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Renée Lefevre: I have to call someone and tell them I will not be home tonight.
Michael James: The phone's down by the bed, next to my prayer shawl.
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Renée Lefevre: Do this, do that. I say, I do earn my pay. Here we go, cock, spotless we must be.
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (Allen Stewart Konigsberg), whose real name is Allen Stewart Konigsberg, was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 1, 1935. He is an American director, screenwriter, and actor, and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . He graduated from Midwood Middle school.
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In 1964, he wrote and acted in the comedy "How is the cat", and formally entered the entertainment circle. In 1969, he directed and acted in the comedy crime film " Run with Money "
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. In 1973, he wrote and directed and acted in the sci-fi comedy " Sleeper "
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. In 1977, with the romantic comedy " Anhedonia " won the 50th Oscar Award for Best Director
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. In 1980, he wrote and directed and acted in the black and white comedy " Stardust Memories "
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. In 1984, with the comedy " Broadway Danny Rose ", he was nominated for Best Director at the 57th Academy Awards
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. In 1988, directed the family film " Another Woman "
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. In 1990, he wrote and directed the romantic comedy " Iris Fortunesinger "
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. In 1995, with the romantic comedy " Mighty Aphrodite ", he was nominated for Best Foreign Actor in the 40th Italian David Award
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. In 1997, he was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 70th Academy Awards for his feature film " Deconstructing Harry "
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In 2000, the self-written and directed comedy crime film " Small Time Crooks " was nominated for Best Picture at the 2nd Gwangju International Film Festival
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. In 2005, with the thriller " Match Point ", he was nominated for the Best Director Award in the 63rd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards
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. In 2008, the directed romantic film " Vicky Cristina Barcelona " won the American Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in Film-Musical Comedy
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. In 2011, with the comedy " Midnight In Paris ", he was nominated for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Director. In 2014, directed the comedy " Magic in the Moonlight "
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. In 2016, he wrote and directed the comedy " Crisis in Six Scenes ", which was the first TV series directed by Woody Allen
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. In 2017, directed the feature film " Wonder Wheel "
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Early Experience
Woody Allen was born in a poor Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. Woody Allen graduated from the local Middlewood High School. Although he had studied at New York University and the City College of New York for a few days, he was expelled.
At the age of 15, Woody Allen began to write quips, and began to use the name Woody Allen to contribute to some newspaper columnists. It is said that he also worked as a gunman for Bob Hope , and was later recommended by these columnists to write quips in advertisements for radio stations. After graduating from high school, he joined the "Sid Size TV Theater" to write scripts for TV shows with his funny genius.
In 1961, Woody Allen resigned as a writer for the "Gary Moore Theatre Company" and officially became a comedian, performing in taverns, nightclubs and small theaters in Greenwich Village
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Performing Experience
In 1964, he wrote and acted in the comedy "How is the cat", and formally entered the entertainment circle. In 1966, his first stage play "Don't Drink That Water" was staged on Broadway. In the same year, he directed the adventure thriller " What's Up, Tiger Lily? ", which was adapted from the Japanese detective film "The Key to the Key".
In 1967, Woody Allen wrote and starred in the comedy " Casino Royale " co-directed by Ken Hughes and John Haston
. In 1969, he wrote and starred in the stage play "Play it again, Sam"
. In the same year, self-directed comedy crime drama " take the money and run ", the film tells the story of a man named Virgil bank robber's life in the form of a documentary
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In 1971 , he wrote and directed and acted in the comedy " Bananas " and played a small employee of a product testing company in the film. For this reason, he was nominated for the best comedy original screenplay by the Screenwriter Guild of America
. In 1972, he wrote, directed, and acted in the comedy " Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask ". The film posed seven questions in the form of chapters, and touched seven sensitive and irritating questions. People embarrassing sex topics
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In 1973, he wrote and directed and acted in the sci-fi comedy " Sleeper ", in which he played a modern man who had been frozen for two hundred years. The film tells the story of Millers Monroe who was frozen during surgery and awakened in 2173 After coming over, a lot of jokes were made
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In 1975, he wrote and directed and acted in the comedy " Love and Death ", playing the role of Boris, the youngest son of a big Russian family. The film won the main competition unit of the 25th Berlin International Film Festival-Silver Bear Award, 25th Berlin International Film Festival International Film Critics Federation Award
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In 1977, he wrote and directed and acted in the romantic comedy " Anhedonia ", in which he played the neurotic but a little sloppy comedian Ivy Singh. The film won the 50th Academy Awards for Best Picture with Woody Allen. The film was nominated for Best Director at the 50th Academy Awards, and nominated for the Best Director Award in the 35th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards
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In 1978 , he wrote and directed the feature film " Interiors " co-starring by Gerry and Annie . For this reason, he was nominated for the 51st Academy Awards for Best Director and the 36th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards. -Nominated for the Best Director Award
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In 1979, he wrote and directed and acted in the comedy romance " Manhattan ". In the film, he played the role of Isaac Davis, who was not successful in writing and was messy emotionally. The film tells several knowledge of Manhattan. Because of the emotional entanglement of the elements, he was nominated for the 52nd Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and the 33rd British Academy Film Awards-Best Director nomination for this film
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In 1980, he wrote, directed and acted in the black-and-white comedy " Stardust Memories ", playing Sandy who was confused by a group of film critics and fans. The film tells a series of stories between Sandy and three heroines
. In 1982, he wrote and directed and acted in the comedy romance " A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy "
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In 1983, he wrote and directed and acted in the feature film "The Story of West Lie". Leonard played in the film was a Jew, but he was highly adaptable to the environment. The film tells the story of a strange man who made a sensation in the United States in the 1930s. The legendary life story of Leonard Relick won the Pasinetti Award-Best Film at the 40th Venice International Film Festival. Woody Allen won the 41st American Film and Television Golden Globe Award for the film-Musical Comedy. Nominated for the Best Actor Award
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In 1984 , he wrote , directed and acted in the comedy " Broadway Danny Rose ", playing an unsuccessful comedian Danny Rose. With this film, he was nominated for best director and best original screenplay at the 57th Academy Awards
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In 1985, he directed the romantic fantasy film " The Purple Rose of Cairo " co-starring Mia Farrow , Jeff Daniels , and Danny Aiello. With this film, he was nominated for the 58th Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and the 43rd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards Film Category-Best Screenplay Award
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In 1986, directed the family ethics film " Hannah And Her Sisters " composed of three parallel, actually unrelated stories. The film described Hannah And Her Sisters' three complicated and changeable family history, love history, and psychology. For this reason, he won the 59th Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and the 59th Academy Awards for Best Director Nominations for this film
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In 1987, directed the comedy musical " Radio Days " co-starring Mia Farrow, Diane West, and Seth Green, which was set in the golden age of radio from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, and won the 41st place. The British Academy of Film Awards-Nominated for Best Picture, Woody Allen was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 60th Academy Awards for the film, and Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 41st British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
. In the same year, he directed the drama " September " co-starred by Mia Farrow and Denholm Elliott . The film tells the unfortunate feelings of three couples of men and women
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In 1988, directed the family film " Another Woman " co-starring Gena Rowlands and Mia Farrow . The film tells the story of a woman's sad memories
. In 1989, he co-directed the romance film " New York Stories " composed of three short films with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola . "The Troubles of Oedipus" was a paragraph directed by Woody Allen. In the same year, he directed a comedy composed of two stories " In the second story, he played the documentary filmmaker Cliff who attempted to cheat. Woody Allen won the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Nominated for Director's Award
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In 1990 , he wrote and directed the romantic comedy " Iris Fortunesinger ", which was a magical film on women's liberation. For this reason, he was nominated for the best original screenplay at the 63rd Academy Awards for this film
. In 1991, he wrote, directed and acted in the comedy suspense film " Shadows and Fog ", in which he played a small inconspicuous bookkeeper
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In 1992 , he wrote and directed and acted in the romance film " Husbands and Wives ", playing the role of Gabe who fell in love with the talented female student Rennes. With this film, he was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 65th Academy Awards and won the No. Best original screenplay at the 46th British Academy of Film Awards
. In 1993, he wrote and directed the comedy crime film " Manhattan Murder Mystery " in which he played Carol's husband Larry. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 19th French Caesars Awards
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In 1994, directed the crime comedy " Bullets Over Broadway " co-starring John Cusack and Diana West . Woody Allen won the 67th Academy Awards nomination for best director and the 67th Academy Awards for this film. Nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Award, the film is the result of the fusion of Broadway backstage comedy and gangster comedy in the 1920s. In the same year, he re-adapted and filmed his early stage play "Don't Drink That Water" for the TV station
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In 1995 , he wrote and directed the romantic comedy " Mighty Aphrodite " in which he played Amanda's husband Lanny Weinreb. With this film, he was nominated for the 68th Oscar Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 40th Nominated for the Best Foreign Actor in the Italian David Award
. In the same year, he won the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival.
In 1996, directed the romantic comedy " Everyone Says I Love You " co-starring Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore . This film is a film that discusses love and marriage, spirituality and materiality, and won the 10th European Film Nominated for the Universal Screen Award, and nominated for the best foreign film in the 23rd French Film Caesars Awards
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In 1997, self-directed and self-acted feature film " Deconstructing Harry ", the film tells the story of the protagonist who does not handle life well, but performs well in writing. It was nominated for the best original screenplay at the 70th Academy Awards, and was nominated for the 11th. Nominated for the European Film Awards for the Universal Screen Award
. In the same year, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th British Academy of Film Awards.
In 1998, he wrote and directed the comedy " Celebrity " co-starring Kenneth Charles Branagh , Judy Davis and Leo
. In 1999, directed the musical comedy " Sweet and Lowdown " co-starring Sean Justin Penn and Samantha Morton .
In 2000, he wrote and directed the comedy crime film " Small Time Crooks ", in which he played a dishwashing man Ray Winkler with a criminal record. The film was nominated for Best Picture at the 2nd Gwangju International Film Festival
. In 2001, he wrote, directed, and acted in the suspenseful crime film " The Curse of the Jade Scorpion " set in New York in the 1940s , playing the role of CW Briggs, the best insurance investigator in New York, USA
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In 2002, he wrote, directed and acted in the romantic film " Hollywood Ending ", playing a moody and neurotic film director Waxman. The film tells the story of Hollywood director Waxman facing a double crisis of career and love
. In 2003, directed the romantic comedy " Anything Else " co-starring Jason Matthew Biggs and Christina Ricci
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In 2004, she wrote and directed the comedy " Melinda and Melinda " co-starring Radha Mitchell and Jonny Lee Miller . This film tells about Melinda and Melinda's mental collapse after divorce. She faced the emotional crisis with a different attitude and finally moved towards Two diametrically opposed life paths
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In 2005, directed the thriller " Match Point " co-starring Scarlett I. Johansson and Millie Modimo . The film won the 20th Spanish Film Goya Award for Best European Film and the 50th Italian David Award for Best He was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 78th Academy Awards and the 63rd American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards for the Best Director Award
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In 2006, directed the romantic comedy " Scoop " co-starring Scarlett I. Johansson and Hugh Jackman , and played the magician Seaney Span in the film
. In 2007, directed the crime thriller " Cassandras Dream " co-starred by Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell . In the film, he played the magician Heine Spann during a magic show in London
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In 2008, directed the romance film " Vicky Cristina Barcelona " co-starring Scarlett I. Johansson, Penélope Cruz Sánchez and Javier Bardem , which won the American Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in Film-Musical Comedy
. In 2009, directed the romantic comedy " Whatever Works " starring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, and Patricia Clarkson . The film is Woody Allen returning after five years A film shot in New York
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In 2010, directed the romantic comedy " You will meet a tall dark stranger " centered on different members of a family . The film was co-starred by Anthony Hopkins , Naomi Watts and Josh James Brolin
. In 2011, he directed the comedy " Midnight In Paris " with the background of Paris, France . With this film, he won the 84th Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and a nomination for the 84th Academy Awards for Best Director. .
In 2012, directed the four-story comedy " To Rome With Love ", which tells the stories of people from different countries in Rome
. In 2013, directed the feature film " Blue Jasmine " starring Catherine Elise Blanchett , Sally Hawkins and Alec Baldwin . The film was nominated for the 58th Italian David Award for Best Foreign Film. Woody Allen won the Golden Satellite Award for the film. Best director nominated, the 67th British Academy Film Awards-Best Original Screenplay
. In the same year, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 71st American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards.
On July 24, 2014, the directed comedy " Magic in the Moonlight " landed on the North American theaters. The film was shot in France. It tells the story of a group of wealthy upper-class people in southern France in the 1920s. This is also his After the comedy "Midnight In Paris", I once again told stories in France
. In 2015, he wrote and directed the comedy mystery " Irrational Man " co-starring Emma Jean Stone , Joaquin Rafael Bottom and Parker Posey . The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 68th Cannes Film Festival
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In May 2016, Woody Allen directed the romantic comedy " Café Society " set in the United States in 1930. The film was co-starred by Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg as the opening film of the 69th Cannes International Film Festival
. In August, he wrote, directed and acted in the comedy " Crisis in Six Scenes " set against the turbulent period of the 1960s in the United States . The play tells the story of a middle-class suburban family and is also the first TV series directed by Woody Allen
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In 2017, directed the feature film " Wonder Wheel " co-starring Kate Winslet , Justin Randall Timberlake and James Adam Belushi , which tells the summer story of Coney Island, New York in the 1950s
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In 2020, the directed work "Rifkin's Film Festival" will be the opening film of the 68th San Sebastian Film Festival. This is the second time for San Sebastian after "Melinda and Melinda" in 2004. At the opening of the Ann Film Festival, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Festival in the same year.
Personal Life
Marriage experience
In 1954, he married Harlem Rosen. In 1960, the two divorced. In 1964, he married the comedian Louise Reiser. In 1969, the two divorced. In the 1970s, interacted with actor and director Annie. In 1980, he started dating with actor Mia Farrow and later gave birth to two sons for Woody Allen. In 1997, Song Yi (Milafaluo with the conductor before夫安德列普利the text adopted daughter) marriage
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Personal autobiography
2020 years 7, according to foreign media sources, Woody Allen has said it will publish his autobiography Memoirs " out of thin air ," the Hachette Publishing Group announced plans to cancel the publication of the book, the return of all copyrights.
Character Evaluation
Although most of Woody Allen's movies can't help but pay tribute to Fellini, Bergman, and those film authors who are constantly learning to try to get closer, starting from "Deep In My Heart", it seems that every once in a while, Woody Allen It is necessary to shoot a "gift film" that makes film critics and the audience dumbfounded and very proud of themselves .
Woody Allen's unique style of film, the category spans drama, off-linear comedy, he is also known for his fast filming process and a large number of film works
. The themes of his writing are nothing more than death, sex, and immoral behavior. He is good at absorbing the advantages of silent comedy and matching his own set of witty dialogues with strong local colors, especially the wit of New York intellectuals. His satirical objects range from politics, culture, religion, sex, to movies, television, Jewish customs, etc. If you don’t understand or understand the characters and environment in the film, his sense of humor of "inside jokes", Will not be able to understand, so his work is very popular with American audiences , but there are gaps in non-English speaking countries. The picky French called him "the only intellectual in the American film industry" .
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