Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Michael Anderson Jr.,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

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 ...

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, Marietto, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

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...

Actors : Jeff Corey, Tom Berenger, William Katt, John Schuck,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, Jane Fonda, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

On December 23rd, Korean War veteran George Haverstick and nurse Isabel Crane - who George lovingly refers to as "Little Bit" - get married in a civil ceremony. They met when George was ...

Actors : Manuel Alexandre, Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá,
Directors : Luis García Berlanga,

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...

Actors : Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan,
Directors : Walter Lang,

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Nan Martin, Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...

Actors : Daniel Massey, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Julie Andrews,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Walter Matthau, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, Carol Burnett,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye,
Directors : Charles Walters,

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.

Actors : Lana Turner, Jim Hutton, Janis Paige, Bob Hope,
Directors : Jack Arnold,

A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S....

Actors : Darel Glaser, Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.

Actors : Luciano Pavarotti, Eddie Albert, Kathryn Harrold, Paola Borboni,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, David Burns, Jack Warden, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Andy Kaufman, Kenneth McMillan, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Allan Arkush,

Two household robots run away and try to start a family.

Actors : Jackie Gleason, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Lefebvre, Katherine Kath,
Directors : Gene Kelly,

Jackie Gleason plays a mute janitor who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute.

Actors : James Coco, Joan Hackett, Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Glenn Jordan,

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.