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He continued to write, direct, and star in comedic slapstick films such as Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971) and Sleeper (1973), before finding widespread critical acclaim for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979); he won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for the former.
Woody Allen re-dubs the Japanese spy film Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), turning it into a comedy about an agent pursuing the world's greatest egg salad recipe.
The best movies of Woody Allen. List activity. 29K views. 76 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 30 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Manhattan. 1979 1h 36m R. 7.8 (149K) Rate. 83 Metascore.
- Annie Hall (1977) Film. Comedy. Woody Allen famously wanted to call it Anhedonia, the clinical inability to experience happiness—funny for a film that gives us so much pleasure.
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Film. Comedy. The film in which Woody’s comic and serious sides most comfortably align, this one tells of two barely connected characters, an eye doctor (Martin Landau) and a filmmaker (Allen), each with intricately messy private lives.
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Film. Here are Allen’s most exquisite performances: nuanced, perfectly balanced, lovably neurotic. There’s not a weak link in the cast, and while it’s a shame to single out an essential performance, it has to be Dianne Wiest’s unsettled Holly, the kind of desperate, flailing Manhattanite that future director-writers would spin entire careers out of.—
- Manhattan (1979) Film. Comedy. Greatest opening in cinema history? Gordon Willis’s glittering monochrome camerawork combines with Gershwin’s glorious glissandos and Woody’s scalpel-sharp self-mockery to create the ultimate hymn to a city, a sensation, a whole way of life.
While best known for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979), Woody has made many transitions in his films throughout the years, transitioning from his "early, funny ones" of Bananas (1971), Love and Death (1975) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972); to his more storied and ...
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Nov 25, 2023 · Film. November 25, 2023 9:01AM. Abel Fermin/REX/Shutterstock. Woody Allen is a four-time Academy Award winner who has proved incredibly prolific in his decades-long career, writing,...
Woody Allen. Active - 1958 - Present | Birth - Dec 1, 1935 | Genres - Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Romance, Biography | Subgenres - Romantic Comedy, Satire, Comedy Drama, Biographical Film, Parody Film. Overview. Filmography. Awards.
