Best Female Lead movies that are golden globes winners or nominees

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Barbra Streisand, Karl Malden, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Actors : Hayley Mills, Charles Ruggles, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith,
Directors : David Swift,

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Robert Harling,

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Roseanne Barr, Meryl Streep, Linda Hunt, Ed Begley Jr.,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.

Actors : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mariel Hemingway,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous. Based on the true story of 1980 Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten.

Actors : Richard Burton, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.

Actors : James Fox, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main ...

Actors : Helen Hayes, John McIntire, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Lucille Ball, Louise Troy,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.