Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jason Schwartzman, George Clooney, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

Actors : Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Mark Blum, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Paul Newman, Robert Redford,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.

Actors : John Glover, Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Karen Allen,
Directors : Richard Donner,

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Miriam Margolyes, James Cromwell, Christine Cavanaugh,
Directors : Chris Noonan,

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.

Actors : Monica Potter, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Albert Brooks, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Albert Brooks,

With his career on the skids, a Hollywood screenwriter enlists the aid of a modern-day muse, who proves to test his patience.

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, John Cusack,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Watson, Jason Andrews, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Paul Thomas Anderson,

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements,
Directors : Whit Stillman,

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

Actors : Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Spacey, Hayden Panettiere, Dave Foley,

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

Actors : Jason Segel, Steve Carell, Julie Andrews, Russell Brand,

When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.

Actors : Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Azazel Jacobs,

An aging Manhattan socialite living on what's barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son and cat.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Mike Henry, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Hal Needham,

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Actors : Sally Field, Robert Downey Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Casey Affleck,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.

Actors : Dylan Baker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz,
Directors : Todd Solondz,

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Actors : Bebe Neuwirth, Andie MacDowell, Gérard Depardieu, Gregg Edelman,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.