Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor in a Comedy

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor in a Comedy
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Comedy
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Broadcast Film Critics Association
First award	Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Final award	Christian Bale for Vice (2018)
Website	www.criticschoice.com

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor in a Comedy was one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.^[1] The award was discontinued after 2018.

Winners and nominees

2010s

Year	Actor	Character	Film	Ref.
2012	Bradley Cooper	Patrizio "Pat" Solitano Jr.	Silver Linings Playbook	[2]
	Jack Black	Bernie Tiede	Bernie
	Paul Rudd	Pete	This Is 40
	Channing Tatum	Greg Jenko / Brad McQuaid	21 Jump Street
	Mark Wahlberg	John Bennett	Ted
2013	Leonardo DiCaprio	Jordan Belfort	The Wolf of Wall Street	[3]
	Christian Bale	Irving Rosenfeld	American Hustle
	James Gandolfini	Albert	Enough Said
	Simon Pegg	Gary King	The World's End
	Sam Rockwell	Owen	The Way, Way Back
2014	Michael Keaton	Riggan Thomson	Birdman	[4]
	Jon Favreau	Carl Casper	Chef
	Ralph Fiennes	Monsieur Gustave H.	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Bill Murray	Vincent MacKenna	St. Vincent
	Chris Rock	Andre Allen	Top Five
	Channing Tatum	Greg Jenko	22 Jump Street
2015	Christian Bale	Michael Burry	The Big Short	[5]
	Steve Carell	Mark Baum	The Big Short
	Robert De Niro	Ben Whitaker	The Intern
	Bill Hader	Dr. Aaron Conners	Trainwreck
	Jason Statham	Rick Ford	Spy
2016	Ryan Reynolds	Wade Wilson / Deadpool	Deadpool	[6]
	Ryan Gosling	Holland March	The Nice Guys
	Hugh Grant	St. Clair Bayfield	Florence Foster Jenkins
	Dwayne Johnson	Robbie Wheirdicht / Bob Stone	Central Intelligence
	Viggo Mortensen	Ben Cash	Captain Fantastic
2017	James Franco	Tommy Wiseau	The Disaster Artist	[7]
	Steve Carell	Bobby Riggs	Battle of the Sexes
	Chris Hemsworth	Thor Odinson	Thor: Ragnarok
	Kumail Nanjiani	Kumail Nanjiani	The Big Sick
	Adam Sandler	Danny Meyerowitz	The Meyerowitz Stories
2018	Christian Bale	Dick Cheney	Vice	[8]
	Jason Bateman	Max Davis	Game Night
	Viggo Mortensen	Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga	Green Book
	John C. Reilly	Oliver Hardy	Stan & Ollie
	Ryan Reynolds	Wade Wilson / Deadpool	Deadpool 2
	Lakeith Stanfield	Cassius "Cash" Green	Sorry to Bother You

Superlatives

Multiple wins

Wins	Actor
2	Christian Bale

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Actor
3	Christian Bale
2	Channing Tatum
	Steve Carell
	Viggo Mortensen
	Ryan Reynolds

References

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4. "Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2015: The winners list". EW.com. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
5. "Awards Central". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
6. Variety Staff (2016-12-12). "'La La Land' Wins Best Picture at Critics' Choice Awards (Complete List)". Variety. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
7. "Complete list of nominees and winners for the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards - The Los Angeles Times". latimes.com. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
8. "See the full list of Critics' Choice Award winners". EW.com. Retrieved 2025-03-28.