Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : Jessica Tandy, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.

Actors : Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.

Actors : Hayley Mills, Charles Ruggles, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith,
Directors : David Swift,

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

Actors : Helen Hunt, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Billy Crystal,

The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.

Actors : Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Brian Keith, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Hal Needham,

Hollywood aging stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky and under-recognized line of work.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, George Segal,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

Actors : Frankie Vaughan, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Yves Montand,
Directors : George Cukor,

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Actors : Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Elizabeth Cheshire,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Actors : Julia Foster, Millicent Martin, Michael Caine, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Actors : Audrey Meadows, Doris Day, Gig Young, Cary Grant,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Actors : Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, June Squibb,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.

Actors : Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Actors : Bette Midler, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North ...

Actors : Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.

Actors : Edie Adams, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Actors : Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Hugh Owens, Arthur Lowe,
Directors : Peter Medak,

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.