Best Teen Comedy movies that are award winners or nominees

Lady Bird(2017)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 95

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.



Almost Famous(2000)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.



Juno(2007)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.



Jojo Rabbit(2019)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.



Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



Big(1988)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Breaking Away(1979)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 68

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



American Graffiti(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.



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.



Steel Magnolias(1989)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.



Tumbleweeds(1999)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...



Hope and Glory(1987)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...



The Goodbye Girl(1977)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.



A Little Romance(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...



A Thousand Clowns(1965)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.



Georgy Girl(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.