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Woody Allen: A Pic (2011)

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Woody Allen, A Documentary: American Masters

Robert Weide’s two-part documentary features unprecedented access to reveal the notoriously
private film legend’s life and creative process

Iconic writer, director, actor, comedian, and musician Woody Allen allowed his life and creative process to be documented on-camera for the first time. With this unprecedented access, Emmy®-winning, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Robert Weide followed the notoriously private film legend over a year and a half to create the ultimate film biography. Woody Allen, A Documentary: American Masters airs Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 9 p.m. on Eight, Arizona PBS.

“This is the Woody doc everybody has been waiting for, and I am delighted that this creative giant is finally assuming his rightful place in the American Masters library,” says Susan Lacy, series creator and executive producer of American Masters, an eight-time winner of the Emmy®

Beginning with Allen’s childhood and his first professional gigs as a teen — furnishing jokes for comics and publicists Woody Allen: A Documentary chronicles the trajectory and longevity of Allen’s career: from his work in the 1950s-60s as a TV scribe for Sid Caesar, standup comedian and f

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Woody Allen: A Documentary

American documentary television miniseries

Woody Allen: A Documentary is a 2011 documentary television miniseries directed by Robert B. Weide about the comedian and filmmaker Woody Allen.^[1] It premiered as part of the American Masters series on PBS. The film covers Allen's career as a standup comedian, sitcom writer, film director, and film auteur. At the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series received two nominations: for Outstanding Documentary Series and for Directing for a Documentary Program.

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The series covers Allen's childhood living with a large Jewish family in the neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the 1930s, to starting his career in Greenwich Village as a standup comedian and working as a comedy writer alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. It also discusses Allen's early comedy films, his awards success with Annie Hall (1977), and his prominence as a writer and director, as well as the highs and lows of his professional and personal lives spanning the seven decades leading up to his latest film, Midnight in Paris (2011).

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The many artists, historians, and critics that are interviewed include:

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