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• Movie Trivia
• Awards & Nominations

Trivia from Hannah and Her Sisters

• Hannah's apartment was actually Mia Farrow's own apartment.
• Woody Allen was originally going to have a more downbeat ending, but the studios asked him to make it more upbeat.
• After actors Max von Sydow and Barbara Hershey finished filming their characters' break-up scene, the film crew gave them a standing ovation.
• The poem Eliot gives Lee which contains the line "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands", is the poem "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond", by e.e. cummings.
• Crew or equipment visible: Dolly tracks visible when the camera pulls back in the living room.

Awards and Nominations

Academy Awards, USA
Year 1987
Won Oscar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Michael Caine
Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Dianne Wiest
Won Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Woody Allen
Nominated Oscar Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Stuart Wurtzel, Carol Joffe
Nominated Best Director
Woody Allen
Nominated Best Film Editing
Susan E. Morse
Nominated Best Picture
Robert Greenhut

American Comedy Awards, USA
Year 1987
Won American Comedy Award
Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
Woody Allen

BAFTA Awards
Year 1987
Won BAFTA Film Award
Best Direction
Woody Allen
Won Best Original Screenplay
Woody Allen
Nominated BAFTA Film Award
Best Actor
Woody Allen
Nominated Best Actor
Michael Caine
Nominated Best Actress
Mia Farrow
Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Barbara Hershey
Nominated Best Editing
Susan E. Morse
Nominated Best Film
Robert Greenhut, Woody Allen

Bodil Awards
Year 1987
Won Bodil
Best Non-European Film (Bedste ikke-europæiske film)
Woody Allen (director)

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Year 1987
Won BSFC Award
Best Screenplay
Woody Allen
Won Best Supporting Actress
Dianne Wiest

Casting Society of America, USA
Year 1987
Won Artios
Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy
Juliet Taylor

César Awards, France
Year 1987
Nominated César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
Woody Allen

David di Donatello Awards
Year 1987
Won David
Best Screenplay - Foreign Film (Autore della Migliore Sceneggiatura Straniero)
Woody Allen

Directors Guild of America, USA
Year 1987
Nominated DGA Award
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Woody Allen

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Year 1987
Won Critics Award Best Foreign Film
Woody Allen, USA.

Golden Globes, USA
Year 1987
Won Golden Globe
Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Nominated Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture
Woody Allen
Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Michael Caine
Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Dianne Wiest
Nominated Best Screenplay - Motion Picture Woody Allen

London Critics Circle Film Awards
Year 1987
Won ALFS Award
Screenwriter of the Year
Woody Allen

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Year 1986
Won LAFCA Award
Best Picture
Won Best Screenplay
Woody Allen
Won Best Supporting Actress
Dianne Wiest
[Tied with Cathy Tyson for Mona Lisa (1986).]

National Board of Review, USA
Year 1986
Won NBR Award
Best Director
Woody Allen
Best Supporting Actress
Dianne Wiest

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Year 1987
Won NSFC Award
Best Supporting Actress
Dianne Wiest

New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Year 1986
Won NYFCC Award
Best Director
Woody Allen
Won Best Film
Won Best Supporting Actress
Dianne Wiest

Writers Guild of America, USA
Year 1987
Won WGA Award (Screen)
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Woody Allen