Best Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

The Absent Minded Professor(1961)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Same Time, Next Year(1978)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have ...



Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...



Pirates(1986)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



The Taming of the Shrew(1967)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.



Author! Author!(1982)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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.



Gambit(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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.



Georgy Girl(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

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.



Flower Drum Song(1961)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 11

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.



What a Way to Go!(1964)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 7

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.



The Grass Is Greener(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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 ...



The Knack ...and How to Get It(1965)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 10

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 ...



Sweet Charity(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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 ...



Oh! What a Lovely War(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 10

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.



Wild in the Streets(1968)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 14

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



The World of Henry Orient(1964)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

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.



The Owl and the Pussycat(1970)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A stuffy author enters into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foul-mouthed, freewheeling prostitute.



Bells Are Ringing(1960)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls ...



The Scalphunters(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

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.



Garbo Talks(1984)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 14

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




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