The 2000 comedy Best in Show, made by some of the same actors from This is Spinal Tap, was also done as a mockumentary, this time of various contestants at a fictional dog show.

Amarcord, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.

In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).

He appeared in the comedy film A Fish Called Wanda, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Paper Moon, a Depression-era comedy starring Ryan O ' Neal that won his 10-year-old daughter Tatum O ' Neal an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, proved the high-water mark of Bogdanovich's career.

She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

The 2010 comedy Potiche, which starred Deneuve as a submissive wife who gets to run her husband's umbrella factory, received a BAFTA nomination as Best Foreign film.

For her performance in Lasse Hallström's romantic comedy Chocolat ( 2000 ) Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

From the initiation of short subject awards for 1932 until 1935 the terms were " Best Short Subject, comedy " and " Best Short Subject, novelty ".

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Due for release in 2010 is the film The Best and the Brightest, a comedy based in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens.

DeLaria is also known for her touring " musical comedy about perverts ," Dos Lesbos ( 1987 – 1989 ) as well as Girl Friday, a comedy she conceived, wrote, directed and starred in, and which won the 1989 Golden Gull for Best Comedy Group in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Best known for starring in Channel 4's comedy The IT Crowd.

First coming to prominence as an original cast member on the hit TV comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1975, she went on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie portraying the role of Allison " Allie " Lowell.

Michael Curtiz was nominated twice for Best Director, one for this film and the other for the box office hit comedy melodrama Four Daughters.

Operating from a base in Toronto, as well as one maintained in California, he directed high profile actors Al Pacino in ... And Justice for All ( 1979 ), and Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn in the romantic comedy Best Friends ( 1982 ), and he produced The Dogs of War ( 1981 ) and Iceman ( 1984 ).

In 1956, Around the World in Eighty Days, Cantinflas's American debut earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a musical or comedy.

His subsequent television appearances include those in Three Live Wires, That's My Boy-the comedy series starring Mollie Sugden and Christopher Blake-and Best of Enemies.

Best remembered by TV viewers in 1960 as Jackie Gleason's sidekick on Gleason's various 1950s comedy / variety shows, including The Honeymooners " Ed Norton ", it was Carney who received the honors – six Emmies and a Best Actor Oscar ( for 1974's Harry and Tonto ) — to Gleason's none.

Sweetin starred in a TV pilot, Small Bits of Happiness, a dark comedy centered around a suicide prevention specialist ; it won Best Comedy at the 3rd Annual Independent Television Festival, in Los Angeles.

The Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series-Comedy is one of the annual Golden Globe Awards given to the best comedy television series.

* Best Motoring International, a Japanese magazine and video series for automobiles and racing

Kane earned two Emmy Awards for her work in the series and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hester Street.

She recorded a series of bluegrass-inspired albums, beginning with The Grass Is Blue ( 1999 ), winning a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album, and Little Sparrow ( 2001 ), with its cover of Collective Soul's " Shine " winning a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.

While at Ace, he and co-editor Terry Carr began an annual anthology series, The World's Best Science Fiction, the first collection of what they considered the best of the prior year's short stories, from magazines, hardcovers, paperback collections and other anthologies.

The first book in the series, The Dying Earth, was ranked number 16 of 33 " All Time Best Fantasy Novels " by Locus in 1987, based on a poll of subscribers, although it was marketed as a collection and the ISFDB calls it a " loosely connected series of stories ".

Yoji Yamada introduced the commercially successful Tora-San series, while also directing other films, notably the popular The Yellow Handkerchief, which won the first Japan Academy Prize for Best Film in 1978.

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

The series was occasionally the subject of controversy for some of its darker story elements, but was nevertheless the recipient of a number of awards, including the 1992 BAFTA for Best Comedy.

In 2004, the series came tenth in a 2004 BBC poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ".

The series also won the Best Television Sitcom in 1992 from the Royal Television Society and the British Comedy Award for Best Sitcom in 1992, 1995 and 2001.

Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series The Witness, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film.

Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected the Palace as one of his five choices for the 2006 BBC television documentary series Britain's Best Buildings.

* The Rogues ( TV series ), 1964 Golden Globe winner for Best Television Series

In addition to a series of award-winning shorts and featurettes, he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for the feature-length outing Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.

Gellar came into prominence in the late 1990s when she landed significant parts in the successful horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 and played Buffy Summers on the WB / UPN television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she won six Teen Choice Awards and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

The series received the Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story in 1996 for " I Dream of You " as well as the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Comic Book in 1997.

The series won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama three times ( 1994, 1996, and 1997 ), and Duchovny and Anderson received multiple award nominations for their performances.

MPI also issued The Best of The Prisoner, a video of series excerpts.

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose family starred in the reality series Hogan Knows Best and Brooke Knows Best, explains in his 2009 autobiography My Life Outside the Ring, that paying unionized camera crews to film subjects continuously until something telegenic or dramatic occurs would be prohibitively expensive, and that as a result, such shows are " soft-scripted ", and follow a tightly regimented shooting schedule that allows for typical work-related considerations such as lunch breaks.