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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
WOODY ALLEN (Director/Writer/Actor)
Filmography:
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 1972: director, screenwriter, actor
WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX
BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
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 Picture
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 1982: director, screenwriter, actor
SEX COMEDY
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 & HER SISTERS 1986: director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award® nominee: Best Director
Academy Award® nominee: Best Picture
Academy Award® nominee (& winner): Best Original Screenplay
RADIO DAYS 1987: director, screenwriter
Academy Award® nominee: Best Original Screenplay
SEPTEMBER 1987: director, screenwriter
ANOTHER WOMAN 1988: director, screenwriter
NEW YORK STORIES 1989: director, screenwriter, actor
(Oedipus Wrecks)
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS 1990: 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 1994: director, screenwriter, actor
(Made-for-television movie)
MIGHTY APHRODITE 1995: director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award® nominee: Best Original Screenplay
THE SUNSHINE BOYS 1995: actor
(Made-for-television movie)
EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU 1996: director, screenwriter, actor
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY 1997: director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award® nominee: Best Original Screenplay
CELEBRITY 1998: director, screenwriter
ANTZ 1998: actor
THE IMPOSTERS 1999: actor *cameo
COMPANY MAN 1999: actor *cameo
SWEET AND LOWDOWN 1999: director, screenwriter
PICKING UP THE PIECES 1999: actor
SMALL TIME CROOKS 2000: director, screenwriter, actor
THE CURSE OF THE
JADE SCORPION 2001 director, screenwriter, actor
Academy Award® summary:
Nominated 6 times for Best Director: Won for “Annie Hall”
Nominated 13 times for Best Original Screenplay: Won for “Annie Hall” and
“Hannah and Her Sisters”
Nominated 1 time for Best Actor:
Nominated 2 times for Best Picture: Won for “Annie Hall”
LETTY ARONSON (Producer) most recently served as the co-executive producer
on Woody Allen’s “Small Time Crooks.” Her extensive film, television and stage experience
includes numerous other collaborations with Allen. She co-executive produced such films
as “Don’t Drink the Water,” which marked 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®; Allen’s highly acclaimed musical
comedy “Everyone Says I Love You”; “Sweet and Lowdown,” for which Sean Penn and
Samantha Morton both earned Oscar® nominations; “Celebrity”; and “Deconstructing
Harry.”
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 Aronson’s first European co-production
with Elton John’s Rocket Pictures.
Her other credits 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.
Her television work includes “Saturday Night Live” and “The Robert Klein Comedy
Hour,” both for NBC. In the world of theatre, Aronson 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 previously served as Vice
President of the Museum of Television and Radio for 10 years.
HELEN ROBIN (Co-Producer) began her film career as a production assistant on
Woody 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.
She 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 the
highly rated television miniseries “The Temptations” for Hallmark Entertainment and NBC.
After a three-year hiatus, she returned to work with Woody Allen on his most
recent comedy, “Small Time Crooks,” which she co-produced.
STEPHEN TENENBAUM (Executive Producer) 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
Steisand, 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 area 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 Miserables”
and “Miss Saigon”). MBST has also been involved in the production of films, including
“Good Morning, Vietnam,” “Arthur” and “Throw Momma From the Train,” to name only a
few. “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” marks Tenenbaum’s first onscreen producing
credit.
ZHAO FEI (Director of Photography) was already a respected cinematographer in
his native China when he made his American film debut on Woody Allen’s “Sweet and
Lowdown.” He more recently reteamed with Allen on “Small Time Crooks.”
Born in Xian, he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy where he studied with
noted Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and eventually became a major player in the
Chinese cinema’s “new wave” movement. For his work on Zhang Yimou’s critically
acclaimed “Raise the Red Lantern,” he was honored with awards for Best
Cinematography by Spain’s Valladolid Film Festival, the American Film Critics Association,
the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. His unique
style and cinematic approach is also evident in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s “The Horse Thief,”
“Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch,” Huang Jianxin’s “Samsara,” and “The Emperor and the
Assassin.”
SANTO LOQUASTO (Production Designer) has earned Academy Award®
nominations in two different categories for his work on Woody Allen films. He received an
Oscar® nod for his costume designs for Woody Allen’s “Zelig,” and nominations for his
work as a production designer on Allen’s “Radio Days” and “Bullets Over Broadway.” In
all, he has worked with Allen on more than 20 films, including, most recently, “Small Time
Crooks.”
Loquasto has also designed extensively for the stage. His work in the New York
theatre won him both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his set design for “Café Crown”
and for his costume designs for “The Cherry Orchard” and “Grand Hotel.” He also
received Tony nominations for his set designs on “That Championship Season,” “What The
Wine Sellers Buy,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “American Buffalo” and “The Suicide,” and for
his costume designs on “Ragtime” and “Fosse.”
In addition, Loquasto has worked with most of the major international dance
companies, collaborating with Mark Morris, Jerome Robbins, Glen Tetley, Helgi Tomasson,
Agnes de Mille, James Kudelka, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dana Reitz, Paul Taylor and Twyla
Tharp.
SUZANNE McCABE (Costume Designer) most recently designed the costumes for
Woody Allen’s “Small Time Crooks.” She previously served as an assistant costume
designer on Allen’s “Everyone Says I Love You,” “Bullets Over Broadway” and “Manhattan
Murder Mystery.”
She was also the costume designer on the feature film “When It’s Over.” Her
earlier credits include work as an assistant costume designer on such films as “Die Hard
With a Vengeance” and “A League of Their Own,” as well as the television movie “Path to
Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing.”
ALISA LEPSELTER (Editor) marks her third collaboration with filmmaker Woody
Allen, having previously edited his comedy “Small Time Crooks” and his critically acclaimed
feature “Sweet and Lowdown.”
She began her editing career as an intern on Jonathan Demme’s film “Something
Wild.” As an apprentice and assistant editor, she worked with such leading filmmakers as
Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Volker Schlöndorff, Herbert Ross, Peter Yates and
Nora Ephron.
She cut her first feature when she edited “Walking and Talking” for director Nicole
Holofcener.
JULIET TAYLOR (Casting Director) 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.
Since that time, Taylor has worked with some of the leading directors of our time,
including Mike Nichols, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Louis Malle, Martin Scorsese, Alan
Parker, Roland Joffe, John Schlesinger, Stephen Frears, Nora Ephron, Neil Jordan and
Martin Brest. Her collaboration with Woody Allen dates back to her work on “Love and
Death” in 1975, and more recently includes “Celebrity,” “Everyone Says I Love You,”
“Sweet and Lowdown” and “Small Time Crooks.” Among her other recent credits are
“Schindler’s List,” “The Birdcage,” “Primary Colors” and “Angela’s Ashes.”
LAURA ROSENTHAL (Casting Director) started to cast independently in 1994,
working with such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Edward Burns, Todd Haynes, and Harold
Ramis.
Some of the films she has more recently cast are Alison Maclean’s “Jesus’ Son,”
Gregor Jordan’s “Buffalo Soldiers,” Daisy Meyer’s “The Guru” and Dan Algrant’s “People I
Know,” starring Al Pacino. She has also partnered with Juliet Taylor on Woody Allen’s
“Small Time Crooks,” “Sweet and Lowdown” and “Celebrity.”
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