Woody Allen Biography

Allen won four Academy Awards: three for Best Original Screenplay and one for Best Director (Annie Hall). He also won nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards. His screenplay for Annie Hall was named the funniest screenplay by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the "101 Funniest Screenplays." In 2011, PBS televised the film biography, Woody Allen: A Documentary, on the American Masters TV series.

Selected filmography:

• What's New Pussycat? (1965)
• Bananas (1971)
• Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• New York Stories (1989)
• Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
• Midnight in Paris (2011)
• Blue Jasmine (2013)
• Irrational Man (2015)
• Café Society (2016)