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

Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.



Meet the Parents(2000)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.



Moulin Rouge!(2001)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.



Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl(2003)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.



Charlie Wilson's War(2007)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.



The Savages(2007)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.



In Bruges(2008)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.



Pineapple Express(2008)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer's boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.



Battle of the Sexes(2017)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 83

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.



O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2000)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.



Stranger Than Fiction(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.



Sherlock Holmes(2009)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.



The Guard(2011)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an up-tight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



The Informant!(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.



Alice in Wonderland(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.



Florence Foster Jenkins(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



Hedwig and the Angry Inch(2001)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.



Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest(2006)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.




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