Woody Allen

Directing

Born: 1935-11-30

From: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Height: 163.00 m

Popularity: 1.9

Also Known As

Allan Stewart Konigsberg

Biography

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright. Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him a notable American director. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema, among a wealth of other fields of interest. Allen developed a passion for music early on and is a celebrated jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his hometown of Manhattan, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals. Allen joined the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral Ragtime Orchestra in performances that provided the film score for his 1973 comedy Sleeper, and performed in a rare European tour in 1996, which became the subject of the documentary Wild Man Blues.

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Awards & Nominations37 won · 21 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Blue Jasmine

2014

Nominated

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

Bullets Over Broadway

2014

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Midnight in Paris

2012

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

Midnight in Paris

2012

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Midnight in Paris

2012

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

Midnight in Paris

2012

🏆 Won

Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

2009

🏆 Won

honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University

2007

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best European Film

Match Point

2006

🏆 Won

Goya Award for Best European Film

Match Point

2006

🏆 Won

Sant Jordi Prize

Match Point

2006

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Match Point

2006

🏆 Won

Donostia Award

2004

🏆 Won

Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts

2002

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Deconstructing Harry

1998

Nominated

European Film Award for Best Non-European Film

Deconstructing Harry

1998

🏆 Won

BAFTA Fellowship

1997

🏆 Won

Butaca Awards

Everyone Says I Love You

1997

Nominated

European Film Award for Best Non-European Film

Everyone Says I Love You

1997

🏆 Won

Butaca Awards

Mighty Aphrodite

1996

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Mighty Aphrodite

1996

🏆 Won

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

1995

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

Bullets Over Broadway

1995

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Bullets Over Broadway

1995

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

Husbands and Wives

1993

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Husbands and Wives

1993

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Alice

1991

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for best foreign screenplay

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1990

🏆 Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

1989

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Radio Days

1988

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for best foreign screenplay

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Direction

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

🏆 Won

Bodil Awards

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

Hannah and Her Sisters

1987

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986

🏆 Won

Bodil Awards

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986

🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Film

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986

🏆 Won

César Award

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986

🏆 Won

The President's Memorial Award

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

Broadway Danny Rose

1985

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for best foreign screenplay

Broadway Danny Rose

1985

🏆 Won

FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes

The Purple Rose of Cairo

1985

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Director

Broadway Danny Rose

1985

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Broadway Danny Rose

1985

🏆 Won

Bodil Awards

Zelig

1984

🏆 Won

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor

Zelig

1984

🏆 Won

Bodil Awards

Manhattan

1980

🏆 Won

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

Manhattan

1980

🏆 Won

César Award

Manhattan

1980

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay

Manhattan

1980

🏆 Won

Sant Jordi Prize

Interiors

1979

Woody Allen

Also Known As

Biography

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Awards & Nominations37 won · 21 nominated

Acting136 titles

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Woody Allen: Standup Comic

Hullabaloo

Spécial cinéma

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love

Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is

Thirteen Talks

HARDtalk

Buñuel in Hollywood

Woody Allen Looks at 1967

Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion

This Is Bob Hope...

Jack Paar: Smart Television

Light Keeps Me Company

Manhattan

Annie Hall

Twiggy

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Bert Stern - Original Madman

Hannah and Her Sisters

Love and Death

Play It Again, Sam

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Philip Marlowe

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Zelig

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Deconstructing Harry

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Filmmakers in Action

Best of Enemies

Remembering Gene Wilder

Take the Money and Run

Broadway Danny Rose

Radio Days

The Front

Husbands and Wives

The Last Laugh

The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV

Sid Caesar Collection: Buried Treasures - The Legend of Sid Caesar

Groucho & Cavett

Erroll Garner: No One Can Hear You Read

The Oscars

What's My Line?

Stardust Memories

Sleeper

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

Casting By

Sweet and Lowdown

The Outsider

David Blaine: Real or Magic

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Bananas

Mighty Aphrodite

Shadows and Fog

Wild Man Blues

A City Runs Through the Festival

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Always at The Carlyle

Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen

Scoop

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

François Truffaut, une autobiographie

Trespassing Bergman

CyberWorld

The Merv Griffin Show

Just Shoot Me!

The Culture Show

Small Time Crooks