Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : John Alderton, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton,
Directors : Nigel Cole,

A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.

Actors : Eddie Murphy, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Lisa Eilbacher,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Laura San Giacomo, Jason Alexander, Richard Gere,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

Actors : Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates, John Travolta, Larry Hagman,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Christopher,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher,
Directors : John Landis,

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : Marianne Sägebrecht, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Bob Hoskins,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Actors : Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway.

Actors : Larry Miller, Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.

Actors : Ben Duncan, Samantha Morton, Woody Allen, Sean Penn,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Casey Affleck, Robert Redford,
Directors : David Lowery,

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

Actors : Beverly D'Angelo, John Savage, Annie Golden, Treat Williams,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.

Actors : James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Actors : Oliver Platt, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Robin Williams,
Directors : Chris Columbus,

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.