Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Slim Pickens, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Gene Wilder,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Actors : Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner,
Directors : Paul Weitz,

A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Landau,
Directors : Tim Burton,

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.

Actors : Cher, Susan Sarandon, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : George Miller,

Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Carolyn Saxon,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Actors : Derek Luke, Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt,
Directors : Peter Hedges,

A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.

Actors : Manish Dayal, Helen Mirren, Charlotte Le Bon, Om Puri,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, José María de Tavira,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.

Actors : Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Adam Sandler,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.

Actors : Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Levi Stubbs,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Actors : Parker Posey, Greg Kinnear, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.

Actors : Judy Davis, John Goodman, John Turturro, Michael Lerner,

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Actors : John Ashton, Charles Grodin, Robert De Niro, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Martin Brest,

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Trey Wilson, Tim Robbins, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, James Corden, Kerry Washington,
Directors : Ryan Murphy,

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : John Hughes,

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the Principal thinks of that.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Actors : Helen Hunt, Mel Gibson, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda,
Directors : Nancy Meyers,

After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.

Actors : Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, William Snape,
Directors : Peter Cattaneo,

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.

Actors : Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Beeban Kidron,

After finding love, Bridget Jones questions if she really has everything she's dreamed of having.