Best Comedy movies on amazon prime that are award winners or nominees

Love and Monsters(2020)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Seven years after he survived the monster apocalypse, lovably hapless Joel leaves his cozy underground bunker behind on a quest to reunite with his ex.



Hotel Transylvania(2012)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter.



Funny Girl(1968)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfield girl, subsequent career and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.



Dirty Rotten Scoundrels(1988)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.



Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



Soapdish(1991)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.



Despicable Me(2010)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 36

When a criminal mastermind uses a trio of orphan girls as pawns for a grand scheme, he finds their love is profoundly changing him for the better.



The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.



Lars and the Real Girl(2007)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 35

A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.



Harold and Maude(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.



Paper Moon(1973)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.



Six Degrees of Separation(1993)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.



Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.



Irma la Douce(1963)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In Paris, a former policeman falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of that life by paying for all of her time.



The Fortune Cookie(1966)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.



Charade(1963)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?



The Front(1976)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum(1966)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.



She-Devil(1989)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.




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