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.[1] 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.[1] 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."[1] In addition, the film must have its principal dialogue in English.[2]
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
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| 1980 | Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | Bernard Schwartz |
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| Airplane! | | Jon Davison & Howard W. Koch |
| Fame | Alan Parker | David De Silva & Alan Marshall |
| The Idolmaker | | Gene Kirkwood & Howard W. Koch Jr. |
| Melvin and Howard | | Art Linson & Don Phillips |
| 1981 | Arthur | Steve Gordon | Steve Gordon |
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| The Four Seasons | | Martin Bregman |
| Pennies from Heaven | Herbert Ross | Nora Kaye, Rick McCallum, & Herbert Ross |
| S.O.B. | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams & Blake Edwards |
| Zoot Suit | | Peter Burrell |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack & Dick Richards |
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| The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Colin Higgins | Robert L. Boyett & Colin Higgins |
| Diner | | Jerry Weintraub |
| My Favorite Year | | Michael Gruskoff |
| Victor Victoria | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams & Blake Edwards |
| 1983 | Yentl | Barbra Streisand | Larry DeWaay, Rusty Lemorande, & Barbra Streisand |
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| The Big Chill | | Michael Shamberg |
| Flashdance | | Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson |
| Trading Places | | George Folsey Jr., Aaron Russo, Irwin Russo, & Sam Williams |
| Zelig | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| 1984 | Romancing the Stone | Robert Zemeckis | Michael Douglas |
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| Beverly Hills Cop | | Jerry Bruckheimer & Don Simpson |
| Ghostbusters | | Bernie Brillstein & Ivan Reitman |
| Micki + Maude | Blake Edwards | Tony Adams, Lou Antonio, Trish Caroselli, & Jonathan D. Krane |
| Splash | | Brian Grazer |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | John Foreman |
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| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | Neil Canton & Bob Gale |
| A Chorus Line | | Cy Feuer |
| Cocoon | Ron Howard | David Brown & Richard D. Zanuck |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
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| Crimes of the Heart | | Freddie Fields |
| Crocodile Dundee | | John Cornell |
| Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Paul Mazursky | Pato Guzman & Paul Mazursky |
| Little Shop of Horrors | | David Geffen |
| Peggy Sue Got Married | Francis Ford Coppola | Paul R. Gurian |
| 1987 | Hope and Glory | John Boorman | John Boorman & Michael Dryhurst |
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| Baby Boom | | Bruce A. Block & Nancy Meyers |
| Broadcast News | | James L. Brooks |
| Dirty Dancing | | Linda Gottlieb |
| Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| 1988 | Working Girl | Mike Nichols | Douglas Wick |
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| Big | | James L. Brooks & Robert Greenhut |
| A Fish Called Wanda | | Michael Shamberg |
| Midnight Run | Martin Brest |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | Frank Marshall & Robert Watts |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | Lili Fini Zanuck & Richard D. Zanuck |
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| The Little Mermaid | | Howard Ashman & John Musker |
| Shirley Valentine | |
| The War of the Roses | | James L. Brooks & Arnon Milchan |
| When Harry Met Sally... | | Rob Reiner & Andrew Scheinman | |
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
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| 1990 | Green Card | Peter Weir |
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| Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty |
| Ghost | Jerry Zucker | Steven-Charles Jaffe, Lauren Ray, & Bruce Joel Rubin |
| Home Alone | | John Hughes |
| Pretty Woman | | Laura Ziskin |
| 1991 | Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise | Don Hahn |
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| City Slickers | | Billy Crystal & Irby Smith |
| The Commitments | Alan Parker | Lynda Myles & Roger Randall-Cutler |
| The Fisher King | | Debra Hill, Tony Mark, & Lynda Obst |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | | Jon Avnet & Norman Lear |
| 1992 | The Player | Robert Altman | David Brown, Michael Tolkin, & Nick Wechsler |
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| Aladdin | Ron Clements & John Musker | Ron Clements & John Musker |
| Enchanted April | | Matthew Hamilton, Simon Relph, Ann Scott, & |
| Honeymoon in Vegas | | Mike Lobell |
| Sister Act | Emile Ardolino | Scott Rudin & Teri Schwartz |
| 1993 | Mrs. Doubtfire | Chris Columbus | Marsha Garces, Robin Williams & Mark Radcliffe |
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| Dave | Ivan Reitman | Ivan Reitman & Lauren Shuler Donner |
| Much Ado About Nothing | | Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Evans, & David Parfitt |
| Sleepless in Seattle | | Gary Foster |
| Strictly Ballroom | | Antoinette Albert & |
| 1994 | The Lion King | Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff | Don Hahn |
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| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | | Al Clark & Michael Hamlyn |
| Ed Wood | | Tim Burton & Denise Di Novi |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | Duncan Kenworthy |
| 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 |
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| The American President | Rob Reiner | Barbara Maltby, Charles Newirth, Rob Reiner, & Jeffrey Stott |
| Get Shorty | | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, & Stacey Sher |
| Sabrina | Sydney Pollack | Sydney Pollack & Scott Rudin |
| Toy Story | | Bonnie Arnold & Ralph Guggenheim |
| 1996 | Evita | Alan Parker | Alan Parker & Robert Stigwood |
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| The Birdcage | Mike Nichols | Marcello Danon, Michele Imperato, Neal Machlis, & Mike Nichols |
| Everyone Says I Love You | Woody Allen | Robert Greenhut |
| Fargo | | Ethan Coen |
| Jerry Maguire | | 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 |
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| The Full Monty | | Uberto Pasolini |
| Men in Black | Barry Sonnenfeld | Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, & Steven Spielberg |
| My Best Friend's Wedding | | Jerry Zucker, Ronald Bass, Gil Netter, & Patricia Whitcher |
| Wag the Dog | | Barry Levinson & Robert De Niro |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, & Edward Zwick |
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| Bulworth | Warren Beatty | Warren Beatty & Pieter Jan Brugge |
| The Mask of Zorro | | Doug Claybourne & David Foster |
| Patch Adams | | Mike Farrell, Barry Kemp, Marvin Minoff, & Charles Newirth |
| Still Crazy | | Amanda Marmot |
| There's Something About Mary | | Frank Beddor, Michael Steinberg, Bradley Thomas & Charles B. Wessler |
| 1999 | Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | Karen Robert Jackson & Helene Plotkin |
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| Analyze This | | Jane Rosenthal & Paula Weinstein |
| Being John Malkovich | | Steve Golin, Vincent Landay, Sandy Stern, & Michael Stipe |
| Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | Danny DeVito |
| Notting Hill | | Duncan Kenworthy | |
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
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| 2000 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | Ian Bryce & Cameron Crowe |
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| Best in Show | | Gordon Mark & Karen Murphy |
| Chicken Run | | Peter Lord, Nick Park, & David Sproxton |
| Chocolat | | Harvey Weinstein |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | | Tim Bevan, Ethan Coen, & Eric Fellner |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | Fred Baron, Martin Brown, & Baz Luhrmann |
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| Bridget Jones's Diary | | Tim Bevan, Jonathan Cavendish, & Eric Fellner |
| Gosford Park | | Robert Altman, Bob Balaban, & David Levy |
| Legally Blonde | | Ric Kidney & Marc E. Platt |
| Shrek | | Jeffrey Katzenberg, Aron Warner, & John H. Williams |
| Chicago | Rob Marshall | Meryl Poster, Martin Richards, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, & Craig Zadan |
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| About a Boy | | Tim Bevan, Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Eric Fellner, & Jane Rosenthal |
| Adaptation. | | Jonathan Demme, Vincent Landay, & Edward Saxon |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding | | Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, & Rita Wilson |
| Nicholas Nickleby | | Simon Channing-Williams, John Hart, & Jeffrey Sharp |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | Sofia Coppola & Ross Katz |
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| Bend It Like Beckham | | Gurinder Chadha & Deepak Nayar |
| Big Fish | | Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, & Richard D. Zanuck |
| Finding Nemo | | Graham Walters |
| Love Actually | | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, & Duncan Kenworthy |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne | Michael London |
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| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | | Anthony Bregman & Steve Golin |
| The Incredibles | | John Walker |
| The Phantom of the Opera | | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| Ray | | Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin, Stuart Benjamin, & Taylor Hackford |
| 2005 | Walk the Line | James Mangold | James Keach & Cathy Konrad |
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| Mrs Henderson Presents | | Norma Heyman |
| Pride & Prejudice | | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, & Paul Webster |
| The Producers | | Mel Brooks |
| The Squid and the Whale | | Wes Anderson |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Bill Condon | Laurence Mark |
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| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | | Sacha Baron Cohen & Jay Roach |
| The Devil Wears Prada | | Wendy Finerman & Karen Rosenfelt |
| Little Miss Sunshine | | Albert Berger, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub, & Ron Yerxa |
| Thank You for Smoking | | 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 |
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| Across the Universe | | Charles Newirth, Jennifer Todd, & Suzanne Todd |
| Charlie Wilson's War | | Tom Hanks |
| Hairspray | | Toby Emmerich, Neil Meron, Marc Shaiman, Adam Shankman, Bob Shaye, Scott Wittman, & |
| Juno | | Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, & Russell Smith |
| 2008 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Woody Allen | Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum, & Gareth Wiley |
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| Burn After Reading | | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| Happy-Go-Lucky | | Simon Channing-Williams |
| In Bruges | | Graham Broadbent & Peter Czernin |
| Mamma Mia! | | Benny Andersson, Judy Craymer, Tom Hanks, Phyllida Lloyd, Björn Ulvaeus, & Rita Wilson |
| 2009 | The Hangover | Todd Phillips | Daniel Goldberg & Todd Phillips |
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| (500) Days of Summer | | Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, & Steven J. Wolfe |
| It's Complicated | | Nancy Meyers & Scott Rudin |
| Julie & Julia | | Nora Ephron, Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, & Eric Steel |
| Nine | | John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Marc Platt, Harvey Weinstein, & Maury Yeston | |
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
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| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko | Gary Gilbert, Jeff Levy-Hinte, Celine Rattray |
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| Alice in Wonderland | | Richard D. Zanuck, Joe Roth, Suzanne Todd, and Jennifer Todd |
| Burlesque | | Donald De Line |
| Red | | Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian |
| The Tourist | | Graham King, Timothy Headington, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, and Jonathan Glickman |
| The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | Thomas Langmann |
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| 50/50 | | Evan Goldberg, Ben Karlin, and Seth Rogen |
| Bridesmaids | | Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend |
| Midnight in Paris | | Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, and Stephen Tenenbaum |
| My Week with Marilyn | | David Parfitt and Harvey Weinstein |
| 2012[9] | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh |
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| The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | | Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin |
| Moonrise Kingdom | | Jeremy Dawson, Scott Rudin, Wes Anderson, and Steven Rales |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | | Paul Webster |
| Silver Linings Playbook | | Bruce Cohen and Donna Gigliotti |
| 2013[10] | American Hustle | David O. Russell | Charles Roven, Megan Ellison, Richard Suckle, and Jonathan Gordon |
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| Her | | Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, and Vincent Landay |
| Inside Llewyn Davis | | Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen |
| Nebraska | | Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | | Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Riza Aziz, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, and Joey McFarland |
| 2014[11] | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, and Scott Rudin |
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| Birdman | | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, and James W. Skotchdopole |
| Into the Woods | | Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Marc Platt, and Callum McDougall |
| Pride | | David Livingstone |
| St. Vincent | | Fred Roos, Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, and Theodore Melfi |
| 2015[12] | The Martian | Ridley Scott | Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood, and Mark Huffam |
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| The Big Short | | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner |
| Joy | | John Davis, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon, Ken Mok, and David O. Russell |
| Spy | | Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Paul Feig, and Jessie Henderson |
| Trainwreck | | Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel |
| La La Land | Damien Chazelle | Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt |
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| 20th Century Women | | Anne Carey, Megan Ellison, and Youree Henley |
| Deadpool | | Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, and Lauren Shuler Donner |
| Florence Foster Jenkins | | Michael Kuhn and Tracey Seaward |
| Sing Street | | Anthony Bregman, John Carney, Kevin Scott Frakes, Christian Grass, Martina Niland, Raj Brinder Singh, and Paul Trijbits |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | Scott Rudin, Evelyn O'Neil, and Eli Bush |
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| style= text-align:left;" | The Disaster Artist | | James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver |
| Get Out | | Jordan Peele, Jason Blum, Sean McKittrick, and Edward H. Hamm Jr. |
| The Greatest Showman | | Laurence Mark, Peter Chernin, and Jenno Topping |
| I, Tonya | | Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, Steven Rogers, and Bryan Unkeless |
| Green Book | Peter Farrelly | Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga |
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| Crazy Rich Asians | | Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and John Penotti |
| style= text-align:left;" | The Favourite | | Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos |
| Mary Poppins Returns | | Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, and Marc Platt |
| Vice | | Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino | David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Quentin Tarantino |
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| Dolemite Is My Name | | Eddie Murphy, John Davis and John Fox |
| Jojo Rabbit | | Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley |
| style= text-align:left;" | Knives Out | | Ram Bergman and Rian Johnson |
| Rocketman | | Adam Bohling, David Furnish, David Reid and Matthew Vaughn | |
| Year | Film | Director | Producer |
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| 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 |
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| Hamilton | Thomas Kail | Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller |
| Music | Sia | Sia, Vincent Landay |
| Palm Springs | Max Barbakow | Chris Parker, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Dylan Sellers, Becky Sloviter, Jorma Taccone |
| The Prom | Ryan Murphy | Ryan Murphy, Alexis Martin Woodall, Adam Anders, Dori Berenstein, Bill Damaschke |
| West Side Story | Steven Spielberg | Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Kevin McCollum |
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| Cyrano | Joe Wright | Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Guy Heeley |
| Don't Look Up | Adam McKay | Adam McKay, Kevin Messick |
| Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson | Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, Paul Thomas Anderson |
| tick, tick... BOOM! | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Julie Oh, Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh | Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, Martin McDonagh |
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| Babylon | Damien Chazelle | Marc Platt, Matthew Plouffe, Olivia Hamilton |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang |
| Rian Johnson | Ram Bergman, Rian Johnson |
| Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos | Emma Stone, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe |
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| Air | Ben Affleck | David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, Jon Weinbach, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Madison Ainley, Jeff Robinov, Peter Guber, Jason Michael Berman |
| American Fiction | Cord Jefferson | Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson, Jermaine Johnson |
| Barbie | Greta Gerwig | Margot Robbie, Robbie Brenner, Tom Ackerley, David Heyman |
| The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson |
| May December | Todd Haynes | Natalie Portman, Sophie Mas, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Grant S. Johnson, Tyler W. Konney, Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell |
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Under the 2007 revised rules of the HFPA, animated pictures are 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, the rule is amended following controversies of best motion picture category frustrations, as animated pictures will be still allowed to eligible in this category or Drama in the future.
