Annie Hall and several awards, Allen himself was disappointed with it, and said in an interview, "When "Annie Hall" started out, that film was not supposed to be what I wound up with. The film was supposed to be what happens in a guy's mind ... Nobody understood anything that went on. The relationship between myself and Diane Keaton was all anyone cared about. That was not what I cared about ... In the end, I had to reduce the film to just me and Diane Keaton, and that relationship, so I was quite disappointed in that movie". Allen has repeatedly declined
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"