Who Will Win The 2022 Golden Globe For Best Actor In A Musical Or Comedy Film?

Here are the versatile actors considered for Best Comedy or Musical Actor at the 2022 Golden Globes. From first-time nominees to Hollywood icons, this year's nominees have delivered great comedic performances with heart. 

Newcomers like Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza and Anthony Ramos in the musical In the Heights add to a long list and storied list of memorable nominated performances while Leonardo Dicaprio's studied portrayal of a low level astronomer in the satirical Don't Look Up showcases his multifaceted acting. Other strong contenders for the award include Andrew Garfield in tick, tick... BOOM! and Peter Dinklage in Cyrano.

Make your 2022 Golden Globes predictions by voting up the nominees you think will win, and don't miss the 79th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 9, 2022.

Photo: Don't Look Up / Netflix

  • Andrew Garfield
    Photo: tick, tick...BOOM! / Netflix

    Andre Garfield won Best Actor - Motion Picture -- Musical/Comedy, his first Golden Globe win out of three nominations.

     

    as Jonathan Larson in tick, tick... BOOM! 

    Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is a British-American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Tony Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award and two British Academy Film Awards. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Epsom, England, Garfield began his career on the UK stage and in television productions. He made his feature-film debut in the 2007 ensemble drama Lions for Lambs. Also that year, his performance in the television film Boy A earned him a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He came to international attention in 2010 with supporting roles in the drama The Social Network, for which he received a BAFTA nomination for his portrayal ...more
    • Age: 39
    • Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States of America
    4 votes
  • Leonardo DiCaprio
    Photo: Don't Look Up / Netflix

    as Randall Mindy in Don't Look Up 

    Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (, Italian: [diˈkaːprjo]; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor, film producer, and environmentalist. His accolades include an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. DiCaprio began his career by appearing in television commercials in the late 1980s. He next had recurring roles in various television series, such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains. He debuted in his film career by starring as Josh in Critters 3 (1991). He starred in the film adaptation of the memoir This Boy's Life (1993), and received acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He gained public ...more
    • Age: 48
    • Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
    8 votes
  • Peter Dinklage
    Photo: Cyrano / United Artists Releasing

    as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano 

    Peter Hayden Dinklage (; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor and producer. Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He has since appeared in Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007), Penelope (2008), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Pixels (2015), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ...more
    • Age: 53
    • Birthplace: Morristown, New Jersey, United States of America
    5 votes
  • Anthony Ramos
    Photo: In the Heights / Warner Bros. Pictures
    4
    1 VOTES

    Anthony Ramos

    as Usnavi de la Vega in In the Heights 

    Anthony Ramos Martinez (born November 1, 1991) is an American actor, singer and songwriter. In 2015, he originated the dual roles of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the Broadway musical Hamilton. Ramos also appeared in the 2020 DreamWorks Animation film Trolls World Tour as techno ruler King Trollex, and in the film version of In the Heights as Usnavi.
    • Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
    1 votes
  • Cooper Hoffman
    Photo: Licorice Pizza / United Artists Releasing
    5
    3 VOTES

    Cooper Hoffman

    as Gary Valentine in Licorice Pizza 

     

    Cooper Alexander Hoffman is the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
    • Age: 20
    3 votes