Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Jack Soo, Nancy Kwan, Benson Fong, James Shigeta,
Directors : Henry Koster,

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

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 : Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Jack Kruschen, Debbie Reynolds,
Directors : Charles Walters,

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.

Actors : Dean Martin, Eddie Foy Jr., Judy Holliday, Fred Clark,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls ...

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Glenda Jackson, George Segal, K Callan,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.

Actors : Christopher Gable, Twiggy, Bryan Pringle, Max Adrian,
Directors : Ken Russell,

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.

Actors : Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Goldie Hawn, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Julianne Moore, D.B. Sweeney, Peter Falk,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.

Actors : Pearl Bailey, Diana Sands, Lee Grant, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Virna Lisi, Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans

Actors : Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell, Paul Wallace,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In Chicago, during the Prohibition, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Donna Summer, Chick Vennera, Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn,
Directors : Robert Klane,

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Actors : Ruth White, Sharon Farrell, Steve McQueen, Michael Constantine,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.