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I heard that Match Point was pretty good.
Bad, 95% of the time......
I heard that Match Point was pretty good.
It was...probably because of Scarlett and Jonathan Rhese Myers.
Negative.
Manhattan was good though. I saw Melinda and Melinda this morning and that ty one with Jason Biggs yesterday........pretty bad flicks.
I overreacted, everything as of late is pretty bad. He had a pretty good decade between 75 and 85 it seems.
Blasphemy. I wanted to carve my eyes out of my head with a spoon...
Every Woody Allen movie I've seen sucks.
Ditto. That movie just made me uncomfortable.
I can't think of anyone who is more overrated.
His classic straight comedies are good: Sleeper, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Bananas, Love and Death. His "dramas" are vastly overrated.
Purple Rose of Cairo is one of my favorite films.
Awards, nominations and distinctions
Over the course of his career Allen has received a considerable number of awards and distinctions in film festivals and yearly national film awards ceremonies, saluting his work as a director, screenwriter and actor[3]. When premiering his films at festivals, Allen does not screen his motion pictures in compe ion, thus deliberately taking them out of consideration for possible awards.
Allen won the 1978 O. Henry Award for his short story "The Kugelmass Episode" published in The New Yorker on May 2, 1977.
Allen twice won the César Award for Best Foreign Film, the first in 1980 for Manhattan and the second in 1986 for The Purple Rose of Cairo. Seven other of his movies were nominated for the prize.
In 1986, Allen won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay for The Purple Rose of Cairo. He was also nominated four times as Best Director, four times for Best Screenplay and twice for Best Actor (Comedy/musical).
At the 1995 Venice Film Festival, Allen received a Career Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
In 1996, Allen received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of America.
In 2002 Allen won the Prince of Asturias Award. Subsequently, the town of Oviedo, Spain erected a life-size statue of Allen. [12]
In 2002, Allen received the Palme des Palmes, a special lifetime achievement award granted by the Cannes Festival and whose sole other recipient is Ingmar Bergman [7].
In a 2005 poll The Comedian's Comedian, Allen was voted the third greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
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Oscars
Woody Allen has more Academy Award nominations (14) for best screenplay (original or adapted) than any other writer and is tied for fifth all-time in the directing category with six nominations. Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters were nominated for best picture although, as is the tradition at the Academy, the film's producers are the recipients in that category. Annie Hall won four Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) while Hannah and Her Sisters won three, including Best Screenplay for Allen. His actors were also among the frequently nominated in their respective categories and Allen himself was nominated for his role in Annie Hall.
1977 — Won — Academy Award for Best Director — Annie Hall
1977 — Won — Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay — Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman)
1986 — Won — Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay — Hannah and Her Sisters
Nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Interiors, Manhattan (with Marshall Brickman), Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Alice, Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway (with Douglas McGrath), Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Match Point.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Interiors, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway.
Nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role in Annie Hall.
BAFTA
Allen has garnered a number of British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards and nominations for best picture, best director, best actor and best screenplay. In 1997, he received the honorary BAFTA Fellowship for his work.
1978 — Won — Best Film — Annie Hall
1978 — Won — Best Screenplay — Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman)
1978 — Won — Best Direction — Annie Hall
1980 — Won — Best Film — Manhattan
1980 — Won — Best Screenplay — Manhattan (with Marshall Brickman)
1985 — Won — Best Screenplay — Broadway Danny Rose
1986 — Won — Best Film — The Purple Rose of Cairo
1986 — Won — Best Screenplay — The Purple Rose of Cairo
1987 — Won — Best Screenplay — Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 — Won — Best Direction — Hannah and Her Sisters
1993 — Won — Best Screenplay — Husbands and Wives
Nominated for best film for Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days, Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Nominated for best actor for Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters.
Nominated for best director for Manhattan, Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Nominated for best screenplay for Zelig, Radio Days, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway (with Douglas McGrath).
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Woody Allen blows .
If anyone is, they're probably from New York too.I can't think of anyone who is more overrated.
The only Woody Allen movie I've ever seen is Annie Hall. I liked it okay, but can't say I remember it much.
one of my professors claimed he was the most famous psuedo intellectual he could think of.
Closer to 100%.
Woody Allen sucks.
He is the most famous pseudo-intellectual pedophile I can think of.
I know of a little Korean girl who'd dispute that.
Bananas was worth a chuckle or two. The translator who translated his English into heavily-Spanish accented English was funny, as was Howard Cosell's bedroom play-by-play.
Otherwise, I can do without Woody Allen.
A pedophile only makes Porn!
The next funny movie Woody Allen makes will be the first funny movie Woody Allen makes.
This guy's alleged comedy genius is so far beyond overrated it defies logic.
woody allen is a sick bas who doesn't deserve anything other than an ass tearin
I'll pile on too, except to say that Take the Money and Run was pretty funny. Classic seen when he was in prison and carved a gun out of soap, only get caught in the rain and have his "gun" suds up in his hand.
Wrong.
These are good movies:
Match Point
Small Time Crooks (stupid, but funny)
Mighty Aphrodite
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Hannah and Her Sisters
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Broadway Danny Rose
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Love and Death
Sleeper
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
... aka Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (USA: short le)
Bananas
His newest movie, Scoop is getting great reviews as well, and with Scarlet Johanson again in it, it can not be too bad.
Matchpoint was horrible.
For people who think Will Smith is actually funny, yeah, they wouldn't get Allen's comedy.
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