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

is the first recipient of this award for Three Little Words (1950) won for ''Singin' in the Rain'' (1952) won for The Moon Is Blue (1953) won for Pal Joey (1957) won thrice for Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), and Avanti! (1972) won for Divorce Italian Style (1962) won for My Fair Lady (1964) won for The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) won for Camelot (1967) won for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) won for Fiddler on the Roof (1971) won for The Sunshine Boys (1975) won for The Sunshine Boys (1975) won for A Star is Born (1976) won for The Goodbye Girl (1977) won for Heaven Can Wait (1978) won for Being There (1979) won twice for Arthur (1981) and Micki & Maude (1984) won for Tootsie (1982) won for Educating Rita (1983) and Little Voice (1999) won twice for ''Prizzi's Honor (1985) and As Good as It Gets'' (1997) won for Crocodile Dundee (1986) won thrice for Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), The Fisher King (1991), and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) won for Big (1988) won for Driving Miss Daisy (1989) won for The Player (1992) won for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) won for Get Shorty (1995) won for Jerry Maguire (1996) won for Man on the Moon (1999) won for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) won for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) won for Chicago (2002) won for Lost in Translation (2003) won for Ray (2004) won for Walk the Line (2005) won twice for Borat (2006) and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) won for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) won twice for In Bruges (2008) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) won for Sherlock Holmes (2009) won twice for ''Barney's Version (2010) and The Holdovers'' (2023) won for The Artist (2011) won for Les Misérables (2012) won for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) won for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) won for The Martian (2015) won for La La Land (2016) won for Vice (2018) won for Rocketman (2019) won for Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) won for A Different Man (2024) 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Multiple wins and nominations==

Multiple wins Multiple nominations == 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) • Benoit Blanc from Knives Out (Daniel Craig, 2019) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Daniel Craig, 2022) ==Firsts==

• Cantinflas became the first Latino as well as the first Mexican actor to win in 1957. • Marcello Mastroianni became the first actor to win for a foreign language/non-English language performance in 1963. • Topol became the first actor of Asian descent to win in 1972. • Morgan Freeman became the first actor of African descent to win in 1990. • Sacha Baron Cohen became the first actor to win for playing the same character twice in 2006 and 2021. ==See also==