The Goulet Award

The Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year Award recognizes the person who best-represents or contributes to the Mustached American community during the prior year, and is named in honor of the late and legendary performer Robert Goulet, whose voice, trademark mustache, sense of humor, and black leather jackets represented a quadruple-threat of talent the American Mustache Institute is proud to salute.

John Axford: 2011 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year

On October 29, 2011, by AMI Staff

Controversy Erupts As Canadian Wins Award Named for Canadian, But Not Supposed to Be Won by Foreigner CHICAGO – John Axford, the pitcher who this year led the Milwaukee Brewers to the National League Championship Series for the first time in 29 years, was named the 2011 Mustached American of the Year by the American [...]

2010 Goulet Award Winner — Brian Sheets

On December 5, 2010, by AMI Staff

After claiming 22 percent of more than 500,000 online votes, Brian Sheets, a firefighter from Orlando, FL who founded a mustache-based charity, was named the American Mustache Institute’s “Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year” for 2010. Sheets outdistanced a strong group of well-deserving candidates including North Dakota Governor and U.S. Senator-elect John Hoeven, [...]

2009 Goulet Award Winner — Clay Zavada

On October 30, 2009, by AMI Staff

Wearing a $3 crown and his dapper, trademark handlebar mustache that terrorized Major League hitters during the 2009 Major League Baseball season, Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher Clay Zavada received the American Mustache Institute’s 2009 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year, presented by Quicken®. In front of a crowd of roughly 1,000 at ‘Stache [...]

2008 Goulet Award Winner — Tim Galvin

On October 30, 2008, by AMI Staff

Tim Galvin, a retired New York City policeman who was known along his beat simply as “The ‘Stache,” was voted the 2008 winner of the American Mustache Institute’s “Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year,” sponsored by Just For Men® Haircolor. The award recognizes the most impactful Mustached American of the past year. Galvin [...]