The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor - Drama.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture...
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The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor - Drama.
The formal title has varied since its inception and as of 2005 is officially called: "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy".
1955: Tom Ewell - The Seven Year Itch
1956: Cantinflas - Around the World in Eighty Days
1957: Frank Sinatra - Pal Joey
1958: Danny Kaye - Me and the Colonel
1959: Jack Lemmon - Some Like It Hot
1990: Gérard Depardieu - Green Card as Georges
1991: Robin Williams - The Fisher King as Parry
1992: Tim Robbins - The Player as Griffin Mill
1993: Robin Williams - Mrs. Doubtfire as Daniel Hillard/Euphegenia Doubtfire
1994: Hugh Grant - Four Weddings and a Funeral as Charles
1995: John Travolta - Get Shorty as Chili Palmer
1996:...
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