Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Goodbye, Columbus(1969)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved...



You're a Big Boy Now(1966)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.



Starting Over(1979)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.



The Sterile Cuckoo(1969)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams...



Babes in Toyland(1961)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...



Buster(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.



Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.



Darling Lili(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.



Claudine(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.



Travels with My Aunt(1972)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...



Divorce American Style(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they ...



Hot Millions(1968)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.



The Happiest Millionaire(1967)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the ...



Kotch(1971)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...



A New Kind of Love(1963)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.



A Little Night Music(1977)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik ...



Chapter Two(1979)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...



Come Blow Your Horn(1963)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Leaving home, young Buddy Baker arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan, a swinging girl chasing bachelor who prefers his carefree life to ...



It Started in Naples(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old...



Dear Heart(1964)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ...




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