Best Female Lead movies that are golden globes winners or nominees

Actors : Julianne Moore, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Haysbert, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Todd Haynes,

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

Actors : Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden,
Directors : Kevin Lima,

A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Sebastian Stan, Debra Winger,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

Actors : Ron Perlman, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Mandy Moore,

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

Actors : Emma Stone, Dan Byrd, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes,
Directors : Will Gluck,

A clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.

Actors : Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Constance Wu,
Directors : Jon M. Chu,

This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.

Actors : Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette, James Gandolfini,
Directors : Nicole Holofcener,

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.

Actors : Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart,

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

Actors : Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Hailee Steinfeld, Kyra Sedgwick,
Directors : Kelly Fremon Craig,

High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

Actors : Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Jonathan Groff,

Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.

Actors : Albert Finney, Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Friedman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco,
Directors : Tamara Jenkins,

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Actors : Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis,
Directors : John Patrick Shanley,

A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.

Actors : Elliot Cowan, Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Actors : Judy Parfitt, Tom Wilkinson, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth,
Directors : Peter Webber,

A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Adrian Grenier, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt,
Directors : David Frankel,

A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Tom Georgeson, Andrew Simpson, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

Actors : Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

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.

Actors : Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Patton Oswalt, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

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.

Actors : Mackenzie Davis, Asher Miles Fallica, Ron Livingston, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Jason Reitman,

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