Best Comedy movies on amazon prime that are oscar 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 Big Sick(2017)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 89

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.



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.



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.



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.



Licorice Pizza(2021)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.



Coming 2 America(2021)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.



Monsieur Lazhar(2011)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 78

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.




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