Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Bedknobs and Broomsticks(1971)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An apprentice witch, three kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defense of Britain.



Beaches(1988)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.



Heaven Can Wait(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.





Toys(1992)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

When a military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.



Triangle of Sadness(2022)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.



Heartbreak Ridge(1986)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.



Zelig(1983)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.



Ladyhawke(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for ...



Private Benjamin(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.



Barefoot in the Park(1967)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.



Radio Days(1987)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.



The Madness of King George(1994)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...



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.



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.



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 ...



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 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.




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