6 Best Golden Globe Best Actor Musical or Comedy Winning Movies

By Vlad Zakh · June 12, 2026

The Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy has gone to some wonderfully sharp performances. Birdman has a washed-up superhero actor risking everything on a Broadway play, Borat sends a bumbling Kazakh journalist across America, and Walk the Line follows a young musician’s rise shadowed by addiction. Vice, As Good as It Gets and Tootsie round out the six.

Vice (2018)

IMDb ★ 7.2 RT 64% Metacritic 61

Dick Cheney's quiet accumulation of vice-presidential power, told with deliberate stylistic excess.

Directed by Adam McKay · 2h 12m · Rated R

Won 1 Oscar35 wins & 139 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

TMDB ★ 7.8

A washed-up actor famous for playing a superhero risks everything to stage a serious Broadway play.

Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 2h 00m · Rated R

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

IMDb ★ 7.4 RT 90% Metacritic 89

A bumbling Kazakh journalist travels across America and exposes the absurdities of its culture along the way.

Directed by Larry Charles · 1h 24m · Rated R

Nominated for 1 Oscar20 wins & 34 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Walk the Line (2005)

IMDb ★ 7.8 RT 83% Metacritic 72

Johnny Cash's troubled rise and his decades-long pursuit of June Carter.

Directed by James Mangold · 2h 16m · Rated PG-13

Won 1 Oscar45 wins & 48 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Cinemax Apple TV channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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As Good as It Gets (1997)

TMDB ★ 7.6

A misanthropic, obsessive-compulsive writer's life is transformed by a waitress and his gay artist neighbour.

Directed by James L. Brooks · 2h 19m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Tootsie (1982)

TMDB ★ 7.3

An unemployable actor lands his biggest role yet by disguising himself as a woman.

Directed by Sydney Pollack · 1h 56m · Rated PG

Where to watch

Stream: Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Golden Globe Best Actor Musical or Comedy Winning Movies

Vice (2018)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Walk the Line (2005)

As Good as It Gets (1997)

Tootsie (1982)

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