Golden Globes Best Movie Comedy or Musical Nominees

The Golden Globes Best Movie Comedy or Musical nominees include films that made moviegoers laugh, sing or just leave the theater a little more lighthearted than they were when they walked in. This Golden Globes category came to be in the early 1950s, when two separate best film categories were created (the other being Best Movie Drama). The movies nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy are the cream of the crop when it comes to cinema. The winner of the 2012 Golden Globe for Best Movie Comedy or Musical was "The Artist."

Past films chosen as nominees for the Golden Globes Best Movie Comedy or Musical include 'The King and I,' 'Some Like It Hot,' 'The Apartment,' 'The Graduate,' 'Tootsie' and 'The Lion King.' More recent nominees and winners include 'The Kids Are All Right,' 'The Hangover,' 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' and 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.' As you can see, with both comedy movies and musicals included in this category, it can get interesting. And the choices for the Golden Globes Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy can also leave people scratching their heads. In 2010, some of the nominees definitely did. Does anyone have any idea why the Johnny Depp/Angelina Jolie movie 'The Tourist' received a nomination in this category?

The films on this list of Golden Globes Best Movie Comedy or Musical are without question wonderful, each and every one. Some past nominees, like Alexander Payne's 'Sideways' and Sofia Coppola's 'Lost in Translation,' went on to garner an Academy Award Best Picture nomination. Will one of these nominees become Oscar's best picture? Stay tuned!