Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Hope Lange, Glenn Ford, Arthur O'Connell, Bette Davis,
Directors : Frank Capra,

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, James Caan,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Diana Rigg, George C. Scott,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

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.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Julie Andrews, James Coburn, James Garner,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...

Actors : Ava Gardner, Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs,
Directors : John Huston,

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner,
Directors : Alan Johnson,

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...

Actors : Paul Michael Glaser, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Milton Katselas,

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Gene Saks, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Fred Coe,

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.

Actors : Kathy Baker, Jack Lemmon, Olympia Dukakis, Ted Danson,
Directors : Gary David Goldberg,

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...

Actors : Damien Thomas, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Olu Jacobs,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Bernie Kuby, Ivan Bonar, Alan Alda,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have ...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Natalie Wood, Herschel Bernardi,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...

Actors : Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Actors : Richard Burton, Michael Hordern, Elizabeth Taylor, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Janet Leigh,
Directors : George Sidney,

A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel, Michael Caine,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Sammy Davis Jr., Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...

Actors : Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook, Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Barry Shear,

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.