chorus Line | Richard Attenborough | Cy Feuer |
| 1985 | Cocoon | Ron Howard | David Brown & Richard D. Zanuck |
| 1985 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| 1986 | Crimes of the Heart | Bruce Beresford | Freddie Fields |
| 1986 | Crocodile Dundee | Peter Faiman | John Cornell |
| 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Paul Mazursky | Pato Guzman & Paul Mazursky |
| 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors | Frank Oz | David Geffen |
| 1986 | Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Paul R. Gurian |
| 1987 | Hope and Glory | John Boorman | John Boorman & Michael Dryhurst |
| 1987 | Baby Boom | Charles Shyer | Bruce A. Block & Nancy Meyers |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | James L. Brooks |
| 1987 | Dirty Dancing | Emile Ardolino | Linda Gottlieb |
| 1987 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | Norman Jewison |
| 1988 | Working Girl | Mike Nichols | Douglas Wick |
| 1988 | Big | Penny Marshall | James L. Brooks & Robert Greenhut |
| 1988 | A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | Michael Shamberg |
| 1988 | Midnight Run | Martin Brest | Martin Brest |
| 1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | Frank Marshall & Robert Watts |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | Lili Fini Zanuck & Richard D. Zanuck |
| 1989 | The Little Mermaid | Ron Clements & John Musker | Howard Ashman & John Musker |
| 1989 | Shirley Valentine | Lewis Gilbert | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1989 | The War of the Roses | Danny DeVito | James L. Brooks & Arnon Milchan |
| 1989 | When Harry Met Sally... | Rob Reiner | Rob Reiner & Andrew Scheinman |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 1990 | Green Card | Peter Weir | Peter Weir |
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty |
| 1990 | Ghost | Jerry Zucker | Steven-Charles Jaffe, Lauren Ray, & Bruce Joel Rubin |
| 1990 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | John Hughes |
| 1990 | Pretty Woman | Garry Marshall | Laura Ziskin |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise | Don Hahn |
| 1991 | City Slickers | Ron Underwood | Billy Crystal & Irby Smith |
| 1991 | The Commitments | Alan Parker | Lynda Myles & Roger Randall-Cutler |
| 1991 | The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | Debra Hill, Tony Mark, & Lynda Obst |
| 1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Jon Avnet | Jon Avnet & Norman Lear |
| 1992 | The Player | Robert Altman | David Brown, Michael Tolkin, & Nick Wechsler |
| 1992 | Aladdin | Ron Clements & John Musker | Ron Clements & John Musker |
| 1992 | Enchanted April | Mike Newell | Matthew Hamilton, Simon Relph, Ann Scott, & Mark Shivas |
| 1992 | Honeymoon in Vegas | Andrew Bergman | Mike Lobell |
| 1992 | Sister Act | Emile Ardolino | Scott Rudin & Teri Schwartz |
| 1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | Marsha Garces, Robin Williams & Mark Radcliffe |
| 1993 | Dave | Ivan Reitman | Ivan Reitman & Lauren Shuler Donner |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Evans, & David Parfitt |
| 1993 | Sleepless in Seattle | Nora Ephron | Gary Foster |
| 1993 | Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | Antoinette Albert & Tristram Miall |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff | Don Hahn |
| 1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Stephan Elliott | Al Clark & Michael Hamlyn |
| 1994 | Ed Wood | Tim Burton | Tim Burton & Denise Di Novi |
| 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | Duncan Kenworthy |
| 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Robert Altman | Robert Altman & Scott Bushnell |
| 1995 | Babe | Chris Noonan | Catherine Barber, Philip Hearnshaw, Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell, & Daphne Paris |
| 1995 | The American President | Rob Reiner | Barbara Maltby, Charles Newirth, Rob Reiner, & Jeffrey Stott |
| 1995 | Get Shorty | Barry Sonnenfeld | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher |
| 1995 | Sabrina | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack & Scott Rudin |
| 1995 | Toy Story | John Lasseter | Bonnie Arnold & Ralph Guggenheim |
| 1996 | Evita | Alan Parker | Alan Parker & Robert Stigwood |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | Marcello Danon, Michele Imperato, Neal Machlis, & Mike Nichols |
| 1996 | Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| 1996 | Fargo | Joel Coen | Ethan Coen |
| 1996 | Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Laurence Mark, & Richard Sakai |
| 1997 | As Good as It Gets | James L. Brooks | James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, & Kristi Zea |
| 1997 | The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | Uberto Pasolini |
| 1997 | Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, & Steven Spielberg |
| 1997 | My Best Friend's Wedding | P.J. Hogan | Jerry Zucker, Ronald Bass, Gil Netter, & Patricia Whitcher |
| 1997 | Wag the Dog | Barry Levinson | Barry Levinson & Robert De Niro |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, & Edward Zwick |
| 1998 | Bulworth | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty & Pieter Jan Brugge |
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Martin Campbell | Doug Claybourne & David Foster |
| 1998 | Patch Adams | Tom Shadyac | Mike Farrell, Barry Kemp, Marvin Minoff, & Charles Newirth |
| 1998 | Still Crazy | Brian Gibson | Amanda Marmot |
| 1998 | There's Something About Mary | Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly | Frank Beddor, Michael Steinberg, Bradley Thomas & Charles B. Wessler |
| 1999 | Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | Karen Robert Jackson & Helene Plotkin |
| 1999 | Analyze This | Harold Ramis | Jane Rosenthal & Paula Weinstein |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | Steve Golin, Vincent Landay, Sandy Stern, & Michael Stipe |
| 1999 | Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | Danny DeVito |
| 1999 | Notting Hill | Roger Michell | Duncan Kenworthy |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 2000 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | Ian Bryce & Cameron Crowe |
| 2000 | Best in Show | Christopher Guest | Gordon Mark & Karen Murphy |
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Peter Lord & Nick Park | Peter Lord, Nick Park, & David Sproxton |
| 2000 | Chocolat | Lasse Hallström | Harvey Weinstein |
| 2000 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel Coen | Tim Bevan, Ethan Coen, & Eric Fellner |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | Fred Baron, Martin Brown, & Baz Luhrmann |
| 2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Sharon Maguire | Tim Bevan, Jonathan Cavendish, & Eric Fellner |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Robert Altman | Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, & David Levy |
| 2001 | Legally Blonde | Robert Luketic | Ric Kidney & Marc E. Platt |
| 2001 | Shrek | Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson | Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner, & John H. Williams |
| 2002 | Chicago | Rob Marshall | Meryl Poster, Martin Richards, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, & Craig Zadan |
| 2002 | About a Boy | Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz | Tim Bevan, Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Eric Fellner, & Jane Rosenthal |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Spike Jonze | Jonathan Demme, Vincent Landay, & Edward Saxon |
| 2002 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Joel Zwick | Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, & Rita Wilson |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby | Douglas McGrath | Simon Channing-Williams, John Hart, & Jeffrey Sharp |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | Sofia Coppola & Ross Katz |
| 2003 | Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | Gurinder Chadha & Deepak Nayar |
| 2003 | Big Fish | Tim Burton | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, & Richard D. Zanuck |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton | Graham Walters |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, & Duncan Kenworthy |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne | Michael London |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | Anthony Bregman & Steve Golin |
| 2004 | The Incredibles | Brad Bird | John Walker |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Joel Schumacher | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| 2004 | Ray | Taylor Hackford | Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Stuart Benjamin, & Taylor Hackford |
| 2005 | Walk the Line | James Mangold | James Keach & Cathy Konrad |
| 2005 | Mrs Henderson Presents | Stephen Frears | Norma Heyman |
| 2005 | Pride & Prejudice | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, & Paul Webster |
| 2005 | The Producers | Susan Stroman | Mel Brooks |
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | Wes Anderson |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Bill Condon | Laurence Mark |
| 2006 | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Larry Charles | Sacha Baron Cohen & Jay Roach |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | David Frankel | Wendy Finerman & Karen Rosenfelt |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris | Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, & Ron Yerxa |
| 2006 | Thank You for Smoking | Jason Reitman | Edward R. Pressman & David O. Sacks |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tim Burton | John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, & Richard D. Zanuck |
| 2007 | Across the Universe | Julie Taymor | Charles Newirth, Jennifer Todd, & Suzanne Todd |
| 2007 | Charlie Wilson's War | Mike Nichols | Tom Hanks |
| 2007 | Hairspray | Adam Shankman | Toby Emmerich, Neil Meron, Marc Shaiman, Adam Shankman, Bob Shaye, Scott Wittman, & Craig Zadan |
| 2007 | Juno | Jason Reitman | Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, & Russell Smith |
| 2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Woody Allen | Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum, & Gareth Wiley |
| 2008 | Burn After Reading | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2008 | Happy-Go-Lucky | Mike Leigh | Simon Channing-Williams |
| 2008 | In Bruges | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent & Peter Czernin |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Phyllida Lloyd | Benny Andersson, Judy Craymer, Tom Hanks, Phyllida Lloyd, Björn Ulvaeus, & Rita Wilson |
| 2009 | The Hangover | Todd Phillips | Daniel Goldberg & Todd Phillips |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | Marc Webb | Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, & Steven J. Wolfe |
| 2009 | It's Complicated | Nancy Meyers | Nancy Meyers & Scott Rudin |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Nora Ephron | Nora Ephron, Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, & Eric Steel |
| 2009 | Nine | Rob Marshall | John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Marc Platt, Harvey Weinstein, & Maury Yeston |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko | Gary Gilbert, Jeff Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray |
| 2010 | Alice in Wonderland | Tim Burton | Richard D. Zanuck, Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd, and Jennifer Todd |
| 2010 | Burlesque | Steven Antin | Donald De Line |
| 2010 | Red | Robert Schwentke | Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian |
| 2010 | The Tourist | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Graham King, Timothy Headington, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, and Jonathan Glickman |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | Thomas Langmann |
| 2011 | 50/50 | Jonathan Levine | Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin, and Seth Rogen |
| 2011 | Bridesmaids | Paul Feig | Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen | Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, and Stephen Tenenbaum |
| 2011 | My Week with Marilyn | Simon Curtis | David Parfitt and Harvey Weinstein |
| 2012 | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh |
| 2012 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | John Madden | Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin |
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | Jeremy Dawson, Scott Rudin, Wes Anderson, and Steven Rales |
| 2012 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | Lasse Hallström | Paul Webster |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | Bruce Cohen and Donna Gigliotti |
| 2013 | American Hustle | David O. Russell | Charles Roven, Megan Ellison, Richard Suckle, and Jonathan Gordon |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze | Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, and Vincent Landay |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Alexander Payne | Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Riza Aziz, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Joey McFarland |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, and Scott Rudin |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, and James W. Skotchdopole |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Rob Marshall | Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Marc Platt, and Callum McDougall |
| 2014 | Pride | Matthew Warchus | David Livingstone |
| 2014 | St. Vincent | Theodore Melfi | Fred Roos, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, and Theodore Melfi |
| 2015 | The Martian | Ridley Scott | Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood, and Mark Huffam |
| 2015 | The Big Short | Adam McKay | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner |
| 2015 | Joy | David O. Russell | John Davis, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon, Ken Mok, and David O. Russell |
| 2015 | Spy | Paul Feig | Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Paul Feig, and Jessie Henderson |
| 2015 | Trainwreck | Judd Apatow | Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle | Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women | Mike Mills | Anne Carey, Megan Ellison, and Youree Henley |
| 2016 | Deadpool | Tim Miller | Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, and Lauren Shuler Donner |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Stephen Frears | Michael Kuhn and Tracey Seaward |
| 2016 | Sing Street | John Carney | Anthony Bregman, John Carney, Kevin Scott Frakes, Christian Grass, Martina Niland, Raj Brinder Singh, and Paul Trijbits |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | Scott Rudin, Evelyn O'Neil, and Eli Bush |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | James Franco | James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele | Jordan Peele, Jason Blum, Sean McKittrick, and Edward H. Hamm Jr. |
| 2017 | The Greatest Showman | Michael Gracey | Laurence Mark, Peter Chernin, and Jenno Topping |
| 2017 | I, Tonya | Craig Gillespie | Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Steven Rogers, and Bryan Unkeless |
| 2018 | Green Book | Peter Farrelly | Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Jon M. Chu | Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and John Penotti |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Rob Marshall | Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, and Marc Platt |
| 2018 | Vice | Adam McKay | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino |
| 2019 | Dolemite Is My Name | Craig Brewer | Eddie Murphy, John Davis and John Fox |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Rian Johnson | Ram Bergman and Rian Johnson |
| 2019 | Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid and Matthew Vaughn |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
| 2020 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Jason Woliner | Sacha Baron Cohen, Monica Levinson, Anthony Hines |
| 2020 | Hamilton | Thomas Kail | Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller |
| 2020 | Music | Sia | Sia, Vincent Landay |
| 2020 | Palm Springs | Max Barbakow | Chris Parker, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Dylan Sellers, Becky Sloviter, Jorma Taccone |
| 2020 | The Prom | Ryan Murphy | Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Adam Anders, Dori Berenstein, Bill Damaschke |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Kevin McCollum |
| 2021 | Cyrano | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Guy Heeley |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay | Adam McKay, Kevin Messick |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson | Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2021 | tick, tick... BOOM! | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Julie Oh, Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh |
| 2022 | Babylon | Damien Chazelle | Marc Platt, Matthew Plouffe, Olivia Hamilton |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson |
| 2022 | Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | Emma Stone, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe |
| 2023 | Air | Ben Affleck | David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, Jon Weinbach, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Madison Ainley, Jeff Robinov, Peter Guber, Jason Michael Berman |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Cord Jefferson | Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson |
| 2023 | Barbie | Greta Gerwig | Margot Robbie, Robbie Brenner, Tom Ackerley, David Heyman |
| 2023 | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson |
| 2023 | May December | Todd Haynes | Natalie Portman, Sophie Mas, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Grant S. Johnson, Tyler W. Konney, Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann & Anthony Vaccarello |
| 2024 | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | Ewa Peszczyńska, Jennifer Semler, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Ali Herting & Dave McCary |
| 2024 | Anora | Sean Baker | Alex Coco, Samantha Quan & Sean Baker |
| 2024 | Challengers | Luca Guadagnino | Amy Pascal, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya & Rachel O’Connor |
| 2024 | The Substance | Carolie Fargeat | Carolie Fargeat, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner |
| 2024 | Wicked | Jon M. Chu | Marc Platt & David Stone |

## Notes and trivia

* 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)
* 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.
* Since 2023, Emilia Pérez is the first non-English-language film to win in that category.