Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe winning performance

1959 film directed by Billy Wilder

The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.

2011 film directed by Michel Hazanavicius

2014 film by Alejandro González Iñárritu

2016 film directed by Damien Chazelle

2015 film directed by Ridley Scott

2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola

Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 mockumentary black comedy film directed by Larry Charles, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh journalist traveling through the United States. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of the local customs. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, Borat is the second of four films built around Baron Cohen's characters

2009 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2002 film by Rob Marshall

1964 film by George Cukor

Tootsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal and a story by Gelbart and Don McGuire. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.

1997 film directed by James L. Brooks

1960 film directed by Billy Wilder

1993 American comedy film directed by Chris Columbus

2007 film by Tim Burton

1952 film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

2008 film directed by Martin McDonagh

1996 sports film by Cameron Crowe

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

2000 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2012 film directed by Tom Hooper

1994 film by Mike Newell

1987 film by Barry Levinson

1956 film directed by Michael Anderson

2005 film by James Mangold

1986 film directed by Peter Faiman

1988 film by Penny Marshall

1968 film directed by Carol Reed

2004 American biographical musical drama film

1955 film directed by Billy Wilder

2001 film by Wes Anderson

1961 Italian film

2022 film by Martin McDonagh

2017 film directed by James Franco

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

1985 film by John Huston

The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa in his film debut. Set in 1970, it tells the story of a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students who have nowhere to go during the school's Christmas holiday break. Filming took place from January to March 2022 in Massachusetts. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023.

1991 film by Terry Gilliam

1995 film by Barry Sonnenfeld

1990 film by Peter Weir

1999 film by Miloš Forman

1977 film directed by Herbert Ross

1971 film directed by Norman Jewison

1979 film by Hal Ashby

1954 film by George Cukor

2018 film directed by Adam McKay

1992 film directed by Robert Altman

Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Josh Safdie, who co-wrote it with Ronald Bronstein. Set in the 1950s, it stars Timothée Chalamet as table tennis player Marty Mauser and follows his quest to become world champion. Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher appear in supporting roles.

1965 film by Elliot Silverstein

1981 film directed by Steve Gordon

1978 film by Warren Beatty, Buck Henry

Avanti! (Italian interjection – 'come in!'; ) is a 1972 comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Samuel A. Taylor's play, which had a short run for the 1968 Broadway season. The film follows an American businessman attempting to recover the body of his father from Italy, only to learn his seemingly-straightlaced father died alongside his mistress.

1961 film by Frank Capra

1966 film directed by Norman Jewison

2021 film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda

1976 film directed by Frank Pierson

1974 film by Paul Mazursky

1973 film by Melvin Frank

1967 musical film by Joshua Logan