Annie Hall

Origin: U.S. (Rollins-Joffe) 1977
Length: 93 minutes
Format: Color
Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins
Screenplay: Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Photography: Gordon Willis
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Shelley Duvall, Janet Margolin, Colleen Dewhurst, Christopher Walken, Donald Symington, Helen Ludlam, Mordecal Lawner, Joan Neuman, Jonathan Munk, Ruth Volner
Oscars: Charles H. Joffe(best picture), Woody Allen(director), Woody Allen, Markshall Brickman(screenplay), Diane Keaton(actress)
Oscar nominations: Woody Allen(actor)
Links: Annie Hall Trailer, Annie Hall Wiki

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The most celebrated film of 1977 was originally designed as a modern take on the sophisticated 1930s comedies of Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn. Then Woody Allen and his cowriter Marshall Brickman instead embarked on a comedy set in Allen's mind, with flashbacks to the main male character's previous marriages and childhood crushes, and the addition of a murder mystery. Shortened and reshaped by editor Ralph Rosenbaum, alterations to the film included cuts to the opening monologue and the removal of scenes featuring a 13-year-old Brooke Shields. It was this streamlined version, now focused on the romance between Alvy, a neurotic, over-sexed comedian (played, inevitably, by Allen) and the eponymous Annie Hall(Diane Keaton, a one-time lover of Allen's), that captured the filmmaker's original intention - a modern screwball comedy colored with doubt, indecision, and not a little pop psychology.