Woody Allen, born as Allen Stewart Konigsberg in New York, lives in Manhattan. Author, director, actor, musician, intellectual, and the most celebrated comedian of our time, Woody Allen has received 4 Oscars from Hollywood while film critics both in New York and Paris have hailed both ›Annie Hall‹ and ›Manhattan‹ as film classics. Time, Life, The New York Times and Der Spiegel have all dedicated top stories to him and celebrated him as the legitimate successor of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields. As regards his relationships to women, Woody Allen sees himself as the winner of the August Strindberg Prize.