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Woody Allen has won four Academy Awards. He won Best Original Screenplay for Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris, and Best Director for Annie Hall. Annie Hall also won Best Picture, though that award goes to the producers.
Woody Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on the 30th of November 1935, at Mount Eden Hospital in the Bronx, New York City. He began calling himself Woody in high school, borrowing the name from jazz clarinetist Woody Herman.
Woody Allen has directed 50 feature films. His most recent, Coup de chance, is a French-language domestic thriller that premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023.
Midnight in Paris, released in 2011, is Woody Allen's highest-grossing film. Made on a budget of $17 million, it earned $151 million worldwide and won Allen his third Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Filmmakers who cite Allen as an influence include Wes Anderson, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Richard Linklater, Charlie Kaufman, Rian Johnson, the Safdie brothers, Lena Dunham, and Amy Sherman-Palladino. Quentin Tarantino has called him "one of the greatest screenwriters of all time."
Allen has played clarinet since childhood and took his stage name from jazz clarinetist Woody Herman. He has performed every Monday evening at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan with his New Orleans Jazz Band for many years, and his band released the album The Bunk Project in 1993 and the Wild Man Blues soundtrack in 1997.