Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A "typical" day in the life of The Beatles, including many of their famous songs.

Actors : Bill Murray, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman,
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 : Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning,
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 : 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 : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter,
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 : Martin Balsam, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George,
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 : 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 : Chris Eigeman, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Taylor Nichols,
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 : 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 : 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 : Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid,
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 : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews, Emily Watson, 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 : 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 : Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Mike Henry,
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 : 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 : 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 : Susan Coyne, Valerie Mahaffey, 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 : 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 : Mathieu Kassovitz, Audrey Tautou, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Jeunet,

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.