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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs is a list of the top 100 funny movies in American cinema. A wide variety of comedies, totalling 500 films, were nominated for the distinction; genres included slapstick, action comedy, screwball comedy, romantic comedy, satire, black comedy, musical comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of errors.
The program was hosted by Pierce Brosnan and had commentary from many Hollywood actors and filmmakers. A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected " Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn ", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind , as the most memorable American ...
Hysterical History (1924–1925) – mostly one-reel spoofs on history with Slim Summerville, Billy Franey and others. IMP (1912–1917) was Universal’s initial flagship company with many comedies, dramas and documentaries, including the “Blinks” series with Charles DeForrest (1913) and some ambitious dramas starring King Baggot .
Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 most exciting movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 12, 2001, during a CBS special hosted by Harrison Ford. Nine Alfred Hitchcock films made the list, making him the most represented director.
This is a list of American comedy films.. Comedy films are separated into two categories: short films and feature films.Any film over 40 minutes long is considered to be of feature-length (although most feature films produced since 1950 are considerably longer, those made in earlier eras frequently ranged from little more than an hour to as little as four reels, which amounted to about 44 ...
Eddie Murphy made a success of comedy-action films including 48 Hrs. (1982) and the Beverly Hills Cop series (1984–1993). Also popular were the films of John Hughes such as the "National Lampoon's Vacation (film series)" and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He would later become best known for the Home Alone series of the early 1990s
Rocky (1976) topped British website Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" online poll in 2012, with 18.7% of the votes. Voters chose from a list of 25 films. [85] It was also voted the best sports movie of all time in a 2020 poll organized by The Athletic. They asked 120 panelists to nominate their favorite sports movies, and then to rate ...
The following is a list of highest grossing comedy films of all time. Only Barbie and Deadpool & Wolverine sits along the highest grossing films of all time, being both 14th and 20th place, respectively. 2018 was the most frequent year, with three films. 50% of films have placed since 2000, and all had a theatrical run since 1987.