Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Full Monty(1997)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.



Klaus(2019)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg's new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions.



Trading Places(1983)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.



Broadcast News(1987)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.



That Thing You Do!(1996)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.



The Birdcage(1996)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.



Kate & Leopold(2001)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertedly dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.



Beverly Hills Cop(1984)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

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



Pretty Woman(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 56

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.



True Lies(1994)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.



Bulworth(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.



Primary Colors(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

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



Breaking Away(1979)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 67

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



An American Werewolf in London(1981)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.



Splash(1984)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

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.



Romancing the Stone(1984)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.



Working Girl(1988)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

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.



Hook(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

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.



The Fisher King(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

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.



The American President(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

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.




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