Woody Allen Trivia

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Dated Diane Keaton. (imdb.com)

His godson Quincy Rose is also a successful writer and actor. (imdb.com)

Has a look-alike puppet in the French show "Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988). (imdb.com)

Suspended from New York University. (imdb.com)

Born at 10:55 PM EST. (imdb.com)

Was originally attached to co-star with Jim Carrey in the Farrelly Brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003), but decided to pass on the idea. (imdb.com)

Told a reporter that he has earned more money from two real estate transactions than he has from all of his movies combined. Sold his long-held Fifth Avenue penthouse (which he had purchased for $600,000) for a profit of $17 million and a renovated townhouse for a profit of some $7 million (December 2005). (imdb.com)

Frequently hires musical director Dick Hyman to adapt classic American songs and jazz works into his films. (imdb.com)

As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, he spent most of his time alone in his room practicing magic tricks or his clarinet. (imdb.com)

Four of his movies brought home his actresses Academy Awards: Annie Hall (1977) for Diane Keaton as an outgoing and optimistic woman, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Bullets Over Broadway (1994) both for Dianne Wiest, who portrayed an alcoholic woman and an over the top, boozing and fading Broadway star, Helen Synclair; and Mighty Aphrodite (1995) for Mira Sorvino as the lovable, ditsy and high pitched hooker/porn star and mother of his adopted son. (imdb.com)

He and ex-lover Mia Farrow had three children: Moses Farrow (adopted), Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow (adopted daughter), and Satchel Farrow (biological son, b.1988). (imdb.com)

Made what was apparently his first and probably his last appearance at the Oscars in Hollywood to make a plea for producers to continue filming their movies in New York after the 9/11 tragedy (2002). (imdb.com)

Of his own movies, Match Point (2005) is his favorite. (imdb.com)

Got hooked on movies when he was three years old, when his mother took him him to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). From that day, he said, theaters became his second home. (imdb.com)

Ranked #43 in Empire (UK) magazine's Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time list (October 1997). (imdb.com)

He has more Academy Award nominations (14) for writing than anyone else, all of them are in the Written Directly for the Screen category. (imdb.com)

Refuses to watch any of his movies once released. (imdb.com)

Among his biggest idols are Ingmar Bergman, Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Cole Porter, and Anton Chekhov. (imdb.com)

He loves Venice, and helped to raise funds to rebuild the venetian theater La Fenice, which was destroyed by a fire. (imdb.com)

A life-size statue of him was erected in the Spanish city of Oviedo (2002). (imdb.com)

Wrote What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971) with his childhood friend and first writing partner, Mickey Rose. Rose also co-wrote on all of Allen's earlier comedy albums and had a big hand in writing the famous "Moose" sketch. (imdb.com)

Named Honorary Doctor by Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain (June 2007). (imdb.com)

Longtime fan and season ticket holder of the NBA's New York Knicks. (imdb.com)

Directed 14 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, Martin Landau, Judy Davis, Chazz Palminteri, Jennifer Tilly, Mira Sorvino, Sean Penn, Samantha Morton and himself. Keaton, Caine, Wiest and Sorvino won Oscars for their performances in one of his movies. (imdb.com)

Directed Carrie Fisher in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Natalie Portman in Everyone Says I Love You (1996). This makes him the only director other than George Lucas who has worked with both actresses. (imdb.com)

Some sources have incorrectly referred to his formal professional name as Woodrow. In his stand-up days, he referred to himself as Heywood. (imdb.com)

Was once invited to appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Stanley Kubrick also considered casting him in Sydney Pollack's part in Eyes Wide Shut (1999). (imdb.com)

Does not allow his films to be edited for airlines and television broadcasts. (imdb.com)

Despite the advancement of sound technology, all of his films are mixed and released in monaural sound, although later ones have a mono Dolby Digital mix. (imdb.com)

Graduated from Midwood High School at Brooklyn College. (imdb.com)

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#89) (1995). (imdb.com)

Married to Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, from her second marriage with André Previn. (imdb.com)

Stating in an interview that he was "not interested in all that extra stuff on DVDs" and that he hopes his films would speak for themselves, he has never recorded an audio commentary or even so much has been interviewed for a DVD of any films with which he had been involved. (imdb.com)

Is a vegetarian. (imdb.com)

Has been nominated or won 136 awards, more than Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd combined. (imdb.com)

He and Diane Keaton made 8 movies together: Annie Hall (1977), Love and Death (1975), Manhattan (1979), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Radio Days (1987), Play It Again, Sam (1972), Interiors (1978) and Sleeper (1973). (imdb.com)

Biological son Seamus graduated from college at 15 and was accepted into Yale Law School. (imdb.com)

Accused British interviewer Michael Parkinson of having a "morbid interest" in his private life and rejected questions about the custody battle for his children during his appearance on the BBC's "Parkinson" (1971) in 1999. (imdb.com)

Although depicting himself as nerd in his movies, he was a popular student and adept baseball and basketball player at high school. (imdb.com)

Ranked #4 in Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time. (imdb.com)

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985." Pages 20-29. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. (imdb.com)

Both of his grandfathers were immigrants, one of Austro-Jewish descent and the other of Russo-Jewish descent. (imdb.com)

Son of Martin Konigsberg(25 December 1900-13 January 2001) and his wife Nettie Konigsberg (8 November 1906-27 January 2002), a bookkeeper. (imdb.com)

After his separation from Mia Farrow, they started a long public legal battle of their three children, who was finally won by Farrow. He was denied visitation rights with Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow and could only see his biological son Satchel, now 'Ronan Seamus Farrow', under supervision. Moses Farrow aka Misha chose not to see his father. (imdb.com)

The "Seinfeld" (1990) character "George Constanza" was originally planned to be a caricature of him. (imdb.com)

One of the most prolific American directors of his generation, he has written, directed, and more often than not starred in a film just about every year since 1969. (imdb.com)

Wrote the concept for the film Hollywood Ending (2002) on the back of a matchbook. Years later, he found the matchbook with the notes for the film on it and made the film. (imdb.com)

Was voted the 19th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. (imdb.com)

Has been a successful playwright since 1960, writing noted plays such as "Don't Drink Water" (1968), "Play it Again, Sam" (1969), nominated for three Tony Awards, "The Floating Light Bulb" (1981), his last work on Broadway to date, and "A Second Hand Memory" (2004). (imdb.com)

Distant cousin of Abe Burrows. (imdb.com)