History Creator / WoodyAllen

* ''Film/MidnightInParis'' (2011) - [[CaptainObvious Set in Paris]], the film stars RachelMcAdams, Owen Wilson, AdrienBrody and [=supermodel=]/actress Carla Bruni (the wife of [[FrenchPoliticalSystem French President]] Nicolas Sarkozy). Allen's biggest critical hit in years, surpassing even the success of ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona''. Its also his best performing film financially, taking in over $56 million at the US box office (his previous record was the $40 million-grossing ''Hannah and Her Sisters'').

* ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013) - Set to be Woody's first New York film since ''Whatever Works'', the film stars LouisCK, AlecBaldwin, CateBlanchett and Andrew "Dice" Clay.

* ''Film/WhatsNewPussycat'' (1965) - Woody Allen's first movie (although it was directed by Clive Donner). PeterOToole tries to be faithful to his fiancee, but he's a ChickMagnet. PeterSellers is his psychoanalyst, who is stalking one of his patient's stalkers in a motel in France. Allen plays O'Toole's friend who has a crush on the fiancee. The film originally going to star WarrenBeatty, but when Woody was hired to rewrite it, he kept building up a bit part for himself and shrinking Beatty's role so blatantly that the star quit.

* ''SmallTimeCrooks'' (2000) - A man tries to rob a bank by digging a tunnel from [[TheConvenientStoreNextDoor an old restaurant he bought]]. His wife covers up the scheme by selling cookies from the restaurant. The robbery is a miserable failure, but the cookies are [[BecomingTheMask a big success]].

* MoneyDearBoy: Averted hard. Most of his films have really small budgets and his salary is relatively small. Also averted by big name stars that take pay cuts solely to work with him (allegedly the set fee for famous actors in his movies is five-thousand dollars per day of filming).

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* ''[=Celebrity=]'' (1998) - After his divorce, a man blows every chance he has to be famous, while his ex-wife reaches stardom without doing much. Stars KennethBranagh doing a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Woody Allen impression]].

Woody Allen is a director, actor, screenwriter, comedian, playwright, musician, story writer, essayist, and musician. He was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935 in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Most of his films are set in [[BigApplesauce New York]] and feature Jewish or AmbiguouslyJewish characters, often with himself or an AuthorAvatar in the lead role.

* ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily?'' (1966) - A secret agent is sent to SimSimSalabim to find a lost egg salad recipe. [[GagDub Gag Dubbed]] from a Japanese movie. The concept was so novel at the time that he appears in an introduction to explain the concept to the audience.

Woody Allen is a director, actor, screenwriter, comedian, playwright, musician, story writer, essayist, and musician. He was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935 in NewYorkCity to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Most of his films are set in [[BigApplesauce New York]] and feature Jewish or AmbiguouslyJewish characters, often with himself or an AuthorAvatar in the lead role.

WoodyAllen is a director, actor, screenwriter, comedian, playwright, musician, story writer, essayist, and musician. He was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in 1935 in NewYorkCity to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Most of his films are set in [[BigApplesauce New York]] and feature Jewish or AmbiguouslyJewish characters, often with himself or an AuthorAvatar in the lead role.

At seventeen, he entered NYU and the City College, but was quickly expelled. He started to write scripts to shows like ''TheTonightShow'', appeared in ''Series/CandidCamera'' segments like when he had temp secretaries dictating a love letter, and doing StandUpComedy [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerating]] his own traits. He's never stopped, though the medium, and eventually the AuthorAvatar, has varied. Among other traits, his character is nearly always a SicklyNeuroticGeek, and full of JewishComplaining.

He started directing movies in 1965. Since then, he has directed 41 movies that range from ScrewballComedy to {{Drama}}. He was nominated for an AcademyAward twenty-one times, including a record fourteen nominations for Best Screenplay. He has won four {{Academy Award}}s -- three for Best Screenplay (''Film/AnnieHall''; ''HannahAndHerSisters'' and ''MidnightInParis'') and one for Best Director (''Film/AnnieHall''). His ''Film/AnnieHall'' famously [[AwardSnub beat]] ''[[{{Film/ANewHope}} Star Wars]]'' for the Best Picture Oscar. Allen himself is not really interested in awards; he showed up at the Oscars ceremony only once in 2002, when he encouraged producers to continue filming their movies in New York after 9/11.

He's also [[KavorkaMan notorious]] for being a [[DirtyOldMan heavy womanizer]]. He has been involved with DianeKeaton, Louise Lasser, Harlene Rosen, Stacey Nelka, Mia Farrow -- and Soon-Yi Previn, Mia's adopted daughter (and thus Woody's former '''[[ParentalIncest quasi-step daughter]]'''). Naturally, almost every single plotline of his scripts is about [[AuthorAppeal sex, adultery and relationships, among other interesting things.]]

While his work in the 70s and 80s are all almost universally loved by fans his films of the 90s and (especially) the 00s are divisive amongst critics and audiences with ''MatchPoint'', ''VickyCristinaBarcelona'' and (most recently) ''Film/MidnightInParis'' receiving high praise, while other pictures- namely ''CurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' and ''HollywoodEnding''- being not well thought of by most. It should be noted, however, that even the most critically derided films of his filmography still tend to have a few fans here and there.

* ''PlayItAgainSam'' (1972) - A neurotic Woody Allen tries to date other women following the advice of HumphreyBogart's ghost.

* ''ShadowsAndFog'' (1991) - An homeage to German Expressionism, a vigilante mob tries to catch a SerialKiller in the midst of a circus.

* ''ManhattanMurderMystery'' (1993) - A nosy housewife drags her reluctant husband into an [[AmateurSleuth amateur investigation]] of their neighbour's death.
* ''BulletsOverBroadway'' (1994) - A WideEyedIdealist playwright has to cast a talentless woman into the leading role of his Broadway play, because she's the girlfriend of a violent mobster.
* ''DontDrinkTheWater'' (1994) - An American family is trapped in a US embassy behind the IronCurtain while the ambassador's incompetent son is in charge. Based on his 1966 play, this TV adaptation was directed by Allen, who was dissatisfied with the earlier 1969 film adaptation.
* ''MightyAphrodite'' (1995) - An AffectionateParody of Greek tragedies set in New York. HilarityEnsues. Oscar winner: MiraSorvino
* ''EveryoneSaysILoveYou'' (1996) - A {{Musical}} about a New York girl who manipulates the relationships of everyone around her.

* ''{{Celebrity}}'' (1998) - After his divorce, a man blows every chance he has to be famous, while his ex-wife reaches stardom without doing much. Stars KennethBranagh doing a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Woody Allen impression]].

* ''SweetAndLowdown'' (1999) - A {{Mockumentary}} about a fictional JerkAss jazz guitarist.

* ''TheCurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' (2001) - A insurance investigator is hypnotized to steal jewels. His most expensive movie in terms of budget and also his biggest flop.
* ''HollywoodEnding'' (2002) - A movie director suffers hysterical blindness while filming the movie that will restart his career.
* ''AnythingElse'' (2003) - Woody Allen serves as oracle to the love life of a young man. Notable in that it can easily be seen as a remake of ''Film/AnnieHall''.
* ''MelindaAndMelinda'' (2004) - A group of screenwriters write two stories with the same premise to discover if life is tragic or comic.

* ''{{Scoop}}'' (2006) - A [[HotScoop journalist]], an illusionist and a ghost work together to uncover an [[AristocratsAreEvil aristocrat]] as a SerialKiller. Allen's second film in a row featuring ScarlettJohansson in London.

* ''WhateverWorks'' (2009) - Woody Allen returns to New York. Creator/LarryDavid becomes a LemonyNarrator (BreakingTheFourthWall several times) of his own life. He helps a [[TheDitz ditzy]] young SouthernBelle (Creator/EvanRachelWood) who ran away from her home. Eventually they marry. Then, her parents appear, looking for her.
* ''YouWillMeetATallDarkStranger'' (2010) - Allen returns to London. The plot involves different members of a family after the father divorces the mother. Cast includes NaomiWatts, AnthonyHopkins and AntonioBanderas.
* ''Film/MidnightInParis'' (2011) - [[CaptainObvious Set in Paris]], the film stars RachelMcAdams, OwenWilson, AdrienBrody and CarlaBruni (the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy). Allen's biggest critical hit in years, surpassing even the success of ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona''. Its also his best performing film financially, taking in over $56 million at the US box office (his previous record was the $40 million-grossing ''Hannah and Her Sisters'').
* ''ToRomeWithLove'' (2012) - Set in Rome, it stars JesseEisenberg, EllenPage, AlecBaldwin, PenelopeCruz and Allen himself, in his first acting role since ''Scoop''.

** He has however said that he does have a fondness for ''{{Zelig}}'', ''StardustMemories'', ''MatchPoint'' and ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo''.
** Also famously agreed with the backlash against ''CurseOfTheJadeScorpion''.

** ''Deconstructing Harry'' is an example of one of his comedies that's a bit edgier than his other work being one of the only Allen films were the characters curse with any frequency.

* GameShowAppearance: During the late 1960s Allen appeared on many GameShows, most notably as a Guest Panielist on many episodes of ''Series/WhatsMyLine'', and trying his best to get a bassett hound to "sing" on ''IveGotASecret''.

* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'', ''{{Zelig}}'', and ''Sweet And Lowdown'' are all presented as documentaries.

* OldShame: Granted he dislikes many of his own films but he's particularly ashamed of ''CurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' having singled it out as one of his worst films.

** Only written by Allen, but ''Play It Again Sam'' ends up being one long reference to ''Casablanca''.

* ''WhatsNewPussycat'' (1965) - WoodyAllen's first movie (although it was directed by Clive Donner). PeterOToole tries to be faithful to his fiancee, but he's a ChickMagnet. PeterSellers is his psychoanalyst, who is stalking one of his patient's stalkers in a motel in France. Allen plays O'Toole's friend who has a crush on the fiancee. The film originally going to star WarrenBeatty, but when Woody was hired to rewrite it, he kept building up a bit part for himself and shrinking Beatty's role so blatantly that the star quit.
* ''WhatsUpTigerLily?'' (1966) - A secret agent is sent to SimSimSalabim to find a lost egg salad recipe. [[GagDub Gag Dubbed]] from a Japanese movie. The concept was so novel at the time that he appears in an introduction to explain the concept to the audience.

* ''{{Bananas}}'' (1971) - To impress a girl, WoodyAllen learns to be a revolutionary in a BananaRepublic. HilarityEnsues.

* ''TheFront'' (1976) - This Martin Ritt-directed comedy-drama stars Allen as a bookie who lends his name to television screenplays written by his blacklisted friend during the anti-Communist WitchHunt of the '50s.
* ''Film/AnnieHall'' (1977) - Woody Allen's most famous movie -- and, perhaps, along with ''Manhattan'', his best (though Allen himself doesn't think much of either of them). It focuses on the difficult relationship between a [[AuthorAvatar comedian]] and the [[TheDitz ditzy]] Annie Hall. [[spoiler: In the end, they split up.]] Winner of four {{Academy Award}}s: Best Picture (for which it beat ''[[{{Film/ANewHope}} Star Wars]]''), Best Director (Allen), and Best Screenplay (Allen), Best Actress ( Diane Keaton). (Allen was also nominated for Best Actor.)
* ''Interiors'' (1978) - Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control after their parents' divorce. Woody Allen's first TearJerker.
* ''{{Manhattan}}'' (1979) - Woody Allen in an intricate LoveDodecahedron with a seventeen-year-old girl, DianeKeaton and MerylStreep. Probably his second most beloved movie, after ''Film/AnnieHall''. Allen considered the film such an abject disaster that he told the studio he'd make another for free if they didn't release it.

* ''{{Zelig}}'' (1983) - A {{Mockumentary}}: In TheGreatDepression, a man named Leonard Zelig involuntarily assumes the traits of the people surrounding him. He uses this ability to [[TheZelig blend in with famous historical people and events]] and [[KavorkaMan bed women]].
* ''BroadwayDannyRose'' (1984) - A talent agent attempts to reconcile a lounge singer with his mistress, Tina Vitale. However, he's mistakenly identified as Tina's lover by a jealous gangster.

* ''HannahAndHerSisters'' (1986) - One of Woody Allen's best-known movies. Between two Thanksgivings, a LoveDodecahedron makes three sisters switch their husbands. Oscar winners: Dianne Weist, MichaelCaine

* ''AnotherWoman'' (1988) - A philosophy teacher observes the everyday of another woman and decides to change everything bad in her own life.
* ''OedipusWrecks'' (1989) - A short film (part of ''NewYorkStories'') about a lawyer who makes his LargeHam JewishMother disappear in an illusionist act. [[spoiler:She reappears, floating in the sky over Manhattan, and she's not happy.]]

* ''HusbandsAndWives'' (1992) - When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their marriage.

* {{Mockumentary}}: ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'', ''{{Zelig}}'', and ''SweetAndLowdown'' are all presented as documentaries.

* ''WhateverWorks'' (2009) - Woody Allen returns to New York. Creator/LarryDavid becomes a LemonyNarrator (BreakingTheFourthWall several times) of his own life. He helps a [[TheDitz ditzy]] young SouthernBelle (EvanRachelWood) who ran away from her home. Eventually they marry. Then, her parents appear, looking for her.

* RecycledInSpace: ''Stardust Memories'' is Fellini's ''8 1/2'' but with Allen in place of Fellini and somewhat funnier.
** ''Deconstructing Harry'' is ''Wild Strawberries'' as a comedy.
** ''MatchPoint'' is ''Crimes And Misdemeanors'' with all the comedy taken out of it.

* TheGump: ''Zelig'' is the former trope namer.

He started directing movies in 1965. Since then, he has directed 41 movies that range from ScrewballComedy to {{Drama}}. He was nominated for an AcademyAward twenty-one times, including a record fourteen nominations for BestScreenplay. He has won four {{Academy Award}}s -- three for BestScreenplay (''Film/AnnieHall''; ''HannahAndHerSisters'' and ''MidnightInParis'') and one for BestDirector (''Film/AnnieHall''). His ''Film/AnnieHall'' famously [[AwardSnub beat]] ''StarWars'' for the Best Picture Oscar. Allen himself is not really interested in awards; he showed up at the Oscars ceremony only once in 2002, when he encouraged producers to continue filming their movies in New York after 9/11.

* ''EverythingYouAlwaysWantedToKnowAboutSex (But Were Afraid to Ask)'' (1972) - A series of sketches providing parodic answers to such questions as "What are sex perverts?" and "What is sodomy?"

* ''Film/AnnieHall'' (1977) - Woody Allen's most famous movie -- and, perhaps, along with ''Manhattan'', his best (though Allen himself doesn't think much of either of them). It focuses on the difficult relationship between a [[AuthorAvatar comedian]] and the [[TheDitz ditzy]] Annie Hall. [[spoiler: In the end, they split up.]] Winner of four {{Academy Award}}s: Best Picture (for which it beat ''StarWars''), Best Director (Allen), and Best Screenplay (Allen), Best Actress (Diane Keaton). (Allen was also nominated for Best Actor.)
* ''Interiors'' (1978) - Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control after their parents' divorce. WoodyAllen's first TearJerker.

* ''StardustMemories'' (1980) - While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker ([[AuthorAvatar guess who]]) recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films. Also the one that gave critics and fans the phrases "the early, funny ones" and "the later, serious ones".
* ''AMidsummerNightsSexComedy'' (1982) - At the dawn of the 20th century, a philosopher, a womanizing doctor and their fiancées spend a weekend in the house of a MadScientist and his wife. [[LoveDodecahedron Everyone ends up sneaking off behind everyone else's backs.]]

** ''DeconstructingHarry'' is an example of one of his comedies that's a bit edgier than his other work being one of the only Allen films were the characters curse with any frequency.

** His film ''All You Wanted To Know About Sex (But Was Afraid To Ask)'' featured a parody called ''What's My Perversion?''.

* RecycledInSpace: ''StardustMemories'' is Fellini's ''8 1/2'' but with Allen in place of Fellini and somewhat funnier.
** ''DeconstructingHarry'' is ''WildStrawberries'' as a comedy.
** ''MatchPoint'' is ''CrimesAndMisdemeanors'' with all the comedy taken out of it.

-->'''[[ActingForTwo Martian]]:''' Let me tell you, you're not the missionary type. You'd never last. And incidentally, you're also not {{Superman}}; you're a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.

* ''WhateverWorks'' (2009) - Woody Allen returns to New York. LarryDavid becomes a LemonyNarrator (BreakingTheFourthWall several times) of his own life. He helps a [[TheDitz ditzy]] young SouthernBelle (EvanRachelWood) who ran away from her home. Eventually they marry. Then, her parents appear, looking for her.

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* ''LoveAndDeath'' (1975) - An AffectionateParody of [[Creator/FyodorDostoyevsky Dostoyevsky's]] and [[Creator/LeoTolstoy Tolstoy's]] romances. Also the start of Allen's TomHanksSyndrome.

* ''LoveAndDeath'' (1975) - An AffectionateParody of [[FyodorDostoyevsky Dostoyevsky's]] and [[LeoTolstoy Tolstoy's]] romances. Also the start of Allen's TomHanksSyndrome.

* ''September'' (1987) - Yet another LoveDodecahedron, and a tragic story relating mother-daughter relationship, influenced by IngmarBergman. Inspired by stage play TV broadcasts. Allen filmed the whole movie, then threw out the whole cast, and started again with a new cast.

* ShoutOut: Woody LOVES the films of IngmarBergman.

* ''Film/{{Alice}}'' (1990) - A seemingly happy housewife realizes that she's a StepfordSmiler. She visits an herbalist that gives her three kinds of herbs which provide her with super-powers so she can straighten up her life.

* ''Film/MidnightInParis'' (2011) - [[CaptainObvious Set in Paris]], the film stars RachelMcAdams, OwenWilson, AdrienBrody and CarlaBruni (the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy). Allen's biggest critical hit in years, surpassing even the success of ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona''. Its also his best performing film financially, taking in over $56 million at the US box office (his previous record was the $40 million-grossing ''Hannah and Her Sisters).

While his work in the 70s and 80s are all almost universally loved by fans his films of the 90s and (especially) the 00s are divisive amongst critics and audiences with ''MatchPoint'', ''VickyCristinaBarcelona'' and (most recently) ''Film/MidnightInParis'' receiving high praise (and in the case of ''Midnight'', the best box office of his career) while other pictures- namely ''CurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' and ''HollywoodEnding''- being not well thought of by most. It should be noted, however, that even the most critically derided films of his filmography still tend to have a few fans here and there.

* ''Film/MidnightInParis'' (2011) - [[CaptainObvious Set in Paris]], the film stars RachelMcAdams, OwenWilson, AdrienBrody and CarlaBruni (the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy). Allen's biggest critical hit in years, surpassing even the success of ''Vicky Cristina Barcelona'', its also his best performing film financially, taking in over $56 million at the US box office (his previous record was the $40 million-grossing ''Hannah and Her Sisters).

* ''Film/MidnightInParis'' (2011) - [[CaptainObvious Set in Paris]], the film stars RachelMcAdams, OwenWilson, AdrienBrody and CarlaBruni (the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy).

While his work in the 70s and 80s are all almost universally loved by fans his films of the 90s and (especially) the 00s are divisive amongst critics and audiences with ''MatchPoint'', ''VickyCristinaBarcelona'' and (most recently) ''Film/MidnightInParis'' receiving high praise while other pictures- namely ''CurseOfTheJadeScorpion'' and ''HollywoodEnding''- being not well thought of by most. It should be noted, however, that even the most critically derided films of his filmography still tend to have a few fans here and there.

* ''CasinoRoyale1967'' - Not written or directed by WoodyAllen, but he plays Jimmy Bond, Film/JamesBond's "disappointing" nephew, who is the head of SMERSH and plans to kill all men over 4' 6" tall, so that he gets all the girls.