# Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a musical or comedy film. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture", but the creation of the category in 1951 allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor – Drama.
The formal title has varied since its inception. In 2006, it was officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy". As of 2013, the wording is "Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy".

## Winners and nominees
### 1950s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1950 | Fred Astaire | Bert Kalmar | Three Little Words |
| 1951 | Danny Kaye | Jack Martin / Henri Duran | On the Riviera |
| 1951 | Gene Kelly | Jerry Mulligan | An American in Paris |
| 1952 | Donald O'Connor | Cosmo Brown | Singin' in the Rain |
| 1953 | David Niven | David Slater | The Moon Is Blue |
| 1954 | James Mason | Norman Maine | A Star Is Born |
| 1955 | Tom Ewell | Richard Sherman | The Seven Year Itch |
| 1956 | Cantinflas | Passepartout | Around the World in 80 Days |
| 1956 | Marlon Brando | Sakini | The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| 1956 | Glenn Ford | Captain Fisby | The Teahouse of the August Moon |
| 1956 | Yul Brynner | King Mongkut of Siam | The King and I |
| 1956 | Danny Kaye | Hubert Hawkins | The Court Jester |
| 1957 | Frank Sinatra | Joey Evans | Pal Joey |
| 1957 | Maurice Chevalier | Claude Chavasse | Love in the Afternoon |
| 1957 | Glenn Ford | Lt. J. G. Max Siegel | Don't Go Near the Water |
| 1957 | David Niven | Godfrey Smith | My Man Godfrey |
| 1957 | Tony Randall | Rockwell P. Hunter | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? |
| 1958 | Danny Kaye | S. L. Jacobowsky | Me and the Colonel |
| 1958 | Maurice Chevalier | Honoré Lachaille | Gigi |
| 1958 | Louis Jourdan | Gaston Lachaille | Gigi |
| 1958 | Clark Gable | James Gannon | Teacher's Pet |
| 1958 | Cary Grant | Philip Adams | Indiscreet |
| 1959 | Jack Lemmon | Jerry / Daphne | Some Like It Hot |
| 1959 | Clark Gable | Russell Ward | But Not for Me |
| 1959 | Cary Grant | Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman | Operation Petticoat |
| 1959 | Dean Martin | Michael Haney | Who Was That Lady? |
| 1959 | Sidney Poitier | Porgy | Porgy and Bess |

### 1960s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1960 | Jack Lemmon | C. C. Baxter | The Apartment |
| 1960 | Dirk Bogarde | Franz Liszt | Song Without End |
| 1960 | Cantinflas | Pepe | Pepe |
| 1960 | Cary Grant | Victor, Earl of Rhyall | The Grass Is Greener |
| 1960 | Bob Hope | Larry Gilbert | The Facts of Life |
| 1961 | Glenn Ford | Dave, the Dude | Pocketful of Miracles |
| 1961 | Fred Astaire | Pogo Poole | The Pleasure of His Company |
| 1961 | Richard Beymer | Tony | West Side Story |
| 1961 | Bob Hope | Adam Niles | Bachelor in Paradise |
| 1961 | Fred MacMurray | Ned Brainard | The Absent-Minded Professor |
| 1962 | Marcello Mastroianni | Ferdinando Cefalù | Divorce Italian Style |
| 1962 | Stephen Boyd | Sam Rawlins | Billy Rose's Jumbo |
| 1962 | Jimmy Durante | Anthony Wonder / Pop | Billy Rose's Jumbo |
| 1962 | Cary Grant | Philip Shayne | That Touch of Mink |
| 1962 | Charlton Heston | Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator | The Pigeon That Took Rome |
| 1962 | Karl Malden | Herbie Sommers | Gypsy |
| 1962 | Robert Preston | Harold Hill | The Music Man |
| 1962 | James Stewart | Roger Hobbs | Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |
| 1963 | Alberto Sordi | Amedeo Ferretti | To Bed or Not to Bed |
| 1963 | Albert Finney | Tom Jones | Tom Jones |
| 1963 | James Garner | Henry Tyroon | The Wheeler Dealers |
| 1963 | Cary Grant | Brian Cruikshank | Charade |
| 1963 | Jack Lemmon | Nestor Paptu / Lord X | Irma la Douce |
| 1963 | Jack Lemmon | Mr. Hogan | Under the Yum Yum Tree |
| 1963 | Frank Sinatra | Alan Barker | Come Blow Your Horn |
| 1963 | Jonathan Winters | Lennie Pike | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
| 1964 | Rex Harrison | Henry Higgins | My Fair Lady |
| 1964 | Marcello Mastroianni | Domenico Soriano | Marriage Italian-Style |
| 1964 | Peter Sellers | Inspector Jacques Clouseau | The Pink Panther |
| 1964 | Peter Ustinov | Arthur Simpson | Topkapi |
| 1964 | Dick Van Dyke | Bert / Mr. Dawes Sr. | Mary Poppins |
| 1965 | Lee Marvin | Kid Shelleen / Tim Strawn | Cat Ballou |
| 1965 | Jack Lemmon | Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick | The Great Race |
| 1965 | Jerry Lewis | Robert Reed | Boeing Boeing |
| 1965 | Jason Robards | Murray Burns | A Thousand Clowns |
| 1965 | Alberto Sordi | Count Emilio Ponticelli | Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines |
| 1966 | Alan Arkin | Lt. Yuri Rozanov | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
| 1966 | Alan Bates | Jos Jones | Georgy Girl |
| 1966 | Michael Caine | Harry Dean | Gambit |
| 1966 | Lionel Jeffries | Stanley Farquhar | The Spy with a Cold Nose |
| 1966 | Walter Matthau | Willie Gingrich | The Fortune Cookie |
| 1967 | Richard Harris | King Arthur | Camelot |
| 1967 | Richard Burton | Petruchio | The Taming of the Shrew |
| 1967 | Rex Harrison | Doctor John Dolittle | Doctor Dolittle |
| 1967 | Dustin Hoffman | Benjamin Braddock | The Graduate |
| 1967 | Ugo Tognazzi | Sergio Masini | L'immorale |
| 1968 | Ron Moody | Fagin | Oliver! |
| 1968 | Jack Lemmon | Felix Ungar | The Odd Couple |
| 1968 | Walter Matthau | Oscar Madison | The Odd Couple |
| 1968 | Fred Astaire | Finian McLonergan | Finian's Rainbow |
| 1968 | Zero Mostel | Max Bialystock | The Producers |
| 1969 | Peter O'Toole | Arthur Chipping | Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| 1969 | Dustin Hoffman | John | John and Mary |
| 1969 | Lee Marvin | Ben Rumson | Paint Your Wagon |
| 1969 | Steve McQueen | Boon Hogganbeck | The Reivers |
| 1969 | Anthony Quinn | Italo Bombolini | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |

### 1970s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1970 | Albert Finney | Ebenezer Scrooge | Scrooge |
| 1970 | Elliott Gould | Captain John "Trapper" McIntyre | M*A*S*H |
| 1970 | Donald Sutherland | Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce | M*A*S*H |
| 1970 | Richard Benjamin | Jonathan Balser | Diary of a Mad Housewife |
| 1970 | Jack Lemmon | George Kellerman | The Out-of-Towners |
| 1971 | Topol | Tevye | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1971 | Bud Cort | Harold Chasen | Harold and Maude |
| 1971 | Dean Jones | Professor Dooley | The Million Dollar Duck |
| 1971 | Walter Matthau | Joseph P. Kotcher | Kotch |
| 1971 | Gene Wilder | Willy Wonka | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory |
| 1972 | Jack Lemmon | Wendell Armbruster | Avanti! |
| 1972 | Edward Albert | Don Baker | Butterflies Are Free |
| 1972 | Charles Grodin | Lenny Cantrow | The Heartbreak Kid |
| 1972 | Walter Matthau | Pete | Pete 'n' Tillie |
| 1972 | Peter O'Toole | Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes | Man of La Mancha |
| 1973 | George Segal | Steve Blackburn | A Touch of Class |
| 1973 | Carl Anderson | Judas Iscariot | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1973 | Ted Neeley | Jesus Christ | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1973 | Richard Dreyfuss | Curt Henderson | American Graffiti |
| 1973 | Ryan O'Neal | Moses Pray | Paper Moon |
| 1974 | Art Carney | Harry Coombes | Harry and Tonto |
| 1974 | Jack Lemmon | Hildy Johnson | The Front Page |
| 1974 | Walter Matthau | Walter Burns | The Front Page |
| 1974 | James Earl Jones | Rupert Marshall | Claudine |
| 1974 | Burt Reynolds | Paul "Wrecking" Crewe | The Longest Yard |
| 1975 | George Burns | Al Lewis | The Sunshine Boys |
| 1975 | Walter Matthau | Willy Clark | The Sunshine Boys |
| 1975 | Warren Beatty | George Roundy | Shampoo |
| 1975 | James Caan | Billy Rose | Funny Lady |
| 1975 | Peter Sellers | Inspector Jacques Clouseau | The Return of the Pink Panther |
| 1976 | Kris Kristofferson | John Howard | A Star Is Born |
| 1976 | Mel Brooks | Mel Funn | Silent Movie |
| 1976 | Peter Sellers | Inspector Jacques Clouseau | The Pink Panther Strikes Again |
| 1976 | Jack Weston | Gaetano Proclo | The Ritz |
| 1976 | Gene Wilder | George Caldwell | Silver Streak |
| 1977 | Richard Dreyfuss | Elliott Garfield | The Goodbye Girl |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Alvy Singer | Annie Hall |
| 1977 | Mel Brooks | Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke | High Anxiety |
| 1977 | Robert De Niro | Jimmy Doyle | New York, New York |
| 1977 | John Travolta | Tony Manero | Saturday Night Fever |
| 1978 | Warren Beatty | Joe Pendleton | Heaven Can Wait |
| 1978 | Alan Alda | George | Same Time, Next Year |
| 1978 | Gary Busey | Buddy Holly | The Buddy Holly Story |
| 1978 | Chevy Chase | Detective Tony Carlson | Foul Play |
| 1978 | George C. Scott | Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter | Movie Movie |
| 1978 | John Travolta | Danny Zuko | Grease |
| 1979 | Peter Sellers | Chance | Being There |
| 1979 | George Hamilton | Count Dracula | Love at First Bite |
| 1979 | Dudley Moore | George Webber | 10 |
| 1979 | Burt Reynolds | Phil Potter | Starting Over |
| 1979 | Roy Scheider | Joe Gideon | All That Jazz |

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1980 | Ray Sharkey | Vinnie Vacarri | The Idolmaker |
| 1980 | Neil Diamond | Yussel Rabinovitch | The Jazz Singer |
| 1980 | Tommy Lee Jones | Doolittle Mooney Lynn | Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 1980 | Paul Le Mat | Melvin Dummar | Melvin and Howard |
| 1980 | Walter Matthau | Miles Kendig | Hopscotch |
| 1981 | Dudley Moore | Arthur Bach | Arthur |
| 1981 | Alan Alda | Jack Burroughs | The Four Seasons |
| 1981 | George Hamilton | Don Diego Vega / Zorro / Wigglesworth / Ramon Vega | Zorro, The Gay Blade |
| 1981 | Steve Martin | Arthur Parker | Pennies from Heaven |
| 1981 | Walter Matthau | Dan Snow | First Monday in October |
| 1982 | Dustin Hoffman | Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels | Tootsie |
| 1982 | Peter O'Toole | Alan Swann | My Favorite Year |
| 1982 | Al Pacino | Ivan Travalian | Author! Author! |
| 1982 | Robert Preston | Caroll "Toddy" Todd | Victor Victoria |
| 1982 | Henry Winkler | Chuck | Night Shift |
| 1983 | Michael Caine | Frank Bryant | Educating Rita |
| 1983 | Woody Allen | Leonard Zelig | Zelig |
| 1983 | Tom Cruise | Joel Goodson | Risky Business |
| 1983 | Eddie Murphy | Billy Ray Valentine | Trading Places |
| 1983 | Mandy Patinkin | Avigdor | Yentl |
| 1984 | Dudley Moore | Rob Salinger | Micki & Maude |
| 1984 | Steve Martin | Roger Cobb | All of Me |
| 1984 | Eddie Murphy | Axel Foley | Beverly Hills Cop |
| 1984 | Bill Murray | Peter Venkman | Ghostbusters |
| 1984 | Robin Williams | Vladimir Ivanoff | Moscow on the Hudson |
| 1985 | Jack Nicholson | Charley Partanna | Prizzi's Honor |
| 1985 | Jeff Daniels | Tom Baxter / Gil Sheperd | The Purple Rose of Cairo |
| 1985 | Griffin Dunne | Paul Hackett | After Hours |
| 1985 | Michael J. Fox | Marty McFly | Back to the Future |
| 1985 | James Garner | Murphy Jones | Murphy's Romance |
| 1986 | Paul Hogan | Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee | Crocodile Dundee |
| 1986 | Matthew Broderick | Ferris Bueller | Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| 1986 | Jeff Daniels | Charles Driggs | Something Wild |
| 1986 | Danny DeVito | Sam Stone | Ruthless People |
| 1986 | Jack Lemmon | Harvey Fairchild | That's Life! |
| 1987 | Robin Williams | Adrian Cronauer | Good Morning, Vietnam |
| 1987 | Nicolas Cage | Ronny Cammareri | Moonstruck |
| 1987 | Danny DeVito | Owen Lift | Throw Momma from the Train |
| 1987 | William Hurt | Tom Grunick | Broadcast News |
| 1987 | Steve Martin | C. D. Bales | Roxanne |
| 1987 | Patrick Swayze | Johnny Castle | Dirty Dancing |
| 1988 | Tom Hanks | Josh Baskin | Big |
| 1988 | Michael Caine | Lawrence Jamieson | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
| 1988 | John Cleese | Archie Leach | A Fish Called Wanda |
| 1988 | Robert De Niro | Jack Walsh | Midnight Run |
| 1988 | Bob Hoskins | Eddie Valliant | Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| 1989 | Morgan Freeman | Hoke Colburn | Driving Miss Daisy |
| 1989 | Billy Crystal | Harry Burns | When Harry Met Sally... |
| 1989 | Michael Douglas | Oliver Rose | The War of the Roses |
| 1989 | Steve Martin | Gil Buckman | Parenthood |
| 1989 | Jack Nicholson | Jack Napier / The Joker | Batman |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 1990 | Gérard Depardieu | Georges Fauré | Green Card |
| 1990 | Macaulay Culkin | Kevin McCallister | Home Alone |
| 1990 | Johnny Depp | Edward Scissorhands | Edward Scissorhands |
| 1990 | Richard Gere | Edward Lewis | Pretty Woman |
| 1990 | Patrick Swayze | Sam Wheat | Ghost |
| 1991 | Robin Williams | Henry "Parry" Sagan | The Fisher King |
| 1991 | Jeff Bridges | Jack Lucas | The Fisher King |
| 1991 | Billy Crystal | Mitch Robbins | City Slickers |
| 1991 | Dustin Hoffman | Captain Hook | Hook |
| 1991 | Kevin Kline | Jeffrey Anderson / Rod Randall | Soapdish |
| 1992 | Tim Robbins | Griffin Mill | The Player |
| 1992 | Nicolas Cage | Jack Singer | Honeymoon in Vegas |
| 1992 | Billy Crystal | Buddy Young Jr. | Mr. Saturday Night |
| 1992 | Marcello Mastroianni | Joe Meledandri | Used People |
| 1992 | Tim Robbins | Bob Roberts | Bob Roberts |
| 1993 | Robin Williams | Daniel Hillard / Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire | Mrs. Doubtfire |
| 1993 | Johnny Depp | Sam | Benny & Joon |
| 1993 | Tom Hanks | Sam Baldwin | Sleepless in Seattle |
| 1993 | Kevin Kline | Dave Kovic / Bill Mitchell | Dave |
| 1993 | Colm Meaney | Dessie Curley | The Snapper |
| 1994 | Hugh Grant | Charles | Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| 1994 | Jim Carrey | Stanley Ipkiss / The Mask | The Mask |
| 1994 | Johnny Depp | Ed Wood | Ed Wood |
| 1994 | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Alex Hesse | Junior |
| 1994 | Terence Stamp | Ralph / Bernadette Bassenger | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| 1995 | John Travolta | Chili Palmer | Get Shorty |
| 1995 | Michael Douglas | Andrew Shepherd | The American President |
| 1995 | Harrison Ford | Linus Larrabee | Sabrina |
| 1995 | Steve Martin | George Banks | Father of the Bride Part II |
| 1995 | Patrick Swayze | Vida Boheme | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar |
| 1996 | Tom Cruise | Jerry Maguire | Jerry Maguire |
| 1996 | Antonio Banderas | Ché | Evita |
| 1996 | Kevin Costner | Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy | Tin Cup |
| 1996 | Nathan Lane | Albert Goldman | The Birdcage |
| 1996 | Eddie Murphy | Professor Sherman Klump / Buddy Love / Papa Klump / Mama Klump / Granny Klump / Ernie Klump / Lance Perkins | The Nutty Professor |
| 1997 | Jack Nicholson | Melvin Udall | As Good as It Gets |
| 1997 | Jim Carrey | Fletcher Reed | Liar Liar |
| 1997 | Dustin Hoffman | Stanley Motss | Wag the Dog |
| 1997 | Samuel L. Jackson | Ordell Robbie | Jackie Brown |
| 1997 | Kevin Kline | Howard Brackett | In & Out |
| 1998 | Michael Caine | Ray Say | Little Voice |
| 1998 | Antonio Banderas | Alejandro Murrieta / Zorro | The Mask of Zorro |
| 1998 | Warren Beatty | Senator Jay Billington Bulworth | Bulworth |
| 1998 | John Travolta | Governor Jack Stanton | Primary Colors |
| 1998 | Robin Williams | Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams | Patch Adams |
| 1999 | Jim Carrey | Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton | Man on the Moon |
| 1999 | Robert De Niro | Paul Vitti | Analyze This |
| 1999 | Rupert Everett | Lord Arthur Goring | An Ideal Husband |
| 1999 | Hugh Grant | William "Will" Thacker | Notting Hill |
| 1999 | Sean Penn | Emmet Ray | Sweet and Lowdown |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2000 | George Clooney | Ulysses Everett McGill | O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| 2000 | Jim Carrey | The Grinch | How the Grinch Stole Christmas |
| 2000 | John Cusack | Rob Gordon | High Fidelity |
| 2000 | Robert De Niro | Jack Byrnes | Meet the Parents |
| 2000 | Mel Gibson | Nick Marshall | What Women Want |
| 2001 | Gene Hackman | Royal Tenenbaum | The Royal Tenenbaums |
| 2001 | Hugh Jackman | Leopold Hausmann | Kate & Leopold |
| 2001 | Ewan McGregor | Christian | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | Hedwig Robinson | Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| 2001 | Billy Bob Thornton | Terry Lee Collins | Bandits |
| 2002 | Richard Gere | Billy Flynn | Chicago |
| 2002 | Nicolas Cage | Charlie Kaufman / Donald Kaufman | Adaptation. |
| 2002 | Kieran Culkin | Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. | Igby Goes Down |
| 2002 | Hugh Grant | Will Freeman | About a Boy |
| 2002 | Adam Sandler | Barry Egan | Punch-Drunk Love |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Bob Harris | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Jack Black | Dewey Finn | School of Rock |
| 2003 | Johnny Depp | Captain Jack Sparrow | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| 2003 | Jack Nicholson | Harry Sanborn | Something's Gotta Give |
| 2003 | Billy Bob Thornton | Willie T. Stokes | Bad Santa |
| 2004 | Jamie Foxx | Ray Charles | Ray |
| 2004 | Jim Carrey | Joel Barish | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2004 | Paul Giamatti | Miles Raymond | Sideways |
| 2004 | Kevin Kline | Cole Porter | De-Lovely |
| 2004 | Kevin Spacey | Bobby Darin | Beyond the Sea |
| 2005 | Joaquin Phoenix | Johnny Cash | Walk the Line |
| 2005 | Pierce Brosnan | Julian Noble | The Matador |
| 2005 | Jeff Daniels | Bernard Berkman | The Squid and the Whale |
| 2005 | Johnny Depp | Willy Wonka | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 2005 | Nathan Lane | Max Bialystock | The Producers |
| 2005 | Cillian Murphy | Patrick "Kitten" Braden | Breakfast on Pluto |
| 2006 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat Sagdiyev | Borat |
| 2006 | Johnny Depp | Captain Jack Sparrow | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest |
| 2006 | Aaron Eckhart | Nick Naylor | Thank You for Smoking |
| 2006 | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Lola Carter | Kinky Boots |
| 2006 | Will Ferrell | Harold Crick | Stranger than Fiction |
| 2007 | Johnny Depp | Sweeney Todd / Benjamin Barker | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2007 | Ryan Gosling | Lars Lindstrom | Lars and the Real Girl |
| 2007 | Tom Hanks | Charlie Wilson | Charlie Wilson's War |
| 2007 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Jon Savage | The Savages |
| 2007 | John C. Reilly | Dewey Cox | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story |
| 2008 | Colin Farrell | Ray | In Bruges |
| 2008 | Javier Bardem | Juan Antonio | Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| 2008 | James Franco | Saul Silver | Pineapple Express |
| 2008 | Brendan Gleeson | Ken Daley | In Bruges |
| 2008 | Dustin Hoffman | Harvey Shine | Last Chance Harvey |
| 2009 | Robert Downey Jr. | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes |
| 2009 | Matt Damon | Mark Whitacre | The Informant! |
| 2009 | Daniel Day-Lewis | Guido Contini | Nine |
| 2009 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Tom Hansen | (500) Days of Summer |
| 2009 | Michael Stuhlbarg | Larry Gopnik | A Serious Man |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2010 | Paul Giamatti | Barney Panofsky | Barney's Version |
| 2010 | Johnny Depp | The Mad Hatter | Alice in Wonderland |
| 2010 | Johnny Depp | Frank Tupelo | The Tourist |
| 2010 | Jake Gyllenhaal | Jamie Randall | Love & Other Drugs |
| 2010 | Kevin Spacey | Jack Abramoff | Casino Jack |
| 2011 | Jean Dujardin | George Valentin | The Artist |
| 2011 | Brendan Gleeson | Sgt. Gerry Boyle | The Guard |
| 2011 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Adam Lerner | 50/50 |
| 2011 | Ryan Gosling | Jacob Palmer | Crazy, Stupid, Love. |
| 2011 | Owen Wilson | Gil Pender | Midnight in Paris |
| 2012 | Hugh Jackman | Jean Valjean | Les Misérables |
| 2012 | Jack Black | Bernie Tiede | Bernie |
| 2012 | Bradley Cooper | Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr. | Silver Linings Playbook |
| 2012 | Ewan McGregor | Dr. Alfred Jones | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen |
| 2012 | Bill Murray | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hyde Park on Hudson |
| 2013 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Jordan Belfort | The Wolf of Wall Street |
| 2013 | Christian Bale | Irving Rosenfeld | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Bruce Dern | Woodrow "Woody" Grant | Nebraska |
| 2013 | Oscar Isaac | Llewyn Davis | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Joaquin Phoenix | Theodore Twombly | Her |
| 2014 | Michael Keaton | Riggan Thomson | Birdman |
| 2014 | Ralph Fiennes | Monsieur Gustave H. | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | Bill Murray | Vincent MacKenna | St. Vincent |
| 2014 | Joaquin Phoenix | Larry "Doc" Sportello | Inherent Vice |
| 2014 | Christoph Waltz | Walter Keane | Big Eyes |
| 2015 | Matt Damon | Mark Watney | The Martian |
| 2015 | Christian Bale | Michael Burry | The Big Short |
| 2015 | Steve Carell | Mark Baum | The Big Short |
| 2015 | Al Pacino | Danny Collins | Danny Collins |
| 2015 | Mark Ruffalo | Cameron Stuart | Infinitely Polar Bear |
| 2016 | Ryan Gosling | Sebastian Wilder | La La Land |
| 2016 | Colin Farrell | David Matthews | The Lobster |
| 2016 | Hugh Grant | St. Clair Bayfield | Florence Foster Jenkins |
| 2016 | Jonah Hill | Efraim Diveroli | War Dogs |
| 2016 | Ryan Reynolds | Wade Wilson / Deadpool | Deadpool |
| 2017 | James Franco | Tommy Wiseau | The Disaster Artist |
| 2017 | Steve Carell | Bobby Riggs | Battle of the Sexes |
| 2017 | Ansel Elgort | Miles "Baby" | Baby Driver |
| 2017 | Hugh Jackman | P. T. Barnum | The Greatest Showman |
| 2017 | Daniel Kaluuya | Chris Washington | Get Out |
| 2018 | Christian Bale | Dick Cheney | Vice |
| 2018 | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Jack | Mary Poppins Returns |
| 2018 | Viggo Mortensen | Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga | Green Book |
| 2018 | Robert Redford | Forrest Tucker | The Old Man & the Gun |
| 2018 | John C. Reilly | Oliver Hardy | Stan & Ollie |
| 2019 | Taron Egerton | Elton John | Rocketman |
| 2019 | Daniel Craig | Benoit Blanc | Knives Out |
| 2019 | Roman Griffin Davis | Johannes "Jojo" Betzler | Jojo Rabbit |
| 2019 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Rick Dalton | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| 2019 | Eddie Murphy | Rudy Ray Moore | Dolemite Is My Name |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Film |
| 2020 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat Sagdiyev | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm |
| 2020 | James Corden | Barry Glickman | The Prom |
| 2020 | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Alexander Hamilton | Hamilton |
| 2020 | Dev Patel | David Copperfield | The Personal History of David Copperfield |
| 2020 | Andy Samberg | Nyles | Palm Springs |
| 2021 | Andrew Garfield | Jonathan Larson | Tick, Tick... Boom! |
| 2021 | Leonardo DiCaprio | Randall Mindy | Don't Look Up |
| 2021 | Peter Dinklage | Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano |
| 2021 | Cooper Hoffman | Gary Valentine | Licorice Pizza |
| 2021 | Anthony Ramos | Usnavi de la Vega | In the Heights |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | Pádraic Súilleabháin | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Diego Calva | Manny Torres | Babylon |
| 2022 | Daniel Craig | Benoit Blanc | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery |
| 2022 | Adam Driver | Jack Gladney | White Noise |
| 2022 | Ralph Fiennes | Julian Slowik | The Menu |
| 2023 | Paul Giamatti | Paul Hunham | The Holdovers |
| 2023 | Nicolas Cage | Dr. Paul Matthews | Dream Scenario |
| 2023 | Timothée Chalamet | Willy Wonka | Wonka |
| 2023 | Matt Damon | Sonny Vaccaro | Air |
| 2023 | Joaquin Phoenix | Beau Wasserman | Beau Is Afraid |
| 2023 | Jeffrey Wright | Thelonious "Monk" Ellis | American Fiction |
| 2024 | Sebastian Stan | Edward Lemuel / Guy Moratz | A Different Man |
| 2024 | Jesse Eisenberg | David Kaplan | A Real Pain |
| 2024 | Hugh Grant | Mr. Reed | Heretic |
| 2024 | Gabriel LaBelle | Lorne Michaels | Saturday Night |
| 2024 | Jesse Plemons | Robert Fletcher / Daniel / Andrew | Kinds of Kindness |
| 2024 | Glen Powell | Gary Johnson | Hit Man |

## Multiple wins and nominations
### Multiple wins

| Wins | Actor |
| 3 | Jack Lemmon |
| 3 | Robin Williams |
| 2 | Michael Caine |
| 2 | Colin Farrell |
| 2 | Paul Giamatti |
| 2 | Danny Kaye |
| 2 | Dudley Moore |
| 2 | Jack Nicholson |
| 2 | Sacha Baron Cohen |

### Multiple nominations

| Nominations | Actor |
| 10 | Jack Lemmon |
| 9 | Johnny Depp |
| 8 | Walter Matthau |
| 6 | Dustin Hoffman |
| 5 | Jim Carrey |
| 5 | Cary Grant |
| 5 | Hugh Grant |
| 5 | Steve Martin |
| 5 | Robin Williams |
| 4 | Nicolas Cage |
| 4 | Michael Caine |
| 4 | Robert De Niro |
| 4 | Danny Kaye |
| 4 | Kevin Kline |
| 4 | Eddie Murphy |
| 4 | Bill Murray |
| 4 | Jack Nicholson |
| 4 | Peter O'Toole |
| 4 | Joaquin Phoenix |
| 4 | Peter Sellers |
| 4 | John Travolta |
| 3 | Christian Bale |
| 3 | Warren Beatty |
| 3 | Billy Crystal |
| 3 | Matt Damon |
| 3 | Jeff Daniels |
| 3 | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| 3 | Colin Farrell |
| 3 | Albert Finney |
| 3 | Paul Giamatti |
| 3 | Ryan Gosling |
| 3 | Tom Hanks |
| 3 | Bob Hope |
| 3 | Hugh Jackman |
| 3 | Marcello Mastroianni |
| 3 | Dudley Moore |
| 3 | Patrick Swayze |
| 3 | Glenn Ford |
| 2 | Alan Alda |
| 2 | Woody Allen |
| 2 | Fred Astaire |
| 2 | Antonio Banderas |
| 2 | Sacha Baron Cohen |
| 2 | Jack Black |
| 2 | Mel Brooks |
| 2 | Steve Carell |
| 2 | Daniel Craig |
| 2 | Bing Crosby |
| 2 | Tom Cruise |
| 2 | Danny DeVito |
| 2 | Michael Douglas |
| 2 | Richard Dreyfuss |
| 2 | Ralph Fiennes |
| 2 | James Franco |
| 2 | Clark Gable |
| 2 | James Garner |
| 2 | Richard Gere |
| 2 | Brendan Gleeson |
| 2 | Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
| 2 | Charles Grodin |
| 2 | George Hamilton |
| 2 | Rex Harrison |
| 2 | Charlton Heston |
| 2 | Nathan Lane |
| 2 | Harold Lloyd |
| 2 | Lee Marvin |
| 2 | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2 | James Mason |
| 2 | Ewan McGregor |
| 2 | David Niven |
| 2 | Al Pacino |
| 2 | Robert Preston |
| 2 | John C. Reilly |
| 2 | Burt Reynolds |
| 2 | Tim Robbins |
| 2 | Alberto Sordi |
| 2 | Kevin Spacey |
| 2 | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 2 | Gene Wilder |

## Multiple character nominations

Winners are in bold.
* Inspector Jacques Clouseau from The Pink Panther (Peter Sellers, 1963), The Return of the Pink Panther (Peter Sellers, 1975), and The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Peter Sellers, 1976)
* Willy Wonka from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder, 1971), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp, 2005), and Wonka (Timothée Chalamet, 2023)