Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

In & Out(1997)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

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



The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 59

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



The Muppet Movie(1979)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

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



Dirty Rotten Scoundrels(1988)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

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



Hair(1979)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.



The Mask(1994)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.



Bicentennial Man(1999)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.



Babe: Pig in the City(1998)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.



Running with Scissors(2006)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.



The Last Detail(1973)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.



City Slickers(1991)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest.



Diner(1982)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore.



The Addams Family(1991)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.



The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.



Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 90

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. An adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer Lee Israel.



The First Wives Club(1996)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.



Over the Moon(2020)

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Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 64

In this animated musical, a girl builds a rocket ship and blasts off, hoping to meet a mythical moon goddess.



Ruthless People(1986)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.



Life(1999)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

The story of wrongfully convicted men (Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence) who discover the value of life after serving 65 years in prison.



Being Julia(2004)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set in '30s London, the film involves stage actors and their experiences with love and revenge.




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