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Woody Allen

April 19, 2023

Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935)[a] is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many accolades, including the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, with 16. He has won four Academy Awards, nine BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Emmy Award and a Tony Award.[2] Allen was awarded the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995, the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, an Honorary Palme d'Or in 2002, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

Woody Allen
Allen in 2016
Born
Allan Stewart Konigsberg

(1935-11-30) November 30, 1935 (age 87)[a]
New York City, U.S.
EducationCity College of New York (dropped out)
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • writer
  • actor
  • comedian
  • musician
Years active1956–present
WorksFull list
Spouses
Partners
Children5, including Ronan Farrow and Moses Farrow
RelativesLetty Aronson (sister)
AwardsFull list
Websitewww.woodyallen.com

Allen began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly Your Show of Shows (1950–54), alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books of short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish.[3] During this time he released three comedy albums, earning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination for the self-titled Woody Allen (1964).[4] In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians,[5][6] while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian.[7]

By the mid-1960s, Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies such as Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975), before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the late 1970s with Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979), and Stardust Memories (1980). Allen is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, and Sidney Lumet.[8] He often stars in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup. His film Annie Hall (1977), a romantic comedy featuring Allen and his frequent collaborator Diane Keaton, won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress for Keaton.

Critics have called his work from the 1980s his most developed period, with films such as Zelig (1983), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Radio Days (1987), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). He earned acclaim for his films in the 1990s including Husbands and Wives (1992), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Deconstructing Harry (1997), and Sweet and Lowdown (1999). In the 21st century, many of Allen's films were shot in Europe, including Match Point (2005), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Midnight in Paris (2011), and To Rome with Love (2012). Blue Jasmine (2013), and Cafe Society (2016) were filmed in the U.S.

In 1979, Allen began a professional and personal relationship with actress Mia Farrow. Over a decade-long period, they collaborated on 13 films and conceived a child, the journalist Ronan Farrow, who was born in 1987. The couple separated after Allen began a relationship in 1991 with Mia's and Andre Previn's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. In 1992, Farrow publicly accused Allen of sexually abusing their adopted daughter, the seven-year-old Dylan Farrow.[9][10] The allegation gained substantial media attention, but Allen was never charged or prosecuted, and he vehemently denied the allegation. Allen married Previn in 1997, and they adopted two children.[11]

Early life

 
Allen as a high school senior in 1953

Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg[12] in New York City on November 30, 1935.[a] Though his family lived in Brooklyn, the birth took place at Mount Eden Hospital in the Bronx.[13] He is Jewish.[14] Allen's parents were Nettie (née Cherry; 1906–2002), a bookkeeper at her family's delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg (1900–2001),[15] a jewelry engraver and waiter.[16] His grandparents were immigrants to the U.S. from Austria and the Lithuanian city of Panevėžys. They spoke German, Hebrew and Yiddish.[17][18] He and his younger sister, film producer Letty, were raised in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood.[19] Both their parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.[20]

Allen's parents did not get along, and he had an estranged relationship with his authoritarian, ill-tempered mother.[21] He spoke German in his early years.[citation needed] He later joked that he was often sent to interfaith summer camps when he was young. While attending Hebrew school for eight years, he went to Public School 99 (now the Isaac Asimov School for Science and Literature)[22] and Midwood High School, graduating in 1953. Unlike his comic persona, he was more interested in baseball than school and his strong arm ensured he was picked first for teams.[23][12] He impressed students with his talent for cards and magic tricks.[24]

Allen wrote jokes (or "gags") for agent David O. Alber to make money, and Alber sold them to newspaper columnists. At age 17, he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen[25] and later began to call himself Woody.[26] According to Allen, his first published joke read: "Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices—over people's salaries."[27] He was soon earning more than both of his parents combined.[23] After high school, he attended New York University, studying communication and film in 1953, before dropping out after failing the course "Motion Picture Production". He studied film at City College of New York in 1954, but left during the first semester.[28] He taught himself rather than studying in the classroom.[12] He later taught at The New School and studied with writing teacher Lajos Egri.[29]

Career

Comedy writer

 
Allen in the 1960s

Allen began writing short jokes when he was 15,[30] and the following year began sending them to various Broadway writers to see if they'd be interested in buying any.: 539  One of those writers was Abe Burrows, coauthor of Guys and Dolls, who wrote, "Wow! His stuff was dazzling." Burrows then wrote Allen letters of introduction to Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, and Peter Lind Hayes, who immediately sent Allen a check for just the jokes Burrows included as samples.[31]

As a result of the jokes Allen mailed to various writers, he was invited, then age 19, to join the NBC Writer's Development Program in 1955, followed by a job on The NBC Comedy Hour in Los Angeles. He was later hired as a full-time writer for humorist Herb Shriner, initially earning $25 a week.[27] He began writing scripts for The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, specials for Sid Caesar post-Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), and other television shows.[32] By the time he was working for Caesar, he was earning $1,500 a week. He worked alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also worked with Danny Simon, whom Allen credits for helping form his writing style.[27][33] In 1962 alone, he estimated that he wrote twenty thousand jokes for various comics.[34] Allen also wrote for the Candid Camera television show, and appeared in some episodes.[35]

He wrote jokes for the Buddy Hackett sitcom Stanley and for The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, and in 1958 he co-wrote a few Sid Caesar specials with Larry Gelbart.[36] After writing for many of television's leading comedians and comedy shows, Allen was gaining a reputation as a "genius", composer Mary Rodgers said. When given an assignment for a show he would leave and come back the next day with "reams of paper", according to producer Max Liebman.[36] Similarly, after he wrote for Bob Hope, Hope called him "half a genius".[36]

His daily writing routine could last as long as 15 hours, and he could focus and write anywhere necessary. Dick Cavett was amazed at Allen's capacity to write: "He can go to a typewriter after breakfast and sit there until the sun sets and his head is pounding, interrupting work only for coffee and a brief walk, and then spend the whole evening working."[37] When Allen wrote for other comedians, they would use eight out of ten of his jokes. When he began performing as a stand-up, he was much more selective, typically using only one out of ten jokes. He estimated that to prepare for a 30-minute show, he spent six months of intensive writing.[37] He enjoyed writing, however, despite the work: "Nothing makes me happier than to tear open a ream of paper. And I can't wait to fill it! I love to do it."[37]

Allen started writing short stories and cartoon captions for magazines such as The New Yorker; he was inspired by the tradition of New Yorker humorists S. J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley, and Max Shulman, whose material he modernized.[38][39][40][41][42][43] His collections of short pieces includes Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy. His early comic fiction was influenced by the zany, pun-ridden humor of S.J. Perelman. In 2010 Allen released audio versions of his books in which he read 73 selections entitled, The Woody Allen Collection. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.[44]

Stand-up comedian

From 1960 to 1969 Allen performed as a comedian to supplement his comedy writing. He worked in various places around Greenwich Village, including The Bitter End and Cafe Au Go Go, alongside such contemporaries as Lenny Bruce, the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Joan Rivers, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Dick Cavett, Bill Cosby and Mort Sahl (his personal favorite), as well as such other artists of the day as Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand.[45] Comedian Milton Berle claims to have suggested to Allen to go into standup comedy and even introduced him at the Village Vanguard.[46] Comedy historian Gerald Nachman writes that Allen, while not the first to do standup, eventually had greater impact than all the others in the 1960s, and redefined standup comedy: "He helped turn it into biting, brutally honest satirical commentary on the cultural and psychological tenor of the times."[26]

After Allen was taken under the wing of his new manager, Jack Rollins, who had recently discovered Nichols and May, Rollins suggested he perform his written jokes as a stand-up. Allen was resistant at first, but after seeing Mort Sahl on stage, he felt safer to give it a try: "I'd never had the nerve to talk about it before. Then Mort Sahl came along with a whole new style of humor, opening up vistas for people like me."[47] Allen made his professional stage debut at the Blue Angel nightclub in Manhattan in October 1960, where comedian Shelley Berman introduced him as a young television writer who would perform his own material.[47]

His early stand-up shows with his different style of humor were not always well received or understood by his audiences. Unlike other comedians, Allen spoke to his audiences in a gentle and conversational style, often appearing to be searching for words, although he was well rehearsed. He acted "normal", dressed casually, and made no attempt to project a stage "personality". And he did not improvise: "I put very little premium on improvisation," he told Studs Terkel.[48] His jokes were created from life experiences, and typically presented with a dead serious demeanor that made them funnier: "I don't think my family liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib."[34]

The subjects of his jokes were rarely topical, political or socially relevant. Unlike Bruce and Sahl, he did not discuss current events such as civil rights, women's rights, the Cold War, or Vietnam. And although he was described as a "classic nebbish", he did not tell the standard Jewish jokes of the period.[49] Comedy screenwriter Larry Gelbart compared Allen's style to Elaine May's: "He just styled himself completely after her".[50] Like Nichols and May, he often made fun of intellectuals.

Cavett, who was among the minority to quickly appreciate Allen's style, recalls seeing the Blue Angel audience mostly ignore Allen's monologue: "I recognized immediately that there was no young comedian in the country in the same class with him for sheer brilliance of jokes, and I resented the fact that the audience was too dumb to realize what they were getting."[51] It was his subdued stage presence that eventually became one of Allen's strongest traits, Nachman argues: "The utter absence of showbiz veneer and shtick was the best shtick any comedian had ever devised. This uneasy onstage naturalness became a trademark."[52] When the media finally noticed, writers like The New York Times's Arthur Gelb described Allen's nebbish quality as "Chaplinesque" and "refreshing".

Allen developed an anxious, nervous, and intellectual persona for his stand-up act, a successful move that secured regular gigs for him in nightclubs and on television. He brought innovation to the comedy monologue genre and his stand-up comedy is considered influential.[53] Allen first appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on November 1, 1963, and over nine years his guest appearances included 17 in the host's chair. He subsequently released three LP albums of live nightclub recordings: the self-titled Woody Allen (1964), Volume 2 (1965), and The Third Woody Allen Album (1968), recorded at a fund-raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential run.[54]

In 1965, Allen filmed a half-hour standup special in England for Granada Television, titled The Woody Allen Show in the U.K. and Woody Allen: Standup Comic in the U.S.[55] It is the only complete standup show of Allen's on film.[55] The same year, Allen along with Nichols and May, Barbra Streisand, Carol Channing, Harry Belafonte, Julie Andrews, Carol Burnett, and Alfred Hitchcock took part in Lyndon B. Johnson’s inaugural gala in Washington, D.C., on January 18, 1965. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson described Allen and the event in her published diary, A White House Diary, writing in part, "Woody Allen, that forlorn, undernourished little comedian, stopped shooting a movie in Paris and flew across the Atlantic for about five minutes of jokes".[56]

In 1966, Allen wrote an hourlong musical comedy television special for CBS, Gene Kelly in New York City.[57] It focused on Gene Kelly in a musical tour around Manhattan, dancing along such landmarks as Rockefeller Center, the Plaza Hotel and the Museum of Modern Art, which serve as backdrops for the show's production numbers.[58] Allen appeared in the special alongside Kelly. Guest stars included choreographer Gower Champion, British musical comedy star Tommy Steele, and singer Damita Jo DeBlanc.[59]

In 1967, Allen hosted a TV special for NBC, Woody Allen Looks at 1967. It featured Liza Minnelli, who acted alongside Allen in some skits; Aretha Franklin, the musical guest; and conservative writer William F. Buckley, the featured guest.[60] In 1969, Allen hosted his first American special for CBS television, The Woody Allen Special, which included skits with Candice Bergen, a musical performance from the 5th Dimension, and an interview between Allen and Billy Graham.[61][62]

Allen also performed standup comedy on other series, including The Andy Williams Show and The Perry Como Show, where he interacted with other guests and occasionally sang.[63] In 1971, he hosted one of his final Tonight Shows, with guests Bob Hope and James Coco.[64] Hope praised Allen on the show, calling him "one of the finest young talents in show business and a great delight".[65] Life magazine put Allen on the cover of its March 21, 1969, issue.[66]

In 1979, Allen paid tribute to one of his comedy idols, Bob Hope, at the Film Society at Lincoln Center, creating a special for the event titled "My Favorite Comedian" that included clips from Hope's films, selected and narrated by Allen. Hope said of the honor, "It's great to have your past spring up in front of your eyes, especially when it's done by Woody Allen, because he's a near genius. Not a whole genius, but a near genius".[67] Dick Cavett served as the host, but Allen was absent, editing Manhattan. Guests at the event included Diane Keaton, Kurt Vonnegut, and Andy Warhol.

Playwright

 
Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It Again, Sam (1969)

In 1966, Allen wrote the play Don't Drink the Water. The play starred Lou Jacobi, Kay Medford, Anita Gillette and Allen's future movie co-star Tony Roberts.[68] A film adaptation of the play, directed by Howard Morris, was released in 1969, starring Jackie Gleason. Because he was not particularly happy with that version, in 1994 Allen directed and starred in a second version for television, with Michael J. Fox and Mayim Bialik.[69]

The next play Allen wrote for Broadway was Play It Again, Sam, in which he also starred. The play opened on February 12, 1969, and ran for 453 performances. It featured Diane Keaton and Roberts.[70] The play was significant to Keaton's budding career, and she has said she was in "awe" of Allen even before auditioning for her role, which was the first time she met him.[71] In a 2013 interview Keaton said that she "fell in love with him right away", adding, "I wanted to be his girlfriend so I did something about it."[72] After co-starring alongside Allen in the subsequent film version of Play It Again, Sam, she later co-starred in Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Interiors and Manhattan. "He showed me the ropes and I followed his lead. He is the most disciplined person I know. He works very hard," Keaton has said.[72]

In 1981, Allen's play The Floating Light Bulb, starring Danny Aiello and Bea Arthur, premiered on Broadway and ran for 65 performances.[73] While receiving mixed reviews, it gave autobiographical insight into Allen's childhood, specifically his fascination with magic tricks. The play, set in 1945, is a semi-autobiographical tale of a lower-middle-class family in Brooklyn. New York Times critic Frank Rich gave the play a mild review, writing, "there are a few laughs, a few well-wrought characters, and, in Act II, a beautifully written scene that leads to a moving final curtain".[74] Rich also compared the play to Tennessee Williams's work.[74]

Allen has written several off-Broadway one-act plays, including Riverside Drive, Old Saybrook and A Second Hand Memory, at the Variety Arts Theatre.[74][75]

On March 8, 1995, Allen's one-act play Central Park West opened off-Broadway as a part of a larger piece titled Death Defying Acts, with two other one-act plays, one by David Mamet, and one by Elaine May. Critics described Allen's contribution as "the longest and most substantial of the evening".[76]

On October 20, 2011, Allen's one-act play Honeymoon Motel opened on Broadway as part of a larger piece titled Relatively Speaking, with two other one-act plays, one by Ethan Coen and one by Elaine May.[77]

On March 11, 2014, Allen's musical Bullets over Broadway opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.[78] It was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman and starred Zach Braff, Nick Cordero, and Betsy Wolfe. The production received mixed reviews, with The Hollywood Reporter writing, "this frothy show does provide dazzling art direction and performances, as well as effervescent ensemble numbers." Allen received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical. The show received six Tony nominations.[79]

Early films

Allen's first movie was the Charles K. Feldman production What's New Pussycat? (1965), for which he wrote the screenplay. He was disappointed with the final product, which inspired him to direct every film he wrote thereafter except Play It Again, Sam.[80] Allen's first directorial effort was What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966, co-written with Mickey Rose), in which an existing Japanese spy movie—Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), "International Secret Police: Key of Keys"—was redubbed in English by Allen and friends with fresh new, comic dialogue. In 1967, Allen played Jimmy Bond in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale.

In 1969, Allen directed, starred in, and co-wrote (with Mickey Rose) Take the Money and Run, which he considers his true film directorial debut. The film received positive reviews; critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy—something very special and eccentric and funny."[81] Allen later signed a deal with United Artists to produce several films.

1970s

During the 1970s, Allen directed films that were later known as his "early, funny" work. These include Bananas (1971, co-written with Rose), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975).[80] Sleeper was the first of four screenplays co-written by Allen and Marshall Brickman.[82][83]

In 1972, Allen wrote and starred in the film version of Play It Again, Sam, directed by Herbert Ross and co-starring Diane Keaton. In 1976, he starred as cashier Howard Prince in The Front, directed by Martin Ritt. The Front was a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s; Ritt, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, and three of Allen's cast-mates, Samuel "Zero" Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, had themselves been blacklisted.

I don't like meeting heroes. There's nobody I want to meet and nobody I want to work with—I'd rather work with Diane Keaton than anyone—she's absolutely great, a natural.

—Woody Allen (1976)[30]

Then came two of Allen's most popular films: Annie Hall and Manhattan. Annie Hall (1977) won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for Woody Allen. Annie Hall set the standard for modern romantic comedy and ignited a fashion trend with the clothes Keaton wore in the film. In an interview with journalist Katie Couric, Keaton did not deny that Allen wrote the part for her and about her.[84] The film is ranked 35th on the American Film Institute's "100 Best Movies" and fourth on the AFI list of the "100 Best Comedies."

In 1979, Allen directed Manhattan, a black-and-white romantic comedy often viewed as an homage to New York City. The film features iconic scenes filmed in New York City, including an opening montage of scenes around the city, and Allen and Keaton's silhouette on a bench by the Queensboro Bridge. As in many Allen films, the main protagonists are upper-middle class writers and academics. Manhattan focuses on the complicated relationship between middle-aged Isaac Davis (Allen) and 17-year-old Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), and co-stars Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. It was a box office and critical hit, and received two Academy Award nominations, for Hemingway for Best Supporting Actress and for Allen's screenplay.

Keaton, who has made eight movies with Allen, has said, "He just has a mind like nobody else. He's bold. He's got a lot of strength, a lot of courage in terms of his work. And that is what it takes to do something really unique. Along with a genius imagination."[84]

1980s

Allen's films in the 1980s, even the comedies, became somber with philosophical undertones, influenced by European directors, especially Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. Stardust Memories was based on 8½, which it parodies, and Wild Strawberries. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy was adapted from Smiles of a Summer Night. In Hannah and Her Sisters, part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Fanny and Alexander. Fellini's Amarcord inspired Radio Days. September resembles Bergman's Autumn Sonata. Another Woman and Crimes and Misdemeanors have elements reminiscent of Wild Strawberries.[85]

Stardust Memories (1980) features Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker played by Allen, who expresses resentment and scorn for his fans. Overcome by the recent death of a friend from illness, Bates says, "I don't want to make funny movies anymore" and a running gag has various people (including visiting space aliens) telling him that they appreciate his films, "especially the early, funny ones."[86] Allen considers this one of his best films.[87]

Mia's a good actress who can play many different roles. She has a very good range, and can play serious to comic roles. She's also very photogenic, very beautiful on screen. She's just a good realistic actress... and no matter how strange and daring it is, she does it well.

—Woody Allen (1993)[88]

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) was the first movie Allen made starring Mia Farrow, who stepped into Diane Keaton's role when Keaton was shooting Reds.[89] He next directed Zelig, in which he starred as a man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people surrounding him.[90]

Allen has combined tragic and comic elements in such films as Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), in which he tells two stories that connect at the end. He also made three films about show business: Broadway Danny Rose, in which he plays a down-on-his-luck New York show business agent, The Purple Rose of Cairo, set during the Great Depression, in which a movie character comes to life to romance an unhappy housewife, and Radio Days, a film about his childhood in Brooklyn and the importance of the radio. The film co-starred Farrow in a part Allen wrote specifically for her.[88] The Purple Rose of Cairo was named by Time as one of the 100 best films of all time.[91] Allen called it one of his three best films with Stardust Memories and Match Point.[92] By "best" he said he meant they came closest to his vision. In 1989, Allen and directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese made New York Stories, an anthology film about New Yorkers. Allen's short, Oedipus Wrecks, is about a neurotic lawyer and his critical mother. Film critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the segment as a "priceless contribution" to the film.[93]

1990s

Allen's 1991 film Shadows and Fog is a black-and-white homage to the German expressionists and features the music of Kurt Weill.[94] Allen then made his critically acclaimed comedy-drama Husbands and Wives (1992), which received two Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Judy Davis and Best Original Screenplay for Allen. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) combined suspense with dark comedy and marked the return of Diane Keaton, Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston.

He returned to lighter fare such as the showbiz comedy involving mobsters Bullets Over Broadway (1994), which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, followed by a musical, Everyone Says I Love You (1996). The singing and dancing scenes in Everyone Says 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 Best Supporting Actress for Mira Sorvino. Allen's 1999 jazz-based comedy-drama Sweet and Lowdown was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Sean Penn (Best Actor) and Samantha Morton (Best Supporting Actress). In contrast to these lighter movies, Allen veered into darker satire toward the end of the decade with Deconstructing Harry (1997) and Celebrity (1998).

During this decade Allen also starred in the television film The Sunshine Boys (1995), based on the Neil Simon play of the same name.[95]

Allen made one sitcom "appearance" via telephone on the show Just Shoot Me! in a 1997 episode, "My Dinner with Woody", that paid tribute to several of his films. He provided the voice of Z in DreamWorks' first animated film, Antz (1998), which featured many actors he had worked with; Allen's character was similar to his earlier roles.[96]

2000s

Small Time Crooks (2000) was Allen's first film with the DreamWorks studio and represented a change in direction: he began giving more interviews and made an attempt to return to his slapstick roots. The film is similar to the 1942 film Larceny, Inc. (from a play by S.J. Perelman).[97] Allen never commented on whether this was deliberate or if his film was in any way inspired by it. Small Time Crooks was a relative financial success, grossing over $17 million domestically, but Allen's next four films foundered at the box office, including Allen's most costly film, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (with a budget of $26 million). Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, and Melinda and Melinda have "rotten" ratings on film-review website Rotten Tomatoes and each earned less than $4 million domestically.[98] Some critics claimed that Allen's early 2000s films were subpar and expressed concern that his best years were behind him.[99] Others were less harsh; reviewing the little-liked Melinda and Melinda, Roger Ebert wrote, "I cannot escape the suspicion that if Woody had never made a previous film, if each new one was Woody's Sundance debut, it would get a better reception. His reputation is not a dead shark but an albatross, which with admirable economy Allen has arranged for the critics to carry around their own necks."[100]

 
Allen in 2006

Match Point (2005) was one of Allen's most successful films of the decade, garnering positive reviews.[101] Set in London, it starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson. It is markedly darker than Allen's first four films with DreamWorks SKG. In Match Point Allen shifts focus from the intellectual upper class of New York to the moneyed upper class of London. The film earned more than $23 million domestically (more than any of his films in nearly 20 years) and over $62 million in international box office sales.[102] It earned Allen his first Academy Award nomination since 1998, for Best Writing – Original Screenplay, with directing and writing nominations at the Golden Globes, his first Globe nominations since 1987. In a 2006 interview with Premiere Magazine he said it was the best film he had ever made.[103]

Allen reached an agreement to film Vicky Cristina Barcelona in Avilés, Barcelona, and Oviedo, Spain, where shooting started on July 9, 2007. The movie featured Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and Penélope Cruz.[104][105] The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival to rapturous reviews, and became a box office success. Vicky Cristina Barcelona won Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe awards. Cruz received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

"In the United States things have changed a lot, and it's hard to make good small films now," Allen said in a 2004 interview. "The avaricious studios couldn't care less about good films—if they get a good film they're twice as happy but money-making films are their goal. They only want these $100 million pictures that make $500 million."[106]

In April 2008 he began filming Whatever Works,[107] a film aimed more toward older audiences, starring Larry David, Patricia Clarkson, and Evan Rachel Wood.[108] Released in 2009 and described as a dark comedy, it follows the story of a botched suicide attempt turned messy love triangle. Whatever Works was written by Allen in the 1970s, and David's character was written for Zero Mostel, who died the year Annie Hall came out.

Allen was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.[109]

2010s

You 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 on September 23, 2010, following a Cannes debut in May 2010, and a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2010.

Allen announced that his next film would be titled Midnight in Paris[110] starring Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Corey Stoll, Allison Pill, Tom Hiddleston, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, and Carla Bruni, the First Lady of France at the time of production. The film follows a young engaged couple in Paris who see their lives transformed. It debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011. Allen said he wanted to "show the city emotionally" during the press conference. "I just wanted it to be the way I saw Paris—Paris through my eyes," he added.[111] The film was almost universally praised, receiving a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.[112] Midnight in Paris won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and became his highest-grossing film, making $151 million worldwide on a $17 million budget.[113]

In February 2012, Allen appeared on a panel at the 92nd Street Y in New York City with moderators Dick Cavett and Annette Insdorf, discussing his films and career.[114]

His next film, To Rome with Love, was a Rome-set comedy released in 2012. The film was structured in four vignettes featuring dialogue in both Italian and English. It marked Allen's return to acting since his last role in Scoop.[115]

Blue Jasmine debuted in July 2013.[116] The film is set in San Francisco and New York, and stars Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, and Peter Sarsgaard.[117] Opening to critical acclaim, the film earned Allen another Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay,[118] and Blanchett received the Academy Award for Best Actress.[119] Allen co-starred with John Turturro in Fading Gigolo, written and directed by Turturro, which premiered in September 2013.[120] In 2013 Allen shot the romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight with Emma Stone, and Colin Firth in Nice, France. The film is set in the 1920s on the French Riviera.[121] The film was a modest financial success, earning $51 million off a budget of $16 million.[122]

It's really cool to work with a director who's done so much, because he knows exactly what he wants. The fact that he does one shot for an entire scene—[and] this could be a scene with eight people and one to two takes—it gives you a level of confidence... he's very empowering.

—Blake Lively, on acting in Café Society[123]

From July to August 2014 Allen filmed the mystery drama Irrational Man in Newport, Rhode Island, with Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley.[124] Allen said that this film, as well as the next three he had planned, had the financing and full support of Sony Pictures Classics.[125] His next film, Café Society, starred an ensemble cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Blake Lively.[126] Bruce Willis was set to co-star, but was replaced by Steve Carell during filming.[127] The film is distributed by Amazon Studios, and opened the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 11, 2016, the third time Allen has opened the festival.[128]

On January 14, 2015, Amazon Studios announced a full-season order for a half-hour Amazon Prime Instant Video series that Allen would write and direct, marking the first time he has developed a television show. Allen said of the series, "I don't know how I got into this. I have no ideas and I'm not sure where to begin. My guess is that Roy Price [the head of Amazon Studios] will regret this."[129][130][131] At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Allen said, in reference to his upcoming Amazon show, "It was a catastrophic mistake. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm floundering. I expect this to be a cosmic embarrassment."[132] On September 30, 2016, Amazon Video debuted Allen's first television series production, Crisis in Six Scenes. The series is a comedy that takes place during the 1960s. It focuses on the life of a suburban family after a surprise visitor creates chaos among them. It stars Allen alongside Elaine May and Miley Cyrus, with the latter playing a radical hippie fugitive who sells marijuana.[133][134]

In September 2016 Allen started filming Wonder Wheel, set in the 1950s in Coney Island, and starring Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake.[135] The film served as the closing night selection at the 55th New York Film Festival on October 15, 2017,[136] and was theatrically released on December 1, 2017,[137] as the first movie self-distributed to theaters by Amazon Studios.[138]

In 2017, Allen received a standing ovation when he made a rare public appearance at the 45th Annual Life Achievement Tribute award ceremony for Diane Keaton. Before presenting her with the award he spoke about their longtime collaboration and friendship, saying, "From the minute I met her, she was a great, great inspiration to me. Much of what I have accomplished in my life I owe for sure to her".[139]

His film A Rainy Day in New York, starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Elle Fanning, Jude Law, Diego Luna, Liev Schreiber and Rebecca Hall began production in New York in September 2017.[140] Chalamet, Gomez and Hall announced, in the light of the #MeToo movement, that they would be donating their salaries to various charities.[141]

In February 2019 it was announced that Amazon Studios had dropped A Rainy Day in New York and would no longer finance, produce, or distribute films with Allen. He filed a lawsuit for $68 million, alleging Amazon gave "vague reasons" to terminate the contract, dropped the film over "a 25-year old, baseless allegation" and did not make payments.[142][143] The case was later settled and dismissed.[144][145] It was released throughout Europe beginning in July 2019,[146][147] receiving mixed reviews and grossing $20 million at the box office.[148][149][150] After over a year of delays, the film was released in the United States on October 9, 2020, by MPI Media Group and Signature Entertainment.[151]

2020s

In May 2019, it was announced that Allen's latest film would be titled Rifkin's Festival, and Variety magazine confirmed that its cast would include Christoph Waltz, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Gina Gershon, Sergi López and Wallace Shawn and it would be produced by Gravier Productions.[152] The film was produced with Mediapro, an independent Spanish TV-film company.[153] Rifkin's Festival completed filming in October 2019.[154][155] On September 18, 2020, it premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. It received mixed reviews, though Jessica Kiang of The New York Times called it "to the ravenous captive, like finding an unexpected stash of dessert".[156]

On March 2, 2020, it was announced that Grand Central Publishing would release Allen's autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, on April 7, 2020,[157] This was after it was announced Allen had written a memoir and shopped it around to multiple prominent publishers, which rejected it.[158] The book was set to be released in the United States, Canada, Italy, Spain, and France, among others.[159] According to the publisher, the book is a "comprehensive account of Allen's life, both personal and professional, and describes his work in films, theater, television, nightclubs, and print...Allen also writes of his relationships with family, friends, and the loves of his life."[160][161]

The decision to publish the book was met with backlash from Ronan Farrow, who cut ties with the publisher.[162] Dylan Farrow also responded to the announcement of the release, saying, "Hachette's publishing of Woody Allen's memoir is deeply upsetting to me personally and an utter betrayal of my brother."[163] On March 5, 2020, 75 employees of Grand Central Publishing held a walkout to protest the release.[164][165] On March 6, the publisher announced that it had canceled the book's release and returned the rights to Allen, saying, "The decision to cancel Mr. Allen's book was a difficult one. Over the past few days, HBG leadership had extensive conversations with our staff and others. After listening, we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible for HBG."[166]

Novelist Stephen King criticized Hachette's decision to withdraw the book, saying it "makes me very uneasy. It's not him; I don't give a damn about Mr. Allen. It's who gets muzzled next that worries me." Executive director of PEN America Suzanne Nossel also criticized the decision.[167][168] On March 6, 2020, Manuel Carcassonne of Hachette's French branch, the publishing company Stock, announced it would publish the book if Allen permitted it.[167] On March 23, 2020, Arcade[169][170] published the memoir in English and La nave di Teseo published it in Italian.[171]

In June 2020, Allen appeared on Alec Baldwin's podcast Here's the Thing and talked about his career as a standup comedian, comedy writer, and filmmaker, and his life during the COVID-19 pandemic.[172]

In September 2022, Allen suggested that he might retire from filmmaking after the release of his next film, previously carrying the working title Wasp 22 (Woody Allen Summer Project 2022)[173] and now known to be titled Coup de Chance.[174] In an interview with La Vanguardia, Allen said, "My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing."[175] Allen's publicist later said, "Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel. He said he was thinking about not making films, as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him, as he is a great lover of the cinema experience. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th."[176]

Theater

While best known for his films, Allen has also had a successful theater career, starting as early as 1960, when he wrote 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 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 nominated for three Tony Awards, although none of the nominations were for Allen's writing or acting.[177]

In the 1970s, Allen wrote a number of one-act plays, most notably God and Death, which were published in his 1975 collection Without Feathers. In 1981, Allen's play The Floating Light Bulb opened on Broadway. It was a critical success and a commercial flop. Despite two Tony Award nominations, a Tony win for the acting of Brian Backer (who won the 1981 Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award for his work), the play only ran for 62 performances.[178] After a long hiatus from the stage, Allen returned to theater in 1995 with the one-act Central Park West, an installment in an evening of theater, Death Defying Acts, that also included new work by David Mamet and Elaine May.[179]

For the next few years, Allen had no direct involvement with the stage, but notable productions of his work were staged. God was staged at The Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro,[180] and theatrical adaptations of Allen's films Bullets Over Broadway[181] and September[182] were produced in Italy and France, respectively, without Allen's involvement. In 2003, Allen finally returned to the stage with Writer's Block, an evening of two one-acts—Old Saybrook and Riverside Drive—that played Off-Broadway. The production marked his stage-directing debut[183] and sold out the entire run.[184]

In 2004, Allen's first full-length play since 1981, A Second Hand Memory,[185] was directed by Allen and enjoyed an extended run Off-Broadway.[184] In June 2007 it was announced that Allen would make two more creative debuts in the theater, directing a work he did not write and an opera—a reinterpretation of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi for the Los Angeles Opera[186]—which debuted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on September 6, 2008.[187] Of his direction of the opera, Allen said, "I have no idea what I'm doing." His production of the opera opened the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, in June 2009.[188]

In October 2011, Allen's one-act play Honeymoon Motel premiered as one in a series of one-act plays on Broadway titled Relatively Speaking.[189] Also contributing to the series were Elaine May and Ethan Coen; John Turturro directed.[190]

It was announced in February 2012 that Allen would adapt Bullets over Broadway into a Broadway musical. It ran from April 10 to August 24, 2014.[191] The cast included Zach Braff, Nick Cordero and Betsy Wolfe. The show was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, known for directing the stage and film productions of Mel Brooks's The Producers. The show drew mixed reviews from critics but received six Tony Award nominations, including one for Allen for Best Book of a Musical.[192]

Jazz band

 
Allen with Jerry Zigmont and Simon Wettenhall performing at Vienne Jazz Festival, Vienne, France, September 2003

Allen is a passionate fan of jazz, which appears often in the soundtracks to his films. He began playing clarinet as a child and took his stage name from clarinetist Woody Herman.[193] He has performed publicly at least since the late 1960s, including with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the soundtrack of Sleeper.[194]

Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have been playing each Monday evening at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan for many years[195] specializing in New Orleans jazz from the early 20th century.[196] He plays songs by Sidney Bechet, George Lewis, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, and Louis Armstrong.[197] The documentary film Wild Man Blues (directed by Barbara Kopple) chronicles a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band, as well as his relationship with Previn. The band released the albums The Bunk Project (1993) and the soundtrack of Wild Man Blues (1997). In 2005, Allen, Eddy Davis and Conal Fowkes released the trio album Woody With Strings.[198] In a 2011 review of a concert by Allen's jazz band, critic Kirk Silsbee of the Los Angeles Times suggested that Allen should be regarded a competent musical hobbyist with a sincere appreciation for early jazz: "Allen's clarinet won't make anyone forget Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard or Evan Christopher. His piping tone and strings of staccato notes can't approximate melodic or lyrical phrasing. Still his earnestness and the obvious regard he has for traditional jazz counts for something."[199]

Allen and his band played at the Montreal International Jazz Festival on two consecutive nights in June 2008.[200] For many years he wanted to make a film about the origins of jazz in New Orleans. Tentatively titled American Blues, the film would follow the different careers of Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. Allen stated that the film would cost between $80 and $100 million and is therefore unlikely to be made.[201]

Influence

Allen has said that he was enormously influenced by comedians Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Mort Sahl, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields,[202] playwright George S. Kaufman and filmmakers Ernst Lubitsch and Ingmar Bergman.[203]

Many comedians have cited Allen as an influence, including Louis C.K.,[204] Larry David,[205] Jon Stewart,[206] Chris Rock,[207] Steve Martin,[208] John Mulaney,[209] Bill Hader,[210] Aziz Ansari,[211] Sarah Silverman,[212] Conan O'Brien,[213] Seth MacFarlane,[214] Seth Meyers,[215] Richard Ayoade,[216] Bill Maher,[217] Albert Brooks,[218] John Cleese,[211] Garry Shandling,[219] Bob Odenkirk,[220] Richard Kind,[221] and Rob McElhenney.[222]

Many filmmakers have also cited Allen as an influence, including Wes Anderson,[223] Greta Gerwig,[224] Noah Baumbach,[225] Luca Guadagnino,[226] Nora Ephron,[227] Whit Stillman,[228] Mike Mills,[229] Ira Sachs,[230] Richard Linklater,[231] Charlie Kaufman,[232] Nicole Holofcener,[233] Rebecca Miller,[234] Tamara Jenkins,[235] Alex Ross Perry,[236] Greg Mottola,[237] Lynn Shelton,[238] Lena Dunham,[239] Lawrence Michael Levine,[240] Olivier Assayas,[241] and the Safdie brothers.[242]

Directors who admire Allen's work include Quentin Tarantino, who called him "one of the greatest screenwriters of all time",[243] as well as Martin Scorsese, who said in Woody Allen: A Documentary, "Woody's sensibilities of New York City is one of the reasons why I love his work, but they are extremely foreign to me. It's not another world; it's another planet".[This quote needs a citation] Stanley Donen stated he liked Allen's films, Spike Lee has called Allen a "great, great filmmaker" and Pedro Almodóvar has said he admires Allen's work.[244][245][246] In 2012, directors Mike Leigh, Asghar Farhadi, and Martin McDonagh respectively included Radio Days (1987), Take the Money and Run (1969), and Manhattan among their Top 10 films for Sight & Sound.[247][248][249] Other admirers of his work include Olivia Wilde and Jason Reitman, who staged live readings of Hannah and Her Sisters and Manhattan respectively.[250][251] Filmmaker Edgar Wright listed five of Allen's films (Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, Annie Hall) in his list of 100 Favorite Comedy films.[252]

Bill Hader cited Allen's mockumentary films Take the Money and Run and Zelig as the biggest inspirations of the IFC series Documentary Now!.[253]

Film critics including Roger Ebert and Barry Norman have highly praised Allen's work.[254][255] In 1980, on Sneak Previews, Siskel and Ebert called Allen and Mel Brooks "the two most successful comedy directors in the world today ... America's two funniest filmmakers."[256] Pauline Kael wrote of Allen that "his comic character is enormously appealing to people partly because he's the smart, urban guy who at the same time is intelligent, is vulnerable, and somehow by his intelligence, he triumphs".[citation needed]

Favorite films

In 2012, Allen participated in the Sight & Sound film polls.[257] Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time, contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice. Allen's choices, in alphabetical order, were:[258][259]

In his 2020 autobiography Apropos of Nothing Allen praised Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951):

the movie of Streetcar is for me total artistic perfection... It's the most perfect confluence of script, performance, and direction I’ve ever seen. I agree with Richard Schickel, who calls the play perfect. The characters are so perfectly written, every nuance, every instinct, every line of dialogue is the best choice of all those available in the known universe. All the performances are sensational. Vivien Leigh is incomparable, more real and vivid than real people I know. And Marlon Brando was a living poem. He was an actor who came on the scene and changed the history of acting. The magic, the setting, New Orleans, the French Quarter, the rainy humid afternoons, the poker night. Artistic genius, no holds barred.

Film activism and preservation

Main article: The Film Foundation

In 1987, Allen joined Ginger Rogers, Sydney Pollack, and Miloš Forman at a Senate Judiciary committee hearing in Washington, D.C., where they each gave testimony against Ted Turner's and other companies' colorizing films without the artists' consent.[260][261] Only one senator, Patrick Leahy, was present for the testimony. Allen testified:

If directors had their way, we would not let our films be tampered with in any way—broken up for commercial or shortened or colorized. But we've fought the other things without much success, and now colorization—because it's so horrible and preposterous and more acutely noticeable by audiences—is the straw that broke the camel's back...The presumption that colorizers are doing him [the director] a favor and bettering his movie is a transparent attempt to justify the mutilation of art for a few extra dollars.[262]

Allen also spoke about his decisions to make films in black and white, such as Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Broadway Danny Rose, and Zelig. Film director John Huston appeared in a pretaped video, and Rogers read a statement by Jimmy Stewart criticizing the colorization of his film It's a Wonderful Life.[260]

In 1990, Allen and Martin Scorsese created The Film Foundation, a nonprofit film preservation organization that collaborates with film studios to restore prints of old or damaged films. Allen sat on the foundation's original board of directors alongside Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford, and Steven Spielberg.[263]

Works

Filmography

Main article: Woody Allen filmography
Directed features
Year Title Distributor
1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily? American International Pictures
1969 Take the Money and Run Cinerama Releasing Corporation
1971 Bananas United Artists
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
(*But Were Afraid to Ask)
1973 Sleeper
1975 Love and Death
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Interiors
1979 Manhattan
1980 Stardust Memories
1982 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy Warner Bros.
1983 Zelig
1984 Broadway Danny Rose Orion Pictures
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 Radio Days
September
1988 Another Woman
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1990 Alice
1991 Shadows and Fog
1992 Husbands and Wives TriStar Pictures
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery
1994 Bullets Over Broadway Miramax Films
1995 Mighty Aphrodite
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1997 Deconstructing Harry Fine Line Features
1998 Celebrity Miramax Films
1999 Sweet and Lowdown Sony Pictures Classics
2000 Small Time Crooks DreamWorks Pictures
2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2002 Hollywood Ending
2003 Anything Else
2004 Melinda and Melinda Fox Searchlight Pictures
2005 Match Point DreamWorks Pictures
2006 Scoop Focus Features
2007 Cassandra's Dream The Weinstein Company
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Weinstein Company
2009 Whatever Works Sony Pictures Classics
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2011 Midnight in Paris
2012 To Rome with Love
2013 Blue Jasmine
2014 Magic in the Moonlight
2015 Irrational Man
2016 Café Society Amazon Studios / Lionsgate
2017 Wonder Wheel Amazon Studios
2019 A Rainy Day in New York Signature Entertainment
2020 Rifkin's Festival MPI Media Group

Theatrical works

In addition to directing, writing, and acting in films, Allen has written and performed in a number of Broadway theater productions.

Year Title Credit Venue
1960 From A to Z Writer (book) Plymouth Theatre, Broadway
1966 Don't Drink the Water Writer Coconut Grove Playhouse, Florida
Morosco Theatre, Broadway
1969 Play It Again, Sam Writer
Performer (Allan Felix) 		Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway[16]
1975 God Writer —
1975 Death Writer —
1981 The Floating Light Bulb Writer Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway
1995 Death Defying Acts: Central Park West Writer Variety Arts Theatre, Off-Broadway
2003 Old Saybrook Writer and director Atlantic Theatre Company, Off-Broadway
2003 Riverside Drive Writer and director
2004 A Second-Hand Memory Writer and director
2008 Gianni Schicchi Director Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
2011 "Honeymoon Motel" Writer Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2014 Bullets Over Broadway Writer (book) St. James Theatre, Broadway
2015 Gianni Schicchi Director Teatro Real, Madrid
2019 Director La Scala, Italy

Bibliography

Main article: Woody Allen bibliography

Discography

  • Woody Allen (Colpix Records, 1964)
  • Woody Allen Vol. 2 (Colpix Records, 1965)
  • The Third Woody Allen Album (Capitol Records, 1968)
  • The Nightclub Years 1964–1968 (United Artists Records, 1972)
  • Standup Comic (Casablanca Records, 1978)
  • Wild Man Blues (RCA Victor, 1998)
  • Woody With Strings (New York Jazz Records, 2005)

Awards and honors

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen
External video
  Woody Allen Introduces "Love Letter to New York in the Movies:" 2002 Oscars, Oscars, 10:24, February 1, 2012

Over his more than 50-year film career, Allen has received many award nominations. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay, with 16 nominations and three wins (Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris). Allen has been nominated for Best Director seven times and won for Annie Hall. Three of Allen's films have been nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris.

Allen shuns award ceremonies, citing their subjectivity. His first and only appearance at the Academy Awards was at the 2002 Oscars, where he received a standing ovation. As a New York icon, he had been asked by the Academy to introduce a film montage of clips of New York City in the movies that Nora Ephron compiled to honor the city after the 9/11 attacks.[264]

Allen has received numerous honors, including an Honorary Golden Palm from the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice International Film Festival in 1995. He also received a BAFTA Fellowship in 1997, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America and a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2014. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010.[265] In 2015, the Writers Guild of America named his screenplay for Annie Hall first on its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays".[266] In 2011, PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen: A Documentary on its series American Masters.[80]

Year Title Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe Awards
Nominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins
1977 Annie Hall 5 4 6 5 5 1
1978 Interiors 5 2 1 4
1979 Manhattan 2 10 2 1
1983 Zelig 2 5 2
1984 Broadway Danny Rose 2 1 1 1
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1 6 1 4 2
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters 7 3 8 2 5 1
1987 Radio Days 2 7 2
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors 3 6 1
1990 Alice 1 1
1992 Husbands and Wives 2 2 1 1
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery 1 1
1994 Bullets over Broadway 7 1 1 1 1
1995 Mighty Aphrodite 2 1 1 1 1
1996 Everyone Says I Love You 1
1997 Deconstructing Harry 1
1999 Sweet and Lowdown 2 2
2000 Small Time Crooks 1
2005 Match Point 1 4
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1 1 1 1 4 1
2011 Midnight in Paris 4 1 1 4 1
2013 Blue Jasmine 3 1 3 1 3 1
Total 53 12 61 17 47 9

Personal life

Allen has been married three times: to Harlene Rosen from 1956 to 1959, Louise Lasser from 1966 to 1970, and Soon-Yi Previn since 1997. He also had a 12-year relationship with actress Mia Farrow and relationships with Stacey Nelkin and Diane Keaton.

Early marriages and relationships

In 1956, Allen married Harlene Rosen. He was 20 and she was 17. The marriage lasted until 1959.[267] Rosen, whom Allen called "the Dread Mrs. Allen" in his standup act, sued him for defamation as a result of comments he made during a television appearance shortly after their divorce. In his mid-1960s album Standup Comic, Allen said that Rosen had sued him because of a joke he made in an interview. Rosen had been sexually assaulted outside her apartment. According to Allen, the newspapers reported that she had been "violated". In the interview, Allen said, "Knowing my ex-wife, it probably wasn't a moving violation." In an interview on The Dick Cavett Show, Allen repeated his comments and said he had been sued for "$1 million".[268]

In 1966, Allen married Louise Lasser. They divorced in 1970. Lasser provided voice dubbing in Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? and appeared in three of his other films: Take the Money and Run, Bananas, and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask). She also appeared briefly in Stardust Memories.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Manhattan was based on Allen's romantic relationship with actress Stacey Nelkin.[269] Her bit part in Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room floor, and their relationship, never publicly acknowledged by Allen, reportedly began when she was 17 and a student at Stuyvesant High School in New York.[270][271][272] In December 2018 The Hollywood Reporter interviewed Babi Christina Engelhardt, who said she had an eight-year affair with Allen that began in 1976 when she was 17 years old (they met when she was 16), and that she believes the character of Tracy in Manhattan is a composite of any number of Allen's presumed other real-life young paramours from that period, not necessarily Nelkin or Engelhardt. When asked, Allen declined to comment.[273]

Diane Keaton

 
Allen with Diane Keaton and Jerry Lacy in the play Play It Again, Sam

In 1968,[274] Allen cast Diane Keaton in his Broadway show Play It Again, Sam. During the run she and Allen became romantically involved. Although they broke up after a year, she continued to star in his films, including Sleeper as a futuristic poet and Love and Death as a composite character based on the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Annie Hall was very important in Allen's and Keaton's careers. It is said that the role was written for her, as Keaton's birth name was Diane Hall. She then starred in Interiors as a poet, followed by Manhattan. In 1987, she had a cameo as a nightclub singer in Radio Days, and she was chosen to replace Mia Farrow in Manhattan Murder Mystery after Allen and Farrow began having problems with their relationship. In total Keaton has starred in eight of Allen's films. As of 2018 Keaton and Allen remain close friends.[275] In a rare public appearance, Allen presented Keaton with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.[276]

Mia Farrow

Allen and Mia Farrow met in 1979 and began a relationship in 1980;[277] Farrow starred in 13 of Allen's films from 1982 to 1992.[278] Throughout the relationship they lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Central Park in Manhattan. Farrow had seven children when they met: three biological sons from her marriage to composer André Previn, three adopted girls (two Vietnamese and one South Korean, Soon-Yi Previn), and an adopted South Korean boy, Moses Farrow.[277]

In 1984, she and Allen tried to conceive a child together; Allen agreed to this on the understanding that he need not be involved in the child's care. When the effort failed, Farrow adopted a baby girl, Dylan Farrow, in July 1985. Allen was not involved in the adoption, but when Dylan arrived he assumed a parental role toward her and began spending more time in Farrow's home.[279] On December 19, 1987, Farrow gave birth to their son Satchel Farrow (later known as Ronan Farrow).[280][281] According to Allen, his intimate relationship with Mia Farrow ceased completely after Satchel's birth and he was asked to return her apartment key; they maintained a working relationship when they filmed a movie, and he regularly visited Moses, Dylan and Satchel, but he and Mia were only "social companions on those occasions where there'd be a dinner, an event, but after the event she'd go home and I'd go home."[282] In 1991, Farrow wanted to adopt another child. According to a 1993 custody hearing, Allen told her he would not object to another adoption so long as she would agree to his adoption of Dylan and Moses; that adoption was finalized in December 1991.[279] Eric Lax, Allen's biographer, wrote in The New York Times that Allen was "there before they [the children] wake up in the morning, he sees them during the day and he helps put them to bed at night".[277]

Soon-Yi Previn

 
Allen and Soon-Yi Previn in Venice

In 1977, Mia Farrow and André Previn adopted Soon-Yi Previn from Seoul, South Korea. She had been abandoned. The Seoul Family Court established a Family Census Register (legal birth document) on her behalf on December 28, 1976, with a presumptive birth date of October 8, 1970;[283][284] according to Maureen Orth, a bone scan in the U.S. estimated that she was between five and seven years old.[b] According to Previn, her first friendly interaction with Allen took place when she was injured playing soccer during 11th grade and Allen offered to transport her to school. After her injury, she began attending New York Knicks basketball games with Allen in 1990.[286] They attended more games and by 1991 had become closer.[279] In September 1991, she began studies at Drew University in New Jersey.[287]

In January 1992, Farrow found nude photographs of Previn in Allen's home. Allen, then 56, told Farrow that he had taken the photos the day before, approximately two weeks after he first had sex with Previn.[288] Both Farrow and Allen contacted lawyers shortly after the photographs were discovered.[279][285] Previn was asked to leave summer camp because she was spending too much time taking calls from a "Mr. Simon", who turned out to be Allen.[287]

 
Soon-Yi Previn and Allen, 2009

In an August 1992 interview with Time Magazine Allen said, "I am not Soon-Yi's father or stepfather", adding, "I've never even lived with Mia. I've never in my entire life slept at Mia's apartment, and I never even used to go over there until my children came along seven years ago. I never had any family dinners over there. I was not a father to her adopted kids in any sense of the word." Adding that Soon-Yi never treated him as a father figure and that he rarely spoke to her before their romantic relationship, Allen seemed to see few or no problems with their relationship.[289]

On August 17, 1992, Allen issued a statement saying that he was in love with Previn.[290] Their relationship became public and "erupted into tabloid headlines and late-night monologues in August 1992."[291]

Allen and Previn were married in Venice, Italy, on December 23, 1997.[292] They have adopted two children,[293][294] and live in the Carnegie Hill section of Manhattan's Upper East Side.[295]

Sexual abuse allegation

Main article: Woody Allen sexual abuse allegation

According to court testimony, on August 4, 1992, Allen visited the children at Mia Farrow's home in Bridgewater, Connecticut, while she was shopping with a friend.[285] The next day, that friend's babysitter told her employer that she had seen that "Dylan was sitting on the sofa, and Woody was kneeling on the floor, facing her, with his head in her lap".[296][297] When Farrow asked Dylan about it, Dylan allegedly said that Allen had touched Dylan's "private part" while they were alone together in the attic.[285] Allen strongly denied the allegation, calling it "an unconscionable and gruesomely damaging manipulation of innocent children for vindictive and self-serving motives".[298] He then began proceedings in New York Supreme Court for sole custody of his and Farrow's son Satchel, as well as Dylan and Moses, their two adopted children.[299] In March 1993, a six-month investigation by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale-New Haven Hospital concluded that Dylan had not been sexually abused.[300][301]

In June 1993, Judge Elliott Wilk rejected Allen's bid for custody and rejected the allegation of sexual abuse. Wilk said he was less certain than the Yale-New Haven team that there was conclusive evidence that there was no sexual abuse and called Allen's conduct with Dylan "grossly inappropriate",[302][303][304] although not sexual.[305] In September 1993, the state prosecutor announced that despite having "probable cause”, he would not pursue charges in order "to avoid the unjustifiable risk of exposing a child to the rigors and uncertainties of a questionable prosecution".[302][306] In October 1993 the New York Child Welfare Agency of the State Department of Social Services closed a 14-month investigation and concluded there was not credible evidence of abuse or maltreatment, and the allegation was unfounded.[307]

In 2014, when Allen received a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, the issue returned to the forefront of media attention, with Mia Farrow and Ronan Farrow making disparaging remarks about Allen on Twitter.[308][309] On February 1, 2014, New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof, with Dylan's permission, published a column that included excerpts from a letter Dylan had written to Kristof restating the allegation against Allen, and called out fellow actors who have continued to work in his films.[310][311] Allen responded to the allegation in an open letter, also in The New York Times, strongly denying it. "Of course, I did not molest Dylan...No one wants to discourage abuse victims from speaking out, but one must bear in mind that sometimes there are people who are falsely accused and that is also a terribly destructive thing", he wrote.[312][313][314]

In 2018, Moses Farrow (Mia Farrow's and Allen's adopted son who was present at her Bridgewater house during Allen's visit) published a blog post called "A Son Speaks Out." In the post, Moses recounted a series of instances of alleged physical abuse at the hands of Mia Farrow. He wrote, "It pains me to recall instances in which I witnessed siblings, some blind or physically disabled, dragged down a flight of stairs to be thrown into a bedroom or a closet, then having the door locked from the outside. [Mia] even shut my brother Thaddeus, paraplegic from polio, in an outdoor shed overnight as punishment for a minor transgression".[315][316]

Works about Allen

From 1976 to 1984 Stuart Hample wrote and drew Inside Woody Allen, a comic strip based on Allen's film persona.[317][318]

The 1997 documentary Wild Man Blues, directed by Barbara Kopple, focuses on Allen, and other documentaries featuring Allen include the 2002 cable television documentary Woody Allen: A Life in Film, directed by Time film critic Richard Schickel, which interlaces interviews of Allen with clips of his films,[319] and the 1986 short film Meetin' WA, in which Allen is interviewed by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard.[320]

 
Monument to Woody Allen, Oviedo, Spain

In 2003, a life-size bronze statue of Allen was installed in Oviedo, Spain. He had visited the city the previous year to accept a Prince of Asturias Award.[321]

In 2011 the PBS series American Masters co-produced the documentary Woody Allen: A Documentary, directed by Robert B. Weide. New interviews provide insight and backstory with Diane Keaton, Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Dianne Wiest, Larry David, Chris Rock, Martin Scorsese, Dick Cavett, and Leonard Maltin, among others.[322]

Eric Lax wrote the book Woody Allen: A Biography.[12]

In 2015 David Evanier published Woody: The Biography, which was billed as the first new biography of Allen in over a decade.[323]

In early March 2020, Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, announced that it would publish Allen's memoir, Apropos of Nothing, on April 7, 2020.[324] Days later, after employee walkouts, parent company Hachette announced that the title was canceled and rights had reverted to Allen.[325] On March 23, 2020, Skyhorse Publishing announced that it had acquired and released Apropos of Nothing through its Arcade imprint.[170]

In February 2021, HBO released Kirby Dick's and Amy Ziering's four-part documentary Allen v. Farrow, which explores the sexual abuse allegations against Allen.[326][327] The series drew largely positive reviews from critics. Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "makes a compelling argument that Allen got away with the unthinkable thanks to his fame, money, and revered standing in the world of film—and that a little girl never received justice."[328] Rachel Brodsky wrote in The Independent that the "documentary will sound the death knell for Woody Allen’s career."[329] Hadley Freeman in The Guardian wrote that the series "sets itself up as an investigation but much more resembles PR, as biased and partial as a political candidate’s advert vilifying an opponent in election season."[330] A statement on behalf of Allen and Previn denounced the documentary as "a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods" and said that they were approached two months before it was aired on HBO and "given only a matter of days 'to respond.' Of course, they declined to do so."[331] The filmmakers said they gave Allen and Previn two weeks to comment, which is "more than ample time by journalistic standards."[332]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Despite almost all sources listing his birth date as December 1, in his 2020 autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, Allen writes that he was actually born on November 30: "Actually, I was born on the thirtieth of November very close to midnight, and my parents pushed the date so I could start off on a day one."[1]
  2. ^ Maureen Orth (Vanity Fair, November 1992): "Nobody knows how old Soon-Yi really is. Without ever seeing her, Korean officials put her age down as seven on her passport. A bone scan Mia had done on her in the U.S. put her age at between five and seven. In the family, Soon-Yi is considered to have turned 20 this year [1992], on October 8.[285]

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woody, allen, heywood, woody, allen, born, allan, stewart, konigsberg, november, 1935, american, filmmaker, actor, comedian, whose, career, spans, more, than, decades, allen, received, many, accolades, including, most, nominations, academy, award, best, origin. Heywood Woody Allen born Allan Stewart Konigsberg November 30 1935 a is an American filmmaker actor and comedian whose career spans more than six decades Allen has received many accolades including the most nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with 16 He has won four Academy Awards nine BAFTA Awards two Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award as well as nominations for a Emmy Award and a Tony Award 2 Allen was awarded the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 an Honorary Golden Lion in 1995 the BAFTA Fellowship in 1997 an Honorary Palme d Or in 2002 and the Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award in 2014 Two of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally historically or aesthetically significant Woody AllenAllen in 2016BornAllan Stewart Konigsberg 1935 11 30 November 30 1935 age 87 a New York City U S EducationCity College of New York dropped out OccupationsFilmmakerwriteractorcomedianmusicianYears active1956 presentWorksFull listSpousesHarlene Susan Rosen m 1956 div 1962 wbr Louise Lasser m 1966 div 1970 wbr Soon Yi Previn m 1997 wbr PartnersDiane Keaton 1970 1971 Mia Farrow 1980 1992 Children5 including Ronan Farrow and Moses FarrowRelativesLetty Aronson sister AwardsFull listWebsitewww wbr woodyallen wbr comAllen began his career writing material for television in the 1950s mainly Your Show of Shows 1950 54 alongside Mel Brooks Carl Reiner Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon He also published several books of short stories and wrote humor pieces for The New Yorker In the early 1960s he performed as a stand up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce Elaine May Mike Nichols and Joan Rivers There he developed a monologue style rather than traditional jokes and the persona of an insecure intellectual fretful nebbish 3 During this time he released three comedy albums earning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination for the self titled Woody Allen 1964 4 In 2004 Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand up comedians 5 6 while a UK survey ranked Allen the third greatest comedian 7 By the mid 1960s Allen was writing and directing films first specializing in slapstick comedies such as Take the Money and Run 1969 Bananas 1971 Sleeper 1973 and Love and Death 1975 before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the late 1970s with Interiors 1978 Manhattan 1979 and Stardust Memories 1980 Allen is often identified as part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmakers of the mid 1960s to late 1970s such as Martin Scorsese Robert Altman and Sidney Lumet 8 He often stars in his films typically in the persona he developed as a standup His film Annie Hall 1977 a romantic comedy featuring Allen and his frequent collaborator Diane Keaton won four Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress for Keaton Critics have called his work from the 1980s his most developed period with films such as Zelig 1983 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Radio Days 1987 and Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 He earned acclaim for his films in the 1990s including Husbands and Wives 1992 Bullets Over Broadway 1994 Everyone Says I Love You 1996 Deconstructing Harry 1997 and Sweet and Lowdown 1999 In the 21st century many of Allen s films were shot in Europe including Match Point 2005 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008 Midnight in Paris 2011 and To Rome with Love 2012 Blue Jasmine 2013 and Cafe Society 2016 were filmed in the U S In 1979 Allen began a professional and personal relationship with actress Mia Farrow Over a decade long period they collaborated on 13 films and conceived a child the journalist Ronan Farrow who was born in 1987 The couple separated after Allen began a relationship in 1991 with Mia s and Andre Previn s adopted daughter Soon Yi Previn In 1992 Farrow publicly accused Allen of sexually abusing their adopted daughter the seven year old Dylan Farrow 9 10 The allegation gained substantial media attention but Allen was never charged or prosecuted and he vehemently denied the allegation Allen married Previn in 1997 and they adopted two children 11 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Comedy writer 2 2 Stand up comedian 2 3 Playwright 2 4 Early films 2 5 1970s 2 6 1980s 2 7 1990s 2 8 2000s 2 9 2010s 2 10 2020s 3 Theater 4 Jazz band 5 Influence 6 Favorite films 7 Film activism and preservation 8 Works 8 1 Filmography 8 2 Theatrical works 8 3 Bibliography 8 4 Discography 9 Awards and honors 10 Personal life 10 1 Early marriages and relationships 10 2 Diane Keaton 10 3 Mia Farrow 10 4 Soon Yi Previn 10 5 Sexual abuse allegation 11 Works about Allen 12 Notes 13 References 13 1 Works cited 14 External linksEarly life Allen as a high school senior in 1953 Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg 12 in New York City on November 30 1935 a Though his family lived in Brooklyn the birth took place at Mount Eden Hospital in the Bronx 13 He is Jewish 14 Allen s parents were Nettie nee Cherry 1906 2002 a bookkeeper at her family s delicatessen and Martin Konigsberg 1900 2001 15 a jewelry engraver and waiter 16 His grandparents were immigrants to the U S from Austria and the Lithuanian city of Panevezys They spoke German Hebrew and Yiddish 17 18 He and his younger sister film producer Letty were raised in Brooklyn s Midwood neighborhood 19 Both their parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan 20 Allen s parents did not get along and he had an estranged relationship with his authoritarian ill tempered mother 21 He spoke German in his early years citation needed He later joked that he was often sent to interfaith summer camps when he was young While attending Hebrew school for eight years he went to Public School 99 now the Isaac Asimov School for Science and Literature 22 and Midwood High School graduating in 1953 Unlike his comic persona he was more interested in baseball than school and his strong arm ensured he was picked first for teams 23 12 He impressed students with his talent for cards and magic tricks 24 Allen wrote jokes or gags for agent David O Alber to make money and Alber sold them to newspaper columnists At age 17 he legally changed his name to Heywood Allen 25 and later began to call himself Woody 26 According to Allen his first published joke read Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O P S prices over people s salaries 27 He was soon earning more than both of his parents combined 23 After high school he attended New York University studying communication and film in 1953 before dropping out after failing the course Motion Picture Production He studied film at City College of New York in 1954 but left during the first semester 28 He taught himself rather than studying in the classroom 12 He later taught at The New School and studied with writing teacher Lajos Egri 29 CareerComedy writer Allen in the 1960s Allen began writing short jokes when he was 15 30 and the following year began sending them to various Broadway writers to see if they d be interested in buying any 539 One of those writers was Abe Burrows coauthor of Guys and Dolls who wrote Wow His stuff was dazzling Burrows then wrote Allen letters of introduction to Sid Caesar Phil Silvers and Peter Lind Hayes who immediately sent Allen a check for just the jokes Burrows included as samples 31 As a result of the jokes Allen mailed to various writers he was invited then age 19 to join the NBC Writer s Development Program in 1955 followed by a job on The NBC Comedy Hour in Los Angeles He was later hired as a full time writer for humorist Herb Shriner initially earning 25 a week 27 He began writing scripts for The Ed Sullivan Show The Tonight Show specials for Sid Caesar post Caesar s Hour 1954 1957 and other television shows 32 By the time he was working for Caesar he was earning 1 500 a week He worked alongside Mel Brooks Carl Reiner Larry Gelbart and Neil Simon He also worked with Danny Simon whom Allen credits for helping form his writing style 27 33 In 1962 alone he estimated that he wrote twenty thousand jokes for various comics 34 Allen also wrote for the Candid Camera television show and appeared in some episodes 35 He wrote jokes for the Buddy Hackett sitcom Stanley and for The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom and in 1958 he co wrote a few Sid Caesar specials with Larry Gelbart 36 After writing for many of television s leading comedians and comedy shows Allen was gaining a reputation as a genius composer Mary Rodgers said When given an assignment for a show he would leave and come back the next day with reams of paper according to producer Max Liebman 36 Similarly after he wrote for Bob Hope Hope called him half a genius 36 His daily writing routine could last as long as 15 hours and he could focus and write anywhere necessary Dick Cavett was amazed at Allen s capacity to write He can go to a typewriter after breakfast and sit there until the sun sets and his head is pounding interrupting work only for coffee and a brief walk and then spend the whole evening working 37 When Allen wrote for other comedians they would use eight out of ten of his jokes When he began performing as a stand up he was much more selective typically using only one out of ten jokes He estimated that to prepare for a 30 minute show he spent six months of intensive writing 37 He enjoyed writing however despite the work Nothing makes me happier than to tear open a ream of paper And I can t wait to fill it I love to do it 37 Allen started writing short stories and cartoon captions for magazines such as The New Yorker he was inspired by the tradition of New Yorker humorists S J Perelman George S Kaufman Robert Benchley and Max Shulman whose material he modernized 38 39 40 41 42 43 His collections of short pieces includes Getting Even Without Feathers Side Effects and Mere Anarchy His early comic fiction was influenced by the zany pun ridden humor of S J Perelman In 2010 Allen released audio versions of his books in which he read 73 selections entitled The Woody Allen Collection He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album 44 Stand up comedian From 1960 to 1969 Allen performed as a comedian to supplement his comedy writing He worked in various places around Greenwich Village including The Bitter End and Cafe Au Go Go alongside such contemporaries as Lenny Bruce the team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May Joan Rivers George Carlin Richard Pryor Dick Cavett Bill Cosby and Mort Sahl his personal favorite as well as such other artists of the day as Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand 45 Comedian Milton Berle claims to have suggested to Allen to go into standup comedy and even introduced him at the Village Vanguard 46 Comedy historian Gerald Nachman writes that Allen while not the first to do standup eventually had greater impact than all the others in the 1960s and redefined standup comedy He helped turn it into biting brutally honest satirical commentary on the cultural and psychological tenor of the times 26 After Allen was taken under the wing of his new manager Jack Rollins who had recently discovered Nichols and May Rollins suggested he perform his written jokes as a stand up Allen was resistant at first but after seeing Mort Sahl on stage he felt safer to give it a try I d never had the nerve to talk about it before Then Mort Sahl came along with a whole new style of humor opening up vistas for people like me 47 Allen made his professional stage debut at the Blue Angel nightclub in Manhattan in October 1960 where comedian Shelley Berman introduced him as a young television writer who would perform his own material 47 His early stand up shows with his different style of humor were not always well received or understood by his audiences Unlike other comedians Allen spoke to his audiences in a gentle and conversational style often appearing to be searching for words although he was well rehearsed He acted normal dressed casually and made no attempt to project a stage personality And he did not improvise I put very little premium on improvisation he told Studs Terkel 48 His jokes were created from life experiences and typically presented with a dead serious demeanor that made them funnier I don t think my family liked me They put a live teddy bear in my crib 34 The subjects of his jokes were rarely topical political or socially relevant Unlike Bruce and Sahl he did not discuss current events such as civil rights women s rights the Cold War or Vietnam And although he was described as a classic nebbish he did not tell the standard Jewish jokes of the period 49 Comedy screenwriter Larry Gelbart compared Allen s style to Elaine May s He just styled himself completely after her 50 Like Nichols and May he often made fun of intellectuals Cavett who was among the minority to quickly appreciate Allen s style recalls seeing the Blue Angel audience mostly ignore Allen s monologue I recognized immediately that there was no young comedian in the country in the same class with him for sheer brilliance of jokes and I resented the fact that the audience was too dumb to realize what they were getting 51 It was his subdued stage presence that eventually became one of Allen s strongest traits Nachman argues The utter absence of showbiz veneer and shtick was the best shtick any comedian had ever devised This uneasy onstage naturalness became a trademark 52 When the media finally noticed writers like The New York Times s Arthur Gelb described Allen s nebbish quality as Chaplinesque and refreshing Allen on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1964 Allen developed an anxious nervous and intellectual persona for his stand up act a successful move that secured regular gigs for him in nightclubs and on television He brought innovation to the comedy monologue genre and his stand up comedy is considered influential 53 Allen first appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on November 1 1963 and over nine years his guest appearances included 17 in the host s chair He subsequently released three LP albums of live nightclub recordings the self titled Woody Allen 1964 Volume 2 1965 and The Third Woody Allen Album 1968 recorded at a fund raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy s presidential run 54 In 1965 Allen filmed a half hour standup special in England for Granada Television titled The Woody Allen Show in the U K and Woody Allen Standup Comic in the U S 55 It is the only complete standup show of Allen s on film 55 The same year Allen along with Nichols and May Barbra Streisand Carol Channing Harry Belafonte Julie Andrews Carol Burnett and Alfred Hitchcock took part in Lyndon B Johnson s inaugural gala in Washington D C on January 18 1965 First Lady Lady Bird Johnson described Allen and the event in her published diary A White House Diary writing in part Woody Allen that forlorn undernourished little comedian stopped shooting a movie in Paris and flew across the Atlantic for about five minutes of jokes 56 In 1966 Allen wrote an hourlong musical comedy television special for CBS Gene Kelly in New York City 57 It focused on Gene Kelly in a musical tour around Manhattan dancing along such landmarks as Rockefeller Center the Plaza Hotel and the Museum of Modern Art which serve as backdrops for the show s production numbers 58 Allen appeared in the special alongside Kelly Guest stars included choreographer Gower Champion British musical comedy star Tommy Steele and singer Damita Jo DeBlanc 59 In 1967 Allen hosted a TV special for NBC Woody Allen Looks at 1967 It featured Liza Minnelli who acted alongside Allen in some skits Aretha Franklin the musical guest and conservative writer William F Buckley the featured guest 60 In 1969 Allen hosted his first American special for CBS television The Woody Allen Special which included skits with Candice Bergen a musical performance from the 5th Dimension and an interview between Allen and Billy Graham 61 62 Allen also performed standup comedy on other series including The Andy Williams Show and The Perry Como Show where he interacted with other guests and occasionally sang 63 In 1971 he hosted one of his final Tonight Shows with guests Bob Hope and James Coco 64 Hope praised Allen on the show calling him one of the finest young talents in show business and a great delight 65 Life magazine put Allen on the cover of its March 21 1969 issue 66 In 1979 Allen paid tribute to one of his comedy idols Bob Hope at the Film Society at Lincoln Center creating a special for the event titled My Favorite Comedian that included clips from Hope s films selected and narrated by Allen Hope said of the honor It s great to have your past spring up in front of your eyes especially when it s done by Woody Allen because he s a near genius Not a whole genius but a near genius 67 Dick Cavett served as the host but Allen was absent editing Manhattan Guests at the event included Diane Keaton Kurt Vonnegut and Andy Warhol Playwright Allen with the Broadway cast of Play It Again Sam 1969 In 1966 Allen wrote the play Don t Drink the Water The play starred Lou Jacobi Kay Medford Anita Gillette and Allen s future movie co star Tony Roberts 68 A film adaptation of the play directed by Howard Morris was released in 1969 starring Jackie Gleason Because he was not particularly happy with that version in 1994 Allen directed and starred in a second version for television with Michael J Fox and Mayim Bialik 69 The next play Allen wrote for Broadway was Play It Again Sam in which he also starred The play opened on February 12 1969 and ran for 453 performances It featured Diane Keaton and Roberts 70 The play was significant to Keaton s budding career and she has said she was in awe of Allen even before auditioning for her role which was the first time she met him 71 In a 2013 interview Keaton said that she fell in love with him right away adding I wanted to be his girlfriend so I did something about it 72 After co starring alongside Allen in the subsequent film version of Play It Again Sam she later co starred in Sleeper Love and Death Annie Hall Interiors and Manhattan He showed me the ropes and I followed his lead He is the most disciplined person I know He works very hard Keaton has said 72 In 1981 Allen s play The Floating Light Bulb starring Danny Aiello and Bea Arthur premiered on Broadway and ran for 65 performances 73 While receiving mixed reviews it gave autobiographical insight into Allen s childhood specifically his fascination with magic tricks The play set in 1945 is a semi autobiographical tale of a lower middle class family in Brooklyn New York Times critic Frank Rich gave the play a mild review writing there are a few laughs a few well wrought characters and in Act II a beautifully written scene that leads to a moving final curtain 74 Rich also compared the play to Tennessee Williams s work 74 Allen has written several off Broadway one act plays including Riverside Drive Old Saybrook and A Second Hand Memory at the Variety Arts Theatre 74 75 On March 8 1995 Allen s one act play Central Park West opened off Broadway as a part of a larger piece titled Death Defying Acts with two other one act plays one by David Mamet and one by Elaine May Critics described Allen s contribution as the longest and most substantial of the evening 76 On October 20 2011 Allen s one act play Honeymoon Motel opened on Broadway as part of a larger piece titled Relatively Speaking with two other one act plays one by Ethan Coen and one by Elaine May 77 On March 11 2014 Allen s musical Bullets over Broadway opened on Broadway at the St James Theatre 78 It was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman and starred Zach Braff Nick Cordero and Betsy Wolfe The production received mixed reviews with The Hollywood Reporter writing this frothy show does provide dazzling art direction and performances as well as effervescent ensemble numbers Allen received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical The show received six Tony nominations 79 Early films Allen s first movie was the Charles K Feldman production What s New Pussycat 1965 for which he wrote the screenplay He was disappointed with the final product which inspired him to direct every film he wrote thereafter except Play It Again Sam 80 Allen s first directorial effort was What s Up Tiger Lily 1966 co written with Mickey Rose in which an existing Japanese spy movie Kokusai himitsu keisatsu Kagi no kagi 1965 International Secret Police Key of Keys was redubbed in English by Allen and friends with fresh new comic dialogue In 1967 Allen played Jimmy Bond in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale In 1969 Allen directed starred in and co wrote with Mickey Rose Take the Money and Run which he considers his true film directorial debut The film received positive reviews critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote Allen has made a movie that is in effect a feature length two reel comedy something very special and eccentric and funny 81 Allen later signed a deal with United Artists to produce several films 1970s During the 1970s Allen directed films that were later known as his early funny work These include Bananas 1971 co written with Rose Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask 1972 Sleeper 1973 and Love and Death 1975 80 Sleeper was the first of four screenplays co written by Allen and Marshall Brickman 82 83 In 1972 Allen wrote and starred in the film version of Play It Again Sam directed by Herbert Ross and co starring Diane Keaton In 1976 he starred as cashier Howard Prince in The Front directed by Martin Ritt The Front was a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s Ritt screenwriter Walter Bernstein and three of Allen s cast mates Samuel Zero Mostel Herschel Bernardi and Lloyd Gough had themselves been blacklisted I don t like meeting heroes There s nobody I want to meet and nobody I want to work with I d rather work with Diane Keaton than anyone she s absolutely great a natural Woody Allen 1976 30 Then came two of Allen s most popular films Annie Hall and Manhattan Annie Hall 1977 won four Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Actress in a Leading Role for Diane Keaton Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for Woody Allen Annie Hall set the standard for modern romantic comedy and ignited a fashion trend with the clothes Keaton wore in the film In an interview with journalist Katie Couric Keaton did not deny that Allen wrote the part for her and about her 84 The film is ranked 35th on the American Film Institute s 100 Best Movies and fourth on the AFI list of the 100 Best Comedies In 1979 Allen directed Manhattan a black and white romantic comedy often viewed as an homage to New York City The film features iconic scenes filmed in New York City including an opening montage of scenes around the city and Allen and Keaton s silhouette on a bench by the Queensboro Bridge As in many Allen films the main protagonists are upper middle class writers and academics Manhattan focuses on the complicated relationship between middle aged Isaac Davis Allen and 17 year old Tracy Mariel Hemingway and co stars Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep It was a box office and critical hit and received two Academy Award nominations for Hemingway for Best Supporting Actress and for Allen s screenplay Keaton who has made eight movies with Allen has said He just has a mind like nobody else He s bold He s got a lot of strength a lot of courage in terms of his work And that is what it takes to do something really unique Along with a genius imagination 84 1980s Allen s films in the 1980s even the comedies became somber with philosophical undertones influenced by European directors especially Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini Stardust Memories was based on 8 which it parodies and Wild Strawberries A Midsummer Night s Sex Comedy was adapted from Smiles of a Summer Night In Hannah and Her Sisters part of the film s structure and background is borrowed from Fanny and Alexander Fellini s Amarcord inspired Radio Days September resembles Bergman s Autumn Sonata Another Woman and Crimes and Misdemeanors have elements reminiscent of Wild Strawberries 85 Stardust Memories 1980 features Sandy Bates a successful filmmaker played by Allen who expresses resentment and scorn for his fans Overcome by the recent death of a friend from illness Bates says I don t want to make funny movies anymore and a running gag has various people including visiting space aliens telling him that they appreciate his films especially the early funny ones 86 Allen considers this one of his best films 87 Mia s a good actress who can play many different roles She has a very good range and can play serious to comic roles She s also very photogenic very beautiful on screen She s just a good realistic actress and no matter how strange and daring it is she does it well Woody Allen 1993 88 A Midsummer Night s Sex Comedy 1982 was the first movie Allen made starring Mia Farrow who stepped into Diane Keaton s role when Keaton was shooting Reds 89 He next directed Zelig in which he starred as a man who has the ability to transform his appearance to that of the people surrounding him 90 Allen has combined tragic and comic elements in such films as Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 and Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 in which he tells two stories that connect at the end He also made three films about show business Broadway Danny Rose in which he plays a down on his luck New York show business agent The Purple Rose of Cairo set during the Great Depression in which a movie character comes to life to romance an unhappy housewife and Radio Days a film about his childhood in Brooklyn and the importance of the radio The film co starred Farrow in a part Allen wrote specifically for her 88 The Purple Rose of Cairo was named by Time as one of the 100 best films of all time 91 Allen called it one of his three best films with Stardust Memories and Match Point 92 By best he said he meant they came closest to his vision In 1989 Allen and directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese made New York Stories an anthology film about New Yorkers Allen s short Oedipus Wrecks is about a neurotic lawyer and his critical mother Film critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the segment as a priceless contribution to the film 93 1990s Allen s 1991 film Shadows and Fog is a black and white homage to the German expressionists and features the music of Kurt Weill 94 Allen then made his critically acclaimed comedy drama Husbands and Wives 1992 which received two Oscar nominations Best Supporting Actress for Judy Davis and Best Original Screenplay for Allen Manhattan Murder Mystery 1993 combined suspense with dark comedy and marked the return of Diane Keaton Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston He returned to lighter fare such as the showbiz comedy involving mobsters Bullets Over Broadway 1994 which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director followed by a musical Everyone Says I Love You 1996 The singing and dancing scenes in Everyone Says 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 Best Supporting Actress for Mira Sorvino Allen s 1999 jazz based comedy drama Sweet and Lowdown was nominated for two Academy Awards for Sean Penn Best Actor and Samantha Morton Best Supporting Actress In contrast to these lighter movies Allen veered into darker satire toward the end of the decade with Deconstructing Harry 1997 and Celebrity 1998 During this decade Allen also starred in the television film The Sunshine Boys 1995 based on the Neil Simon play of the same name 95 Allen made one sitcom appearance via telephone on the show Just Shoot Me in a 1997 episode My Dinner with Woody that paid tribute to several of his films He provided the voice of Z in DreamWorks first animated film Antz 1998 which featured many actors he had worked with Allen s character was similar to his earlier roles 96 2000s Small Time Crooks 2000 was Allen s first film with the DreamWorks studio and represented a change in direction he began giving more interviews and made an attempt to return to his slapstick roots The film is similar to the 1942 film Larceny Inc from a play by S J Perelman 97 Allen never commented on whether this was deliberate or if his film was in any way inspired by it Small Time Crooks was a relative financial success grossing over 17 million domestically but Allen s next four films foundered at the box office including Allen s most costly film The Curse of the Jade Scorpion with a budget of 26 million Hollywood Ending Anything Else and Melinda and Melinda have rotten ratings on film review website Rotten Tomatoes and each earned less than 4 million domestically 98 Some critics claimed that Allen s early 2000s films were subpar and expressed concern that his best years were behind him 99 Others were less harsh reviewing the little liked Melinda and Melinda Roger Ebert wrote I cannot escape the suspicion that if Woody had never made a previous film if each new one was Woody s Sundance debut it would get a better reception His reputation is not a dead shark but an albatross which with admirable economy Allen has arranged for the critics to carry around their own necks 100 Allen in 2006 Match Point 2005 was one of Allen s most successful films of the decade garnering positive reviews 101 Set in London it starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson It is markedly darker than Allen s first four films with DreamWorks SKG In Match Point Allen shifts focus from the intellectual upper class of New York to the moneyed upper class of London The film earned more than 23 million domestically more than any of his films in nearly 20 years and over 62 million in international box office sales 102 It earned Allen his first Academy Award nomination since 1998 for Best Writing Original Screenplay with directing and writing nominations at the Golden Globes his first Globe nominations since 1987 In a 2006 interview with Premiere Magazine he said it was the best film he had ever made 103 Allen reached an agreement to film Vicky Cristina Barcelona in Aviles Barcelona and Oviedo Spain where shooting started on July 9 2007 The movie featured Scarlett Johansson Javier Bardem Rebecca Hall and Penelope Cruz 104 105 The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival to rapturous reviews and became a box office success Vicky Cristina Barcelona won Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globe awards Cruz received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress In the United States things have changed a lot and it s hard to make good small films now Allen said in a 2004 interview The avaricious studios couldn t care less about good films if they get a good film they re twice as happy but money making films are their goal They only want these 100 million pictures that make 500 million 106 In April 2008 he began filming Whatever Works 107 a film aimed more toward older audiences starring Larry David Patricia Clarkson and Evan Rachel Wood 108 Released in 2009 and described as a dark comedy it follows the story of a botched suicide attempt turned messy love triangle Whatever Works was written by Allen in the 1970s and David s character was written for Zero Mostel who died the year Annie Hall came out Allen was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 109 2010s Allen at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival You 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 on September 23 2010 following a Cannes debut in May 2010 and a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12 2010 Allen announced that his next film would be titled Midnight in Paris 110 starring Owen Wilson Marion Cotillard Rachel McAdams Michael Sheen Corey Stoll Allison Pill Tom Hiddleston Adrien Brody Kathy Bates and Carla Bruni the First Lady of France at the time of production The film follows a young engaged couple in Paris who see their lives transformed It debuted at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival on May 12 2011 Allen said he wanted to show the city emotionally during the press conference I just wanted it to be the way I saw Paris Paris through my eyes he added 111 The film was almost universally praised receiving a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes 112 Midnight in Paris won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and became his highest grossing film making 151 million worldwide on a 17 million budget 113 In February 2012 Allen appeared on a panel at the 92nd Street Y in New York City with moderators Dick Cavett and Annette Insdorf discussing his films and career 114 His next film To Rome with Love was a Rome set comedy released in 2012 The film was structured in four vignettes featuring dialogue in both Italian and English It marked Allen s return to acting since his last role in Scoop 115 Blue Jasmine debuted in July 2013 116 The film is set in San Francisco and New York and stars Alec Baldwin Cate Blanchett Louis C K Andrew Dice Clay Sally Hawkins and Peter Sarsgaard 117 Opening to critical acclaim the film earned Allen another Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay 118 and Blanchett received the Academy Award for Best Actress 119 Allen co starred with John Turturro in Fading Gigolo written and directed by Turturro which premiered in September 2013 120 In 2013 Allen shot the romantic comedy Magic in the Moonlight with Emma Stone and Colin Firth in Nice France The film is set in the 1920s on the French Riviera 121 The film was a modest financial success earning 51 million off a budget of 16 million 122 It s really cool to work with a director who s done so much because he knows exactly what he wants The fact that he does one shot for an entire scene and this could be a scene with eight people and one to two takes it gives you a level of confidence he s very empowering Blake Lively on acting in Cafe Society 123 From July to August 2014 Allen filmed the mystery drama Irrational Man in Newport Rhode Island with Joaquin Phoenix Emma Stone Parker Posey and Jamie Blackley 124 Allen said that this film as well as the next three he had planned had the financing and full support of Sony Pictures Classics 125 His next film Cafe Society starred an ensemble cast including Jesse Eisenberg Kristen Stewart and Blake Lively 126 Bruce Willis was set to co star but was replaced by Steve Carell during filming 127 The film is distributed by Amazon Studios and opened the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 11 2016 the third time Allen has opened the festival 128 On January 14 2015 Amazon Studios announced a full season order for a half hour Amazon Prime Instant Video series that Allen would write and direct marking the first time he has developed a television show Allen said of the series I don t know how I got into this I have no ideas and I m not sure where to begin My guess is that Roy Price the head of Amazon Studios will regret this 129 130 131 At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival Allen said in reference to his upcoming Amazon show It was a catastrophic mistake I don t know what I m doing I m floundering I expect this to be a cosmic embarrassment 132 On September 30 2016 Amazon Video debuted Allen s first television series production Crisis in Six Scenes The series is a comedy that takes place during the 1960s It focuses on the life of a suburban family after a surprise visitor creates chaos among them It stars Allen alongside Elaine May and Miley Cyrus with the latter playing a radical hippie fugitive who sells marijuana 133 134 In September 2016 Allen started filming Wonder Wheel set in the 1950s in Coney Island and starring Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake 135 The film served as the closing night selection at the 55th New York Film Festival on October 15 2017 136 and was theatrically released on December 1 2017 137 as the first movie self distributed to theaters by Amazon Studios 138 In 2017 Allen received a standing ovation when he made a rare public appearance at the 45th Annual Life Achievement Tribute award ceremony for Diane Keaton Before presenting her with the award he spoke about their longtime collaboration and friendship saying From the minute I met her she was a great great inspiration to me Much of what I have accomplished in my life I owe for sure to her 139 His film A Rainy Day in New York starring Timothee Chalamet Selena Gomez Elle Fanning Jude Law Diego Luna Liev Schreiber and Rebecca Hall began production in New York in September 2017 140 Chalamet Gomez and Hall announced in the light of the MeToo movement that they would be donating their salaries to various charities 141 In February 2019 it was announced that Amazon Studios had dropped A Rainy Day in New York and would no longer finance produce or distribute films with Allen He filed a lawsuit for 68 million alleging Amazon gave vague reasons to terminate the contract dropped the film over a 25 year old baseless allegation and did not make payments 142 143 The case was later settled and dismissed 144 145 It was released throughout Europe beginning in July 2019 146 147 receiving mixed reviews and grossing 20 million at the box office 148 149 150 After over a year of delays the film was released in the United States on October 9 2020 by MPI Media Group and Signature Entertainment 151 2020s In May 2019 it was announced that Allen s latest film would be titled Rifkin s Festival and Variety magazine confirmed that its cast would include Christoph Waltz Elena Anaya Louis Garrel Gina Gershon Sergi Lopez and Wallace Shawn and it would be produced by Gravier Productions 152 The film was produced with Mediapro an independent Spanish TV film company 153 Rifkin s Festival completed filming in October 2019 154 155 On September 18 2020 it premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival It received mixed reviews though Jessica Kiang of The New York Times called it to the ravenous captive like finding an unexpected stash of dessert 156 On March 2 2020 it was announced that Grand Central Publishing would release Allen s autobiography Apropos of Nothing on April 7 2020 157 This was after it was announced Allen had written a memoir and shopped it around to multiple prominent publishers which rejected it 158 The book was set to be released in the United States Canada Italy Spain and France among others 159 According to the publisher the book is a comprehensive account of Allen s life both personal and professional and describes his work in films theater television nightclubs and print Allen also writes of his relationships with family friends and the loves of his life 160 161 The decision to publish the book was met with backlash from Ronan Farrow who cut ties with the publisher 162 Dylan Farrow also responded to the announcement of the release saying Hachette s publishing of Woody Allen s memoir is deeply upsetting to me personally and an utter betrayal of my brother 163 On March 5 2020 75 employees of Grand Central Publishing held a walkout to protest the release 164 165 On March 6 the publisher announced that it had canceled the book s release and returned the rights to Allen saying The decision to cancel Mr Allen s book was a difficult one Over the past few days HBG leadership had extensive conversations with our staff and others After listening we came to the conclusion that moving forward with publication would not be feasible for HBG 166 Novelist Stephen King criticized Hachette s decision to withdraw the book saying it makes me very uneasy It s not him I don t give a damn about Mr Allen It s who gets muzzled next that worries me Executive director of PEN America Suzanne Nossel also criticized the decision 167 168 On March 6 2020 Manuel Carcassonne of Hachette s French branch the publishing company Stock announced it would publish the book if Allen permitted it 167 On March 23 2020 Arcade 169 170 published the memoir in English and La nave di Teseo published it in Italian 171 In June 2020 Allen appeared on Alec Baldwin s podcast Here s the Thing and talked about his career as a standup comedian comedy writer and filmmaker and his life during the COVID 19 pandemic 172 In September 2022 Allen suggested that he might retire from filmmaking after the release of his next film previously carrying the working title Wasp 22 Woody Allen Summer Project 2022 173 and now known to be titled Coup de Chance 174 In an interview with La Vanguardia Allen said My idea in principle is not to make more movies and focus on writing 175 Allen s publicist later said Woody Allen never said he was retiring nor did he say he was writing another novel He said he was thinking about not making films as making films that go straight or very quickly to streaming platforms is not so enjoyable for him as he is a great lover of the cinema experience Currently he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie which will be the 50th 176 TheaterWhile best known for his films Allen has also had a successful theater career starting as early as 1960 when he wrote 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 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 nominated for three Tony Awards although none of the nominations were for Allen s writing or acting 177 In the 1970s Allen wrote a number of one act plays most notably God and Death which were published in his 1975 collection Without Feathers In 1981 Allen s play The Floating Light Bulb opened on Broadway It was a critical success and a commercial flop Despite two Tony Award nominations a Tony win for the acting of Brian Backer who won the 1981 Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award for his work the play only ran for 62 performances 178 After a long hiatus from the stage Allen returned to theater in 1995 with the one act Central Park West an installment in an evening of theater Death Defying Acts that also included new work by David Mamet and Elaine May 179 For the next few years Allen had no direct involvement with the stage but notable productions of his work were staged God was staged at The Bank of Brazil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro 180 and theatrical adaptations of Allen s films Bullets Over Broadway 181 and September 182 were produced in Italy and France respectively without Allen s involvement In 2003 Allen finally returned to the stage with Writer s Block an evening of two one acts Old Saybrook and Riverside Drive that played Off Broadway The production marked his stage directing debut 183 and sold out the entire run 184 In 2004 Allen s first full length play since 1981 A Second Hand Memory 185 was directed by Allen and enjoyed an extended run Off Broadway 184 In June 2007 it was announced that Allen would make two more creative debuts in the theater directing a work he did not write and an opera a reinterpretation of Puccini s Gianni Schicchi for the Los Angeles Opera 186 which debuted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on September 6 2008 187 Of his direction of the opera Allen said I have no idea what I m doing His production of the opera opened the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto Italy in June 2009 188 In October 2011 Allen s one act play Honeymoon Motel premiered as one in a series of one act plays on Broadway titled Relatively Speaking 189 Also contributing to the series were Elaine May and Ethan Coen John Turturro directed 190 It was announced in February 2012 that Allen would adapt Bullets over Broadway into a Broadway musical It ran from April 10 to August 24 2014 191 The cast included Zach Braff Nick Cordero and Betsy Wolfe The show was directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman known for directing the stage and film productions of Mel Brooks s The Producers The show drew mixed reviews from critics but received six Tony Award nominations including one for Allen for Best Book of a Musical 192 Jazz band Allen with Jerry Zigmont and Simon Wettenhall performing at Vienne Jazz Festival Vienne France September 2003Allen is a passionate fan of jazz which appears often in the soundtracks to his films He began playing clarinet as a child and took his stage name from clarinetist Woody Herman 193 He has performed publicly at least since the late 1960s including with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the soundtrack of Sleeper 194 Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band have been playing each Monday evening at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan for many years 195 specializing in New Orleans jazz from the early 20th century 196 He plays songs by Sidney Bechet George Lewis Johnny Dodds Jimmie Noone and Louis Armstrong 197 The documentary film Wild Man Blues directed by Barbara Kopple chronicles a 1996 European tour by Allen and his band as well as his relationship with Previn The band released the albums The Bunk Project 1993 and the soundtrack of Wild Man Blues 1997 In 2005 Allen Eddy Davis and Conal Fowkes released the trio album Woody With Strings 198 In a 2011 review of a concert by Allen s jazz band critic Kirk Silsbee of the Los Angeles Times suggested that Allen should be regarded a competent musical hobbyist with a sincere appreciation for early jazz Allen s clarinet won t make anyone forget Sidney Bechet Barney Bigard or Evan Christopher His piping tone and strings of staccato notes can t approximate melodic or lyrical phrasing Still his earnestness and the obvious regard he has for traditional jazz counts for something 199 Allen and his band played at the Montreal International Jazz Festival on two consecutive nights in June 2008 200 For many years he wanted to make a film about the origins of jazz in New Orleans Tentatively titled American Blues the film would follow the different careers of Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet Allen stated that the film would cost between 80 and 100 million and is therefore unlikely to be made 201 InfluenceAllen has said that he was enormously influenced by comedians Bob Hope Groucho Marx Mort Sahl Charlie Chaplin W C Fields 202 playwright George S Kaufman and filmmakers Ernst Lubitsch and Ingmar Bergman 203 Many comedians have cited Allen as an influence including Louis C K 204 Larry David 205 Jon Stewart 206 Chris Rock 207 Steve Martin 208 John Mulaney 209 Bill Hader 210 Aziz Ansari 211 Sarah Silverman 212 Conan O Brien 213 Seth MacFarlane 214 Seth Meyers 215 Richard Ayoade 216 Bill Maher 217 Albert Brooks 218 John Cleese 211 Garry Shandling 219 Bob Odenkirk 220 Richard Kind 221 and Rob McElhenney 222 Many filmmakers have also cited Allen as an influence including Wes Anderson 223 Greta Gerwig 224 Noah Baumbach 225 Luca Guadagnino 226 Nora Ephron 227 Whit Stillman 228 Mike Mills 229 Ira Sachs 230 Richard Linklater 231 Charlie Kaufman 232 Nicole Holofcener 233 Rebecca Miller 234 Tamara Jenkins 235 Alex Ross Perry 236 Greg Mottola 237 Lynn Shelton 238 Lena Dunham 239 Lawrence Michael Levine 240 Olivier Assayas 241 and the Safdie brothers 242 Directors who admire Allen s work include Quentin Tarantino who called him one of the greatest screenwriters of all time 243 as well as Martin Scorsese who said in Woody Allen A Documentary Woody s sensibilities of New York City is one of the reasons why I love his work but they are extremely foreign to me It s not another world it s another planet This quote needs a citation Stanley Donen stated he liked Allen s films Spike Lee has called Allen a great great filmmaker and Pedro Almodovar has said he admires Allen s work 244 245 246 In 2012 directors Mike Leigh Asghar Farhadi and Martin McDonagh respectively included Radio Days 1987 Take the Money and Run 1969 and Manhattan among their Top 10 films for Sight amp Sound 247 248 249 Other admirers of his work include Olivia Wilde and Jason Reitman who staged live readings of Hannah and Her Sisters and Manhattan respectively 250 251 Filmmaker Edgar Wright listed five of Allen s films Take the Money and Run Bananas Play It Again Sam Sleeper Annie Hall in his list of 100 Favorite Comedy films 252 Bill Hader cited Allen s mockumentary films Take the Money and Run and Zelig as the biggest inspirations of the IFC series Documentary Now 253 Film critics including Roger Ebert and Barry Norman have highly praised Allen s work 254 255 In 1980 on Sneak Previews Siskel and Ebert called Allen and Mel Brooks the two most successful comedy directors in the world today America s two funniest filmmakers 256 Pauline Kael wrote of Allen that his comic character is enormously appealing to people partly because he s the smart urban guy who at the same time is intelligent is vulnerable and somehow by his intelligence he triumphs citation needed Favorite filmsIn 2012 Allen participated in the Sight amp Sound film polls 257 Held every ten years to select the greatest films of all time contemporary directors were asked to select ten films of their choice Allen s choices in alphabetical order were 258 259 The 400 Blows France 1959 8 Italy 1963 Amarcord Italy 1972 Bicycle Thieves Italy 1948 Citizen Kane USA 1941 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie France 1972 La Grande Illusion France 1937 Paths of Glory USA 1957 Rashomon Japan 1950 The Seventh Seal Sweden 1957 In his 2020 autobiography Apropos of Nothing Allen praised Elia Kazan s A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 the movie of Streetcar is for me total artistic perfection It s the most perfect confluence of script performance and direction I ve ever seen I agree with Richard Schickel who calls the play perfect The characters are so perfectly written every nuance every instinct every line of dialogue is the best choice of all those available in the known universe All the performances are sensational Vivien Leigh is incomparable more real and vivid than real people I know And Marlon Brando was a living poem He was an actor who came on the scene and changed the history of acting The magic the setting New Orleans the French Quarter the rainy humid afternoons the poker night Artistic genius no holds barred Film activism and preservationMain article The Film Foundation In 1987 Allen joined Ginger Rogers Sydney Pollack and Milos Forman at a Senate Judiciary committee hearing in Washington D C where they each gave testimony against Ted Turner s and other companies colorizing films without the artists consent 260 261 Only one senator Patrick Leahy was present for the testimony Allen testified If directors had their way we would not let our films be tampered with in any way broken up for commercial or shortened or colorized But we ve fought the other things without much success and now colorization because it s so horrible and preposterous and more acutely noticeable by audiences is the straw that broke the camel s back The presumption that colorizers are doing him the director a favor and bettering his movie is a transparent attempt to justify the mutilation of art for a few extra dollars 262 Allen also spoke about his decisions to make films in black and white such as Manhattan Stardust Memories Broadway Danny Rose and Zelig Film director John Huston appeared in a pretaped video and Rogers read a statement by Jimmy Stewart criticizing the colorization of his film It s a Wonderful Life 260 In 1990 Allen and Martin Scorsese created The Film Foundation a nonprofit film preservation organization that collaborates with film studios to restore prints of old or damaged films Allen sat on the foundation s original board of directors alongside Robert Altman Francis Ford Coppola Clint Eastwood Stanley Kubrick George Lucas Sydney Pollack Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg 263 WorksFilmography Main article Woody Allen filmography Directed features Year Title Distributor1966 What s Up Tiger Lily American International Pictures1969 Take the Money and Run Cinerama Releasing Corporation1971 Bananas United Artists1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask 1973 Sleeper1975 Love and Death1977 Annie Hall1978 Interiors1979 Manhattan1980 Stardust Memories1982 A Midsummer Night s Sex Comedy Warner Bros 1983 Zelig1984 Broadway Danny Rose Orion Pictures1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo1986 Hannah and Her Sisters1987 Radio DaysSeptember1988 Another Woman1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors1990 Alice1991 Shadows and Fog1992 Husbands and Wives TriStar Pictures1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery1994 Bullets Over Broadway Miramax Films1995 Mighty Aphrodite1996 Everyone Says I Love You1997 Deconstructing Harry Fine Line Features1998 Celebrity Miramax Films1999 Sweet and Lowdown Sony Pictures Classics2000 Small Time Crooks DreamWorks Pictures2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion2002 Hollywood Ending2003 Anything Else2004 Melinda and Melinda Fox Searchlight Pictures2005 Match Point DreamWorks Pictures2006 Scoop Focus Features2007 Cassandra s Dream The Weinstein Company2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona Metro Goldwyn Mayer The Weinstein Company2009 Whatever Works Sony Pictures Classics2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger2011 Midnight in Paris2012 To Rome with Love2013 Blue Jasmine2014 Magic in the Moonlight2015 Irrational Man2016 Cafe Society Amazon Studios Lionsgate2017 Wonder Wheel Amazon Studios2019 A Rainy Day in New York Signature Entertainment2020 Rifkin s Festival MPI Media GroupTheatrical works In addition to directing writing and acting in films Allen has written and performed in a number of Broadway theater productions Year Title Credit Venue1960 From A to Z Writer book Plymouth Theatre Broadway1966 Don t Drink the Water Writer Coconut Grove Playhouse FloridaMorosco Theatre Broadway1969 Play It Again Sam Writer Performer Allan Felix Broadhurst Theatre Broadway 16 1975 God Writer 1975 Death Writer 1981 The Floating Light Bulb Writer Vivian Beaumont Theater Broadway1995 Death Defying Acts Central Park West Writer Variety Arts Theatre Off Broadway2003 Old Saybrook Writer and director Atlantic Theatre Company Off Broadway2003 Riverside Drive Writer and director2004 A Second Hand Memory Writer and director2008 Gianni Schicchi Director Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles2011 Honeymoon Motel Writer Brooks Atkinson Theatre Broadway2014 Bullets Over Broadway Writer book St James Theatre Broadway2015 Gianni Schicchi Director Teatro Real Madrid2019 Director La Scala ItalyBibliography Main article Woody Allen bibliography Getting Even 1971 Without Feathers 1975 Side Effects 1980 The Insanity Defense The Complete Prose 2007 Mere Anarchy 2007 Apropos of Nothing 2020 Zero Gravity 2022 Discography Woody Allen Colpix Records 1964 Woody Allen Vol 2 Colpix Records 1965 The Third Woody Allen Album Capitol Records 1968 The Nightclub Years 1964 1968 United Artists Records 1972 Standup Comic Casablanca Records 1978 Wild Man Blues RCA Victor 1998 Woody With Strings New York Jazz Records 2005 Awards and honorsMain article List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen External video Woody Allen Introduces Love Letter to New York in the Movies 2002 Oscars Oscars 10 24 February 1 2012Over his more than 50 year film career Allen has received many award nominations He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay with 16 nominations and three wins Annie Hall Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris Allen has been nominated for Best Director seven times and won for Annie Hall Three of Allen s films have been nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture Annie Hall Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris Allen shuns award ceremonies citing their subjectivity His first and only appearance at the Academy Awards was at the 2002 Oscars where he received a standing ovation As a New York icon he had been asked by the Academy to introduce a film montage of clips of New York City in the movies that Nora Ephron compiled to honor the city after the 9 11 attacks 264 Allen has received numerous honors including an Honorary Golden Palm from the Cannes Film Festival in 2002 and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice International Film Festival in 1995 He also received a BAFTA Fellowship in 1997 a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America and a Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award in 2014 He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2010 265 In 2015 the Writers Guild of America named his screenplay for Annie Hall first on its list of the 101 Funniest Screenplays 266 In 2011 PBS televised the film biography Woody Allen A Documentary on its series American Masters 80 Year Title Academy Awards BAFTA Awards Golden Globe AwardsNominations Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Wins1977 Annie Hall 5 4 6 5 5 11978 Interiors 5 2 1 41979 Manhattan 2 10 2 11983 Zelig 2 5 21984 Broadway Danny Rose 2 1 1 11985 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1 6 1 4 21986 Hannah and Her Sisters 7 3 8 2 5 11987 Radio Days 2 7 21989 Crimes and Misdemeanors 3 6 11990 Alice 1 11992 Husbands and Wives 2 2 1 11993 Manhattan Murder Mystery 1 11994 Bullets over Broadway 7 1 1 1 11995 Mighty Aphrodite 2 1 1 1 11996 Everyone Says I Love You 11997 Deconstructing Harry 11999 Sweet and Lowdown 2 22000 Small Time Crooks 12005 Match Point 1 42008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1 1 1 1 4 12011 Midnight in Paris 4 1 1 4 12013 Blue Jasmine 3 1 3 1 3 1Total 53 12 61 17 47 9Personal lifeAllen has been married three times to Harlene Rosen from 1956 to 1959 Louise Lasser from 1966 to 1970 and Soon Yi Previn since 1997 He also had a 12 year relationship with actress Mia Farrow and relationships with Stacey Nelkin and Diane Keaton Early marriages and relationships In 1956 Allen married Harlene Rosen He was 20 and she was 17 The marriage lasted until 1959 267 Rosen whom Allen called the Dread Mrs Allen in his standup act sued him for defamation as a result of comments he made during a television appearance shortly after their divorce In his mid 1960s album Standup Comic Allen said that Rosen had sued him because of a joke he made in an interview Rosen had been sexually assaulted outside her apartment According to Allen the newspapers reported that she had been violated In the interview Allen said Knowing my ex wife it probably wasn t a moving violation In an interview on The Dick Cavett Show Allen repeated his comments and said he had been sued for 1 million 268 In 1966 Allen married Louise Lasser They divorced in 1970 Lasser provided voice dubbing in Allen s What s Up Tiger Lily and appeared in three of his other films Take the Money and Run Bananas and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask She also appeared briefly in Stardust Memories According to the Los Angeles Times Manhattan was based on Allen s romantic relationship with actress Stacey Nelkin 269 Her bit part in Annie Hall ended up on the cutting room floor and their relationship never publicly acknowledged by Allen reportedly began when she was 17 and a student at Stuyvesant High School in New York 270 271 272 In December 2018 The Hollywood Reporter interviewed Babi Christina Engelhardt who said she had an eight year affair with Allen that began in 1976 when she was 17 years old they met when she was 16 and that she believes the character of Tracy in Manhattan is a composite of any number of Allen s presumed other real life young paramours from that period not necessarily Nelkin or Engelhardt When asked Allen declined to comment 273 Diane Keaton Allen with Diane Keaton and Jerry Lacy in the play Play It Again Sam In 1968 274 Allen cast Diane Keaton in his Broadway show Play It Again Sam During the run she and Allen became romantically involved Although they broke up after a year she continued to star in his films including Sleeper as a futuristic poet and Love and Death as a composite character based on the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky Annie Hall was very important in Allen s and Keaton s careers It is said that the role was written for her as Keaton s birth name was Diane Hall She then starred in Interiors as a poet followed by Manhattan In 1987 she had a cameo as a nightclub singer in Radio Days and she was chosen to replace Mia Farrow in Manhattan Murder Mystery after Allen and Farrow began having problems with their relationship In total Keaton has starred in eight of Allen s films As of 2018 Keaton and Allen remain close friends 275 In a rare public appearance Allen presented Keaton with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017 276 Mia Farrow Allen and Mia Farrow met in 1979 and began a relationship in 1980 277 Farrow starred in 13 of Allen s films from 1982 to 1992 278 Throughout the relationship they lived in separate apartments on opposite sides of Central Park in Manhattan Farrow had seven children when they met three biological sons from her marriage to composer Andre Previn three adopted girls two Vietnamese and one South Korean Soon Yi Previn and an adopted South Korean boy Moses Farrow 277 In 1984 she and Allen tried to conceive a child together Allen agreed to this on the understanding that he need not be involved in the child s care When the effort failed Farrow adopted a baby girl Dylan Farrow in July 1985 Allen was not involved in the adoption but when Dylan arrived he assumed a parental role toward her and began spending more time in Farrow s home 279 On December 19 1987 Farrow gave birth to their son Satchel Farrow later known as Ronan Farrow 280 281 According to Allen his intimate relationship with Mia Farrow ceased completely after Satchel s birth and he was asked to return her apartment key they maintained a working relationship when they filmed a movie and he regularly visited Moses Dylan and Satchel but he and Mia were only social companions on those occasions where there d be a dinner an event but after the event she d go home and I d go home 282 In 1991 Farrow wanted to adopt another child According to a 1993 custody hearing Allen told her he would not object to another adoption so long as she would agree to his adoption of Dylan and Moses that adoption was finalized in December 1991 279 Eric Lax Allen s biographer wrote in The New York Times that Allen was there before they the children wake up in the morning he sees them during the day and he helps put them to bed at night 277 Soon Yi Previn Allen and Soon Yi Previn in Venice In 1977 Mia Farrow and Andre Previn adopted Soon Yi Previn from Seoul South Korea She had been abandoned The Seoul Family Court established a Family Census Register legal birth document on her behalf on December 28 1976 with a presumptive birth date of October 8 1970 283 284 according to Maureen Orth a bone scan in the U S estimated that she was between five and seven years old b According to Previn her first friendly interaction with Allen took place when she was injured playing soccer during 11th grade and Allen offered to transport her to school After her injury she began attending New York Knicks basketball games with Allen in 1990 286 They attended more games and by 1991 had become closer 279 In September 1991 she began studies at Drew University in New Jersey 287 In January 1992 Farrow found nude photographs of Previn in Allen s home Allen then 56 told Farrow that he had taken the photos the day before approximately two weeks after he first had sex with Previn 288 Both Farrow and Allen contacted lawyers shortly after the photographs were discovered 279 285 Previn was asked to leave summer camp because she was spending too much time taking calls from a Mr Simon who turned out to be Allen 287 Soon Yi Previn and Allen 2009 In an August 1992 interview with Time Magazine Allen said I am not Soon Yi s father or stepfather adding I ve never even lived with Mia I ve never in my entire life slept at Mia s apartment and I never even used to go over there until my children came along seven years ago I never had any family dinners over there I was not a father to her adopted kids in any sense of the word Adding that Soon Yi never treated him as a father figure and that he rarely spoke to her before their romantic relationship Allen seemed to see few or no problems with their relationship 289 On August 17 1992 Allen issued a statement saying that he was in love with Previn 290 Their relationship became public and erupted into tabloid headlines and late night monologues in August 1992 291 Allen and Previn were married in Venice Italy on December 23 1997 292 They have adopted two children 293 294 and live in the Carnegie Hill section of Manhattan s Upper East Side 295 Sexual abuse allegation Main article Woody Allen sexual abuse allegation According to court testimony on August 4 1992 Allen visited the children at Mia Farrow s home in Bridgewater Connecticut while she was shopping with a friend 285 The next day that friend s babysitter told her employer that she had seen that Dylan was sitting on the sofa and Woody was kneeling on the floor facing her with his head in her lap 296 297 When Farrow asked Dylan about it Dylan allegedly said that Allen had touched Dylan s private part while they were alone together in the attic 285 Allen strongly denied the allegation calling it an unconscionable and gruesomely damaging manipulation of innocent children for vindictive and self serving motives 298 He then began proceedings in New York Supreme Court for sole custody of his and Farrow s son Satchel as well as Dylan and Moses their two adopted children 299 In March 1993 a six month investigation by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale New Haven Hospital concluded that Dylan had not been sexually abused 300 301 In June 1993 Judge Elliott Wilk rejected Allen s bid for custody and rejected the allegation of sexual abuse Wilk said he was less certain than the Yale New Haven team that there was conclusive evidence that there was no sexual abuse and called Allen s conduct with Dylan grossly inappropriate 302 303 304 although not sexual 305 In September 1993 the state prosecutor announced that despite having probable cause he would not pursue charges in order to avoid the unjustifiable risk of exposing a child to the rigors and uncertainties of a questionable prosecution 302 306 In October 1993 the New York Child Welfare Agency of the State Department of Social Services closed a 14 month investigation and concluded there was not credible evidence of abuse or maltreatment and the allegation was unfounded 307 In 2014 when Allen received a Golden Globe Cecil B DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement the issue returned to the forefront of media attention with Mia Farrow and Ronan Farrow making disparaging remarks about Allen on Twitter 308 309 On February 1 2014 New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof with Dylan s permission published a column that included excerpts from a letter Dylan had written to Kristof restating the allegation against Allen and called out fellow actors who have continued to work in his films 310 311 Allen responded to the allegation in an open letter also in The New York Times strongly denying it Of course I did not molest Dylan No one wants to discourage abuse victims from speaking out but one must bear in mind that sometimes there are people who are falsely accused and that is also a terribly destructive thing he wrote 312 313 314 In 2018 Moses Farrow Mia Farrow s and Allen s adopted son who was present at her Bridgewater house during Allen s visit published a blog post called A Son Speaks Out In the post Moses recounted a series of instances of alleged physical abuse at the hands of Mia Farrow He wrote It pains me to recall instances in which I witnessed siblings some blind or physically disabled dragged down a flight of stairs to be thrown into a bedroom or a closet then having the door locked from the outside Mia even shut my brother Thaddeus paraplegic from polio in an outdoor shed overnight as punishment for a minor transgression 315 316 Works about AllenFrom 1976 to 1984 Stuart Hample wrote and drew Inside Woody Allen a comic strip based on Allen s film persona 317 318 The 1997 documentary Wild Man Blues directed by Barbara Kopple focuses on Allen and other documentaries featuring Allen include the 2002 cable television documentary Woody Allen A Life in Film directed by Time film critic Richard Schickel which interlaces interviews of Allen with clips of his films 319 and the 1986 short film Meetin WA in which Allen is interviewed by French New Wave director Jean Luc Godard 320 Monument to Woody Allen Oviedo Spain In 2003 a life size bronze statue of Allen was installed in Oviedo Spain He had visited the city the previous year to accept a Prince of Asturias Award 321 In 2011 the PBS series American Masters co produced the documentary Woody Allen A Documentary directed by Robert B Weide New interviews provide insight and backstory with Diane Keaton Scarlett Johansson Penelope Cruz Dianne Wiest Larry David Chris Rock Martin Scorsese Dick Cavett and Leonard Maltin among others 322 Eric Lax wrote the book Woody Allen A Biography 12 In 2015 David Evanier published Woody The Biography which was billed as the first new biography of Allen in over a decade 323 In early March 2020 Grand Central Publishing a division of Hachette Book Group announced that it would publish Allen s memoir Apropos of Nothing on April 7 2020 324 Days later after employee walkouts parent company Hachette announced that the title was canceled and rights had reverted to Allen 325 On March 23 2020 Skyhorse Publishing announced that it had acquired and released Apropos of Nothing through its Arcade imprint 170 In February 2021 HBO released Kirby Dick s and Amy Ziering s four part documentary Allen v Farrow which explores the sexual abuse allegations against Allen 326 327 The series drew largely positive reviews from critics Lorraine Ali of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it makes a compelling argument that Allen got away with the unthinkable thanks to his fame money and revered standing in the world of film and that a little girl never received justice 328 Rachel Brodsky wrote in The Independent that the documentary will sound the death knell for Woody Allen s career 329 Hadley Freeman in The Guardian wrote that the series sets itself up as an investigation but much more resembles PR as biased and partial as a political candidate s advert vilifying an opponent in election season 330 A statement on behalf of Allen and Previn denounced the documentary as a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods and said that they were approached two months before it was aired on HBO and given only a matter of days to respond Of course they declined to do so 331 The filmmakers said they gave Allen and Previn two weeks to comment which is more than ample time by journalistic standards 332 Notes a b c Despite almost all sources listing his birth date as December 1 in his 2020 autobiography Apropos of Nothing Allen writes that he was actually born on November 30 Actually I was born on the thirtieth of November very close to midnight and my parents pushed the date so I could start off on a day one 1 Maureen Orth Vanity Fair November 1992 Nobody knows how old Soon Yi really is Without ever seeing her Korean officials put her age down as seven on her passport A bone scan Mia had done on her in the U S put her age at between five and seven In the family Soon Yi is considered to have turned 20 this year 1992 on October 8 285 References Allen 2020 p 11 Woody Allen Will Be a No Show Per Tradition Los Angeles Times Retrieved March 21 2020 Gross 2012 p page needed Woody Allen Artist The Recording Academy November 19 2019 Retrieved March 21 2020 Comedy Central s 100 Greatest Stand Ups of All Time Everything2 com April 18 2004 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