Academy Awards, USA (1978) Academy Awards, USA Date: April 3 1978 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Awards for 1978 Best Actor in a Leading Role WINNER Best Actress in a Leading Role WINNER Best Actor in a Supporting Role WINNER Jason Robards was not present at the ceremony. Presenters Maggie Smith and Michael Caine accepted the award on his behalf. NOMINEES Best Actress in a Supporting Role WINNER Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Co-presenter King Vidor accepted the award on his behalf. NOMINEES Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen WINNER Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. NOMINEES Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium WINNER Derek Ball was not present at the awards ceremony. NOMINEES Best Effects, Visual Effects WINNER For the song "You Light Up My Life". NOMINEES For the song "Someone's Waiting For You". Best Music, Original Score Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score WINNER Best Short Film, Live Action WINNER Best Documentary, Features WINNER For sound effects.

(For the creation of the alien, creature and robot voices.) Honorary Award For her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry. Medal of Commendation In appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award WINNER Garrett Brown (The Cinema Products Corp. Engineering Staff under the supervision of John Jurgens) For the invention and development of Steadicam. The award was presented outside the technical awards ceremony as part of the main ceremony on 3 April. Scientific and Engineering Award WINNERS Joseph D. Kelley (Glen Glenn Sound), Emory M. Cohen (Glen Glenn Sound), Barry K. Henley (Glen Glenn Sound), Hammond H. Holt (Glen Glenn Sound), John Agalsoff Sr. (Glen Glenn Sound) For the concept and development of a post-production audio processing system for motion picture films. (Panavision, Inc.) For the development of the Dykstraflex Camera (Dykstra) and the engineering of the Electronic Motion Control System (Miller/Jeffress used in concert for multiple exposure visual effects motion picture photography.

(Eastman Kodak Co.) For the development and introduction of a new duplicating film for motion pictures. Stefan Kudelski (Nagra Magnetic Recorders, Inc.) For the engineering of the improvements incorporated in the Nagra 4.2L sound recorder for motion picture production. Technical Achievement Award Ernst F. Nettman (Astrovision Division of Continental Camera Systems, Inc.) For the engineering of its Snorkel Aerial Camera System. (EECO (Electronic Engineering Co. of California)) For developing a method for interlocking non-sprocketed film and tape media used in motion picture production. Bernhard Kuhl (OSRAM GmbH), Werner Block (OSRAM GmbH) For the development of the HMI high-efficiency discharge lamp for motion picture lighting. (Panavision, Inc.) For the design of Panalite, a camera-mounted controllable light for motion picture photography. (Panavision, Inc.) For the engineering of the Panahead gearhead for motion picture cameras.

(Piclear, Inc.) Woody Allen - Awards - IMDb Woody Allen Showing all 131 wins and 199 nominations Academy Awards, USA Midnight in Paris (2011) Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenter Angelina Jolie accepted the award on ... More Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenter Angelina Jolie accepted the award on his behalf. Nominated Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenter Shirley MacLaine accepted the award ... More Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Presenter Shirley MacLaine accepted the award on his behalf. Nominated Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Co-presenter King Vidor accepted the award on ... More Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony. Co-presenter King Vidor accepted the award on his behalf. Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Woody Allen was not present at the awards ceremony.

Nominated Award of the Argentinean Academy Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera) Award of the Argentinean Academy Best Foreign Film Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards Honorable Mentions (The Next Ten Best Picture Contenders) Honorable Mentions Frederic B. Blankfein (second assistant director) (plaque) Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards Tied with Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). 2nd place OFTA Film Hall of Fame Creative OFTA Film Hall of Fame Creative Most Promising New Star (Male) Prince of Asturias Awards and any actress decades younger Turia Awards Won Career Golden Lion In celebration of cinema's 100th anniversary. Woody Allen is known not to show up at award ... More In celebration of cinema's 100th anniversary. Woody Allen is known not to show up at award ceremonies and like so often Carlo Di Palma accepted the award in his name, stating that 'it has become a full-time job'.

Double Feature: "Annie Hall" And "Fingers" | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Home / Events / Double Feature: "Annie Hall" And "Fingers" Double Feature: "Annie Hall" And "Fingers" Feb 06 7:30pm PT Los Angeles County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Share Twitter Facebook Motion picture costume design is often associated with elaborate historical costumes, although designers also create more modern garments. Using the groundbreaking urban American films of the late 1960s and 1970s, the Academy’s Friday series demonstrated how a designer’s work can be a key element in creating contemporary characters. The work of the featured designers enhanced some of the most memorable performances of the era and complemented the gritty, soul-baring aesthetic of New Hollywood, which found innovative, director-driven cinema briefly holding sway in the industry. Also in this series: Join our email list and be the first to hear about new Academy screenings, exhibitions and events.

STREET CLOTHES: CONTEMPORARY COSTUMING IN NEW HOLLYWOOD Finishing the series in February were the work of Ruth Morley, whose eclectic costumes for Annie Hall ignited a revolution in women’s fashion, and the gritty, realistic costumes of Albert Wolsky for James Toback’s Fingers. annie hall FRIDAY, february 6 | 7:30 P.M. Woody Allen’s charming comedy about a neurotic comedian’s courtship of an eccentric would-be singer was a commercial and critical breakthrough for the filmmaker, earning Allen Oscars for Directing and Original Screenplay, as well as awards for Best Picture and for Diane Keaton’s effortlessly charming performance in the title role. Ruth Morley’s hilariously eclectic costumes for Keaton helped make the actress not only one of cinema’s great romantic comedy heroines but also a modern icon of style. Gordon Willis’s beautifully naturalistic cinematography was a tremendous asset in the first of eight consecutive films he would shoot for Allen. With memorable supporting appearances from Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum, Annie Hall has lost none of its charm nearly four decades after first wooing audiences.

1977, 93 minutes, color, 35mm | Directed by Woody Allen; written by Allen, Marshall Brickman; with Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst. Fingers FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 | 9:20 P.M. James Toback, screenwriter of the original The Gambler, made his film directing debut with this edgy urban drama. Harvey Keitel gives a darkly magnetic performance as Jimmy “Fingers” Angelelli, a brilliant young pianist with a penchant for Bach who squanders his potential by working as a collector for his loan shark father (Michael V. Gazzo, The Godfather Part II’s Frankie Pentangeli).

Featuring charismatic performances by Jim Brown as Jimmy’s mentor and Tisa Farrow (Mia’s sister) as his muse, Fingers is a prime example of ’70s cinema at its boldest and most personal – Toback’s friend Pauline Kael called it “a howl of ambition” and “exuberantly melodramatic” – and was remade by French director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) in 2005 as The Beat That My Heart Skipped. Albert Wolsky, the seven-time Academy Award nominee who won Costume Design Oscars for All That Jazz and Bugsy, created the gritty yet stylish looks of Keitel and his co-stars. 1978, 91 minutes, color, DCP | Written and directed by James Toback; with Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown, Michael V. Gazzo, Marian Seldes.

"Annie Hall" - The films of Woody Allen - Pictures - CBS News The films of Woody Allen Filming "Sleeper" Woody Allen filming the futuristic comedy "Sleeper." Born in 1935 in New York, the TV comedy writer, standup comedian, film director and clarinet player is one of the most prolific filmmakers ever, creating more than 40 feature films over the past four-and-a-half decades. While his slapstick comedy has earned comparisons to Keaton and Chaplin, his comedies and dramas (many portraying the trials and tribulations of neurotic intellectuals in the city he loves most) have made him one of the most respected of filmmakers, with actors of every stripe eager to appear in his movies. (The 18 Oscar nominations earned by actors in Allen's films hasn't hurt, either.) With the 2013 "Blue Jasmine," Allen has earned more Academy Award nominations (23, plus one for Best Actor) than any other writer-director.

By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan Credit: United Artists "What's New, Pussycat?" Woody Allen made his first film appearance co-starring with Peter O'Toole and Peter Sellers in "What's New, Pussycat?" It was also Allen's first screenplay. O'Toole played a womanizer who just can't help but attract the attention of beautiful women - and when the beautiful women include Ursula Andress, Paula Prentiss, Romy Schneider and Capucine, it IS hard to resist. Credit: Columbia Pictures "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" In 1966 Allen was asked by a film distributor to write a comic script for a Japanese spy film, from the "International Secret Police" series, to be dubbed for an American TV audience. Released theatrically as "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" it turned what may have already been a ridiculous plot featuring plenty of scantily-clad females into one involving a stolen recipe for egg salad. AIP padded the film without Allen's permission (including footage of The Lovin' Spoonful), expanding what was to have been an hour-long TV film into a movie release.

Trivia: The original film featured Akiko Wakabayashi (whose character is here called Suki Yaki), who would appear the following year in the James Bond film, "You Only Live Twice." Credit: American International Pictures "Take the Money and Run" Allen's first film as a director was "Take the Money and Run" (1969), an early form of "mockumentary" that traces the life of petty criminal Virgil Starkwell. The character's continuous bad luck extends from his extremely poor choice of instrument in a marching band (left), to passing unreadable notes to bank tellers. The film co-starred Janet Margolin.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote the film is "the cinematic equivalent to one of Allen's best nightclub monologues, a kind of cowardly epic peopled with shy FBI agents, cons who are wanted for dancing with mailmen, over-analyzing parents and one lady blackmailer who has the soul of a Jewish mother - she likes to feed her victim good, hot meals." Credit: United Artists "Play It Again, Sam" "Play It Again, Sam" (1972), directed by Herbert Ross and based on Woody Allen's 1970 play, starred Allen as a divorced writer and film buff who receives dating advice from the ghost of Humphrey Bogart (Jerry Lacy). It was Allen's first film teaming with Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts, who repeated their roles from the Broadway production. Credit: Paramount Pictures "Bananas" In 1971's "Bananas," Fielding Mellish (Woody Allen) becomes mixed up in a coup in a Latin American "banana republic." Why? To impress a girl, of course. Allen co-starred with his ex-wife, Louise Lasser.

Also among the cast was an uncredited Sylvester Stallone, who played a thug in a New York subway car. Credit: United Artists "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*" Unlike most bestselling books, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*but were afraid to ask)" did not necessarily lend itself to movie adaptation. Woody Allen's 1972 film became a series of vignettes about the physical and emotional turmoils of love and procreation, including Allen's turn as a court jester seeking the favors of a Queen (left). Also featured: Lou Jacobi as a cross-dresser; Gene Wilder as a man in love with a sheep; John Carradine as a mad scientist who creates a giant female breast; a game show in which contestants are quizzed on their perversions; and Allen as a spermatozoon readying for launch.

Credit: United Artists "Sleeper" Waking up 200 years in the future, Woody Allen finds himself at the center of a revolutionary plot against the government, in a world in which cigarettes and red meat are considered healthy, in the 1973 comedy, "Sleeper." Credit: United Artists "Sleeper" An old joke - slipping on a banana peel - takes on new resonance as Woody Allen ventures into a garden of giant fruit in the futuristic comedy "Sleeper" (1973). Credit: United Artists "Love and Death" With music from Prokofiev by turns joyous and somber, Woody Allen romps through Napoleonic-era Russia in the comedy "Love and Death" (1975), featuring parodies of films by Bergman and Eisenstein. It was Allen's second time directing Diane Keaton, as Sonja: Boris: "Nothingness . . . non-existence . . . black emptiness . .

." Sonja: "What did you say?" Boris: "Oh, I was just planning my future." Credit: United Artists "Annie Hall" Allen's most resonant film was his greatest critical and popular film to date: "Annie Hall" (1977) told of the on-again, off-again romance between comedian Alvy Singer (Allen) and nightclub singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Allen played with movie conventions, using subtitles, split screens, flashbacks, even animation to depict the tribulations of love among New York neurotics, as Singer recalls his relationships with women, and the one that hurt the most. Credit: United Artists "Annie Hall" Few actors can get away with "breaking frame" - addressing the audience directly - but in "Annie Hall" (1977), Woody Allen (as Alvy Singer) memorably shuts up a man pontificating in the movie line about the work of media theorist Marshall McLuhan by pulling the real McLuhan out from off-camera. McLuhan (to Columbia professor): "I heard what you were saying. You know nothing of my work. . . .

How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing." Alvy (to camera): "Boy, if life were only like this!" Credit: United Artists "Annie Hall" "Annie Hall" not only became Allen's biggest box office success to date; it also became that rare comedy to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. Allen also won for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (with Marshall Brickman), and Diane Keaton won for Best Actress. Credit: United Artists "Interiors" Allen switched gears with his follow-up film, taking as his inspiration the works of Ingmar Bergman. "Interiors" (1978) starred Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith and Mary Beth Hurt as sisters who witness the dissolution of their parents' marriage. Credit: United Artists "Manhattan" Diane Keaton and Woody Allen observe the 59th Street Bridge at dawn in "Manhattan" (1979). Filmed in glorious widescreen black-and-white by cinematographer Gordon Willis, it was as much a love story to New York City, set to the music of George Gershwin, as it was a tale of mis-matched lovers.

Ike: "I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman, okay?" Mary: "God, that must have been really demoralizing." Ike: "Well, I don't know, I thought I took it rather well under the circumstances. I tried to run them both over with a car." Credit: United Artists "Manhattan" Woody Allen played a middle-aged writer who has a romance with a 17-year old girl (Mariel Hemingway) in "Manhattan" ("I'm dating a girl who does homework!"). Credit: United Artists "Stardust Memories" In "Stardust Memories" (1980) - like "Manhattan," shot in black and white by Gordon Willis - Woody Allen played a filmmaker who attends a retrospective of his work (where fans express adoration of his "earlier, funnier movies" compared to his current, more serious films).

Credit: United Artists "Stardust Memories" Film director Sandy Bates (Woody Allen), who wants to move away from comedies to dramas with social import, encounters an alien, Og: Sandy: "If nothing lasts, why am I bothering to make films, or do anything, for that matter?" Og: "We enjoy your films. Particularly the early funny ones." Sandy: "But shouldn't I stop making movies and do something that counts, like helping blind people or becoming a missionary or something?" Og: "Let me tell you, you're not the missionary type. You'd never last. And incidentally, you're also not Superman, you're a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes!" Credit: United Artists "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" Inspired by Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night," "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982) features Woody Allen as an inventor invited by his wife's cousin to spend a weekend in the country, where the host and assembled guests engage in a roundelay of elicit romances.

The film starred Mary Steenburgen, Jose Ferrer, Julie Hagerty, Tony Roberts and, for the first time, Mia Farrow (Diane Keaton was unavailable). It would be the first of 13 films Farrow made with the director, with whom she would share a long, semi-domestic relationship. Credit: Orion Pictures "Zelig" One of the absurdist comic's most winning films, "Zelig" (1983) was a fake documentary about an early 20th century curiosity: Leonard Zelig, a "human chameleon" who is able to change his appearance and behavior to mimic whomever he is near, from presidents (left) to baseball players to Harlem jazz musicians to psychiatrists. New footage of Allen was expertly matched with newsreels, and the actor -- before digital FX of the "Forrest Gump" variety -- was cleverly cut into vintage footage of such figures as Babe Ruth and Adolf Hitler.

Credit: Orion Pictures "Broadway Danny Rose" Woody Allen played an agent of sub-par variety acts (a one-legged tap-dancer, a blind xylophonist) who becomes embroiled with the mob in the comedy "Broadway Danny Rose" (1984). It was his third film with Mia Farrow, who played Tina, a mobster's ex-mistress whose own marriage had fallen apart. Danny: "What'd you do, you divorced him, or got a separation, or what?" Tina: "Nah, some guy shot him in the eyes." Danny: "Really? He's blind?" Danny: "Dead. Of course, 'cause the bullets go right through." Credit: Orion Pictures "The Purple Rose of Cairo" In "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985), Mia Farrow plays a Depression-era woman in a loveless marriage who seeks escape from her drab life at the movies. Her continued fascination with a B-movie confection, "The Purple Rose of Cairo," prompts one of the film's characters to step off the screen and into her life.

Panic fills the movie-within-a-movie in which other characters have been left behind, without their pith helmet-clad compatriot (played by Jeff Daniels) - as well as Hollywood star Gil Shepherd (also Daniels), who fears the "escape" of his screen persona will jeopardize his career. Credit: Orion Pictures "Hannah and Her Sisters" Woody Allen won his third Oscar for his screenplay of "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986), about three sisters (Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest) whose romantic entanglements blur the lines of propriety. Also featured were Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow, Carrie Fisher, Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan (Farrow's real-life mother), and Allen as a hypochondriac who considers changing his faith. Both Caine and Wiest won Oscars as Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Credit: Orion Pictures "Radio Days" "Radio Days" (1987) was Allen's evocative tribute to the Golden Age of Radio, when a young boy grows up in a pre-WWII New York City filled with the music, serials, quiz shows and news that marked a time of innocence and imagination.

Among the cast were Allen regulars Tony Roberts and Dianne Wiest (left), Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner, Danny Aiello, and, in a cameo, Diane Keaton. Credit: Orion Pictures "September" In Woody Allen's "September" (1987), a drama colored by the work of Anton Chekhov, Sam Waterston plays a writer who is pulled between two women - Dianne Wiest (left), and her suicidal friend, played by Mia Farrow. The return to drama by Allen was actually recast and reshot, after he'd originally filmed it with Sam Shepard in Waterson's role. Credit: Orion Pictures "Another Woman" Sandy Dennis and Ian Holm in Woody Allen's "Another Woman" (1988), in which Gena Rowlands (playing Holm's wife) begins to reassess her life, her relationships, and the choices she's made, including staying in her stifling marriage.

Credit: Orion Pictures "Oedipus Wrecks" For the 1989 trilogy "New York Stories" (which also featured short films by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola), Woody Allen directed "Oedipus Wrecks," in which a Jewish man's domineering mother (played by Mae Questel, who was the voice for Bettie Boop and Olive Oyl), disappears from inside a magician's trick box, only to reappear in the skies above Manhattan. Credit: Buena Vista Pictures "Crimes and Misdemeanors" One of Allen's most nuanced dramas, "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989) stars Martin Landau (left) as a successful doctor tries to extricate himself from a romantic affair that jeopardizes his marriage and public standing. Allen co-starred as a TV producer who is questioned by the doctor about a "hypothetical" moral quandary. Credit: Orion Pictures Angelica Huston as the "other woman" in "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989).

Credit: Orion Pictures "Alice" In "Alice" (1990) Mia Farrow plays a married New Yorker who, seeking help in her relationships, visits an Oriental herbalist (Keye Luke). His "prescription" turns Alice invisible. Credit: Orion Pictures "Shadows and Fog" Based on his one-act play, "Death," "Shadows and Fog" (1991) stars Woody Allen as a man caught in a Kafka-esque world in which a cowardly bookkeeper is coerced into hunting down a suspected murderer. The style of the film is a tribute to German Expressionism. Credit: Orion Pictures "Husbands and Wives" The struggles of married life coursed through the narrative of "Husbands and Wives" (1992), in which Woody Allen and Mia Farrow play a couple reacting to the breakup of their friends' marriage (played by Oscar nominee Judy Davis and Sydney Pollack). Their friends' failed relationship opens wounds in their own marriage, leading to infidelity, mistrust and dissolution. The film's positive critical reception was overshadowed by the public breakup of Allen and Farrow over the director's affair with Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.

Credit: Tristar Pictures "Manhattan Murder Mystery" Woody Allen reteamed with Diane Keaton in the comedy "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993), as a bickering couple who suspect their next-door neighbor is a killer. Allen and Keaton's husband-and-wife posed an interesting idea: If Annie Hall and Alvy Singer hadn't parted ways, would they have ended up like this? Credit: Tristar Pictures "Bullets Over Broadway" Dianne Wiest won her second Best Supporting Actress Oscar for a Woody Allen film, playing the alcoholic leading lady of a Broadway production written by a starstruck young writer (Jon Cusack) whose best lines come from the real-life gangster backing his play, in "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994). The film also received six more Academy Award nominations, for Best Supporting Actor (Chazz Palminteri), Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Tilly), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Allen and Douglas McGrath), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Costume Design.

Credit: Miramax "Mighty Aphrodite" In a tip to Allen's one-act play, "God," in which a Greek chorus taunts the protagonist, "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995) features a Greek chorus narrating what is surely an age-old story -- a man tries to raise a woman above the station of prostitute. Allen's co-star, Mira Sorvino, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Greek Chorus Leader: "Don't go any further. I know what you're thinking, Lenny, and forget it!" Lenny: "I can't forget it; the thought's been put in my head." Chorus: "Oh, cursed fate! Certain thoughts are better left unthunk." Credit: Miramax "Everyone Says I Love You" Woody Allen's ode to musicals, "Everyone Says I Love You" (1996), is a romantic comedy set in New York, Venice and Paris, featuring Allen, Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Ed Norton, Drew Barrymore, Tim Roth, Goldie Hawn and Natalie Portman.

Among the standards belted out by a cast not used to singing are Cole Porter's "Looking at You," "Makin' Whoopee," "All My Life," "My Baby Just Cares For Me," and "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)," which is sung by ghosts in a funeral parlor. Credit: Miramax "Deconstructing Harry" In "Deconstructing Harry" (1997), an obsessed writer (is there any other kind?) uses the people in his life as inspiration for his stories, some of which are charmingly absurdist. In one piece, Robin Williams pays a man who becomes out of focus to those around him. Credit: Fine Line Features "Celebrity" Kenneth Branagh (far right) plays a writer who immerses himself in the world of celebrity journalism in Woody Allen's 1998 bitter comedy, "Celebrity." Featured are Leonardo DiCaprio (just off the success of "Titanic") in a bit of self-parody as teen idol Brandon Darrow, and Sam Rockwell.

Also in the game cast are Judy Davis, Hank Azaria, Winona Ryder, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Michael Lerner, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth, and a cameo by Donald Trump. Credit: Miramax Charlize Theron in "Celebrity" (1998). Credit: Miramax Woody Allen on the set of "Celebrity." Credit: Miramax "Wild Man Blues" The films directed by Allen following his very public breakup with Mia Farrow and marriage to Soon-Yi Previn were a mix of lush romanticism and bitter cynicism. But another, unique look at the filmmaker's artistry and life came by way of Barbara Koppel's 1997 documentary, "Wild Man Blues," which followed the clarinetist and his ragtime band on a European tour. Credit: Fine Line Features "Wild Man Blues" "Wild Man Blues" not only cast a light on Allen's passion for music, but also opened a window onto his relationship with his wife, Soon-Yi, who in the film is seen as a strong, take-charge figure in his life.

Credit: Fine Line Features "Sweet and Lowdown" Sean Penn played a peripatetic, jive-talking blues man -- the "second-greatest jazz guitarist" -- in "Sweet and Lowdown" (1999). Both Penn and Samantha Morton, who played his love interest -- and who was mute throughout the entire film -- received Academy Award nominations for their performances. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Small Time Crooks" The best-laid plans rarely go as planned in an Allen film. When a gang of crooks rents a restaurant into order to tunnel into a neighboring bank's vault, their digging comes to naught -- but their cover operation -- selling cookies -- makes them rich. "Small Time Crooks" (2000) featured a cast that included Allen, Tracey Ullman, Elaine May, Elaine Stritch, Hugh Grant, Michael Rapaport, Tony Darrow, Jon Lovitz and Larry Pine. Credit: Dreamworks Pictures "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" A stage hypnotist places a curious spell upon Woody Allen and Helen Hunt - to become jewel thieves - in the screwball comedy "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" (2001).

The cast also included David Ogden Stiers, Dan Aykroyd and Charlize Theron. Credit: Dreamworks Pictures "Sounds From a Town I Love" In a short film produced for "The Concert for NYC" in the wake of the September 11 attacks, Woody Allen's "Sounds From a Town I Love" listens in to cell phone conversations that convey the hysteria, paranoia, and assorted neuroses that make New Yorkers New Yorkers. Examples: Man: "I got mugged! I was coming home from the opera, they took my gas mask, my flash light ... " Woman: "Well, we're SO wrong for each other. But that's not the only attraction ... " Woman: "She didn't get into the right preschool, which means she won't get into a good private school, which means she'll never get into Ivy League college, she won't get a good job.

I mean, She's three years old, her life is finished!" Man: "When all this is over and there's a new government in Afghanistan, we come in with Starbucks." Credit: CBS News Academy Awards At the Oscars broadcast on March 24, 2002, Woody Allen - who has pointedly stayed away from the annual awards ceremony, despite having been nominated more frequently than any other writer-director - made a surprise appearance to introduce a film tribute to post-9/11 New York City. "Thank you very much," he said after receiving a standing ovation. "That makes up for the strip search. "About four weeks ago I was sitting home in my apartment in New York and the phone rang and a voice on the other end said, 'This is the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences.' And I panicked immediately, because I thought that they wanted their Oscars back . . .

because the pawn shop has been out of business for ages." Credit: AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian "Hollywood Ending" In "Hollywood Ending" (2002), Woody Allen plays a director on the downward spiral in need of a hit, who accepts the task of directing a film starring his ex-wife (Tea Leoni), produced by the man who "stole" her from him (Treat Williams). Credit: Dreamworks Pictures "Anything Else" In "Anything Else" (2003), Jason Briggs plays a young man who seeks advice from an aging oracle of wisdom (Woody Allen) on winning the girl of his dreams (played by Christina Ricci). Dobel (Allen): "We live in perilous times. You got to keep alert for these things. You don't want your life to wind up as black-and-white newsreel footage scored by a cello in a minor key." Credit: Dreamworks "Melinda and Melinda" When comparing tragedy and comedy, Mel Brooks once said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger.

Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." In 2005's Melinda and Melinda," Woody Allen retells a story twice, each time featuring a young woman (Radha Mitchell) whose experience is related both as comedy and as tragedy. Among the cast are Will Ferrell and Steve Carrel (left), Amanda Peet, Chloe Sevigny and Wallace Shawn. Credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures "Match Point" The first of what would be a string of films shot in Europe, "Match Point" (2005) was a distinct change of pace for Woody Allen - a thriller involving a striving tennis instructor (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) whose marriage to a woman of means (Emily Mortimer) is jeopardized by his passionate affair with another woman (Scarlett Johansson). The film's location was easily transferred to London from the Hamptons when Allen obtained U.K. financing. Credit: Dreamworks Pictures "Scoop" Woody Allen teamed up with Scarlett Johansson again in "Scoop" (2006), a lighter mystery also filmed in London, in which an investigative reporter is joined by a stage magician to track down the mysterious Tarot Card Killer.

Credit: Focus Features "Cassandra's Dream" In the thriller "Cassandra's Dream," (2007), shot in the U.K., Colin Farrell plays a man whose gambling debts will be forgiven if in return he helps carry out a murder. Ewan McGregor, Tom Wilkinson and Sally Hawkins co-star. Credit: Weinstein Company "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" In the 2008 romantic comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," a pair of young American women visiting Spain (Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall) become entangled with a sensual Spanish artist and his equally sensual and fiery ex-wife (played by Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, left). The movie was one of Allen's biggest box office hits, and Cruz won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Credit: MGM "Whatever Works" In 2009, as an actors' strike was looming, Woody Allen pulled out a script he'd written in the early 1970s for Zero Mostel about a misanthropic chess teacher, called "Whatever Works," and roped in Larry David ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") to play the role.

Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" Gemma Jones, whose decades-long marriage has ended in divorce, begins meeting with a fortune teller whose rosy forecasts give Jones hope to cling to, despite the belief by her daughter (played by Naomi Watts) that the tarot reader is a quack, in "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" (2010), directed by Woody Allen. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Midnight in Paris" Allen's biggest box office success was the 2011 film "Midnight in Paris," a romantic fantasy in which a young writer (Owen Wilson) steeped in nostalgia for the Paris of the 1920s suddenly finds himself making nightly sojourns to that very place. He crosses paths with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and other denizens of the Left Bank, including Picasso's mistress, Adriana (Marion Cotillard). Gil: "I get in a car and I slide through time." Man Ray: "Exactly correct. You inhabit two worlds. So far I see nothing strange." Gil: "Yeah, you're surrealists.

But I'm just a normal guy." Allen won his fourth Oscar for his screenplay; the movie also earned three other Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Art Direction. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Midnight in Paris" From left: Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Lea Seydoux, Woody Allen, Frederic Mitterrand and Rachel McAdams attend the "Midnight in Paris" premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 11, 2011, in Cannes, France. Allen called the critical and popular reception of "Midnight in Paris" a "happy accident." "I had no idea why everyone embraced the picture so enthusiastically," he said in 2012. "You make a movie, and some pictures they like a little bit, some they like a lot, some they don't like at all. It's very capricious, a complete mystery to me.

To me ['Midnight in Paris'] is no more an appealing picture than 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' or 'Match Point' or 'Annie Hall' or 'Husbands and Wives.' " Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images "To Rome With Love" For the seventh time in seven years Allen directed a movie in a European city: the 2012 omnibus, "To Rome With Love." One of the film's disconnected tales features Alec Baldwin as a successful architect dispensing advice (usually ignored) to a young architecture student (Jesse Eisenberg) caught in a romantic triangle with Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page. "I could have done that in New York," Allen admitted, but he found the element of strangers visiting another city intriguing. Two stories in particular capture the director's absurdist humor: One involves a gifted amateur singer of opera, who is incapable of producing a beautiful voice unless he is singing in the shower. Another stars Roberto Benigni ("Life Is Beautiful") as a boring, middle-class office worker who wakes up one morning to discover he's famous - prey for paparazzi and voluptuous women.

Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "The Front" Allen has rarely taken acting assignments, but there are a few standout films among his resume of acting in other directors' films. Among them is Martin Ritt's 1976 comedy-drama of the McCarthy Era, "The Front." Allen plays a restaurant worker who agrees to be the name for a blacklisted writer (Zero Mostel). Credit: Columbia Pictures "Casino Royale" The zany madcap standup comic played a zany, madcap James Bond - one of several "Bonds" meant to draw attention away from the REAL James Bond, played by David Niven - in the 1967 satire, "Casino Royale." Credit: Columbia Pictures "Fading Gigolo" Woody Allen takes another rare acting role in a film written and directed by John Turturro, "Fading Gigolo" (2013). Allen plays a failing bookseller who convinces Turturro to take up the world's oldest profession as a way to revive their fortunes, with Allen embarking on a new career as his pimp.

Credit: QED International "Blue Jasmine" Peter Sarsgaard and Cate Blanchett in "Blue Jasmine" (2013), written and directed by Woody Allen. Blanchett plays the socialite-wife of a Bernie Madoff-like financial whiz (Alec Baldwin), whose crash-and-burn leads to Jasmine returning to her declasse family to put her life back together. The film costars Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins and Michael Stuhlbarg. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Blue Jasmine" Left: Director Woody Allen on the set of "Blue Jasmine," with Cate Blanchett and Alec Baldwin. Blanchett told CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi that she accepted the role before even reading the script, based on his track record. She had nothing to worry about. "Apart from being an extraordinary, legendary filmmaker, he's an amazing dramatist. And so the screenplay was beautifully structured," she said. "[Jasmine is] a complex character, and a really unreliable narrator. She's a serial liar and you can't really believe what she says.

And that's a really fun, interesting thing to play." Allen received his 16th Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. In addition to Sally Hawkins' Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Blanchett received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Magic In the Moonlight" In the romantic comedy "Magic In the Moonlight" (2014), Emma Stone plays a clairvoyant who brings intrigue to the 1920s French Riviera - and stirs the skepticism of a stage illusionist played by Colin Firth. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Irrational Man" A blend of romance and crime, the comedy-drama "Irrational Man" (2015) stars Joaquin Phoenix as a philosophy professor at a New England college who undergoes an existential crisis - one be believes can only be resolved by committing an act of murder. Costarring Emma Stone and Parker Posey. Credit: Sony Pictures Classics "Zelig" In 2010 Woody Allen said that work "keeps me from sitting home and obsessing morbidly.

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would sit there and I would be thinking . . . Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? It's so tragic, why do our loved ones perish? Why do we degenerate? "Who wants to think about that stuff?" Instead, he worries about solving the problems of moviemaking, like picking the right actors. "And if you don't solve them," he said, "what's the worst that happens? You have a bad movie - but you don't die!

That, Allen said, "is why I keep making movies." By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan Credit: Orion Pictures 1977 Academy Awards® Winners and History Actor: RICHARD DREYFUSS in "The Goodbye Girl", Woody Allen in "Annie Hall" , Richard Burton in "Equus", Marcello Mastroianni in "A Special Day", John Travolta in "Saturday Night Fever" Actress: DIANE KEATON in "Annie Hall" , Anne Bancroft in "The Turning Point", Jane Fonda in "Julia", Shirley MacLaine in "The Turning Point", Marsha Mason in "The Goodbye Girl" Supporting Actor: JASON ROBARDS in "Julia", Mikhail Baryshnikov in "The Turning Point", Peter Firth in "Equus", Alec Guinness in "Star Wars" , Maximilian Schell in "Julia" Supporting Actress: VANESSA REDGRAVE in "Julia", Leslie Browne in "The Turning Point", Quinn Cummings in "The Goodbye Girl", Melinda Dillon in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" , Tuesday Weld in "Looking for Mr.

Goodbar" Director: "Star Wars" , Herbert Ross for "The Turning Point", Steven Spielberg for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" , Fred Zinnemann for "Julia" This was the Golden Anniversary (50th year) of the Academy Awards. Four of the five Best Picture nominees were about strong, forceful females. The ultimate winner was director/writer/actor Woody Allen's semi-autobiographical, romantic comedy - the acclaimed Annie Hall - with innovative narrative techniques, slapstick, and clever one-liners, about a brief, unstable love affair between a neurotic, Jewish comedian (Woody Allen) and an insecure, Waspish singer named Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). It was the first Best Picture comedy since Tom Jones (1963), and it would be another 21 years for the next romantic comedy to win Best Picture -- Shakespeare in Love (1998). Allen's poignant film dominated the Oscars ceremony this year, with five nominations and four wins. Only Allen's own Best Actor nomination failed to win. Therefore, Allen won his first Oscar as a director rather than as a actor-performer.

The bittersweet, introspective film was voted Best Picture (for producer Charles Joffe), Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Original Screenplay (co-written by Woody Allen and partner Marshall Brickman). [Allen's achievement was that he won two of the three awards, for writing and directing, for which he was nominated. He was the second (or third) in Academy history to win both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, following Joseph L. Mankiewicz' double wins in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) AND All About Eve (1950) . Allen became the first director to win an Academy Award for a film he starred in. Allen also became the fourth person in Oscar history to be nominated in a single year as both an actor and screenwriter. Others were Charlie Chaplin -1940, Orson Welles -1941, and Sylvester Stallone -1976. And Allen was the first person since Welles in 1941 to be nominated for these three honors: Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. ] At only 93 minutes, it was one of the shortest Best Picture Oscar winners.

It was also the first comedy to win the Best Picture Oscar since The Sting (1973), and before that, Tom Jones (1963). This win, for United Artists, made it the first studio to win three Best Pictures in a row (the second studio to duplicate this feat was DreamWorks (from 1999-2001)): Annie Hall The other nominees for Best Picture included: Neil Simon's witty romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl (with five nominations and only one win - Best Actor) about a mismatched (odd-couple) pair of New York roommates - an aspiring actor and a former actress - and her precocious 9 year-old daughter.

[Simon's wife at the time was star Marsha Mason.] director Fred Zinnemann's Julia (with eleven nominations and three wins - Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay), based upon Alvin Sargent's Oscar-winning screen adaptation of Lillian Hellman's best-selling memoir Pentimento, told the tale of Hellman's pact with childhood friend Julia (who was working in the Resistance) to smuggle money into Germany during WW II as part of the Nazi resistance movement's rescue of persecuted Jews writer-director George Lucas' box-office blockbuster (one of the biggest grossers to date, surpassing the success of Jaws (1975) ) - the first of the trilogy of fantasy tales, Star Wars (with ten nominations and six wins, mostly in technological or special effects/visual areas with none in the top categories) was the ultimate science fiction fantasy/adventure film of a life and death struggle - with a young hero, a princess who needs to be rescued, talking robots, a black-garbed villain, and a Jedi knight. [Its six awards were for Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music Score (a third Oscar for John Williams), and Best Visual Effects.

It also received a Best Sound Effects Creations - a Special Achievement Award for the "creation of the alien, creature, and robot voices." Its sole acting nomination for Alec Guinness was lost.] director Herbert Ross' The Turning Point (with eleven nominations and no wins) was the dramatic story of two dancers, both blessed and cursed by their own 'turning point' choices in life between career or marriage/motherhood. [The Turning Point has the dubious distinction of having a record number of nominations - eleven - without winning a single Oscar. Its record was later tied by Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985).] Woody Allen won the award for Best Director for arguably his best film, Annie Hall . Herbert Ross, the director of Best Picture-nominated The Goodbye Girl, was not nominated in the Best Director category for that film but for his second Best Picture-nominated film, The Turning Point. Neil Simon was not nominated for his Best Picture-nominated The Goodbye Girl.

Simon's Best Director-nominee slot was taken by director Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (with nine nominations and two wins, for Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Cinematography) about extra-terrestrial contacts with earthlings - his first film after the enormously popular Star Wars .] The Best Actor award was an upset: 30 year-old Richard Dreyfuss (with his first nomination - and sole Oscar win) won the award for his role as adversarial, temperamental, yet aspiring actor Elliott Garfield, a Richard III thespian who shares a cramped tenement apartment with a single mother and her daughter in the comedy The Goodbye Girl (the film's sole Oscar win). [Curiously, Dreyfuss was not nominated for his leading role as electrical lineman Roy Neary whose life-transforming experiences caused obsessional behavior and eventual enlightenment in Close Encounters of the Third Kind .

At thirty, he became the youngest man to ever win the Best Actor Award, but lost that honor twenty-five years later when 29 year-old Adrien Brody won for The Pianist (2002).] The leading contender in the Best Actor category was sentimental favorite Richard Burton (with his seventh and last unsuccessful career nomination) as intense psychiatrist Dr. Martin Dysart who counsels a stable-boy who blinded horses in Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play titled Equus (with three nominations and no wins). [With his seventh loss, Burton set a record for the most nominations without a win.

Peter O'Toole duplicated his 'accomplishment' in 1982, and surpassed it in 2006.] The other three Best Actor nominees were: Woody Allen (with his first nomination) as Alvy Singer - a successful Jewish, New York comedian who has a 'nervous romance' with WASP-ish songstress Annie Hall in Annie Hall TV sitcom actor John Travolta (with his first nomination) as disco-crazed, Brooklyn paint store clerk Tony Manero in director John Badham's Bee Gee's-saturated Saturday Night Fever (the film's sole nomination) Italian star Marcello Mastroianni (with his second of three unsuccessful career nominations) for his performance as Gabriele - a suicidal gay man who is attracted to a housewife (Sophia Loren) in the nominated Foreign Language Film by director Ettore Scola, A Special Day (with two nominations and no wins) The Best Actress winner was Diane Keaton (with her first nomination - and sole Oscar win) for her title role (in her fourth film with Allen) in Annie Hall as Annie Hall - a kooky, aspiring singer and Alvy Singer's (Woody Allen) love interest.

The neurotic title character was noted as repeatedly saying the trademark phrase in a non-chalant manner: "La-de-dah!" Other Best Actress co-nominees included the two main actresses in The Turning Point, the story of two dancers who have chosen separate paths: Anne Bancroft (with her fourth of five career nominations as Best Actress, with only one win for her first nomination for The Miracle Worker (1962)) as American Ballet Theatre star Emma Jacklin who has pursued a dance career as a ballerina Shirley MacLaine (with her fourth of five career nominations as Best Actress - she won for Terms of Endearment (1983) ) as Deedee Rodgers - a former dancer who has chosen a life of home and family The other two Best Actress nominees included: Jane Fonda (with her third of seven nominations - she won Best Actress for Klute (1971) and would win Best Actress again for Coming Home (1978)) as cloistered young playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia Marsha Mason (with her second of four unsuccessful career nominations) as ex-dancer Paula McFadden - Dreyfuss' apartment co-habitant in The Goodbye Girl Jason Rob

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(with his second nomination), the only American-born performer among the other four foreign-born Best Supporting Actor nominees, won his second consecutive Best Supporting Actor award for his role as thriller-writer Dashiell Hammett (Lillian Hellman's lover) in Julia.

[Other actors who have accomplished the same two-in-a-row win were: Luise Rainer (1936 and 1937), Spencer Tracy (1937 and 1938), Katharine Hepburn (1967 and 1968), and Tom Hanks (1993 and 1994).] The other Best Supporting Actor nominees were: dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (with his sole nomination and in his film debut) as the Russian ballet company's star Yuri Kopeikine in The Turning Point English actor Peter Firth (with his sole nomination) as Alan Strang - the psychologically-disturbed stable boy who blinds horses in Equus Alec Guinness (with his third of four career acting nominations) as the sage, heroic and mysterious old Jedi knight - Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi in Star Wars Maximilian Schell (with his third nomination) as Johann, the emissary/go-between in Julia Jason Robards' co-star, Vanessa Redgrave (with her sole Oscar win in a career total of six nominations) won the Best Supporting Actress award in the title role as an anti-Nazi activist in Julia.

During her acceptance speech, she angered some viewers with a reference to a few militant "Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world". Other Best Supporting Actress nominees included: Leslie Browne (with her sole nomination) (director Herbert Ross' real-life god-daughter) as ambitious ballerina Emilia Rodgers - Shirley MacLaine's 19 year-old daughter who joins Anne Bancroft's ballet company after an audition in The Turning Point Quinn Cummings (with her sole nomination) as Lucy McFadden - Marsha Mason's sophisticated, pre-pubescent, match-making daughter in The Goodbye Girl Melinda Dillon (with her first nomination) as Jillian Guiler - the mother of spirited-away child Barry who joins co-star Richard Dreyfuss on the pilgrimage to Devil's Tower in Close Encounters of the Third Kind Tuesday Weld (with her sole career nomination) as impulsive Katherine Dunn (Diane Keaton's older sister) in writer/director Richard Brooks' Looking for Mr. Goodbar (with two nominations and no wins) Oscar Snubs and Omissions: Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind was bypassed in nominations for Best Picture.

Paul Newman was neglected in the nominations for his role as minor league hockey player/coach Reggie Dunlop in director George Roy Hill's ultra-realistic Slap Shot. Both Shelley Duvall and Sissy Spacek were un-nominated in their first-rate performances as roommates Millie Lammoreaux and identity-stealing Pinky Rose in Robert Altman's Three Women. Best Actress winner Diane Keaton's performance as sexually-repressed teacher/single's bar swinger Theresa Dunn in Richard Brooks' Looking for Mr. Goodbar was overshadowed - and un-nominated. And Robert De Niro was neglected for his work as an overworked, Irving Thalberg-like 1930s producer in The Last Tycoon. Although Annie Hall won four of its five nominations, Tony Roberts was neglected for his supporting role as Rob, and Gordon Willis' cinematography was also overlooked. Despite the film's influence on fashion in New York and elsewhere (Ruth Morley worked with Ralph Lauren, who designed Annie's wide tie, 30's style wide-legged pants, man's shirt and waistcoat), there was also no Best Costume Design nomination. None of the Bee Gee's fantastic, chart-topping hit songs from Saturday Night Fever received an Oscar nomination.

To add insult to injury, the year's nominees for Best Original Song Score and Best Adaptation Score were, respectively: "Candle on the Water" from Pete's Dragon Will Robert Redford be first to win Oscars for BOTH acting and directing? - Goldderby Goldderby Manchester by the Sea 13/2 Moonlight 7/1 Chris Beachum Nov 11, 2013 2:25 pm Robert Redford is poised to make Oscars history by becoming the first person to win for both directing and acting. He won Best Director back in 1980 for helming the Best Picture champ “Ordinary People.” And now he is tipped to take home Best Actor for his solo turn in J.C. Chandor ‘s “ All is Lost .” Among our Experts , Redford just edged ahead of Chiwetel Ejiofor (“ 12 Years a Slave “) by a score of 12 to 9. Another two Experts expect Matthew McConaughey (“ Dallas Buyers Club “) to win. And they predict that two-time champ Tom Hanks (“ Captain Phillips “) and one-time supporting nominee Bruce Dern (“ Nebraska “) will round out the race.

(Vote for who you think will win Best Actor at the bottom of this post using our easy drag-and-drop menu.) In his new film, Redford portrays an unnamed man who faces his own mortality at sea. He commands the screen from start to finish with a role that provides him with virtually no spoken words. A silent performance can certainly win an Academy Award, as seen with Jean Dujardin in “The Artist” just two years ago. While Redford began his long film career in 1962 with “War Hunt,” he has contended at the Oscars as an actor only once. He lost that 1973 Best Actor bid for “The Sting” to Jack Lemmon (“Save the Tiger”) though his film won the big prize.

His formidable acting resume includes appearances in 1985 Best Picture winner “Out of Africa” as well as two other contenders — “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) and “All the President’s Men” (1976) — plus “The Way We Were,” “The Electric Horseman” and “The Natural.” After winning that Oscar for his first film as a director, he contended again in 1994 for helming Best Picture nominee “Quiz Show.” He lost to Robert Zemeckis, whose film, “Forrest Gump,” also won Best Picture. As detailed below, fourteen men have earned acting and directing Oscar nominations; five have won on the acting side and six, including Redford, have won for directing. Three unlucky fellows — including the maker of one of the most celebrated films in history — have lost on both sides of the camera.

Lionel Barrymore – Best Actor winner (“A Free Soul,” 1931); Best Director nominee (“Madame X,” 1929) Orson Welles – Best Actor nominee and Best Director nominee (“Citizen Kane,” 1941) Laurence Olivier – Best Actor winner and Best Director nominee (“Hamlet,” 1948) John Huston – Best Director winner (“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” 1948); Best Director nominee (“The Asphalt Jungle,” 1950; “The African Queen,” 1951; “Moulin Rouge,” 1952; “Prizzi’s Honor,” 1985); Best Supporting Actor nominee (“The Cardinal,” 1963) John Cassavetes – Best Supporting Actor nominee (“The Dirty Dozen,” 1968); Best Director nominee (“A Woman Under the Influence,” 1974) Woody Allen – Best Director winner (“Annie Hall,” 1977); Best Director nominee (“Interiors,” 1978; “Broadway Danny Rose,” 1984; “Hannah and Her Sisters,” 1986;

 “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” 1989; “Bullets Over Broadway,” 1994; “Midnight in Paris,” 2011); Best Actor nominee (“Annie Hall,” 1977) Robert Redford – Best Director winner (“Ordinary People,” 1980); Best Director nominee (“Quiz Show,” 1994); Best Actor nominee (“The Sting,” 1973) Warren Beatty – Best Director winner (“Reds,” 1981); Best Director nominee (“Heaven Can Wait,” 1978); Best Actor nominee (“Bonnie and Clyde,” 1967; “Heaven Can Wait,” 1978; “Reds,” 1981; “Bugsy,” 1991) Kenneth Branagh – Best Director nominee (“Henry V,” 1989); Best Actor nominee (“Henry V,” 1989; “My Week with Marilyn,” 2011) Kevin Costner – Best Director winner and Best Actor nominee (“Dances with Wolves,” 1990) Clint Eastwood – Best Director winner (“Unforgiven,” 1

992; “Million Dollar Baby,” 2004); Best Director nominee (“Mystic River,” 2003; “Letters from Iwo Jima,” 2006); Best Actor nominee (“Unforgiven,” 1992; “Million Dollar Baby,” 2004) Tim Robbins – Best Supporting Actor winner (“Mystic River,” 2003); Best Director nominee (“Dead Man Walking,” 1995) Roberto Benigni – Best Actor winner and Best Director nominee (“Life is Beautiful,” 1998) George Clooney – Best Supporting Actor winner (“Syriana,” 2005); Best Actor nominee (“Michael Clayton,” 2007; “Up in the Air,” 2009; “The Descendants,” 2011); Best Director nominee (“Good Night, and Good Luck,” 2005) One thought on “Will Robert Redford be first to win Oscars for BOTH acting and directing?” Randall says: Woody Allen: his 40 best one-liners - Comedy Woody Allen: his 40 best one-liners Woody Allen is a film-maker, writer, comedian and

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He has won four Oscars, three for best original screenplay and a best director Academy Award for Annie Hall. Here, Martin Chilton picks Allen's 40 best one-liners and jokes. Credit: Rex Features/Reuters © Telegraph Media Group Limited 2017 Your support makes a big difference In order to bring you award-winning content and investigative journalism from your favourite writers, we rely on revenue generated by advertising. Please consider supporting us by turning off your ad blocker. Just a couple of clicks will make a big difference. Thank you.

Question: Whose only 'Oscar' for Best Director was for 'Annie Hall' in 1978?
Answer: WOODY ALLEN