Allan Stewart Königsberg (Brooklyn, New York, 1935), known as Woody Allen, is a director, screenwriter, actor, musician, dramatist, humorist and American writer, winner of five Oscar. He's one of the most respected, influential and prolific directors of the modern times, shooting a film per year since 1969. Allen directed, wrote and acted 'Annie Hall', film considered as one of the best comedy of film history, for which he received the Oscar for Best Film in 1977. He kept on a good friendship with his first 'muse' and ex-wife, Diane Keaton. His great cinematographic influences, swings between European directors such as Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, to actors like Groucho Marx and Bob Hope.
