Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson,

When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.

Actors : Hope Davis, Kathy Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Alexander Payne,

A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.

Actors : Jack Black, Adam Pascal, Mike White, Joan Cusack,
Directors : Richard Linklater,

After being kicked out of a rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of a strict elementary private school, only to try and turn it into a rock band.

Actors : Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell,

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Actors : Rose Byrne, Terry Crews, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph,
Directors : Paul Feig,

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

Actors : Lily Collins, Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Pelphrey,
Directors : David Fincher,

1930's Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Actors : Noah Emmerich, Laura Linney, Jim Carrey, Ed Harris,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

Actors : Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, John Cusack,
Directors : Spike Jonze,

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

Actors : Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Mary Gibbs, John Goodman,

In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think.

Actors : Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch,
Directors : Terry Zwigoff,

With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Gambon,
Directors : Robert Altman,

The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.

Actors : Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose, Paul Giamatti,

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Actors : Cameron Diaz, Julie Andrews, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy,

Princess Fiona's parents invite her and Shrek to dinner to celebrate her marriage. If only they knew the newlyweds were both ogres.

Actors : Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind,

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

Actors : Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad,

When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition.

Actors : Jason Statham, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy,
Directors : Paul Feig,

A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

Actors : Bill Hader, Amy Schumer, Colin Quinn, Brie Larson,
Directors : Judd Apatow,

Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.

Actors : Josh Brolin, Ralph Fiennes, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich,

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.

Actors : Tim Allen, Jim Varney, Tom Hanks, Don Rickles,
Directors : John Lasseter,

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Wilkinson,
Directors : John Madden,

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.