Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Bob Roberts(1992)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A right-wing folk singer becomes a corrupt politician and runs a crooked election campaign. Only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.



Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 18

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.



Broadway Danny Rose(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In his attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, a hapless talent agent is mistaken as her lover by a jealous gangster.



Six Degrees of Separation(1993)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.



Victor Victoria(1982)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.



Mermaids(1990)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.



Murder by Death(1976)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.



Tumbleweeds(1999)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...



The Pink Panther Strikes Again(1976)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.



The Preacher's Wife(1996)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...



The Mighty(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.





The World According to Garp(1982)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.



The Mirror Has Two Faces(1996)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.



The Return of the Pink Panther(1975)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Inspector Clouseau is put on the case when the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, with the Phantom's trademark glove the only clue.



The Paper(1994)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

NYC tabloid editor Henry is faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges and a tempting job offer.



Barfly(1987)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.



Hello, Dolly!(1969)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



Quest for Camelot(1998)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.




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