Awards season is here! Here are the Golden Globes Best Actor Winners for 2024 in both categories for Best Actor In A Drama and Best Actor In A Musical Or Comedy.
The Golden Globe Awards was started in 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a way to recognize the best of the best in both American and international movies and television. Presented each year around January, the Golden Globes often mark the start of awards season, which typically ends with the Academy Awards—or Oscars—in late February or early March. The Golden Globes trophy, which was most recently redesigned in 2009, is a gold and marble statuette of a gold globe on top of a gold pillar.
The awards show was aired on NBC until 2023 when airing rights were transferred to CBS. In recent years, the award show was criticized for the lack of diversity and ethical practices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Boycotts occurred and NBC opted not to air the 2022 awards show. The Globes has worked to expand its membership, clean up its guidelines and has reorganized itself as a for-profit entity, after the HFPA was wound down and its assets were sold to Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge (both of which are owned by StyleCaster’s parent company Penske Media).
Leading the nominations for film is 2023’s smash box-office hit Barbie. Oppenheimer came in second, with eight nominations, followed by Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things with seven each. Netflix led all film distributors with 13 total noms, followed by Warner Bros. Pictures with 12.
Here are the Golden Globes Best Actor winner predictions for 2024.
Cillian Murphy won Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for his role as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer.
Paul Giamatti won Best Actor Performance in a Film —Comedy or Musical for his performance in The Holdovers as Paul Hunham.
According to GoldDerby, Bradley Cooper leads the predictions with odds of 69/20 while Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy follows with odds of 37/10. Leonardo DiCaprio who played in Killers of The Flower Moon has odds of 5/1, while Rustin’s Colman Domingo’s odds are 6/1, Andrew Scott has odds of 13/2, and Barry Keoghan has odds of 7/1.
According to GoldDerby, Paul Giamatti is predicted to win the Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy with odds of 10/3. Following up are Jeffrey Wright (19/5), Matt Damon (11/2), Timothée Chalamet (11/2), Nicolas Cage (13/2), and Joaquin Phoenix (13/2).
