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Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Allen in New York, 2006

Born Allen Stewart KonigsbergDecember 1, 1935The Bronx, New York, U.S.

Nationality American

Occupation Actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, musician, playwright

Years active 1950–present

Home town New York City

Spouse(s) • Harlene Susan Rosen (1956–62)• Louise Lasser (1966–70)• Soon-Yi Previn (1997–present)

Partner(s) • Diane Keaton (1970–71)• Mia Farrow (1980–92)• Soon-Yi Previn (1992–97)

Children • Ronan Farrow (son)• Bechet Dumaine Allen (daughter)• Manzie Tio Allen (daughter)

Relatives Letty Aronson (sister)

Awards See Awards and Nominations

Signature

Website

www.woodyallen.com [1]

Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor,comedian, author, playwright, and musician whose career spans more than 50 years.

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He worked as a comedy writer in the 1950s, writing jokes and scripts for television and publishing several books ofshort humor pieces. In the early 1960s, Allen began performing as a stand-up comic, emphasizing monologues ratherthan traditional jokes. As a comic, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which heinsists is quite different from his real-life personality.[2] In 2004, Comedy Central[3] ranked Allen in fourth place on alist of the 100 greatest stand-up comics, while a UK survey ranked Allen as the third greatest comedian.By the mid-1960s Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies before moving intodramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the 1970s. He is often identified as part of the NewHollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late '70s. Allen often stars in his films, typically in the personahe developed as a standup. Some best-known of his over 40 films are Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Hannahand Her Sisters (1986), and Midnight in Paris (2011). Critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of thecinema".Allen has been nominated 23 times and won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one forBest Director (Annie Hall (1978)). He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer.He has won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards. Allen performs regularly as a jazzclarinetist at small venues in Manhattan. In 2011, PBS televised the film biography, Woody Allen: A Documentary,on the American Masters TV series, covering biographies of actors and writers who have had a profound impact onthe nation's popular culture.

Early life

Allen as a high school senior, 1953

Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg in The Bronx and raised inBrooklyn, New York, the son of Nettie (born Cherrie; November 8,1906 – January 27, 2002), a bookkeeper at her family's delicatessen,and Martin Konigsberg (December 25, 1900 – January 13, 2001), ajewelry engraver and waiter. His family was Ashkenazi Jewish; hisgrandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish,Hebrew, and German. Both parents were born and raised on the LowerEast Side of Manhattan. Allen has a sister, Letty, who was born in1943, and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn.

His childhood was not particularly happy: his parents did not get along,and he had a rocky relationship with his stern, temperamental mother.Allen spoke German quite a bit in his early years. He would later jokethat when he was young he was often sent to inter-faith Summercamps, where he "was savagely beaten by children of all races andcreeds." While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went toPublic School 99 (now The Isaac Asimov School for Science and

Literature) and to Midwood High School.[4] At that time, he lived in an apartment at 968 East 14th Street.[5] Unlikehis comic persona, he was more interested in baseball than school and his strong arms ensured he was first to bepicked for a team. He impressed students with his extraordinary talent at card and magic tricks. To raise money hewrote jokes (or "gags") for agent David O. Alber, who sold them to newspaper columnists. According to Allen, hisfirst published joke read: "Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices – over people's salaries."

He began to call himself Woody Allen. At the age of 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen.[6] He wasthen earning more than both parents combined.After high school, he attended New York University, studying communication and film. He later briefly attendedCity College of New York and soon flunked out. Later, he learned via self-study rather than in the classroom. Heeventually taught at The New School. He also studied with writing teacher Lajos Egri.p.74

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Career

Writer and comedianHe was hired as a full-time writer for humorist Herb Shriner, initially earning $25 a week. At 19, he began writingscripts for The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, specials for Sid Caesar post-Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), andother television shows.p.111 By the time he was working for Caesar, he was earning $1,500 a week; with Caesar, heworked alongside Danny Simon, whom Allen credits for helping form his writing style.In 1961, he began working as a comedian, debuting in a Greenwich Village club, the Duplex. He released three LPalbums of live nightclub recordings: the self-titled Woody Allen (Colpix 518; 1964), Volume 2 (Colpix 488, 1965),and The Third Woody Allen Album (Capitol 2986; 1968) recorded at a fund-raiser for Eugene McCarthy'spresidential run. The material from these albums were edited and abridged into the 2-LP compilation albumsStandup Comic and Nightclub Years 1964–1968 (also on CD), including his "The Moose" routine, co-written withMickey Rose.[7] Together with his managers, Allen developed a neurotic, nervous, and intellectual persona for hisstand-up routine, a successful move that secured regular gigs for him in nightclubs and on television. Allen broughtinnovation to the comedy monologue genre and his stand-up comedy is considered influential.Allen wrote for the popular Candid Camera television show, and appeared in some episodes.Allen started writing short stories and cartoon captions for magazines such as The New Yorker; he was inspired bythe tradition of four prominent New Yorker humorists, S. J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley andMax Shulman, whose material he modernized.[8][9][10][11] Allen is an accomplished author, having published fourcollections of his short pieces and plays. These are Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects and Mere Anarchy.His early comic fiction was heavily influenced by the zany, pun-ridden humour of S.J. Perelman. In 2010, Allenreleased digital spoken word versions of his four books on Audible.com and iTunes in which he reads 73 short storyselections from his work and for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Playwright

Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It AgainSam (1969)

He became a successful Broadway playwright and wrote Don't Drinkthe Water in 1966. The play starred Lou Jacobi, Kay Medford, AnitaGillette and Allen's future movie co-star Tony Roberts. A filmadaptation of the play, directed by Howard Morris, was released in1969, starring Jackie Gleason. Because he was not particularly happywith the 1969 film version of his play, in 1994, Allen directed andstarred in a third version for television, with Michael J. Fox andMayim Bialik.

The next play Allen wrote for Broadway was Play It Again, Sam, inwhich he also starred. The play opened on February 12, 1969, and ranfor 453 performances. It featured Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts.

Allen, Keaton and Roberts would reprise their roles in the film version of the play, directed by Herbert Ross. For itsMarch 21 issue, Life featured Allen on its cover. In 1981, his play The Floating Light Bulb premiered on Broadwayand ran for 65 performances. While receiving mixed reviews, it was notable for giving an autobiographical insightinto Allen's childhood, specifically his fascination with magic tricks. He has written several one-act plays, including'Riverside Drive' and 'Old Saybrook' exploring well-known Allen themes.

On October 20, 2011, Allen's one-act play Honeymoon Motel opened as part of a larger piece entitled RelativelySpeaking on Broadway, with two other one-acts by Ethan Coen and Elaine May.

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Early films

Allen on the Irv Kupcinet Show inthe early 1970s

His first movie was the Charles K. Feldman production What's New Pussycat? in1965, for which he wrote the screenplay. He was disappointed with the finalproduct, which inspired him to direct every film that he would later write. Allen'sfirst directorial effort was What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966, co-written with MickeyRose), in which an existing Japanese spy movie – Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagino kagi (1965), "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" – was redubbed inEnglish by Allen and friends with fresh new, comic dialogue. In 1967, Allenplayed Jimmy Bond in the 007 spoof Casino Royale.

Allen directed, starred in, and co-wrote (with Mickey Rose) Take the Money andRun in 1969, which received positive reviews. He later signed a deal with UnitedArtists to produce several films. Those films eventually became Bananas (1971,co-written with Rose), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*(1972), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975). Sleeper was the first of fourfilms where the screenplay was co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman.

In 1972, Allen wrote and starred in the film version of Play It Again, Sam, directed by Herbert Ross and co-starringDiane Keaton. In 1976, he starred in The Front (directed by Martin Ritt), a humorous and poignant account ofHollywood blacklisting during the 1950s.

Allen in Take the Money and Run, 1969

Then came two of Allen's most popular films. Annie Hall won fourAcademy Awards in 1977, including Best Picture, Best Actress in aLeading Role for Diane Keaton, Best Original Screenplay and BestDirector for Woody Allen. Annie Hall set the standard for modernromantic comedy and ignited a fashion trend with the clothes worn byDiane Keaton in the film. While in production, the working title was"Anhedonia", a term that means the inability to feel pleasure and theplot revolved around a murder mystery. Allen re-cut the movie afterproduction ended to focus on the romantic comedy between Allen'scharacter, Alvy Singer, and Keaton's character, Annie Hall. The newversion, retitled Annie Hall (named after Keaton, Hall being her

original last name and Annie a nickname), deals with the inability to feel pleasure. The film is ranked at No. 35 onthe American Film Institute's "100 Best Movies" and at No. 4 on the AFI list of "100 Best Comedies."

Manhattan, released in 1979, is a black-and-white film often viewed as an homage to New York City. As in manyAllen films, the protagonists are upper-middle class academics. The love-hate opinion of cerebral persons found inManhattan is characteristic of many of Allen's movies, including Crimes and Misdemeanors and Annie Hall.Manhattan focuses on the complicated relationship between middle-aged Isaac Davis (Allen) and a 17-year-oldTracy (Mariel Hemingway).Between Annie Hall and Manhattan, Allen wrote and directed the dark drama Interiors (1978), in the style of the lateSwedish director Ingmar Bergman, one of Allen's chief influences. Interiors represented a departure from Allen's"early, funny" comedies (a line from 1980's Stardust Memories).

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1980sAllen's 1980s films, even the comedies, have somber and philosophical undertones, with their influences being theworks of European directors, specifically Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Stardust Memories was based on8½, which it parodies, and Wild Strawberries. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy was adapted from Smiles of aSummer Night. In Hannah and Her Sisters, part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Fanny andAlexander. Amarcord inspired Radio Days. September resembles Autumn Sonata. Allen uses many elements fromWild Strawberries. In Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen references a scene from Wild Strawberries.A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy was the first of 13 movies Allen made starring Mia Farrow, who stepped intoDiane Keaton's role when Keaton was shooting Reds.Stardust Memories features Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker played by Allen, who expresses resentment andscorn for his fans. Overcome by the recent death of a friend from illness, the character states, "I don't want to makefunny movies any more" and a running gag has various people (including visiting space aliens) telling Bates thatthey appreciate his films, "especially the early, funny ones." Allen believes this to be one of his best films.Allen combined tragic and comic elements in such films as Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors,in which he tells two stories that connect at the end. He produced a vividly idiosyncratic tragi-comical parody ofdocumentary, Zelig.He made three films about show business: Broadway Danny Rose, in which he plays a New York show businessagent, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a movie that shows the importance of the cinema during the Depression through thecharacter of the naive Cecilia, and Radio Days, a film about his childhood in Brooklyn and the importance of theradio. The Purple Rose of Cairo was named by Time as one of the 100 best films of all time and Allen described it asone of his three best films, along with Stardust Memories and Match Point. (Allen defines them as "best" not interms of quality but because they came closest to his vision.)In 1989, Allen teamed with directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese to make New York Stories, ananthology film about New Yorkers. Allen's short, Oedipus Wrecks, is about a neurotic lawyer and his critical mother.His short pleased critics, but New York Stories bombed at the box office.

1990sHis 1992 film Shadows and Fog is a black-and-white homage to the German expressionists and features the music ofKurt Weill. Allen then made his critically acclaimed drama Husbands and Wives (1992), which received two Oscarnominations: Best Supporting Actress for Judy Davis and Best Original Screenplay for Allen. His film ManhattanMurder Mystery (1993) combined suspense with dark comedy and marked the return of Diane Keaton, Alan Aldaand Anjelica Huston.He returned to lighter movies like Bullets Over Broadway (1994), which earned an Academy Award nomination forBest Director, followed by a musical, Everyone Says I Love You (1996). The singing and dancing scenes in EveryoneSays I Love You are similar to musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The comedy Mighty Aphrodite(1995), in which Greek drama plays a large role, won an Academy Award for Mira Sorvino. Allen's 1999 jazz-basedcomedy-drama Sweet and Lowdown was nominated for two Academy Awards for Sean Penn (Best Actor) andSamantha Morton (Best Supporting Actress). In contrast to these lighter movies, Allen veered into darker satiretowards the end of the decade with Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Celebrity (1998). Allen made one sitcom"appearance" to date (2009) via telephone on the show Just Shoot Me! in a 1997 episode, "My Dinner with Woody"which paid tribute to several of his films. Allen provided the lead voice in the 1998 animated film Antz, whichfeatured many actors he had worked with and Allen's character was similar to his earlier neurotic roles.

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2000sSmall Time Crooks (2000) is similar to the 1942 film Larceny, Inc. (from a play by S.J. Perelman).[12] Allen nevercommented on whether this was deliberate or if his film was in any way inspired by it. Small Time Crooks wasAllen's first film with the DreamWorks studio and represented a change in direction: Allen began giving moreinterviews and made an attempt to return to his slapstick roots. The film was a relative financial success, grossingover $17 million domestically but Allen's next four films foundered at the box office, including Allen's most costlyfilm, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (with a budget of $26 million). Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, and Melindaand Melinda were given "rotten" ratings from film-review website Rotten Tomatoes and each earned less than $4million domestically. Some critics claimed that Allen's films since 1999's Sweet and Lowdown were subpar andexpressed concern that Allen's best years were now behind him. Others have been less harsh; reviewing thelittle-liked Melinda and Melinda, Roger Ebert wrote, "I cannot escape the suspicion that if Woody had never made aprevious film, if each new one was Woody's Sundance debut, it would get a better reception. His reputation is not adead shark but an albatross, which with admirable economy Allen has arranged for the critics to carry around theirown necks." Woody gave his godson Quincy Rose a small part in Melinda and Melinda.Allen was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.Match Point (2005) was one of Allen's most successful films of the decade, garnering positive reviews. Set inLondon, it starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and Scarlett Johansson. It is markedly darker than Allen's first four filmswith DreamWorks SKG. In Match Point, Allen shifts focus from the intellectual upper class of New York to themoneyed upper class of London. It earned more than $23 million domestically (more than any of his films in nearly20 years) and over $62 million in international box office sales. Match Point earned Allen his first Academy Awardnomination since 1998, for Best Writing – Original Screenplay with directing and writing nominations at the GoldenGlobes, his first Globe nominations since 1987. In an interview with Premiere Magazine, Allen stated this was thebest film he has ever made.Allen returned to London to film Scoop, which also starred Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Ian McShane, KevinMcNally and Allen himself. The film was released on July 28, 2006, and received mixed reviews. He filmedCassandra's Dream in London. Cassandra's Dream was released in November 2007, and stars Colin Farrell, EwanMcGregor and Tom Wilkinson.After finishing his third London film, Allen headed to Spain. He reached an agreement to film Vicky CristinaBarcelona in Avilés, Barcelona and Oviedo, where shooting started on July 9, 2007. The movie stars ScarlettJohansson, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and Penélope Cruz. Speaking of his experience there, Allen said: "I'mdelighted at being able to work with Mediapro and make a film in Spain, a country which has become so special tome." Vicky Cristina Barcelona was well received, winning "Best Musical or Comedy" at the Golden Globe awards.Penélope Cruz received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.Allen has said that he "survives" on the European market. Audiences there tend to be more receptive to his films,particularly in Spain, France and Italy – countries where he has a large audience (joked about in Hollywood Ending)."In the United States things have changed a lot, and it's hard to make good small films now," Allen said in a 2004interview. "The avaricious studios couldn't care less about good films – if they get a good film they're twice as happybut money-making films are their goal. They only want these $100 million pictures that make $500 million."In April 2008, he began filming a story focused more towards older audiences starring Larry David, PatriciaClarkson and Evan Rachel Wood. Released in 2009, Whatever Works, described as a dark comedy, follows the storyof a botched suicide attempt turned messy love triangle. Whatever Works was written by Allen in the 1970s and thecharacter played by Larry David was written for Zero Mostel, who died the year Annie Hall came out.

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2010sYou Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, filmed in London, stars Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins,Anupam Kher, Freida Pinto and Naomi Watts. Filming started in July 2009. It was released theatrically in the US onSeptember 23, 2010, following a Cannes debut in May 2010, and a screening at the Toronto International FilmFestival on September 12, 2010. Allen announced that his next film would be titled Midnight in Paris, starringAdrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Gad Elmaleh andCarla Bruni, the First Lady of France at the time of production. The film followed a young engaged couple in Pariswho see their lives transformed. It debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011. Allen said he wantedto "show the city emotionally," during the press conference. "I just wanted it to be the way I saw Paris – Paristhrough my eyes," he added. Midnight in Paris has overtaken Hannah and Her Sisters as Allen's most successfulfilm at the box office in the United States. It opened to critical acclaim, and was considered by many critics to markhis return to form.[13] His next film, To Rome with Love, was a Rome-set comedy released in 2012. The film wasstructured in four vignettes featuring dialogue in both Italian and English. It marked Allen's return to acting since hislast role in Scoop.Allen's most recent release, Blue Jasmine, debuted summer 2013,[14] with post-production having been finishedearlier in the year. The film is set in San Francisco and New York, and stars Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, LouisC.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, and Peter Sarsgaard. It opened to critical acclaim and holds a 91 percentapproval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2013, in Nice, France, Allen shot a comedy Magic in theMoonlight that will star Emma Stone and Colin Firth, and will be set in 1930s France.

Future projectsFor many years, Allen wanted to make a film about the origins of jazz in New Orleans. The film, tentatively titledAmerican Blues, would follow the vastly different careers of Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. Allen stated thatthe film would cost between $80 and $100 million and is therefore unlikely to be made.[15]

It was announced in February 2012 that Allen would adapt Bullets Over Broadway into a Broadway musicalscheduled to open in 2013.

Distinction in the film world

Life-size statue of Woody Allen in Oviedo, Spain

Over his career, Allen has received a considerable number of awardsand distinctions in film festivals and yearly national film awardsceremonies, saluting his work as a director, screenwriter, and actor.

• Allen's film Annie Hall won four Academy Awards in 1977,including Best Picture.

• Allen won the 1978 O. Henry Award for his short story TheKugelmass Episode, published in The New Yorker on May 2, 1977.

• Allen twice won the César Award for Best Foreign Film, the first in1980, for Manhattan and the second in 1986, for The Purple Rose ofCairo. Seven other of his movies were nominated for the prize.

• In 1986, Allen won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for ThePurple Rose of Cairo. In 2009 he won the same award for BestMotion Picture – Comedy or Musical for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.In 2012, he won the Best Screenplay award for Midnight in Pariswhich was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or

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Musical, Best Director and Best Actor (Comedy/musical) – Owen Wilson. Overall, Allen has been nominated fivetimes as Best Director, five times for Best Screenplay and twice for Best Actor (Comedy/musical).

• At the 1995 Venice Film Festival, Allen received a Career Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.• In 1996, Allen received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America.• In 2002, Allen won the Prince of Asturias Award. Subsequently, the city of Oviedo, Spain, erected a life-size

statue of Allen.• In 2002, Allen received the Palme des Palmes, a special lifetime achievement award granted by the Cannes

Festival.[16]

• In a 2005 UK poll The Comedian's Comedian, Allen was voted the third greatest comedy act ever by fellowcomedians and comedy insiders.

• In June 2007, Allen received a PhD Honoris Causa from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain.• In 2010, Allen received the 1st Annual 20/20 Award for Best Original Screenplay for Crimes and Misdemeanors.

He was also nominated for Best Director, and the film won for Best Picture.•• Allen will receive the 2014 Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 71st Annual Golden Globe

Awards ceremony on Sunday, Jan 12, 2014.

Academy AwardsAllen has won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay (Annie Hall (1978, shared with MarshallBrickman); Hannah and Her Sisters (1987) and Midnight in Paris (2011)), along with one for Best Director (AnnieHall (1978)). Allen has been nominated 23 times: 15 as a screenwriter, seven as a director, and once as an actor.[17]

He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer; all are in the Best OriginalScreenplay category. He is tied for third all-time with seven Best Director nominations.Annie Hall won four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actress in aLeading Role – Diane Keaton). The film received a fifth nomination, for Allen as Best Actor in a Leading Role.Hannah and Her Sisters won three, for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actressin a Supporting Role categories; it was nominated in four other categories, including Best Picture and Best Director.His actors have often received wins and nominations at the Academy Awards for their work in his films, particularlyin the Best Supporting Actor/Best Supporting Actress categories; in 1987, Michael Caine[18] and Dianne Wiest[19]

won for Hannah and Her Sisters;[20] in 1995, Dianne Wiest won once again for Bullets Over Broadway;[21] in 1996,Mira Sorvino[22] won for Mighty Aphrodite[23] and in 2009 Penélope Cruz[24] won for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.[25]

Despite friendly recognition from the Academy, Allen has consistently refused to attend the ceremony oracknowledge his Oscar wins. His publicly given reason is his standing engagement to play clarinet in a Mondaynight ensemble. Back in 1974, Woody was quoted by ABC News as saying, "The whole concept of awards is silly. Icannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then youhave to accept it when they say you don't". He broke this pattern once. At the Academy Awards ceremony in 2002,Allen made an unannounced appearance, pleading for producers to continue filming their movies in New York Cityafter the 9-11 attacks, where he stated, "I didn't have to present anything. I didn't have to accept anything. I just hadto talk about New York City." He was given a standing ovation before introducing a montage of movie clipsfeaturing New York.

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BAFTAAllen has garnered a number of wins and nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)Awards in various categories. In 1997, he received the honorary BAFTA Fellowship for his work.• 1978 – Won – Best Direction – Annie Hall• 1978 – Won – Best Screenplay – Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman)• 1978 – Nominated – Best Actor – Annie Hall• 1980 – Won – Best Screenplay – Manhattan (with Marshall Brickman)• 1980 – Nominated – Best Direction – Manhattan• 1980 – Nominated – Best Actor – Manhattan• 1984 – Nominated – Best Screenplay – Zelig• 1985 – Won – Best Original Screenplay – Broadway Danny Rose• 1986 – Won – Best Original Screenplay – The Purple Rose of Cairo• 1987 – Won – Best Direction – Hannah and Her Sisters• 1987 – Won – Best Original Screenplay – Hannah and Her Sisters• 1987 – Nominated – Best Actor – Hannah and Her Sisters• 1988 – Nominated – Best Original Screenplay – Radio Days• 1990 – Nominated – Best Direction – Crimes and Misdemeanors• 1990 – Nominated – Best Original Screenplay – Crimes and Misdemeanors• 1993 – Won – Best Original Screenplay – Husbands and Wives• 1995 – Nominated – Best Original Screenplay – Bullets Over Broadway• 2012 – Nominated – Best Original Screenplay – Midnight in Paris

TheatreWhile best known for his films, Allen has enjoyed a successful career in theater, starting as early as 1960, when hewrote sketches for the revue From A to Z. His first great success was Don't Drink the Water, which opened in 1968,and ran for 598 performances for almost two years on Broadway. His success continued with Play It Again, Sam,which opened in 1969, starring Allen and Diane Keaton. The show played for 453 performances and was nominatedfor three Tony Awards, although none of the nominations were for Allen's writing or acting.In the 1970s, Allen wrote a number of one-act plays, most notably God and Death, which were published in his 1975collection Without Feathers.In 1981, Allen's play The Floating Light Bulb opened on Broadway. The play was a critical success and acommercial flop. Despite two Tony Award nominations, a Tony win for the acting of Brian Backer (who won the1981 Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award for his work), the play only ran for 62 performances.After a long hiatus from the stage, Allen returned to the theater in 1995, with the one-act Central Park West, aninstallment in an evening of theater known as Death Defying Acts that was also made up of new work by DavidMamet and Elaine May.For the next few years, Allen had no direct involvement with the stage, yet notable productions of his work werestaged. A production of God was staged at The Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro, and theatricaladaptations of Allen's films Bullets Over Broadway and September were produced in Italy and France, respectively,without Allen's involvement. In 1997, rumors of Allen returning to the theater to write a starring role for his wifeSoon-Yi Previn turned out to be false.In 2003, Allen finally returned to the stage with Writer's Block, an evening of two one-acts – Old Saybrook andRiverside Drive – that played Off-Broadway. The production marked the stage-directing debut for Allen. Theproduction sold out the entire run.

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Also that year, reports of Allen writing the book for a musical based on Bullets Over Broadway surfaced, but noshow ever formulated. In 2004, Allen's first full-length play since 1981, A Second Hand Memory, was directed byAllen and enjoyed an extended run Off-Broadway.In June 2007, it was announced that Allen would make two more creative debuts in the theater, directing a work thathe did not write and directing an opera – a re-interpretation of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi for the Los AngelesOpera – which debuted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on September 6, 2008. Commenting on his direction of theopera, Allen said, "I have no idea what I'm doing." His production of the opera opened the Festival of Two Worlds inSpoleto, Italy, in June 2009.In October 2011, Woody Allen's one-act play called Honeymoon Motel premiered as one in a series of one act playson Broadway titled Relatively Speaking.[26] Also contributing to the plays are Elaine May and Ethan Coen with JohnTurturro directing.

Significant works about AllenApart from Wild Man Blues, directed by Barbara Kopple, there are other documentaries featuring Woody Allen,including the 2002 cable-television documentary Woody Allen: a Life in Film, directed by Time film critic RichardSchickel, which interlaces interviews of Allen with clips of his films, and Meetin' WA, a short interview of Allen byFrench director Jean-Luc Godard. In 2011 the PBS series American Masters co-produced a comprehensivedocumentary about him, Woody Allen: a Documentary directed by Robert B. Weide.Eric Lax authored the book Woody Allen: A Biography. From 1976 to 1984, Stuart Hample wrote and drew InsideWoody Allen, a comic strip based on Allen's film persona.

Personal life

Marriages and romantic relationshipsAllen has had three wives: Harlene Rosen (1954–1959), Louise Lasser (1966–1970) and Soon-Yi Previn(1997–present). Though he had a 12-year romantic relationship with actress Mia Farrow, the two never married.Allen also had romantic relationships with Stacey Nelkin and Diane Keaton.

Harlene Rosen

At age 19, Allen married 16-year-old Harlene Rosen. The marriage lasted from 1954 to 1959. Time stated that theyears were "nettling" and "unsettling."Rosen, whom Allen referred to in his standup act as "the Dread Mrs. Allen," sued him for defamation due tocomments at a TV appearance shortly after their divorce. Allen tells a different story on his mid-1960s standupalbum Standup Comic. In his act, Allen said that Rosen sued him because of a joke he made in an interview. Rosenhad been sexually assaulted outside her apartment and according to Allen, the newspapers reported that she "hadbeen violated." In the interview, Allen said, "Knowing my ex-wife, it probably wasn't a moving violation." In aninterview on The Dick Cavett Show, Allen brought up the incident again where he repeated his comments and statedthat the sum for which he was sued was "$1 million."

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Louise Lasser

Allen married Louise Lasser in 1966. They divorced in 1969, and Allen did not marry again until 1997. Lasserappeared in three Allen films after the divorce – Take the Money and Run, Bananas, and Everything You AlwaysWanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)  and briefly appeared in Stardust Memories.

Diane Keaton

In 1970, Allen cast Diane Keaton in his Broadway show, Play It Again, Sam. During the run she and Allen becameromantically involved and although they broke up after a year, she continued to star in a number of his films,including Sleeper as a futuristic poet and Love and Death as a composite character based on the novels of Tolstoyand Dostoevsky. Annie Hall was very important in Allen and Keaton's careers. It is said that the role was written forher, as Diane Keaton's given name is Diane Hall. She then starred in Interiors as a poet, followed by Manhattan. In1987, she had a cameo as a nightclub singer in Radio Days and was chosen to replace Mia Farrow in the co-starringrole for Manhattan Murder Mystery after Allen and Farrow began having troubles with their personal and workingrelationship while making this film. Keaton has not worked with Allen since Manhattan Murder Mystery. Since theend of their romantic relationship, Keaton and Allen remain close friends.[27]

Stacey Nelkin

The film Manhattan is said by the Los Angeles Times to be widely known to have been based on his romanticrelationship with actress Stacey Nelkin. Her bit part in Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room floor, and theirrelationship, though never publicly acknowledged by Allen, reportedly began when she was 17, and a student at NewYork's Stuyvesant High School.[28][29][30]

Mia Farrow

Around 1980, Allen began a relationship with actress Mia Farrow, who had leading roles in most of his movies from1982 to 1992. Farrow and Allen never married and kept separate homes. They adopted two children, Dylan Farrow(who changed her name to Eliza and is now known as Malone) and Moshe Farrow (known as Moses); they also hadone biological child, Satchel Farrow (known as Ronan Seamus Farrow). However, in a 2013 interview with VanityFair, Farrow stated that Ronan could "possibly" be the biological child of her first husband Frank Sinatra, withwhom she claims to have "never really split up."Allen did not adopt any of Farrow's other family, including Soon-Yi Farrow Previn (adopted daughter of Farrow andAndré Previn, now known as Soon-Yi Previn). Allen and Farrow separated in 1992, after Farrow discovered nudephotographs that Allen had taken of Soon-Yi, who was around 20 years old then. In her autobiography, What FallsAway (New York: Doubleday, 1997), Farrow says that Allen admitted to a relationship with Soon-Yi.After Allen and Farrow separated, a long public legal battle for the custody of their three children began. During theproceedings, Farrow alleged that Allen had sexually molested their adopted daughter Dylan, who was then sevenyears old. The judge eventually found that the sex abuse charges were inconclusive.[31] He called the report of theteam that investigated the issue "sanitized and therefore, less credible." Farrow won custody of their children. Allenwas denied visitation rights with Malone and could see Ronan only under supervision. Moses, who was then 14,chose not to see Allen.In a 2005 Vanity Fair interview, Allen estimated that, despite the scandal's damage to his reputation, Farrow's discovery of Allen's attraction to Soon-Yi Previn by finding nude photographs of her was "just one of the fortuitous events, one of the great pieces of luck in my life. . . It was a turning point for the better." Of his relationship with Farrow, he said, "I'm sure there are things that I might have done differently. . . Probably in retrospect I should have bowed out of that relationship much earlier than I did." In a June 22, 2011 report, Reuters quoted Allen as saying, "What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now. There was no scandal, but people refer to it all the time as a scandal and I kind of like that in a way because when I

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go I would like to say I had one real juicy scandal in my life."

Soon-Yi Previn

Soon-Yi Previn and Allen at the 2009 TribecaFilm Festival

After ending his relationship with Mia Farrow in 1992, Allencontinued his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn. Though Allen nevermarried Mia Farrow[32] and was not Previn's legal stepfather, therelationship between Allen and Previn has often been referred to as astepfather involved romantically with his stepdaughter[33] because shewas adopted and legally Farrow's daughter and Allen's son's sister. In1991, New York Times opined on Allen's family life: "Few marriedcouples seem more married. They are constantly in touch with eachother, and not many fathers spend as much time with their children asAllen does."

In 1991, when the relationship began, Allen was 56 and Previn around19. Asked whether their age difference was conducive to "a healthy, equal relationship," Allen said equality is notnecessarily a requirement in a relationship and "The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to those things. Youmeet someone and you fall in love, and that's that."[34] The couple married in 1997.[35]

Ronan Farrow is widely quoted as disparaging Allen and having said he cannot see him. On Father's Day 2012, hetweeted "Happy Father's day – or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day."[36]

Previn and Allen have two adopted daughters, Bechet Dumaine (born c. 1999, China) and Manzie Tio (born 2000,Texas).

Clarinetist

Woody Allen with Jerry Zigmont and SimonWettenhall performing at Vienne Jazz Festival,

Vienne, France, September 20, 2003

Allen is a passionate fan of jazz, featured prominently in thesoundtracks to his films. He began playing as a child and took his stagename from clarinetist Woody Herman. He has performed publicly atleast since the late 1960s, notably with the Preservation Hall Jazz Bandon the soundtrack of Sleeper. One of his earliest televisedperformances was on The Dick Cavett Show on October 20, 1971.

Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have been playing eachMonday evening at Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for many years (as of2011, specializing in classic New Orleans jazz from the early twentiethcentury). The documentary film Wild Man Blues (directed by BarbaraKopple) documents a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band, aswell as his relationship with Previn. The band has released two CDs: The Bunk Project (1993) and the soundtrack ofWild Man Blues (1997).

Allen and his band played the Montreal International Jazz Festival on two consecutive nights in June 2008.

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PsychoanalysisAllen spent over 37 years undergoing psychoanalysis. Many of his films include references to psychoanalysis. Eventhe film Antz, an animated feature in which Allen contributes the voice of lead character Z, opens with classic Allenanalysis shtick.Moment Magazine says, "It drove his self-absorbed work." John Baxter, author of Woody Allen: A Biography, wrote,"Allen obviously found analysis stimulating, even exciting."Allen says his psychoanalysis ended around the time he began his relationship with Previn. He says he still isclaustrophobic and agoraphobic.Allen has described himself as being a "militant Freudian atheist" in an interview at Cannes in 2008.

FilmographyAllen's films span six decades, starting with 1965's What's New Pussycat?. He has written, directed, and starred inmany of them, including films such as Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Husbands and Wives(1992), all of which earned major awards. Originally known for his comedies, his early successes were followed byhis first purely dramatic work, Interiors (1978).

Theatre worksIn addition to directing, writing, and acting in films, Allen has written and performed in a number of Broadwaytheater productions.

Year Title Credit Venue

1960 From A to Z Writer (book) Plymouth Theatre

1966 Don't Drink the Water Writer Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida

1969 Play It Again, Sam Writer, Performer (Allan Felix) Broadhurst Theatre

1975 God Writer —

1975 Death Writer —

1981 The Floating Light Bulb Writer Vivian Beaumont Theater

1995 Central Park West Writer Variety Arts Theatre

2003 Old Saybrook Writer, Director Atlantic Theatre Company

2003 Riverside Drive Writer, Director Atlantic Theatre Company

2004 A Second Hand Memory Writer, Director Atlantic Theater Company

2011 Honeymoon Motel Writer Brooks Atkinson Theatre

2013 Bullets Over Broadway Writer (Book) St. James Theatre

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Published plays• Don't Drink the Water: A comedy in two acts (1967), ASIN B0006BSWBW• Play It Again, Sam (1969), ISBN 0-394-40663-X• God: A comedy in one act (1975), ISBN 0-573-62201-9• The Floating Light Bulb (1981)• Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive / Old Saybrook / Central Park West (2003), ISBN 0-8129-7244-9• Writer's Block: Two One-Act Plays (2005), ISBN 0-573-62630-8 (includes Riverside Drive and Old Saybrook)• A Second Hand Memory: A drama in two acts (2005)• The one-act plays God and Death are both included in Allen's 1975 collection Without Feathers (see below).

Short stories• Getting Even (1971), ISBN 0-394-47348-5• Without Feathers (1975), ISBN 0-394-49743-0

• "The Whore of Mensa" (1974)[37]

• Side Effects (1980), ISBN 0-394-51104-2• Mere Anarchy [38] (2007), ISBN 978-1-4000-6641-4

Anthologies• Complete Prose of Woody Allen (1992), ISBN 0-517-07229-7. (Collection of Allen's short stories first published

in Getting Even, Without Feathers and Side Effects.)• The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007, ISBN

978-0-8129-7811-7.

Chapbook• Lunatic's Tale (1986), ISBN 1-55628-001-7 (Short story previously included in Side Effects.)

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of+ all+ Time). Everything2 (April 18, 2004). Retrieved 2012-05-04.[4][4] The principal of P.S. 99 was Mrs. Eudora Fletcher; Allen has used her name for characters in several of his films.[5] Woody Allen visits the house in Weide's documentary (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt2397619/ )[6] Woody Allen (http:/ / www. britannica. com/ EBchecked/ topic/ 16217/ Woody-Allen) at Encyclopædia Britannica.[7] Michael Barrie "Mickey Rose (1935–2013)" (http:/ / www. huffingtonpost. com/ michael-barrie/ mickey-rose-1935-2013_b_3087301. html),

The Huffington Post, April 15, 2013[8] Daniele Luttazzi, preface to the Italian translation of Allen's trilogy Complete prose, ISBN 978-88-452-3307-4 p. 7 quote: "Uno dei tanti

meriti di Allen e' quello di aver reso moderno l'arsenale comico della tradizione cui si ispira, quella dei monumentali umoristi della rivista NewYorker (Perelman, Kaufman, Benchley e Shulman)". (http:/ / web. archive. org/ web/ 20070819085531/ http:/ / www. ew. com/ ew/ article/0,,346426__422878,00. html). Retrieved December 1, 2010.

[9] Allen, W. (October 24, 2004) "I Appreciate George S. Kaufman" (http:/ / www. nytimes. com/ 2004/ 10/ 24/ books/ review/ 24COVERAL.html), The New York Times.

[10] Woody Allen: Rabbit Running. Time. July 3, 1972. pp. 5–6 quote: "I never had a teacher who made the least impression on me, if you askme who are my heroes, the answer is simple and truthful: George S. Kaufman and the Marx Brothers."

[11] Michiko Kakutani (1995) "Woody Allen" (http:/ / www. parisreview. org/ viewinterview. php/ prmMID/ 1550). This interview is part I ofthe series The Art of Humor, published by Paris Review 37(136):200 (Fall, 1995). (http:/ / www. lib. berkeley. edu/ MRC/ woodyallen. html)

[12] Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies on June 15, 2006

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[14] Brody, Richard, "Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine'" (http:/ / www. newyorker. com/ online/ blogs/ movies/ 2013/ 07/woody-allens-blue-jasmine. html), The New Yorker, July 25, 2013. Retrieved 2013-08-08.

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0,9171,976345-5,00. html). Time.[35] Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi in Venice (http:/ / edition. cnn. com/ SHOWBIZ/ 9712/ 24/ woody. weds/ ), CNN, (December 24, 1997).

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Further reading• Stardust Memories: Visiting Woody (http:/ / www. salon. eu. sk/ article. php?article=953&

searchPhrase=Žantovský) Michael Žantovský recalls a memorable meeting between two giants, WoodyAllen and Václav Havel

• Essay by Victoria Loy on Woody Allen's career (http:/ / www. sensesofcinema. com/ 2003/ great-directors/ allen/)

• The Essential Woody Allen; Lauren Hill• Fun With Woody, The Complete Woody Allen Quiz Book (Henry Holt), Graham Flashner• The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity Industrial Complex by Maureen Orth p233

ISBN 0-8050-7545-3• Woody Allen – A Biography; John Baxter (1999) ISBN 0-7867-0666-X• Woody Allen: Conversations with Filmmakers Series, ed. R. E. Kapsis and K. Coblentz, (2006) ISBN

1-57806-793-6• Woody Allen; Stephan Reimertz, (rororo-Monographie), Reinbek (2005) ISBN 3-499-50410-3 (in German)• Woody Allen: Eine Biographie; Stephan Reimertz, Reinbek (2000) ISBN 3-499-61145-7 (in German)

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• Woody Allen on Location, by Thierry de Navacelle (Morrow, 1987); a day-to-day account of the making of RadioDays (1987)

• Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation With Stig Bjorkman (1995), ISBN 0-8021-1556-X• Woody Allen: Profane and Sacred; Richard A. Blake (1995) ISBN 978-0-8108-2993-0

External links• Official website (http:/ / www. WoodyAllen. com/ )• Woody Allen (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ name/ nm95/ ) at the Internet Movie Database• Woody Allen (http:/ / www. allrovi. com/ name/ p79388) at AllRovi• Woody Allen (http:/ / tcmdb. com/ participant/ participant. jsp?participantId=2615) at the TCM Movie Database• Woody Allen (http:/ / www. ibdb. com/ person. asp?ID=9226) at the Internet Broadway Database• Woody Allen (http:/ / www. npr. org/ templates/ story/ story. php?storyId=121986289) on National Public Radio

in 2009• Woody Allen (http:/ / www. lortel. org/ LLA_archive/ index. cfm?search_by=people& first=Woody&

last=Allen& middle=) at the Internet Off-Broadway Database• Appearances (http:/ / www. c-spanvideo. org/ woodyallen) on C-SPAN• Works by or about Woody Allen (http:/ / worldcat. org/ identities/ lccn-n79-90269) in libraries (WorldCat

catalog)• Woody Allen (http:/ / www. theguardian. com/ film/ woodyallen) collected news and commentary at The

Guardian• Woody Allen (http:/ / topics. nytimes. com/ top/ reference/ timestopics/ people/ a/ woody_allen/ index. html)

collected news and commentary at The New York Times• The Woody Allen Pages – Fansite With News And Reviews (http:/ / www. WoodyAllenPages. com/ )

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