Best Comedy movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Sophia Loren, Clark Gable, Marietto, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old...

Actors : Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Michael Anderson Jr.,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

Single and alone, Evie arrives in New York for the annual Postmasters' convention. Staying at her hotel is a womanising salesman newly promoted to his marketing department and trying to ...

Actors : Bea Arthur, Gig Young, Michael Brandon, Bonnie Bedelia,
Directors : Cy Howard,

Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife ...

Actors : Jeff Corey, Tom Berenger, William Katt, John Schuck,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie.

Actors : Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Mac Davis, Jackie Gleason,
Directors : Jeremy Kagan,

Lonnegan is planning to get back at Gondorff and Hooker for bilking him out of half a million. At the same time Gondorff and Hooker are planning their next caper. And their mark is a man ...

Actors : Manuel Alexandre, José Luis López Vázquez, Cassen, Elvira Quintillá,
Directors : Luis García Berlanga,

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...

Actors : Daniel Massey, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Julie Andrews,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Nan Martin, Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...

Actors : Walter Matthau, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, Carol Burnett,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye,
Directors : Charles Walters,

A debt-ridden circus is saved by a well-meaning but inept publicity man.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, David Burns, Jack Warden, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Andy Kaufman, Kenneth McMillan, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Allan Arkush,

Two household robots run away and try to start a family.

Actors : Jim Hutton, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Bob Hope,
Directors : Jack Arnold,

A. J. Niles is the author of a series of 'Bachelor Books'. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But when he runs into trouble with the I.R.S....

Actors : Luciano Pavarotti, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, Kathryn Harrold,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Actors : Darel Glaser, Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Miles Chapin,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.

Actors : Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Don DeFore, Ruth Hussey,
Directors : Melvin Frank,

Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.

Actors : Gabrielle Dorziat, Jackie Gleason, Jean Lefebvre, Katherine Kath,
Directors : Gene Kelly,

Jackie Gleason plays a mute janitor who befriends Nicole, the little daughter of a prostitute.