Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Lucille Ball, Louise Troy,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.

Actors : Maureen Stapleton, Lee Grant, Walter Matthau, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Three vignettes, each set in room 719 of New York's Plaza Hotel, make up this comedy.

Actors : Al Pacino, Bob Dishy, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.

Actors : Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Ryan O'Neal, Sam Wanamaker,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Actors : Damien Thomas, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Olu Jacobs,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Cary Grant,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a ...

Actors : Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo,
Directors : Henry Koster,

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Tippy Walker, Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.

Actors : Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford, Donal Donnelly, Ray Brooks,
Directors : Richard Lester,

In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Roger C. Carmel, Herbert Lom, Michael Caine,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.

Actors : Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Lynn Redgrave,
Directors : Silvio Narizzano,

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook, Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Barry Shear,

A young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.

Actors : John Rae, Colin Farrell, Wendy Allnutt, Malcolm McFee,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

Actors : Ricardo Montalban, Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, George Segal, Glenda Jackson, K Callan,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.

Actors : Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Lois Smith, Ellen Greene,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.