Allan Stewart Königsberg, known to all as Woody Allen, began in the world of cinema as a screenwriter in the Clive Donner film “How are you, Pussycat?"In 1965.
But his first contact with the management was not until a year later with the curious tape “Lily the Tigress”. At that time, Allen, who was 30 years old, took the images from the Japanese spy movie "Kagi No Kagi" by Senkichi Taniguchi and included some totally different dialogues to the tape, completely changing the plot.
Officially the first film to be credited in its entirety to Woody Allen is "Take the money and run”From 1969. On that occasion, he directed the film, as well as being in charge of the script. The production company, Palomar Pictures, which invested about two million dollars in the filmmaker's first feature was not satisfied with the result on screen, but at the box office it was a success.
Two years after his big screen debut Woody Allen shoots "Bananas”. As in his first film, and as he would in his first stage, the director opts for comic cinema.
In 1972 he made another film in the same tone as the previous ones, but in this case divided into short episodes, “Everything you ever wanted to know about sex (and never dared to ask)".
With "The sleeper"In 1973, he made a free adaptation in the form of an absurd comedy of George Orwell's novel" 1984 ".
"The Last Night of Boris Grushenko" in 1975 received the first two awards for one of his films, the film was awarded at the Berlin Festival with the Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution and with the UNICRIT Award.
In 1977 Woody Allen changed the register and went from comic cinema to comedy, thus giving his films more depth. The change comes with your movie "Annie Hall", which was a great success.
Annie Hall was the great winner of the 1977 Oscars, winning the awards for best film, best actress, for Diane Keaton, best director, for Woody Allen, and best original screenplay, for Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. What i supposed the first two statuettes for the filmmaker.
The film also won the award for Best Film at the BAFTAs and the New York Critics Circle Awards.
A year later she continued in the same vein as “Annie Hall” with her work “Interiors”. Although he did not win any awards with this film, he was once again nominated for the Hollywood Academy Awards with five nominations, he in particular with two, as screenwriter and director of the film.
And again in 1979 he returned to obtain an Oscar nomination, this time as a screenwriter for his film "Manhattan." Although he did not obtain any statuette of the two he was opting for, what he did receive is the BAFTA and the National Board of Review for best film.