As always, we urged the experts to go with their heart and pick personal favourites, films that are part of their lives, not just the ones that meet some ideal of greatness.Īnd guess what? Only three of those best picture-winning comedies made the top 100. We asked 253 film critics – 118 women and 135 men – from 52 countries and six continents a simple: “What do you think are the 10 best comedies of all time?” Films from any country made since cinema was invented were eligible, and BBC Culture did nothing to define in advance what a comedy is we left that to each of the critics to decide. So this year BBC Culture decided to get serious about comedy. The full list of critics who participated – and how they votedĭoes comedy differ from region to region?ĭo men and women find different films funny? What the critics had to say about the top 25 Read more about BBC Culture’s 100 greatest comedies of all time:

Of the 89 winners for best picture, only seven can really be called comedies: It Happened One Night, You Can’t Take It With You, Around the World in 80 Days, The Apartment, Tom Jones, Annie Hall, and Birdman. It’s certainly true that the Academy Awards have routinely overlooked comedy. Is shedding a tear while watching a film a more valuable emotional response than a chuckle? That canon of modern classics showed how very often ‘what makes us laugh’ is neglected when assessing cinematic greatness. Very few comedies made that list, apart from Wes Anderson’s confections and a few Pixar romps. The Joker’s catchphrase was the most common response to BBC Culture’s poll of 177 critics last year to determine the 100 greatest films of the 21st Century.

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