Annie Hall to make a sequel, and in a 1992 interview stated that "Sequelism has become an annoying thing. I don't think Francis Coppola should have done "Godfather III" because "Godfather II" was quite great. When they make a sequel, it's just a thirst for more money, so I don't like that idea so much". Diane Keaton has stated that Annie Hall was her favorite role and that the film meant everything to her. When asked if being most associated with the role concerned her as an actress, she replied, "I'm not haunted by Annie Hall. I'm happy to be Annie Hall.
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"