Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Breckin Meyer, Liev Schreiber,
Directors : James Mangold,

An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertedly dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.

Actors : John Alderton, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton,
Directors : Nigel Cole,

A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Laura San Giacomo, Jason Alexander, Richard Gere,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.

Actors : Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates, John Travolta, Larry Hagman,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Christopher,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher,
Directors : John Landis,

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, John Candy,
Directors : Ron Howard,

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.

Actors : Zack Norman, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.

Actors : Marianne Sägebrecht, Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

A married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Bob Hoskins,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Actors : Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway.

Actors : Larry Miller, Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.

Actors : Ben Duncan, Samantha Morton, Woody Allen, Sean Penn,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Actors : Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson,
Directors : James Frawley,

Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit.

Actors : Irving Metzman, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Mia Farrow,
Directors : Woody Allen,

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

Actors : Anton Rodgers, Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly,
Directors : Frank Oz,

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.

Actors : Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Kevin Kline, Tom Selleck,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.