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2016 Golden Globe Awards Nominations For Best Actor Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The 73rd Golden Globe Awards will honor the best in film and American television of 2015 and will be broadcast live on January 10, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Here is the list of actors nominated under the category of Best Actor Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Source: http://www.goldenglobes.com/

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Christian Bale

Christian Bale

Movie : The Big Short as Michael Burry

Christian Bale is a Welsh actor who has been starring in films since childhood, starring in Empire of the Sun (1987) and The Newsies (1992). As an adult he starred in American Psycho (2000), Reign of Fire (2002), The Prestige (2006), and 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Even though he is best known for his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), he won a Golden Globe for his role in The Fighter (2011) and was further nominated for his performances in American Hustle (2014) and The Big Short (2015).

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Steve Carell

Steve Carell

Movie : The Big Short as Mark Baum

Steve Carell first got his start as a correspondent on The Daily Show (1999-2005) before getting his big break in The 40-Year Old Virgin (2005) as Michael Scott on the television series The Office (2005-2011), for which he won a Golden Globe Award in 2006. HIs other credits include Little Miss Sunshine (2006), The Way, Way Back (2013), and Foxcatcher (2014), the last of which garnered him a nomination for Golden Globe Award.

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Matt Damon

Matt Damon

Movie : The Martian as Mark Watney

Matt Damon is an actor who burst onto the Hollywood scene in the 1990s with a starring role in Good Will Hunting (1997), a film which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination for best actor and a win for Best Screenplay, an award he shared with co-writer Ben Affleck. His other film credits include Saving Private Ryan (1998), Ocean's Eleven (2001), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Departed (2006), and The Martian (2015). He was nominated for his roles in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Invictus (2009), The Informant! (2009), and the television film Behind the Candelabra. He is also the executive producer of the reality show Project Greenlight (2001-2005, 2015), alongside Ben Affleck.

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Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Movie :Danny Collins as Danny Collins

At age 32, Al Pacino burst onto the scene with his role as Michael Corleone in the legendary film The Godfather (1972), a role for which he earned not just his first Golden Globe nomination, but two additonal one for his reprisal of the role in The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990). Besides his role in that trilogy he went on to star in Serpico (1973) (for which he won his first Globe), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Scarface (1983), Dick Tracy (1990), and Scent of a Woman (1992). He also starred on television in Angels in America (2003), You Don't Know Jack (2010), and Phil Spector (2013), earning Golden Globes attention for all three.

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Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo

Movie : Infinitely Polar Bear as Cam Stuart

Best known for his independent film work, Mark Ruffalo is a multi-hyphenate in Hollywood known not just for his acting, but also his work as a director, humanitarian, and political activist. He is best known for his roles in You Can Count on Me (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Zodiac (2007), and as Bruce Banner/The Hulk in The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). He was also nominated for Golden Globe Awards for his roles in The Normal Heart (2014) and Foxcatcher (2015).