Best movies that are golden globes winners or nominees in best actor - motion picture – musical/comedy category

The Greatest Showman(2017)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.



Moonstruck(1987)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.



Wag the Dog(1997)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.



Jackie Brown(1997)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.



Analyze This(1999)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.



Get Shorty(1995)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.



Ed Wood(1994)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.



Sleepless in Seattle(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.



Liar Liar(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he turns his son down for the last time.



Dirty Dancing(1987)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.



Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



Barney's Version(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.



The Prom(2020)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.



Midnight Run(1988)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.



The Mask of Zorro(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.



Nine(2009)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.



Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.



Saturday Night Fever(1977)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.



The Tourist(2010)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.



Home Alone(1990)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 59

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.




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