Best Comedy movies on amazon prime that are golden globes winners or nominees

La La Land(2016)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 96

While waiting for their big breaks, two proper L.A. dreamers, a suavely- charming, soft-spoken jazz pianist and a brilliant, vivacious playwright, attempt to reconcile aspirations and relationship in a magical old-school romance.



The Wolf of Wall Street(2013)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 83

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.



Bridesmaids(2011)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.



About a Boy(2002)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.



50/50(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.



Captain Fantastic(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.



Borat Subsequent Moviefilm(2020)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Borat returns from Kazakhstan to America and this time he reveals more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic and the political elections.



Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



Despicable Me 2(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When Gru, the world's most super-bad turned super-dad has been recruited by a team of officials to stop lethal muscle and a host of Gru's own, He has to fight back with new gadgetry, cars, and more minion madness.



Pride(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.



Love Actually(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.



Arthur Christmas(2011)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Santa's clumsy son Arthur gets put on a mission with St. Nick's father to give out a present they misplaced to a young girl in less than 2 hours.



Late Night(2019)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.



Downsizing(2017)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.



Igby Goes Down(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.



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.




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