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Woody Allen
American actor and director
Also known as: Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Heywood Allen
Woody Allen
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Arts & Culture
- Original name:
- Allen Stewart Konigsberg
- Legal name:
- Heywood Allen
- Awards And Honors:
- Cecil B. DeMille Award (2014)
- Academy Award (2012)
- Academy Award (1987)
- Academy Award (1978)
- Academy Award (2012): Writing (Original Screenplay)
- Academy Award (1987): Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
- Academy Award (1978): Directing
- Academy Award (1978): Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen—Based on Factual Material or on Story Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
- Cecil B. DeMille Award (2014)
- Golden Globe Award (2012): Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- Golden Globe Award (1986): Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- Grammy Award (2013): Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
- Notable Works:
- “Annie Hall”
- “Bananas”
- “Crimes and Misdemeanors”
- “Don’t Drink the Water”
- “Don’t Drink the Water”
- “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask)”
- “Hannah and Her Sisters”
- “Interiors”
- “Love and Death”
- “Manhattan”
- “Play It Again, Sam”
- “Sleeper”
- “Stardust Memories”
- “Take the Money and Run”
- “The Purple Rose of Cairo”
- “What’s New, Pussycat?”
- “Zelig”
- Notable Family Members:
- son Ronan Farrow
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Woody Allen (born November 30, 1935, Bronx, New York, U.S.) is an American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, playwright, and author who is best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd but who also made weighty dramas, often with dark themes and bleak landscapes reminiscent of the work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman—who, perhaps more than any other filmmaker, influenced Allen’s work. Allen was also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. By the late 1970s he was widely regarded as one of the world’s most-accomplished ...(100 of 3805 words)