Annie Hall A later "Guardian" critic, Peter Bradshaw, named it the best comedy film of all time, commenting that "this wonderfully funny, unbearably sad film is a miracle of comic writing and inspired film-making". John Marriott of the "Radio Times" believed that "Annie Hall" was the film where Allen "found his own singular voice, a voice that echoes across events with a mixture of exuberance and introspection", referring to the "comic delight" derived from the "spirited playing of Diane Keaton as the kooky innocent from the Midwest, and Woody himself as the fumbling New York neurotic". "Empire" magazine rated the movie five
The Sorrow and the Pity director was "too close to the events portrayed to provide an objective study of the period." In 2001, Richard Trank, a documentarian of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, described it as "a film about morality that explores the role of ordinary people." It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1971 for Best Documentary Feature. It won "the Grand Prize of the ". It received "a special award by the National Society of Film Critics, which called it 'a film of extraordinary public interest and distinction.'" Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" (1977) makes two references to "The Sorrow and the Pity"