Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Julia Roberts, Laura San Giacomo, Richard Gere, Jason Alexander,
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 : Kathy Bates, Larry Hagman, Emma Thompson, John Travolta,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

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

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 : Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy,
Directors : Martin Brest,

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.

Actors : Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Melanie Griffith,
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 : Samantha Morton, Ben Duncan, 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 : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
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 : Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, Jeff Bridges,
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 : Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

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

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 : 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 : Michael J. Fox, Annette Bening, Michael Douglas, Martin Sheen,
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 : 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 : John Candy, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks,
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 : Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, David Naughton, 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 : Larry Miller, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Eddie Murphy,
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 : Barbra Streisand, Anne Francis, Kay Medford, Omar Sharif,
Directors : William Wyler,

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

Actors : James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Leonard Nimoy,

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Actors : Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Casey Affleck,
Directors : David Lowery,

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Joan Cusack, Christopher Lloyd,
Directors : Barry Sonnenfeld,

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.