Best movies that are golden globes winners or nominees in best actress - motion picture – musical/comedy category

Julie & Julia(2009)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.



Young Adult(2011)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.



20th Century Women(2016)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.



Tully(2018)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A mother of three hires a night nanny to help with her newborn.



Emma.(2020)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 80

In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



Florence Foster Jenkins(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



Duplicity(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Two ex-government agents turned rival industrial spies have to be at the top of their game when one of their companies prepares to launch a major product. However, they distract each other in more ways than one.



Carnage(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.



My Week with Marilyn(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).



Joy(2015)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.



August: Osage County(2013)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



Late Night(2019)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



Legally Blonde(2001)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.



Secretary(2002)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.



Love & Other Drugs(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young woman suffering from Parkinson's befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer in 1990s Pittsburgh.




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