Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Working Girl(1988)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

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.



The American President(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

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.



Funny Girl(1968)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.



Bicentennial Man(1999)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

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



The Mask(1994)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.



In & Out(1997)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.



Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

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.



The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 59

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.



The Muppet Movie(1979)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit.



Addams Family Values(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.



Babe: Pig in the City(1998)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.



The Last Detail(1973)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.



Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 90

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.



The Addams Family(1991)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.



Over the Moon(2020)

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Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 64

In this animated musical, a girl builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess.



Diner(1982)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.



Life(1999)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

The story of wrongfully convicted men (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence) who discover the value of life after serving 65 years in prison.



The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.



Being Julia(2004)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in '30s London, the film involves stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge.



The First Wives Club(1996)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.




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