Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born 1935) is an American director, screenwriter, comedian, and writer whose distinctive comic voice — built first in television, stand-up, and prose, then in films — became one of the central strands of American cinema from the 1970s onward. Working with great speed and consistency, he has directed more than fifty features built around neurotic urban protagonists, jazz scores, and a constant dialogue with European art cinema and classic Hollywood. His acclaimed films include Bananas, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Match Point.