Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Joan Plowright, Joely Richardson, Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Nathan Lane, Will Ferrell, Matthew Broderick,
Directors : Susan Stroman,

After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.

Actors : Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Cyril Cusack, Vivian Pickles,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.

Actors : Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Shelley Duvall,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Actors : Dabney Coleman, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.

Actors : Jennifer Tilly, Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri, John Cusack,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.

Actors : Julianne Moore, Rupert Everett, Minnie Driver, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Oliver Parker,

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed....

Actors : Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.

Actors : Kirsty Mitchell, Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Janel Moloney,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker.

Actors : Maureen Lipman, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Michael Caine,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...

Actors : Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Steve Martin,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

Actors : Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards, Maury Chaykin,
Directors : Diane Keaton,

Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home ...

Actors : Edward Norton, Julia Roberts, Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.

Actors : Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, John Hillerman, Madeline Kahn,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Éva Gábor, Bob Newhart, Joe Flynn,

Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.

Actors : Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Eddie Murphy,

During the 1930s, a New York illegal gambling house owner and his associates must deal with strong competition, gangsters and corrupt cops in order to stay in business.

Actors : Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Maggie Smith, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Emile Ardolino,

When a worldly singer witnesses a mob crime, the police hide her as a nun in a traditional convent where she has trouble fitting in.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?