Golden Globe Awards, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

2025

Gabriel LaBelle / Saturday Night

Sebastian Stan / A Different Man

Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain

Hugh Grant / Heretic

Glen Powell / Hit Man

Jesse Plemons / Kinds of Kindness

2024

Jeffrey Wright / American Fiction

Paul Giamatti / The Holdovers

Timothée Chalamet / Wonka

Joaquin Phoenix / Beau Is Afraid

Nicolas Cage / Dream Scenario

Matt Damon / Air

2023

Ralph Fiennes / The Menu

Daniel Craig / Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Diego Calva / Babylon

Colin Farrell / The Banshees of Inisherin

Adam Driver / White Noise

2022

Cooper Hoffman / Licorice Pizza

Anthony Ramos / In the Heights

Andrew Garfield / tick, tick...BOOM!

Leonardo DiCaprio / Don't Look Up

Peter Dinklage / Cyrano

2021

Dev Patel / The Personal History of David Copperfield

James Corden / The Prom

Sacha Baron Cohen / Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Andy Samberg / Palm Springs

2020

Roman Griffin Davis / Jojo Rabbit

Taron Egerton / Rocketman

Leonardo DiCaprio / Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

Christian Bale / Vice

Robert Redford / The Old Man & the Gun

Viggo Mortensen / Green Book

John C. Reilly / Stan & Ollie

2018

Daniel Kaluuya / Get Out

James Franco / The Disaster Artist

Steve Carell / Battle of the Sexes

Hugh Jackman / The Greatest Showman

2017

Colin Farrell / The Lobster

Hugh Grant / Florence Foster Jenkins

Ryan Gosling / La La Land

Jonah Hill / War Dogs

Ryan Reynolds / Deadpool

2016

Mark Ruffalo / Infinitely Polar Bear

Steve Carell / The Big Short

2015

Bill Murray / St. Vincent

Joaquin Phoenix / Inherent Vice

Michael Keaton / Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Ralph Fiennes / The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014

Bruce Dern / Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio / The Wolf of Wall Street

Joaquin Phoenix / Her

Oscar Isaac / Inside Llewyn Davis

2013

Bill Murray / Hyde Park on Hudson

Hugh Jackman / Les Misérables

Jack Black / Bernie

2012

Jean Dujardin / The Artist

Brendan Gleeson / The Guard

2011

Paul Giamatti / Barney's Version

2010

Daniel Day-Lewis / Nine

Robert Downey Jr. / Sherlock Holmes

2009

Brendan Gleeson / In Bruges

Colin Farrell / In Bruges

2008

John C. Reilly / Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Tom Hanks / Charlie Wilson's War

2007

Sacha Baron Cohen / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

Johnny Depp / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Cillian Murphy / Breakfast on Pluto

2005

Kevin Kline / De-Lovely

Paul Giamatti / Sideways

2004

Bill Murray / Lost in Translation

Jack Nicholson / Something's Gotta Give

Jack Black / School of Rock

Billy Bob Thornton / Bad Santa

2003

Adam Sandler / Punch-Drunk Love

Hugh Grant / About a Boy

Richard Gere / Chicago

Kieran Culkin / Igby Goes Down

2002

Billy Bob Thornton / Bandits

Hugh Jackman / Kate & Leopold

2000

Hugh Grant / Notting Hill

Rupert Everett / An Ideal Husband

1999

Antonio Banderas / The Mask of Zorro

Robin Williams / Patch Adams

1998

Kevin Kline / In & Out

Jack Nicholson / As Good as It Gets

Samuel L. Jackson / Jackie Brown

1997

Antonio Banderas / Evita

1996

Harrison Ford / Sabrina

Patrick Swayze / To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Steve Martin / Father of the Bride Part II

1995

Terence Stamp / The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Hugh Grant / Four Weddings and a Funeral

Arnold Schwarzenegger / Junior

1994

Robin Williams / Mrs. Doubtfire

Tom Hanks / Sleepless in Seattle

Kevin Kline / Dave

1993

Tim Robbins / The Player

Tim Robbins / Bob Roberts

1992

Beauty and the Beast

Kevin Kline / Soapdish

Robin Williams / The Fisher King

1991

Macaulay Culkin / Home Alone

Richard Gere / Pretty Woman

Patrick Swayze / Ghost

1990

Jack Nicholson / Batman

Steve Martin / Parenthood

1989

John Cleese / A Fish Called Wanda

Tom Hanks / Big

1988

Steve Martin / Roxanne

Robin Williams / Good Morning, Vietnam

Patrick Swayze / Dirty Dancing

Nicolas Cage / Moonstruck

1986

Michael J. Fox / Back to the Future

Jack Nicholson / Prizzi's Honor

1985

Bill Murray / Ghostbusters

Robin Williams / Moscow on the Hudson

Steve Martin / All of Me

1984

Michael Caine / Educating Rita

Tom Cruise / Risky Business

Mandy Patinkin / Yentl

1983

Henry Winkler / Night Shift

1982

Steve Martin / Pennies from Heaven

1981

Tommy Lee Jones / Coal Miner's Daughter

Paul Le Mat / Melvin and Howard

1980

Roy Scheider / All That Jazz

Peter Sellers / Being There

1979

John Travolta / Grease

Gary Busey / The Buddy Holly Story

1978

Richard Dreyfuss / The Goodbye Girl

1977

Peter Sellers / The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Gene Wilder / Silver Streak

1976

James Caan / Funny Lady

Peter Sellers / The Return of the Pink Panther

Warren Beatty / Shampoo

1974

Richard Dreyfuss / American Graffiti

1972

Gene Wilder / Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1971

Elliott Gould / M*A*S*H

Donald Sutherland / M*A*S*H

1970

Dustin Hoffman / John and Mary

1969

Fred Astaire / Finian's Rainbow

1968

Ugo Tognazzi / L'immorale

1967

Alan Arkin / The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

1966

Lee Marvin / Cat Ballou

Jason Robards / A Thousand Clowns

1965

Dick Van Dyke / Mary Poppins

Peter Sellers / The Pink Panther

1963

Robert Preston / The Music Man

James Stewart / Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

1962

Fred Astaire / The Pleasure of His Company

Bob Hope / Bachelor in Paradise

1961

Bob Hope / The Facts of Life

1960

Sidney Poitier / Porgy and Bess

1959

Louis Jourdan / Gigi

Maurice Chevalier / Gigi

1957

Yul Brynner / The King and I

Cantinflas / Around the World in 80 Days

1956

Tom Ewell / The Seven Year Itch

1954

David Niven / The Moon Is Blue

1951

Fred Astaire / Three Little Words

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