
Golden Globe Awards
Most Wins for Best Actor (Musical/Comedy)
This list features actors with the most wins for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe Awards.
RANK | ACTOR | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEARS | |
1 | Jack Lemmon | 10 | 3 | Some Like It Hot (1959) The Apartment (1960) Avanti! (1972) | |
2 | Robin Williams | 5 | 3 | Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) The Fisher King (1991) Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) | |
3 | Danny Kaye | 4 | 2 | On the Riviera (1951) Me and the Colonel (1958) | |
4 | Jack Nicholson | 4 | 2 | Prizzi’s Honor (1985) As Good As It Gets (1997) | |
5 | Michael Caine | 4 | 2 | Educating Rita (1983) Little Voice (1998) | |
6 | Dudley Moore | 3 | 2 | Arthur (1981) Micki & Maude (1984) | |
7 | Colin Farrell | 3 | 2 | In Bruges (2008) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | |
8 | Paul Giamatti | 3 | 2 | Barney’s Version (2010) The Holdovers (2023) | |
9 | Sacha Baron Cohen | 2 | 2 | Borat (2006) Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) | |
10 | Johnny Depp | 9 | 1 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | |
11 | Walter Matthau | 8 | 1 | Hopscotch (1980) | |
12 | Dustin Hoffman | 6 | 1 | Tootsie (1982) | |
13 | Hugh Grant | 5 | 1 | Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) | |
14 | Jim Carrey | 5 | 1 | Man on the Moon (1999) | |
15 | Peter O'Toole | 4 | 1 | Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) | |
16 | Peter Sellers | 4 | 1 | The Sunshine Boys (1975) | |
17 | John Travolta | 4 | 1 | Saturday Night Fever (1977) | |
18 | Bill Murray | 4 | 1 | Lost in Translation (2003) | |
19 | Joaquin Phoenix | 4 | 1 | Walk the Line (2005) | |
20 | Leonardo DiCaprio | 4 | 1 | The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) | |
21 | Glenn Ford | 3 | 1 | Pocketful of Miracles (1961) | |
22 | Marcello Mastroianni | 3 | 1 | Divorce Italian Style (1962) | |
23 | Albert Finney | 3 | 1 | Scrooge (1970) | |
24 | Warren Beatty | 3 | 1 | Heaven Can Wait (1978) | |
25 | Tom Hanks | 3 | 1 | Big (1988) | |
26 | Hugh Jackman | 3 | 1 | Les Misérables (2012) | |
27 | Christian Bale | 3 | 1 | The Big Short (2015) | |
28 | Matt Damon | 3 | 1 | The Martian (2015) | |
29 | Ryan Gosling | 3 | 1 | La La Land (2016) | |
30 | Fred Astaire | 2 | 1 | Three Little Words (1950) | |
31 | David Niven | 2 | 1 | The Moon Is Blue (1953) | |
32 | James Mason | 2 | 1 | A Star Is Born (1954) | |
33 | Alberto Sordi | 2 | 1 | To Bed or Not to Bed (1963) | |
34 | Rex Harrison | 2 | 1 | My Fair Lady (1964) | |
35 | Lee Marvin | 2 | 1 | Cat Ballou (1965) | |
36 | Richard Dreyfuss | 2 | 1 | The Goodbye Girl (1977) | |
37 | Tom Cruise | 2 | 1 | Jerry Maguire (1996) | |
38 | George Clooney | 2 | 1 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | |
39 | Richard Gere | 2 | 1 | Chicago (2002) | |
40 | James Franco | 2 | 1 | The Disaster Artist (2017) | |
41 | Timothée Chalamet | 2 | 1 | Marty Supreme (2025) | |
42 | Donald O’Connor | 1 | 1 | Singin' in the Rain (1952) | |
43 | Tom Ewell | 1 | 1 | The Seven Year Itch (1955) | |
44 | Cantinflas | 1 | 1 | Around the World in 80 Days (1956) | |
45 | Frank Sinatra | 1 | 1 | Pal Joey (1957) | |
46 | Alan Arkin | 1 | 1 | The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) | |
47 | Richard Harris | 1 | 1 | Camelot (1967) | |
48 | Ron Moody | 1 | 1 | Oliver! (1968) | |
49 | Topol | 1 | 1 | Fiddler on the Roof (1971) | |
50 | George Segal | 1 | 1 | A Touch of Class (1973) | |
51 | Art Carney | 1 | 1 | Harry and Tonto (1974) | |
52 | George Burns | 1 | 1 | The Sunshine Boys (1975) | |
53 | Kris Kristofferson | 1 | 1 | A Star Is Born (1976) | |
54 | Ray Sharkey | 1 | 1 | The Idolmaker (1980) | |
55 | Paul Hogan | 1 | 1 | Crocodile Dundee (1986) | |
56 | Morgan Freeman | 1 | 1 | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) | |
57 | Gérard Depardieu | 1 | 1 | Green Card (1990) | |
58 | Tim Robbins | 1 | 1 | The Player (1992) | |
59 | Gene Hackman | 1 | 1 | The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) | |
60 | Jamie Foxx | 1 | 1 | Ray (2004) | |
61 | Robert Downey Jr. | 1 | 1 | Sherlock Holmes (2009) | |
62 | Jean Dujardin | 1 | 1 | The Artist (2011) | |
63 | Michael Keaton | 1 | 1 | Birdman (2014) | |
64 | Taron Egerton | 1 | 1 | Rocketman (2019) | |
65 | Andrew Garfield | 1 | 1 | Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) | |
66 | Sebastian Stan | 1 | 1 | A Different Man (2024) |
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