Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

1990s

*"'1996: Tom Cruise - "Jerry Maguire"
**Nathan Lane - "The Birdcage"
**Eddie Murphy - "The Nutty Professor"
**Jack Nicholson - "Mars Attacks!"
**Stanley Tucci - "Big Night"
*"'1997: Jack Nicholson - "As Good as It Gets"
**Robert Carlyle - "The Full Monty"
**Dustin Hoffman - "Wag the Dog"
**Tommy Lee Jones - "Men in Black"
**Kevin Kline - "In & Out"
**Howard Stern - "Private Parts"
*"'1998: Ian Bannen - "Waking Ned"
**Warren Beatty - "Bulworth"
**Jeff Bridges - "The Big Lebowski"
**Michael Caine - "Little Voice"
**David Kelly - "Waking Ned"
**Robin Williams - "Patch Adams"
*"'1999: Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Flawless"
**Jim Carrey - "Man on the Moon"
**Johnny Depp - "Sleepy Hollow"
**Rupert Everett - "An Ideal Husband"
**Sean Penn - "Sweet and Lowdown"
**Steve Zahn - "Happy, Texas"

2000s

*"'2000: Michael Douglas - "Wonder Boys"
**George Clooney - "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
**Richard Gere - "Dr T and the Women"
**Christopher Guest - "Best in Show"
**Eddie Murphy - ""
**Edward Norton - "Keeping the Faith"
*"'2001: Ewan McGregor - "Moulin Rouge!"
**Colin Firth - "Bridget Jones's Diary"
**Gene Hackman - "The Royal Tenenbaums"
**John Cameron Mitchell - "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
**Ben Stiller - "Zoolander"
**Chris Tucker - "Rush Hour 2"
*"'2002: Kieran Culkin - "Igby Goes Down"
**Nicolas Cage - "Adaptation."
**Hugh Grant - "About a Boy"
**Sam Rockwell - "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"
**Adam Sandler - "Punch-Drunk Love"
**Aaron Stanford - "Tadpole"
*"'2003: Bill Murray - "Lost in Translation"
**Jack Black - "School of Rock"
**Johnny Depp - ""
**Robert Downey Jr. - "The Singing Detective"
**Paul Giamatti - "American Splendor"
**Billy Bob Thornton - "Bad Santa"
*"'2004: Jamie Foxx - "Ray"
**Gerard Butler - "The Phantom of the Opera"
**Jim Carrey - "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
**Paul Giamatti - "Sideways"
**Kevin Kline - "De-Lovely"
**Bill Murray - "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
*"'2005: Terrence Howard - "Hustle & Flow"
**Kevin Costner - "The Upside of Anger"
**Robert Downey Jr. - "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
**Cillian Murphy - "Breakfast on Pluto"
**Bill Murray - "Broken Flowers"
**Joaquin Phoenix - "Walk the Line"
*"'2006: Joseph Cross - "Running with Scissors"
**Sacha Baron Cohen - ""
**Aaron Eckhart - "Thank You for Smoking"
**Will Ferrell - "Stranger than Fiction"
**Peter O'Toole - "Venus"
*"'2007: Ryan Gosling - "Lars and the Real Girl"
**Don Cheadle - "Talk to Me"
**Richard Gere - "The Hoax"
**Ben Kingsley - "You Kill Me"
**Clive Owen - "Shoot 'Em Up"
**Seth Rogen - "Knocked Up"