Facts from: Annie Hall

Allen and Marshall Brickman tradet ideas for months before writing the script for Annie Hall. The idea was unusually diffucult to express, because it had no patricular focus, just a generalised mood which Allen found hard to define. When Allen finally sat down to write the first drafts, it only took him four days.

The home of the "young Alvy", an apartment build into the roller-coaster, is for real. It is situated under the Cyclone roller-coaster on Coney Island. And by the time Annie Hall was made, a 73 years old woman lived there along with her 150 kg son.

Allen, who once had an ill-defined relationship with Diane Keaton, was anxious to remove the impression that the film reflected his life with her. Her parents claimed that the movie was 85% true, and Diane herself found acting in the movie emotionally embarrassing.

Alle’s working title for Annie Hall was Anhedonia - wich means the inability to enjoy pleasure (the reverse of hedonism). Marshall Brickman's suggestion was It Had To Be Jew, probably reffering to the first lines in Annie’s song, at the filthy bar: It had to be you...

Annie Hall won the Oscar for being the best movie 1977. Allen also won the Oscar for the best direction. At the ceremony, he didn’t show up to accept the statue. The media found out that he was playing the clarinet at the Michels’ that evening, as on all Monday evenings for decades. The explanation he gave in an interview with Stig Bjorkman, was that he felt competing in arts rediculous.