Woody Allen filmography

Allen in the early 1970s

Woody Allen has acted in, directed, and written many films starting in the 1960s. His first film was the 1965 comedy What's New Pussycat? , which featured him as both writer and performer. Feeling that his New Yorker humor clashed with director Clive Donner's British sensibility, he decided to direct all future films from his own material. He was unable to prevent other directors from producing films based on previous stage plays of his to which he had already sold the film rights, notably 1972's successful film Play it Again, Sam from the 1969 play of the same title directed by Herbert Ross.

Allen's directorial debut, the 1966 film What's Up, Tiger Lily? , was a dramatic Japanese spy movie re-dubbed in English with completely new, comedic dialog. He continued to write, direct, and star in comedic slapstick films such as Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971) and Sleeper (1973), before finding widespread critical acclaim for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979); he won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for the former. Despite being influenced by European art cinema and venturing into more dramatic territory, with Interiors (1978) and Another Woman (1988) being prime examples of this transition, he continued to direct several comedies.

In addition to works of fiction, Allen appeared as himself in many documentaries and other works of non-fiction, including Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures , Wild Man Blues and The Concert for New York City . He has also been the subject of and appeared in three documentaries about himself, including To Woody Allen, From Europe with Love in 1980, Woody Allen: A Life in Film in 2001 and the 2011 PBS American Masters documentary, Woody Allen: a Documentary (directed by Robert B. Weide). He also wrote for and contributed to a number of television series early in his career, including The Tonight Show as guest host.

According to Box Office Mojo, Allen's films have grossed a total of more than $575 million, with an average of $14 million per film (domestic gross figures as a director). Currently, all of the films he directed for American International Pictures, United Artists and Orion Pictures between 1965 and 1992 are owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which acquired all the studios in separate transactions. The films he directed by ABC Pictures are now property of American Broadcasting Company, who in turn licensed their home video rights to MGM.

Films

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Actor	Role	Ref.
1965	What's New Pussycat?	No	Yes	Yes	Victor Shakapopulis	[1]
1966	What's Up, Tiger Lily?	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself / Various voices	[2]
1967	Casino Royale	No	No	Yes	Dr. Noah / Jimmy Bond	[3]
1969	Take the Money and Run	Yes	Yes	Yes	Virgil Starkwell	[2]
	Don't Drink the Water	No	Yes	No	—	[2]
1971	Bananas	Yes	Yes	Yes	Fielding Mellish	[2]
1972	Play It Again, Sam	No	Yes	Yes	Allan Felix	[I]
	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Victor Shakapopulis / Fabrizio / The Fool / Sperm #1	[2]
1973	Sleeper	Yes	Yes	Yes	Miles Monroe	[2]
1975	Love and Death	Yes	Yes	Yes	Boris Grushenko	[2]
1976	The Front	No	No	Yes	Howard Prince	[4]
1977	Annie Hall	Yes	Yes	Yes	Alvy Singer	[2]
1978	Interiors	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
1979	Manhattan	Yes	Yes	Yes	Isaac Davis	[2]
1980	Stardust Memories	Yes	Yes	Yes	Sandy Bates	[2]
1982	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy	Yes	Yes	Yes	Andrew	[2]
1983	Zelig	Yes	Yes	Yes	Leonard Zelig	[2]
1984	Broadway Danny Rose	Yes	Yes	Yes	Danny Rose	[2]
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mickey Sachs	[2]
1987	Radio Days	Yes	Yes	Yes	Joe (voice)	[2]
	King Lear	No	No	Yes	Mr. Alien (cameo)	[5]
	September	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
1988	Another Woman	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
1989	New York Stories	Partial	Partial	Yes	Sheldon Mills
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cliff Stern	[2]
1990	Alice	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
1991	Scenes from a Mall	No	No	Yes	Nick Fifer	[6]
	Shadows and Fog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kleinman	[2]
1992	Husbands and Wives	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gabe Roth	[2]
1993	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Yes	Yes	Yes	Larry Lipton	[2]
1994	Bullets Over Broadway	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
	Don't Drink the Water	Yes	Yes	Yes	Walter Hollander	[7]
1995	Mighty Aphrodite	Yes	Yes	Yes	Lenny Weinrib	[2]
1996	Everyone Says I Love You	Yes	Yes	Yes	Joe Berlin	[2]
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Yes	Yes	Yes	Harry Block	[2]
1998	Antz	No	Uncredited	Yes	Z-4195 (voice)	[8]
	The Impostors	No	No	Uncredited	Audition Director (cameo)	[8]
	Celebrity	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
1999	Sweet and Lowdown	Yes	Yes	Yes	Himself	[2]
2000	Company Man	No	No	Uncredited	Lowther (cameo)
	Small Time Crooks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Ray	[2]
	Picking Up the Pieces	No	No	Yes	Tex Crowley	[2]
2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	Yes	Yes	Yes	C.W. Briggs	[2]
2002	Hollywood Ending	Yes	Yes	Yes	Val Waxman	[2]
2003	Anything Else	Yes	Yes	Yes	David Dobel	[2]
2004	Melinda and Melinda	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2005	Match Point	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2006	Scoop	Yes	Yes	Yes	Sid Waterman	[2]
2007	Cassandra's Dream	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2009	Whatever Works	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2010	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2011	Midnight in Paris	Yes	Yes	No	—	[9]
2012	Paris Manhattan	No	No	Yes	Himself (cameo)	[2]
	To Rome with Love	Yes	Yes	Yes	Jerry	[2]
2013	Blue Jasmine	Yes	Yes	No	—	[10]
	Fading Gigolo	No	No	Yes	Murray Schwartz	[11]
2014	Magic in the Moonlight	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2015	Irrational Man	Yes	Yes	No	—	[2]
2016	Café Society	Yes	Yes	Yes	Narrator (voice)	[12]
2017	Wonder Wheel	Yes	Yes	No	—	[13]
2019	A Rainy Day in New York	Yes	Yes	No	—	[14]
2020	Rifkin's Festival	Yes	Yes	No	—	[15]
2023	Coup de chance	Yes	Yes	No	—	[16]

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Actor	Role	Notes	Ref.
1971	Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story	Yes	Yes	Yes	Harvey Wallinger		[17]
2001	The Concert for New York City	Partial	Partial	No	—	Segment: "Sounds from a Town I Love"	[18]
TBA	Mr. Fischer’s Chair	No	No	Yes	Narrator	Animated short	[19]

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes	Ref.
1950–55	The Colgate Comedy Hour	No	Yes
1956	Caesar's Hour	No	Yes
	Stanley	No	Yes
1960	General Electric Theater	No	Yes	Episode: "Hooray for Love"
	Candid Camera	No	Yes
1961	The Garry Moore Show	No	Yes
1963	The Sid Caesar Show	No	Uncredited
1965	The Woody Allen Show	No	Yes	Standup TV Special (UK)	[20]
1966	Gene Kelly in New York, New York	No	Yes	TV special
1967	Woody Allen Looks at 1967	No	Yes	TV special
1969	The Woody Allen Special	No	Yes	TV special	[21]
1979	Bob Hope: My Favorite Comedian	Yes	Yes	Special	[22]
2016	Crisis in Six Scenes	Yes	Yes	Also creator, Amazon	[23]

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1960	Candid Camera	Himself
1963-67	What's My Line?	Himself - Mystery Guest	9 episodes
1964, 67	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Guest host	2 episodes
1965	The Woody Allen Show	Himself	Standup Special	[24]
1966	Gene Kelly in New York, New York	Himself	TV special
1969	The Woody Allen Special	Himself, Various	TV special	[25]
1970–71	Hot Dog	Co-host	Documentary Series, NBC	[26]
1996	The Sunshine Boys	Al Lewis	TV movie
1997	Just Shoot Me!	Himself (voice)	Episode: "My Dinner with Woody"
2001	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures	Himself	Documentary Film, Warner Bros.
2002	Woody Allen: A Life in Film		Documentary, TCM
	The Magic of Fellini		Documentary Film
2011	Woody Allen: A Documentary American Masters (PBS & WNET)		2 part Documentary, PBS directed by Robert B. Weide
2013	Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love		Documentary
	David Blaine: Real or Magic		Television Special
	AFI Life Achievement Tribute: Mel Brooks		Television Special, TNT
2016	Crisis in Six Scenes	Sidney Muntzinger	Amazon Miniseries; 6 episodes	[27]
2017	AFI Life Achievement Tribute: Diane Keaton	Himself	Television Special, TNT
	This is Bob Hope		Documentary; PBS
2018	Always at the Carlyle		Documentary
2019	Very Ralph		Documentary; HBO
2020	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael		Documentary

Reception

Movies directed by Woody Allen shown by year and Rotten Tomatoes score.

Year	Title	Grossed	Rotten Tomatoes
1965	What's New Pussycat?	—	28%
1966	What's Up, Tiger Lily?	—	81%
1969	Don't Drink the Water	—	44%
	Take the Money and Run	—	91%
1971	Bananas	—	83%
1972	Play It Again, Sam	—	97%
	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)	$83,934,700	88%
1973	Sleeper	$82,084,900	100%
1975	Love and Death	$77,746,400	100%
1977	Annie Hall	$135,852,600	97%
1978	Interiors	$35,309,500	81%
1979	Manhattan	$126,047,200	94%
1980	Stardust Memories	$30,587,700	68%
1982	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy	$24,453,100	74%
1983	Zelig	$29,665,100	97%
1984	Broadway Danny Rose	$24,986,900	100%
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	$23,718,300	92%
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	$85,057,900	91%
1987	Radio Days	$29,963,900	91%
	September	$985,300	63%
1988	Another Woman	$3,109,700	59%
1989	New York Stories	$10,700,000	75%
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	$36,417,400	92%
1990	Alice	$13,791,700	71%
1991	Shadows and Fog	$2,735,731	54%
1992	Husbands and Wives	$10,555,619	93%
1993	Manhattan Murder Mystery	$21,676,500	94%
1994	Bullets Over Broadway	$25,358,700	95%
1995	Mighty Aphrodite	$25,985,927	78%
1996	Everyone Says I Love You	$34,588,635	77%
1997	Deconstructing Harry	$18,046,900	73%
1998	Antz	$171,757,863	92%
	Celebrity	$6,153,836	42%
1999	Sweet and Lowdown	$6,231,400	77%
2000	Small Time Crooks	$29,934,477	66%
2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	$18,496,522	45%
2002	Hollywood Ending	$14,839,383	47%
2003	Anything Else	$13,203,044	40%
2004	Melinda and Melinda	$19,826,280	51%
2005	Match Point	$87,989,926	77%
2006	Scoop	$40,107,018	41%
2007	Cassandra's Dream	$22,539,685	46%
2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	$104,504,817	80%
2009	Whatever Works	$35,106,706	50%
2010	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	$34,275,987	46%
2011	Midnight in Paris	$162,942,835	93%
2012	To Rome with Love	$74,363,777 [28]	46%
2013	Blue Jasmine	$102,912,961	91%
2014	Magic in the Moonlight	$51,029,361 [29]	51%
2015	Irrational Man	$27,938,377	46%
2016	Café Society	$43,429,116 [30]	71%
2017	Wonder Wheel	$15,899,124	31%
2019	A Rainy Day in New York	$21,071,507	47%
2020	Rifkin's Festival	$2,228,001	41%
2023	Coup de chance	$7,427,878	82%

Recurring collaborators

Like most directors, Allen has cast certain actors multiple times. He has most frequently worked with Mia Farrow (13 films); Peter McRobbie (8 films); Diane Keaton, Tony Sirico, and Fred Melamed (7 films each); Julie Kavner, Tony Darrow and Wallace Shawn (6 films each); Judy Davis, Dianne Wiest, Louise Lasser, Paul Herman, Douglas McGrath, Tony Roberts and David Ogden Stiers (5 films each); Sam Waterston and Caroline Aaron (4 films each). ^[31]

Work Actor	1966	1969	1971	1972	1973	1975	1977	1978	1979	1980	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987		1988	1989		1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2019	2020
	What's Up, Tiger Lily?	Take the Money and Run	Bananas	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*(*But Were Afraid to Ask)	Sleeper	Love and Death	Annie Hall	Interiors	Manhattan	Stardust Memories	A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy	Zelig	Broadway Danny Rose	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Hannah and Her Sisters	Radio Days	September	Another Woman	New York Stories	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Alice	Shadows and Fog	Husbands and Wives	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Bullets Over Broadway	Mighty Aphrodite	Everyone Says I Love You	Deconstructing Harry	Celebrity	Sweet and Lowdown	Small Time Crooks	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	Hollywood Ending	Anything Else	Melinda and Melinda	Match Point	Scoop	Cassandra's Dream	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Whatever Works	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Midnight in Paris	To Rome with Love	Blue Jasmine	Magic in the Moonlight	Irrational Man	Café Society	Wonder Wheel	A Rainy Day in New York	Rifkin's Festival
Louise Lasser
Dan Frazer
Diane Keaton
Tony Roberts
Sam Waterston
Frances Conroy
Wallace Shawn
John Rothman
Mia Farrow
Peter McRobbie
Camille Saviola
Danny Aiello
Dianne Wiest
Paul Herman
Julie Kavner
Fred Melamed
Larry David
Jack Warden
Blythe Danner
Philip Bosco
David Ogden Stiers
Alan Alda
Caroline Aaron
Alec Baldwin
Judy Davis
Tony Darrow
Tony Sirico
Julie Halston
Douglas McGrath
Larry Pine
Brian Markinson
Erica Leerhsen
Zak Orth
Scarlett Johansson

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Woody Allen

References

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Bibliography

• "IMDb". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
• "Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-07-11.

External links

• Woody Allen filmography at IMDb
• ​Woody Allen filmography​ at the Internet Broadway Database