Allan Stewart Konigsberg was born in New York City on November 30, 1935.
Although his family lived in Brooklyn, he was born in Mount Eden Hospital in the Bronx. He is Jewish.
Allen’s parents were Nettie (née Cherry; 1906-2002), a bookkeeper at her family’s delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg (1900-2001), a jewellery engraver and waiter. His grandparents immigrated to the country of the United States from Lithuania’s Panevys and Austria. They spoke Hebrew, German, and Yiddish.
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Allen is frequently referred to as a member of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers who worked during the mid-1960s and late 1970s.
He shared the stage in Greenwich Village with Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. Allen and Diane Keaton starred in the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977).
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Allen has received the highest accolades and honours, including 16 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His four Academy Awards include one for best director and three for best original screenplay.
He also won nine British Academy Film Awards. Allen received the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1997. Bullets over Broadway earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical in 2014, and he also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Golden Globes.
