Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
Year Actress Character Film
1960 Shirley MacLaine Fran Kubelik The Apartment
1960 Lucille Ball Kitty Weaver The Facts of Life
1960 Capucine Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein Song Without End
1960 Judy Holliday Ella Peterson Bells Are Ringing
1960 Sophia Loren Lucia Curcio It Started in Naples
1961 Rosalind Russell Bertha Jacoby A Majority of One
1961 Bette Davis Apple Annie Pocketful of Miracles
1961 Audrey Hepburn Holly Golightly Breakfast at Tiffany 's
1961 Hayley Mills Susan Evers / Sharon McKendrick The Parent Trap
1961 Miyoshi Umeki Mei Li Flower Drum Song
1962 Rosalind Russell Rose Hovick Gypsy
1962 Doris Day Kitty Wonder Billy Rose 's Jumbo
1962 Jane Fonda Isabel Haverstick Period of Adjustment
1962 Shirley Jones Marian Paroo The Music Man
1962 Natalie Wood Louise Hovick / Gypsy Rose Lee Gypsy
1963 Shirley MacLaine Irma la Douce Irma la Douce
1963 Ann-Margret Kim MacAffee Bye Bye Birdie
1963 Doris Day Ellen Wagstaff Arden Move Over , Darling
1963 Audrey Hepburn Regina Reggie Lampert Charade
1963 Hayley Mills Nancy Carey Summer Magic
Winners and nominees -- 1960s
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Drama. The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2005, it was officially called Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. , the wording is Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.