Golden Globe Award / Best Actor - Comedy or Musical
Winner and nominee for the Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actor - Comedy or Musical (since 2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy ), which honors the most outstanding acting achievements of the past calendar year. The category was launched in 1951. From 1944 to 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) awarded an actor's award (Best Actress in a Motion Picture) without subdivision by film genre (see Golden Globe Award / Best Actor - Drama ).
The best comedy or musical actor was later awarded the Oscar seven times , most recently in 2012 when the French Jean Dujardin ( The Artist ) was awarded the prize . 1951–1954, 1956–1959, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1993–1996, 1999–2003, 2007, 2009–2011, 2018 and 2020 took place the award-winning Film role no consideration for the Oscar. The rare honor of being nominated for two different film roles in one year was given to American Jack Lemmon ( The Girl Irma la Douce , A Marriage Bed for Trial ) in 1964 and his compatriot Johnny Depp ( Alice in Wonderland , The Tourist ) in 2011 .
American actors have won the Acting Award 44 times (including American-Canadian actor Jim Carrey ), followed by their colleagues from Great Britain (13 wins), Australia (2 wins) and the victories of the two Italians Marcello Mastroianni and Alberto Sordi , who were the only actors for non-English speaking roles to receive the award. The Frenchman Jean Dujardin was honored in 2012 for a feature film designed as a silent film, but spoke few words in English in the original version. Actors from German-speaking countries have not yet been able to join the list of winners or nominees.
statistics | Surname | number | year |
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Most frequent awards | Jack Lemmon | 3 | 1961, 1962, 1973 |
Robin Williams | 3 | 1988, 1992, 1994 | |
Most frequent nominations | Jack Lemmon | 10 | 1960, 1961, 1964, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1987 |
Most frequent nominations without a win | Cary Grant | 5 | 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964 |
Steve Martin | 5 | 1982, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1996 |
The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1950s
Fred Astaire - Three Little Words (Three Little Words)
- Dan Dailey - So unlucky (When Willie Comes Marching Home)
- Harold Lloyd - The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Danny Kaye - On the Riviera (On the Riviera)
- Bing Crosby - Wedding Parade (Here Comes the Groom)
- Gene Kelly - An American in Paris (An American in Paris)
Donald O'Connor - You Shall Be My Lucky Star (Singin 'in the Rain)
- Danny Kaye - Hans Christian Andersen and the Dancer (Hans Christian Andersen)
- Clifton Webb - Love, Timpani and Trumpets (Stars and Stripes Forever)
David Niven - Clouds Are Everywhere (The Moon Is Blue)
James Mason - A new star in the sky (A Star Is Born)
Tom Ewell - 7. Year Itch (The Seven Year Itch)
Cantinflas - In 80 days around the world (Around the World in Eighty Days)
- Marlon Brando - Das kleine Teehaus (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
- Yul Brynner ¹ - The King and I (The King and I)
- Glenn Ford - The little tea house (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
- Danny Kaye - The Court Jester (The Court Jester)
- Maurice Chevalier - Ariane - Love in the Afternoon
- Glenn Ford - Do not go too close to the water (Do not Go Near the Water)
- David Niven - Mein Mann Gottfried (My Man Godfrey)
- Tony Randall - Siren in Blonde (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?)
Danny Kaye - Jakobowsky and the Colonel (Me and the Colonel)
- Maurice Chevalier - Gigi
- Clark Gable - Reporter of Love (Teacher's Pet)
- Cary Grant - Indiscreet (Indiscreet)
- Louis Jourdan - Gigi
1960s
Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot)
- Clark Gable - With me not (But Not for Me)
- Cary Grant - Operation Petticoat (Operation Petticoat)
- Dean Martin - Who was the lady? (Who Was That Lady?)
- Sidney Poitier - Porgy and Bess (Porgy and Bess)
Jack Lemmon - Appartement (The Apartment)
- Dirk Bogarde - Only Few Are Chosen (Song Without End)
- Cantinflas - Pepe - What can the world cost (Pepe)
- Cary Grant - House Friends Warned (The Grass Is Greener)
- Bob Hope - Such An Affair (The Facts of Life)
Glenn Ford - The Lower Ten Thousand (Pocketful of Miracles)
- Fred Astaire - In good company (The Pleasure of His Company)
- Richard Beymer - West Side Story
- Bob Hope - Bachelor in Paradise (Bachelor in Paradise)
- Fred MacMurray - The Flying Timpani (The AbsentMinded Professor)
Marcello Mastroianni - Divorce in Italian (Divorzio all'italiana)
- Stephen Boyd - Play With Me (Billy Rose's Jumbo)
- Jimmy Durante - Play With Me (Billy Rose's Jumbo)
- Cary Grant - That Touch of Mink (That Touch of Mink)
- Charlton Heston - It started in Rome (The Pigeon That Took Rome)
- Karl Malden - Gypsy - Queen of the Night (Gypsy)
- Robert Preston - Music Man (The Music Man)
- Alberto Sordi - Lovable Opponents (The Best of Enemies)
- James Stewart - Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Alberto Sordi - Amore in Stockholm (Il diavolo)
- Albert Finney - Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows (Tom Jones)
- James Garner - Separate Beds (The Wheeler Dealers)
- Cary Grant - Charade
- Jack Lemmon - The Girl Irma la Douce (Irma la Douce)
- Jack Lemmon - A Rehearsal Bed (Under the Yum Yum Tree)
- Frank Sinatra - If My Bedroom Could Talk (Come Blow Your Horn)
- Terry-Thomas - Even the little ones want to go up (The Mouse on the Moon)
- Jonathan Winters - A totally, totally crazy world (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
- Marcello Mastroianni - Wedding in Italian (Matrimonio all'italiana)
- Peter Sellers - The Pink Panther (The Pink Panther)
- Peter Ustinov² - Topkapi
- Dick Van Dyke - Mary Poppins
1966
Lee Marvin ¹ - Cat Ballou - You should hang in Wyoming (Cat Ballou)
- Jack Lemmon - The Great Race (The Great Race)
- Jerry Lewis - Boeing-Boeing (Boeing Boeing)
- Jason Robards - Thousand Clowns (A Thousand Clowns)
- Alberto Sordi - Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines)
1967
Alan Arkin - The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! (The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming)
- Alan Bates - Georgy Girl
- Michael Caine - The Girl from the Cherry Bar (Gambit)
- Lionel Jeffries - The Spy with a Cold Nose (The Spy with a Cold Nose)
- Walter Matthau ² - The Fortune Cookie (The Fortune Cookie)
1968
Richard Harris - Camelot - At the court of King Arthur (Camelot)
- Rex Harrison - Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle)
- Richard Burton - The Taming of the Shrew (The Taming of the Shrew)
- Dustin Hoffman - The Graduate (The Graduate)
- Ugo Tognazzi - You live immorally better (L'immorale)
1969
- Fred Astaire - The Golden Rainbow (Finian's Rainbow)
- Jack Lemmon - The Odd Couple (The Odd Couple)
- Walter Matthau - A Strange Couple (The Odd Couple)
- Zero Mostel - Spring for Hitler (The Producers)
1970s
1970
Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
- Dustin Hoffman - John and Mary (John and Mary)
- Lee Marvin - Westward the Wind (Paint Your Wagon)
- Steve McQueen - The Crook (The Reivers)
- Anthony Quinn - The Secret of Santa Vittoria (The Secret of Santa Vittoria)
1971
- Richard Benjamin - Diary of adultery (Diary of a Mad Housewife)
- Elliott Gould - MASH (MASH)
- Jack Lemmon - Never Again New York (The Out of Towners)
- Donald Sutherland - MASH (MASH)
1972
Topol - Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)
- Bud Cort - Harold and Maude (Harold and Maude)
- Dean Jones - The Million Dollar Duck (The Million Dollar Duck)
- Walter Matthau - Grandpa can't help it (Kotch)
- Gene Wilder - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
1973
Jack Lemmon - Avanti, Avanti! (Avanti!)
- Edward Albert - Butterflies Are Free (Butterflies Are Free)
- Charles Grodin - Change of Horses on Wedding Night (The Heartbreack Kid)
- Walter Matthau - Peter and Tillie (Pete 'n' Tillie)
- Peter O'Toole - The Man of La Mancha
1974
George Segal - man, you are great! (A Touch of Class)
- Carl Anderson - Jesus Christ Superstar
- Richard Dreyfuss - American Graffiti
- Ted Neeley - Jesus Christ Superstar
- Ryan O'Neal - Paper Moon
1975
Art Carney¹ - Harry and Tonto (Harry and Tonto)
- James Earl Jones - Claudine
- Jack Lemmon - Extrablatt (The Front Page)
- Walter Matthau - Extrablatt (The Front Page)
- Burt Reynolds - The Longest Yard (The Longest Yard)
George Burns ² - The Sunny Boys (The Sunshine Boys)
Walter Matthau - The Sunny Boys (The Sunshine Boys)
- Warren Beatty - Shampoo
- James Caan - Funny Lady
- Peter Sellers - The Return of the Pink Panther (The Return of the Pink Panther)
1977
Kris Kristofferson - A Star Is Born (A Star Is Born)
- Mel Brooks - Mel Brooks' Final Madness: Silent Movie (Silent Movie)
- Peter Sellers - Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man at Interpol (The Pink Panther Strikes Again)
- Jack Weston - The Killer Lurks in the Sauna (The Ritz)
- Gene Wilder - Trans-America-Express (Silver Streak)
1978
Richard Dreyfuss ¹ - The Subtenant (The Goodbye Girl)
- Woody Allen - The Urban Neurotic (Annie Hall)
- Mel Brooks - Mel Brooks' High Anxiety
- Robert De Niro - New York, New York
- John Travolta - Saturday Night Only (Saturday Night Fever)
1979
Warren Beatty - The Heaven Can Wait (Heaven Can Wait)
- Alan Alda - Same Time, Next Year (Same Time, Next Year)
- Gary Busey - The Buddy Holly Story (The Buddy Holly Story)
- Chevy Chase - Foul Play (Foul Play)
- George C. Scott - Movie Movie
- John Travolta - Grease
1980s
1980
Peter Sellers - Welcome Mr. Chance (Being There)
- George Hamilton - Love at First Bite (Love at First Bite)
- Dudley Moore - Ten - The Dream Woman (10)
- Burt Reynolds - Many happy returns (Starting Over)
- Roy Scheider - Behind the Spotlight (All That Jazz)
1981
Ray Sharkey - Idolmaker - The Dirty Business of Show Business (The Idolmaker)
- Neil Diamond - The Jazz Singer
- Tommy Lee Jones - Nashville Lady (Coal Miner's Daughter)
- Paul Le Mat - Melvin and Howard (Melvin and Howard)
- Walter Matthau - Bluff Poker - A rascal unpacks (Hopscotch)
1982
Dudley Moore - Arthur - No Child of Sadness (Arthur)
- Alan Alda - Four Seasons (The Four Seasons)
- George Hamilton - Zorro , the Gay Blade
- Steve Martin - Dance in the Clouds (Pennies from Heaven)
- Walter Matthau - A Monday in October (First Monday in October)
1983
- Peter O'Toole - A Daredevil in New York (My Favorite Year)
- Al Pacino - Daddy! Daddy! Five annoyances and a father (Author! Author!)
- Robert Preston - Victor / Victoria (Victor Victoria)
- Henry Winkler - Nightshift - The Morgue Is Freaking Out (Night Shift)
1984
Michael Caine - Rita finally wants to know (Educating Rita)
- Woody Allen - Zelig
- Tom Cruise - Risky Business (Risky Business)
- Eddie Murphy - The Soldiers of Fortune (Trading Places)
- Mandy Patinkin - Yentl
1985
Dudley Moore - Micki & Maude (Micki + Maude)
- Steve Martin - Solo for 2 (All of Me)
- Eddie Murphy - Beverly Hills Cop - I'll definitely solve this case ( Beverly Hills Cop )
- Bill Murray - Ghostbusters - The Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters)
- Robin Williams - Moscow in New York (Moscow on the Hudson)
Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor (The Prizzi's Honor)
- Jeff Daniels - The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Griffin Dunne - After Midnight (After Hours)
- Michael J. Fox - Back to the Future
- James Garner - The Second Choice - A Romance (Murphy's Romance)
Paul Hogan - Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss (Crocodile Dundee)
- Matthew Broderick - Ferris Turns Blue (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
- Jeff Daniels - Dangerous Girlfriend (Something Wild)
- Danny DeVito - The Incredible Kidnapping of Mad Mrs. Stone (Ruthless People)
- Jack Lemmon - That's Life! That's life (That's Life!)
Robin Williams - Good Morning, Vietnam
- Nicolas Cage - Moonstruck (Moonstruck)
- Danny DeVito - Throw mom off the train! (Throw Momma from the Train)
- William Hurt - News Fever (Broadcast News)
- Steve Martin - Roxanne
- Patrick Swayze - Dirty Dancing
- Michael Caine - Two Adorably Depraved Villains (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
- John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda)
- Robert De Niro - Midnight Run - Five Days to Midnight (Midnight Run)
- Bob Hoskins - Wrong Game with Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
1990s
Morgan Freeman - Miss Daisy and Her Chauffeur (Driving Miss Daisy)
- Billy Crystal - Harry and Sally (When Harry Met Sally ...)
- Michael Douglas - The War of the Roses (The War of the Roses)
- Steve Martin - A Mad Family (Parenthood)
- Jack Nicholson - Batman
Gérard Depardieu - Green Card - Sham marriage with obstacles (Green Card)
- Macaulay Culkin - Kevin - Home Alone (Home Alone)
- Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands)
- Richard Gere - Pretty Woman
- Patrick Swayze - Ghost - Message from Sam (Ghost)
Robin Williams - The Fisher King (The Fisher King)
- Jeff Bridges - The Fisher King (The Fisher King)
- Billy Crystal - City Slickers - The city-hero (City Slickers)
- Dustin Hoffman - Hook
- Kevin Kline - Favorite Enemies - A Soap Opera (Soapdish)
- Nicolas Cage - ... but not with my bride - Honeymoon in Vegas (Honeymoon in Vegas)
- Billy Crystal - The Last Comedian - Mr. Saturday Night (Mr. Saturday Night)
- Marcello Mastroianni - The Autumn Timeless (Used People)
- Tim Robbins - Bob Roberts
Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny (Mrs. Doubtfire)
- Johnny Depp - Benny and Joon (Benny & Joon)
- Tom Hanks - Sleepless in Seattle (Sleepless in Seattle)
- Kevin Kline - Dave
- Colm Meaney - The Snapper - Help a Baby! (The Snapper)
Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral (Four Weddings and a Funeral)
- Jim Carrey - The Mask (The Mask)
- Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - Junior
- Terence Stamp - Priscilla - Queen of the Desert (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
John Travolta - Get Shorty (Get Shorty)
- Michael Douglas - Hello, Mr. President (The American President)
- Harrison Ford - Sabrina
- Steve Martin - A godsend - Father of the Bride 2 (Father of the Bride Part II)
- Patrick Swayze - To Wong Foo, thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar)
Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire - Game of Life (Jerry Maguire)
- Antonio Banderas - Evita
- Kevin Costner - Tin Cup
- Nathan Lane - The Birdcage - A Shrill Birds Paradise (The Birdcage)
- Eddie Murphy - The Nutty Professor (The Nutty Professor)
Jack Nicholson ¹ - It couldn't be better (As Good as It Gets)
- Jim Carrey - Liar Liar (Liar Liar)
- Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog - When the tail wags the dog (Wag the Dog)
- Samuel L. Jackson - Jackie Brown
- Kevin Kline - In & Out
- Antonio Banderas - The Mask of Zorro (The Mask of Zorro)
- Warren Beatty - Bulworth
- John Travolta - With all might (Primary Colors)
- Robin Williams - Patch Adams
2000s
Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon (Man on the Moon)
- Robert De Niro - A Matter of Nerves (Analyze This)
- Rupert Everett - A Perfect Husband (To Ideal Husband)
- Hugh Grant - Notting Hill
- Sean Penn - Sweet and Lowdown
George Clooney - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
- Jim Carrey - The Grinch (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
- John Cusack - High Fidelity
- Robert De Niro - My Bride, Her Father and I (Meet the Parents)
- Mel Gibson - What Women Want (What Women Want)
Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums (The Royal Tenenbaums)
- Hugh Jackman - Kate & Leopold
- Ewan McGregor - Moulin Rouge ( Moulin Rouge! )
- John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Billy Bob Thornton - Bandits! (Bandits)
- Nicolas Cage - Adaptation - The Orchid Thief (Adaptation.)
- Kieran Culkin - Igby (Igby Goes Down)
- Hugh Grant - About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck (About a Boy)
- Adam Sandler - Punch-Drunk Love
Bill Murray - Lost in Translation
- Jack Black - School of Rock (The School of Rock)
- Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
- Jack Nicholson - Something's Gotta Give (Something's Gotta Give)
- Billy Bob Thornton - Bad Santa
- Jim Carrey - Forget Mine Don't! (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Paul Giamatti - Sideways
- Kevin Kline - De-Lovely - The Cole Porter Story (De-Lovely)
- Kevin Spacey - Beyond the Sea - Music was his life
Joaquín Phoenix - Walk the Line
- Pierce Brosnan - Murder and Margaritas (The Matador)
- Jeff Daniels - The Squid and the Whale (The Squid and the Whale)
- Johnny Depp - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Nathan Lane - The Producers
- Cillian Murphy - Breakfast on Pluto
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
- Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking
- Chiwetel Ejiofor - Kinky Boots - Man (s) wearing boots (Kinky Boots)
- Will Ferrell - Stranger Than Fiction (Stranger Than Fiction)
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
- Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson's War (Charlie Wilson's War)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Die Geschwister Savage (The Savages)
- John C. Reilly - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Colin Farrell - See Bruges ... and die? ( In Bruges )
- Javier Bardem - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- James Franco - Pineapple Express
- Brendan Gleeson - See Bruges ... and die? ( In Bruges )
- Dustin Hoffman - Love At Second Sight ( Last Chance Harvey )
2010s
Robert Downey junior - Sherlock Holmes
- Matt Damon - The Informant! (The Informant!)
- Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - (500) Days of Summer
- Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man
Paul Giamatti - Barney's Version
- Johnny Depp - Alice in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland)
- Johnny Depp - The Tourist
- Jake Gyllenhaal - Love and Other Drugs - Side Effects Included (Love and Other Drugs)
- Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack
- Brendan Gleeson - The Guard - An Irishman sees black (The Guard)
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 50/50 - Friends for life (50/50)
- Ryan Gosling - Crazy, Stupid, Love.
- Owen Wilson - Midnight in Paris
- Jack Black - Bernie
- Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings - If You're Me, I'll Get You (Silver Linings Playbook)
- Bill Murray - Hyde Park on Hudson
- Ewan McGregor - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
- Christian Bale - American Hustle
- Bruce Dern - Nebraska
- Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
- Joaquín Phoenix - Mr.
Michael Keaton - Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
- Ralph Fiennes - Grand Budapest Hotel (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Bill Murray - St. Vincent
- Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice - Natural Defects (Inherent Vice)
- Christoph Waltz - Big Eyes
Matt Damon - The Martian - Saves Mark Watney (The Martian)
- Christian Bale - The Big Short
- Steve Carell - The Big Short
- Al Pacino - Danny Collins
- Mark Ruffalo - Infinitely Polar Bear
- Colin Farrell - The Lobster
- Hugh Grant - Florence Foster Jenkins
- Jonah Hill - War Dogs
- Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool
James Franco - The Disaster Artist
- Steve Carell - Battle of the Sexes - The Titans (Battle of the Sexes)
- Ansel Elgort - Baby Driver
- Hugh Jackman - Greatest Showman (The Greatest Showman)
- Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out
Christian Bale - Vice - The Second Man (Vice)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda - Mary Poppins' return (Mary Poppins Returns)
- Viggo Mortensen - Green Book - A Special Friendship (Green Book)
- Robert Redford - A Rogue & Gentleman ( The Old Man & the Gun )
- John C. Reilly - Stan & Ollie
2020s
- Daniel Craig - Knives Out (Knives Out)
- Roman Griffin Davis - Jojo Rabbit
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Eddie Murphy - Dolemite Is My Name
¹ = Actors who later won the Oscar for Best Actor of the Year for their role .
² = actors who later won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor of the Year for their role .