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• Movie Trivia
• Awards & Nominations

Trivia from Alice

• Woody Allen's working title of this film was The Magical Herbs of Dr. Yang
• Influencial film for Alice - Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits
• Film critic Stephen Spignesi called Alice "Another Woman II: The Comedy"
• Once again, magic plays a part in a Woody Allen movie. Alice marks a return to the story technique of magical realism, also employed in Shadows and Fog
• A prolific television actor for decades, this was Keye Luke's last movie performance. Luke appeared in almost anything that required Chinese characters, including roles on televisions's The Green Hornet and Kung Fu. Star Trek fans will remember him playing a doctor in an insane asylum in the episode Whom Gods Destroy.
• Becoming romantic with a saxophone player is a reference to Marilyn Monroe's oft repeated lament in Some Like It Hot to never fall for a saxophone player.

Awards and Nominations

• Academy Awards, USA
  Year 1991
  Nominated Oscar
  Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  Woody Allen
• Casting Society of America, USA
  Year 1991
  Nominated Artios
  Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy
  Juliet Taylor
• César Awards, France
  Year 1992
  Nominated Csar
  Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
  Woody Allen
• Golden Globes, USA
  Year 1991
  Nominated Golden Globe
  Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
  Mia Farrow
• National Board of Review, USA
  Year 1990
  Won NBR Award
  Best Actress
  Mia Farrow
• Writers Guild of America, USA
  Year 1991
  Nominated WGA Award
  (Screen) Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
  Woody Allen