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Director Facts
Birth:
December 1, 1935
Biography:
Woody Allen was born on December 1, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he started selling one-liners to gossip columns. After working a while as a stand up comedian, he was hired to write What's New, Pussycat (1965) in 1965. He directed his first film a year later, What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) in 1966. ...more about Woody Allen
Woody Allen
DIRECTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
1.6919
1
1970s
3.1347
6
1980s
2.9557
8
1990s
2.9407
10
2000s
2.7022
12
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Director Score: 
3.4292
3.4292Woody Allen Movie Rankings
1
3.6413Romantic adventures of neurotic New Yorkers Alvy Singer and his girlfriend Annie Hall. The film follows the course of their relationship from their first meeting, to their eventual separation. The film explores themes related to dating in 1970s society. ...more about Annie Hall
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
2
3.5666This movie focuses on the life of 42-year-old Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) who is going through a midlife crisis. His wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), leaves him for another woman which provokes a relationship with Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old high school student who falls in love with him. ...more about Manhattan
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Best Director - Foreign Film (Regista del Miglior Film Straniero)
- National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Director
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
3
3.3973Hannah and her sisters are very close; they tell each other practically everything. Over the course of several years, their lives become very complicated each struggling with love and career. ...more about Hannah and Her Sisters
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
- National Board of Review, USA - Best Director
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
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Woody Allen Shopping
4
3.0790Woody Allen's sentimental reminiscence about the golden age of radio. A series of vignettes involving radio personalities is intertwined with the life of a working class family in Rockaway Beach, NY circa 1942. ...more about Radio Days
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
5
3.0630Opthalmologist Judah Rosenthal has had an affair with Dolores for several years, and now she threatens to ruin his life if he doesn't marry her. ...more about Crimes and Misdemeanors
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- BAFTA Awards - Best Direction
- Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
- London Critics Circle Film Awards - Director of the Year
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
6
3.0410Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo. ...more about Purple Rose of Cairo
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Director
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
7
3.0075Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. ...more about Bullets Over Broadway
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
8
2.9939When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. ...more about Husbands and Wives
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
9
2.9882A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. ...more about Sleeper
Director Awards
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
10
2.9824Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom's sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the luscious Nola. ...more about Match Point
Director Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
11
2.9349Holden and Skylar are in love with each other. Skylar lives with a large and extended family on Manhattan. Her parents, Bob and Steffi have been married to each other for many years. Joe, a friend of theirs, who has a daughter, DJ, with Steffi. ...more about Everyone Says I Love You
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.8973A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. ...more about Sweet and Lowdown
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
13
2.8905Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. ...more about Deconstructing Harry
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
14
2.8819This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell, played by Woody Allen. ...more about Take the Money and Run
Director Awards
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
15
2.8614Vicky and Cristina, these two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane ex-wife. Vicky is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually adventurous free spirit. ...more about Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.8574Dishwasher and small-fry criminal Ray hits on a plan with his partners in crime to re-open a local pizza place and dig through to the bank down the street. As his wife can't cook pizza but does great cookies, that's what they sell. ...more about Small Time Crooks
- DVD Best Pricing:
Newegg.com
17
2.8410Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. ...more about Manhattan Murder Mystery
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
18
2.8234Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. ...more about Bananas
Director Awards
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
19
2.8167Lenny adopts, convinced by his wife, a boy who becoming older surprises them with his intelectual qualities. Therefore both deceide to search for his real, biological mother. ...more about Mighty Aphrodite
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
20
2.7538Danny Rose is a manager of artists, and although he's not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to help his acts. So when Lou Canova, a singer who has a chance of making a come-back, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. ...more about Broadway Danny Rose
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
21
2.7326Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. ...more about Another Woman
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
22
2.6978Over a meal in a French restaurant, Sy poses a conundrum to his fellow diners: Is the essence of life comic or tragic? For the sake of argument, he tells a story, which the others then embellish to illustrate their takes on life. ...more about Melinda and Melinda
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
23
2.6912Woody Allen plays a Russian {Woody Allen Character} who is caught up in the Napoleonic invasion of his country. Much of the humor comes from the philosophic conversations that people break into in the midst of crisis situations. ...more about Love and Death
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
24
2.6832CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. ...more about Curse of the Jade Scorpion
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
25
2.6774A psychological study of the effect a mother has on her adult daughters and their mixed and often bitter reactions when their father leaves her for a vibrant but simpler woman. ...more about Interiors
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Director
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Director - Motion Picture
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
26
2.5974Lee Simon, unsuccessful journalist and wanna-be novelist, tries to get a foot into the door with celebrities. ...more about Celebrity
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
27
2.5958Woody Allen produces a quick follow up to MATCH POINT with SCOOP. Set in London and with Scarlett Johansson in a leading role once again, the story concerns an affair between an American journalism student (Johansson) and an aristocrat (Hugh Jackman). ...more about Scoop
- DVD Best Pricing:
Amazon
28
2.5851Woody Allen plays Val Waxman, a film director, who was once big in the 1970's and 1980's, but has now has been reduced to directing TV commercials. Finally, he gets an offer to make a big film. ...more about Hollywood Ending
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
29
2.5782Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is an aspiring writer living in New York City who falls in love at first sight with Amanda (Christina Ricci) and dumps his girlfriend to get with her. ...more about Anything Else
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
30
2.5251Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. ...more about Alice
Director Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
31
2.4750The tale of two brothers (McGregor and Farrell) with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies. ...more about Cassandra's Dream
- Not Available on DVD
32
2.4089Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker, attends a festival conducted to honor his work. During the course of the weekend he reconsiders his cinematic accomplishments as well as his past relationships. ...more about Stardust Memories
Director Awards
- Writers Guild of America, USA - Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
33
2.4026A small and insignificant bookkeeper, Kleinman, is awoken one night by his neighbours who wants him to help them track down a strangler who has been killing people all over town. ...more about Shadows and Fog
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
34
2.2898Everyone is gathering at Lane's place for the weekend, and everyone's in love. Unfortunately, each beloved loves somebody else, and no one seems to realize it. ...more about September
- DVD Best Pricing:
Overstock.com
35
2.1535This film combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. ...more about Melinda and Melinda
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.7396IN THEATRES DECEMBER 28, 2007 (Limited)<br><br>This drama from Woody Allen stars Ewan McGregor (THE ISLAND) and Colin Farrell (THE NEW WORLD) as beleaguered brothers living in London. ...more about Cassandra's Dream
- Not Available on DVD
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