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Writer/Director: WOODY ALLEN

Producers:
LETTY ARONSON
STEPHEN TENENBAUM
JAUME ROURES

Co-Producers:
HELEN ROBIN
RAPHAËL BENOLIEL

Executive Producer: JAVIER MÉNDEZ

Director of Photography: DARIUS KHONDJI ASC, AFC

Production Designer: ANNE SEIBEL ADC

Editor: ALISA LEPSELTER

Costume Designer: SONIA GRANDE

Casting:
JULIET TAYLOR
PATRICIA DiCERTO
STÉPHANE FOENKINOS

Writer-Director Woody Allen

What's New Pussycat?
1965/screenwriter, actor

What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1966/co-screenwriter, actor

Casino Royale
1967/actor

Take the Money and Run
1969/director, co-screenwriter, actor

Bananas
1971/director, co-screenwriter, actor

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
But Were Afraid to Ask
1972/director, screenwriter, actor

Play It Again, Sam
1972/screenwriter, actor

Sleeper
1973/director, co-screenwriter, actor

Love and Death
1975/director, screenwriter, actor

The Front
1976/actor

Annie Hall
1977/director, co-screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee (& winner), Best Director
Academy Award nominee (& winner), Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award nominee, Best Actor

Interiors
1978/director, screenwriter
Academy Award nominee, Best Director
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Manhattan
1979/director, co-screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Stardust Memories
1980/director, screenwriter, actor

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982/director, screenwriter, actor

Zelig
1983/director, screenwriter, actor

Broadway Danny Rose
1984/director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Director
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985/director, screenwriter
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Hannah and Her Sisters
1986/director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Director
Academy Award nominee (& winner), Best Original Screenplay

Radio Days
1987/director, screenwriter, narrator
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

September
1987/director, screenwriter

Another Woman
1988/director, screenwriter

New York Stories ("Oedipus Wrecks")
1989/director, screenwriter, actor

Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989/director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Director
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Alice
1990/director, screenwriter
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Scenes from a Mall
1991/actor

Shadows and Fog
1992/director, screenwriter, actor

Husbands and Wives
1992/director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993/director, co-screenwriter, actor

Bullets Over Broadway
1994/director, co-screenwriter
Academy Award nominee, Best Director
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Don't Drink the Water (made-for-television movie)
1994/director, screenwriter, actor

Mighty Aphrodite
1995/director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Everyone Says I Love You
1996/director, screenwriter, actor

Deconstructing Harry
1997/director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

The Sunshine Boys (made-for-television movie)
1997/actor

Antz
1998/actor (voice)

The Impostors
1998/actor (cameo)

Celebrity
1998/director, screenwriter

Sweet and Lowdown
1999/director, screenwriter, on-camera interviewee

Small Time Crooks
2000/director, screenwriter, actor

Picking Up the Pieces
2000/actor

Company Man
2001/actor (cameo)

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001/director, screenwriter, actor

Sounds from a Town I Love (short)
2001/director/screenwriter

Hollywood Ending
2002/director, screenwriter, actor

Anything Else
2003/director, screenwriter, actor

Melinda and Melinda
2004/director, screenwriter

Match Point
2005/director, screenwriter
Academy Award nominee, Best Original Screenplay

Scoop
2006/director, screenwriter, actor

Cassandra's Dream
2007/director, screenwriter

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008/ director, screenwriter

Whatever Works
2009/ director, screenwriter

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010/ director, screenwriter


Academy Awards summary:

Nominated six times for Best Director;
won for Annie Hall

Nominated fourteen times for Best Original Screenplay;
won for Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters

Nominated one time for Best Actor

Two films nominated for Best Picture;
won for Annie Hall

Letty Aronson

LETTY ARONSON (Producer) previously produced Woody Allen's YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, WHATEVER WORKS, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, CASSANDRA'S DREAM, SCOOP, MATCH POINT, MELINDA AND MELINDA, HOLLYWOOD ENDING, and THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION.

Her extensive film, television, and stage experience includes numerous other collaborations with Mr. Allen. She co-executive-produced such films as DON'T DRINK THE WATER, which marked Mr. Allen's first foray into television moviemaking; BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, which garnered seven Academy Award® nominations, winning for Best Supporting Actress (Dianne Wiest); MIGHTY APHRODITE, for which Mira Sorvino was awarded the Best Supporting Actress Oscar®; and SWEET AND LOWDOWN, for which Sean Penn and Samantha Morton both earned Oscar® nominations. Her other credits as a co-executive producer include Mr. Allen's highly acclaimed musical comedy EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU; and his CELEBRITY, DECONSTRUCTING HARRY and SMALL TIME CROOKS.

In addition, Aronson co-executive-produced THE SPANISH PRISONER, written for the screen and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and critically acclaimed filmmaker David Mamet. Critics universally praised the film when it was released in 1998. She also co-executive-produced INTO MY HEART, which was written and directed by two newcomers, Sean Smith and Anthony Stark; and Coky Giedroyc's WOMEN TALKING DIRTY, starring Helena Bonham Carter, which marked Ms. Aronson's first European co-production with Elton John's Rocket Pictures.

Her credits also include "Dinah Was," the off-Broadway musical about blues legend Dinah Washington; THE STORY OF A BAD BOY, written and directed by acclaimed playwright Tom Donaghy; JUST LOOKING, a heartwarming coming-of-age film directed by Jason Alexander; and the comedy SUNBURN, directed by Nelson Hume, which screened at the Galway Film Festival and the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival.

Aronson's television work includes Saturday Night Live and The Robert Klein Comedy Hour, both for NBC. In the world of theatre, she served as associate producer of "Death Defying Acts," an off-Broadway comedy consisting of three one-act plays written by Elaine May, Woody Allen, and David Mamet.

She had earlier served as Vice President of the Museum of Television and Radio for ten years.

Stephen Tenenbaum

STEPHEN TENENBAUM (Producer), previously produced VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, winner of the 2008 Golden Globe® for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical). He also produced Woody Allen's YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, WHATEVER WORKS, and CASSANDRAS'S DREAM. He served as executive producer on SCOOP, MATCH POINT, MELINDA AND MELINDA, ANYTHING ELSE, HOLLYWOOD ENDING, and THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION, the last of which marked his first onscreen producing credit.

Tenenbaum graduated with a B.S. from New York University, where he majored in Accounting. He began his show business career in the financial arena, handling such noteworthy clients as The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Percy Faith, the Platters, Nat King Cole, Mario Lanza, Gilda Radner, Robin Williams, and many others.

Tenenbaum later decided to venture into the field of motion picture and television production, as well as personal management. He is currently a partner in Morra, Brezner, Steinberg & Tenenbaum Entertainment, Inc. (MBST), where his client roster includes Woody Allen, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Alain Boubil (the creator of "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon"). MBST has also been involved in the production of feature films, including Barry Levinson's GOOD MORNING VIETNAM; Steve Gordon's ARTHUR; Danny DeVito's THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN; and Bill Paxton's THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, to name only a few.

Jaume Roures

JAUME ROURES (Producer) is a founding partner of MEDIAPRO-IMAGINA, a leading group in the creation and production of integrated audiovisual content and one of the three biggest audiovisual producers in Europe.

He has produced more than twenty feature-length films, both independently and in co-production with prestigious names such as Elías Querejeta and Pedro Almodóvar. Social awareness and the defense of values, such as tolerance and solidarity, are recurring themes in his films, including MONDAYS IN THE SUN, LA ESPALDA DEL MUNDO, ASESINATO EN FEBRERO, SALVADOR (PUIG ANTICH), among others.

His films, distributed all round the world, have earned both critical and audience recognition, winning a host of awards at some of the world's most prestigious international festivals including Cannes, Berlin, and Sundance.

His filmography includes works by first-time filmmakers as well as internationally renowned directors such as Oliver Stone (COMANDANTE), Patricio Guzmán (SALVADOR ALLENDE) and Jean-Jacques Annaud (SA MAJESTÉ MINOR), and Isabel Coixet (THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS, MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO).

Roures co-produced Woody Allen's internationally acclaimed and award-winning VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, and more recently, YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER.

Helen Robin

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is the 19th film that HELEN ROBIN (Co-Producer) has co-produced for Woody Allen.

She began her film career as a production assistant on Allen's STARDUST MEMORIES. Over the course of his next 18 films, she worked her way up from an office production assistant, production coordinator, and production manager to, eventually, line producer. Robin co-produced ALICE, SHADOWS AND FOG, HUSBANDS AND WIVES, MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, MIGHTY APHRODITE and EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU.

Following the last, she left Allen's production company to take some time off and do freelance film work. During that period, she worked as an associate producer on Allan Arkush's highly-rated television miniseries The Temptations, for Hallmark Entertainment and NBC.

After a three-year hiatus, Robin returned to work with Woody Allen on his comedy SMALL TIME CROOKS, which she co-produced. She has since served as a co-producer on all of his films, including SCOOP, MELINDA AND MELINDA, ANYTHING ELSE, HOLLYWOOD ENDING, THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION, MATCH POINT, CASSANDRA'S DREAM, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, WHATEVER WORKS, and YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER.

Raphaël Benoliel

Born in Nice, RAPHAËL BENOLIEL (Co-Producer) began his career in the film industry at 17 as a production assistant, and worked his way up to Coordinator and Production Manager to Line Producer, while continuing his studies in Law and Business. In 2000, Benoliel and his partner Dmitri Veret founded the production company, FIRSTEP, to produce their own projects and assist the filming of foreign productions in France.

Benoliel''s Line Producer /Co-Producer credit include Richard Curtis' LOVE ACTUALLY, Stephen Frears' THE QUEEN and CHERI, Michael Winterbottom's A MIGHTY HEART and various Working Title Films like MR. BEAN'S VACATION, and more recently, JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN.

A Former board member of Film France, Benoliel helped to create the TRIP (Tax Credit for International Production).

Javier Méndez

JAVIER MÉNDEZ (Executive Producer) recently produced Woody Allen's YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER. He comes from a family well versed in the entertainment industry. His father was a film producer for more than fifty years and his brothers are also in the business.

Javier Méndez began his career as an acquisition executive in Sogecable, the main Pay TV operator in Spain. After this he went to Antena 3 TV, one of the biggest free television stations in Spain, as Head of Acquisitions, Sales and Materials. During those days, Antena 3 was able to get the leadership among the private television stations.

When he left Antena 3, he had the opportunity to start working on the production side. At that time MEDIAPRO was creating their Film Production Division. After almost eight years with the company, MEDIAPRO has already produced thirty films, working with top international filmmakers, like Oliver Stone (COMANDANTE) and Jean Jacques Annaud, as well as acclaimed local directors like Fernando León de Aranoa (MONDAYS IN THE SUN, PRINCESAS, the upcoming AMADOR), Isabel Coixet (THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS, MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO (Cannes 2009, Official Selection in Competition) and Javier Fesser (CAMINO). Méndez has served as either Executive Producer or Associate Producer on all of these films.

MEDIAPRO has twice earned the Goya (Spanish Film Award) for Best Film, as well as over fifty nominations. MEDIAPRO has attended the most important festivals around the world including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian, Toronto, and Sundance.

Darius Khondji

Academy Award-nominated DARIUS KHONDJI, A.S.C., A.F.C. (Director of Photography) was educated at New York University Film School and ICP (International Center of Photography). He shot his first film as director of photography while continuing to work in commercials, collaborating with such directors David Fincher, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Chris Cunningham, Lars von Trier and William Klein, among others. 

For his work on Alan Parker's EVITA, Khondji was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 69th Annual Academy Awards®, Best Cinematography at the 1997 BAFTA Film Awards, and Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography at the ASC Awards.

Khondji's other feature credits include Woody Allen's Anything Else; David Fincher's The Panic Room and Se7en (Chicago Film Critics Award winner, ASC-nominated); Danny Boyle's The Beach; Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate; Neil Jordan's In Dreams; Philippe Parreno's Zidane A Portrait of the 21st Century; Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection; Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (nominated for best cinematography at the Donatello Awards); Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The City of Lost Children and Delicatessen (both César-nominated for Best Cinematography); Michael Haneke's Funny Games; Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter; Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights, and Stephen Frears' CHERI.

Anne Seibel

A graduate of the école spéciale of Architecture of Paris, ANNE SEIBEL ADC (Production Designer) has an extensive background as an art director for films shot in France, notably James Lapine's IMPROMPTU and Sofia Coppola's MARIE ANTOINETTE, as well as for international films during their European shooting. Her art director credits include Steven Spielberg's MUNICH (Paris and Munich), David Frankel's THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, Brett Ratner's RUSH HOUR 3, M. Night Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING, Stephen Sommers' G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (Prague), and Clint Eastwood's HEREAFTER. Seibel also served as art director for French episodes of Sex and the City and The Sopranos.

Seibel made her debut as a Production Designer in 2003 on Eric Styles' TEMPO, followed by Dev Benegal's ROAD, MOVIE, filmed in India. Her credits as Art Director include Michel Lang's CLUB DE RENCONTRE, Michel Drach's IL EST GENIAL PAPY, Serge Gainsbourg's STAN THE FLASHER, and Serge Leroy's TAXI DE NUIT. Seibel's art department credits include Jon Glen's A VIEW TO A KILL and THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, Fred Schepisi's PLENTY, Conny Templeman's NANOU, Richard Heffron's LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE, John MacKenzie's VOYAGE, Renny Harlin's CUTTHROAT ISLAND, Randall Wallace's THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK, Tony Scott's SPY GAME, Dominic Sena's SWORDFISH, and Frank Coracci's AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Also a photographer, Seibel has had numerous exhibitions of her work.

Alisa Lepselter

ALISA LEPSELTER (Editor) marks her twelfth collaboration with Woody Allen with YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER.  She first teamed with him on the critically acclaimed feature SWEET AND LOWDOWN, and has since edited SMALL TIME CROOKS, THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION, HOLLYWOOD ENDING, ANYTHING ELSE, MELINDA AND MELINDA, MATCH POINT, SCOOP, CASSANDRA'S DREAM, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (for which she was nominated for an ACE award), WHATEVER WORKS, and YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER.   Lepselter began her editing career as an intern on Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD. She has also worked with other acclaimed filmmakers such as Nicole Holofcener, Nora Ephron, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese.

Sonia Grande

Born in Oviedo, Spain, SONIA GRANDE (Costume Designer) studied at the Real Conservatorio de Arte Dramático in Madrid, specializing in wardrobe design. After years working with national theatre companies, she jumped into the film world, in which she has worked ever since, for the last twenty years.

Some of her most significant titles are Woody Allen's VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, Pedro Almodovar's TALK TO HER and BROKEN EMBRACES, Alejandro Amanábar's THE OTHERS and THE SEA INSIDE, Nancy Meyers' IT'S COMPLICATED, Jose Luis Cuerda's BUTTERFLY, and Fernando Trueba's THE GIRL OF YOUR DREAMS, for which Grande won the Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy. She has been nominated for a Goya award on eleven other occasions in her career.

Juliet Taylor

JULIET TAYLOR (Casting Director) has worked with some of the leading directors of our time, including Mike Nichols, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Louis Malle, Martin Scorsese, Alan Parker, James L. Brooks, John Schlesinger, Stephen Frears, Nora Ephron, Neil Jordan and Sydney Pollack. She has cast more than eighty films, with more than thirty of them for Woody Allen.

Among her credits are: SCHINDLER'S LIST, TERMS OF ENDEARMENT, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, DANGEROUS LIAISONS, BIG, THE GRIFTERS, MISSISSIPPI BURNING, THE KILLING FIELDS, WORKING GIRL, JULIA, TAXI DRIVER, NETWORK, PRETTY BABY and THE EXORCIST. She won an Emmy Award for casting on the HBO Miniseries "Angels in America." Her work with Woody Allen dates back to LOVE AND DEATH in 1975 and includes most recently MATCH POINT, CASSANDRA'S DREAM, SCOOP, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, WHATEVER WORKS, and YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER.

Taylor graduated from Smith College in 1967, and joined the staff of David Merrick, remaining there until the spring of 1968. At that time, she went to work as a secretary to Marion Dougherty who was opening a motion picture casting office in New York. In 1973, when Marion Dougherty left casting to produce films, Taylor ran Marion Dougherty Associates until 1977, when she became Director of East Coast Casting for Paramount Pictures. She left that position in 1978 to cast motion pictures independently.

Patricia DiCerto

Prior to MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, PATRICIA DiCERTO (Casting Director) served as casting director on Woody Allen's YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, CASSANDRA'S DREAM, MATCH POINT, and SCOOP. She's also cast such independent features as JOSHUA, starring Sam Rockwell and Vera Farmiga; FLANNEL PAJAMAS, starring Julianne Nicholson and Justin Kirk; EULOGY, starring Ray Romano and Debra Winger; MARIE AND BRUCE, starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick; ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, starring Chazz Palminteri, Drea DeMatteo and Linda Fiorentino; and most recently THE DISCOVERERS, starring Griffin Dunne.  In addition, DiCerto has worked alongside a number of the industry's top casting directors, including her longtime association with Juliet Taylor. As a casting associate, DiCerto has been involved in the casting of ten Woody Allen films, and has had the opportunity to work with directors such as James L. Brooks, Sydney Pollack, Mike Nichols, Alan Parker, Nora Ephron, and more recently with David Frankel and Martin Scorsese, among others.

Stéphane Foenkinos

A former English teacher, STÉPHANE FOENKINOS (Casting/France) started as a casting director with Jacques Doillon in 1997. Since then, Foenkinos has worked on over sixty films with such legendary European directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Andre Techiné and François Ozon; international directors like Terrence Malick, Peter Greenaway, and Thomas McCarthy; as well as the JAMES BOND and HARRY POTTER franchises.

Also a screenwriter and a director, Foenkinos is currently shooting his first feature film, LA DELICATESSE, starring Audrey Tautou, which he's co-writing and co-directing with his brother, novelist David Foenkinos.

Filmmakers

Writer/Director: WOODY ALLEN

Producers:
LETTY ARONSON
STEPHEN TENENBAUM
JAUME ROURES

Co-Producers:
HELEN ROBIN
RAPHAËL BENOLIEL

Executive Producer: JAVIER MÉNDEZ

Director of Photography: DARIUS KHONDJI ASC, AFC

Production Designer: ANNE SEIBEL ADC

Editor: ALISA LEPSELTER

Costume Designer: SONIA GRANDE

Casting:
JULIET TAYLOR
PATRICIA DiCERTO
STÉPHANE FOENKINOS