Biography
Woody Allen was born Allan Stewart Konigsberg on 1 December 1935 in the Bronx, New York. He began in the 1950s as a gag writer for television comedians such as Sid Caesar, before appearing himself as a stand-up comedian from 1961 and later trying his hand at playwriting. The farce "Don't Drink the Water" brought him his first Broadway success as a playwright in 1966, followed by further plays such as "Play It Again, Sam" (1969) and the one-acts "Death" and "God" (1975). From the mid-1960s he simultaneously established himself as a film director and writer, starting with absurdist situation comedy and later moving toward drama-tinged tragicomedy. His screenplays earned him Academy Awards for "Annie Hall" (1978), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1987) and "Midnight in Paris" (2012), among 24 nominations in total.
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