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.

* 1990: Best Gospel Vocal Performance, Female – "' Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus "

* 1991 Best Country Instrumental Performance – " So Soft, Your Goodbye "

In the 1990s Limbaugh's books The Way Things Ought to Be ( 1992 ) and See, I Told You So ( 1993 ) made The New York Times Best Seller list.

She went on to co-star with her husband in the 1997 film She's So Lovely, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

In 1993 he won the Bavarian Film Awards for Best Director for Faraway, So Close !.

Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

The instrumental " Behind My Camel ", written by Andy Summers, won the band a Grammy for " Best Rock Instrumental Performance ", while " Don't Stand So Close to Me " won the Grammy for " Best Rock Vocal Performance for Duo or Group ".

Her second album Superwoman included the singles " Rough Day " and " So Over You ", and earned Paulini two nominations at the 2007 Urban Music Awards for ' Best R & B Album ' and ' Best Female Artist '.

In the 1950s, Wise proved adept in several genres, from the science fiction of The Day the Earth Stood Still to the melodramatic So Big, to the 1954 boardroom drama Executive Suite, to the epic Helen of Troy based on Homer, to Susan Hayward's Oscar winner in I Want to Live !, for which he was nominated for Best Director.

She's So Unusual led Lauper to win an award at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, the album also won the Grammy for Best Album Package, this award went to the art director, Janet Perr ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".

True Colors led Lauper to win two awards at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist and Best Album Package for She's So Unusual ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".

His version of the 17th century English song " Lavender Blue " became his first hit and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for its use in the 1949 film, So Dear to My Heart.

A hit version of the song, sung by Burl Ives, was featured in the Walt Disney movie, So Dear to My Heart ( 1948 ) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

According to the press release, " The new collection is titled The Best So Far … because D ' Angelo is far from finished, currently writing and recording his highly anticipated next musical chapter.

The cover art is the same as 2008's Best So Far compilation album.

* The Best So Far ... ( 2008 )

His Christian apologetics books, What's So Great About Christianity and Life After Death: The Evidence, were both New York Times Best Sellers.

" You're So Vain " received Grammy Award nominations for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.

Her popularity spread to other parts of the world when she competed in the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo, Japan, and won the musician's award for " Top Performer " as well as the gold medal for " Best Song " with " Tellement j ' ai d ' amour pour toi " (" I Have So Much Love for You ").