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==Reception== On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 8.40/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Smart, tender, and funny in equal measure, ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' is one of Woody Allen's finest films."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hannah_and_her_sisters|title=Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=March 19, 2022|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505040238/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hannah_and_her_sisters|url-status=live}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/hannah-and-her-sisters|title=Hannah and Her Sisters Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=September 28, 2020|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028204714/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/hannah-and-her-sisters|url-status=live}}</ref> The film received seven [[Academy Award]] nominations including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. Allen received two Academy Award nominations, winning one for [[Best Screenplay, Original]] and he earned a nomination for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]. His work on the film was also recognized with two [[BAFTA Awards]]. Critics [[Siskel and Ebert]] each rated the film among the top three of the [[1986 film year]]; [[Roger Ebert]]'s 1986 review of the film called it "the best movie [Woody Allen] has ever made".<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Hannah and Her Sisters|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hannah-and-her-sisters-1986|website=RogerEbert.com|access-date=15 August 2015|archive-date=August 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150802051037/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hannah-and-her-sisters-1986|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Siskel|first=Gene|author-link=Gene Siskel|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19860228&id=dMNaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5823,3453986|title=Gentle messages performed as jokes dominate 'Hannah and Her Sisters'|newspaper=[[Evening Independent]]|volume=79|issue=102|date=February 28, 1986|page=14-D|oclc=2720408|via=[[Google News Archive]]|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=November 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104221925/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19860228&id=dMNaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5823%2C3453986|url-status=live}}</ref> Three years later when the two critics discussed their lists of the 10 best films of the 1980s, Ebert, who had included no comedies on his list, stated that had he been required to include one, it would have been ''Hannah And Her Sisters''. [[Vincent Canby]], of ''[[The New York Times]]'', gave the film a highly favorable review, going as far as to say that it "sets new standards for Mr. Allen as well as for all American movie makers".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE0DA123BF934A35751C0A960948260|work=The New York Times|last=Canby|first=Vincent|title=Film: From Woody Allen, 'Hannah And Her Sisters'|date=February 7, 1986|access-date=February 8, 2017|archive-date=December 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219104631/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0DE0DA123BF934A35751C0A960948260|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Barclay|first=Dolores|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19860212&id=w4hGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2297,1629223|title=A look at "Hannah and Her Sisters"|newspaper=[[The Lewiston Journal]]|volume=124|date=February 12, 1986|page=21|via=Google News Archive|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=November 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104221925/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19860212&id=w4hGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2297%2C1629223|url-status=live}}</ref> A poll of 100 film critics named ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' the best film of the year, after it appeared on 71 individual top ten lists.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1987/01/18/the-best-and-the-bummers/e60c6527-c03c-4fd3-9ed0-e62ee4c25df0/|title=The Best and The Bummers|first1=Pat|last1=McGilligan|first2=Mark|last2=Rowl|date=January 18, 1987|access-date=May 29, 2020|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818115248/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1987/01/18/the-best-and-the-bummers/e60c6527-c03c-4fd3-9ed0-e62ee4c25df0/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, the [[Writers Guild of America, West]] named Allen's script the 95th best film screenplay ever written.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807 |title=101 Greatest Screenplays |publisher=[[Writers Guild of America West]] |access-date=November 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615075044/http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=1807 |archive-date=June 15, 2006}}</ref> In October 2013, the film was voted by readers of ''[[The Guardian]]'' as the fourth best film directed by Woody Allen.<ref>{{cite news|title=The 10 best Woody Allen films|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/04/the-10-best-woody-allen-films|access-date=November 22, 2014|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=October 4, 2013|archive-date=November 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129080854/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/04/the-10-best-woody-allen-films|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, Calum Marsh of ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' named ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' as Allen's greatest film, praising its ensemble cast and Allen's "dense, heady script" for its "balancing act of conflicting desires and feelings".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/the-10-best-woody-allen-movies/P2|title=The 10 Best Woody Allen Movies|last=Marsh|first=Calum|website=[[Slant Magazine]]|date=July 21, 2014|access-date=January 31, 2017|archive-date=November 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120170714/http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/the-10-best-woody-allen-movies/P2|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also listed as Allen's finest work in a joint article by ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' film critics [[Robbie Collin]] and Tim Robey, who compared its structure with the works of [[Anton Chekhov]] and lauded it as "perhaps the most perfectly assured braiding of comedy and drama in mainstream American film. It feels like the miraculous sweet spot between all of its filmmaker's many modes and tones β biting without being cruel, profound without seeming sanctimonious, warmly humane without collapsing into goo."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/woody-allens-best-and-worst-movies/|title=All 47 Woody Allen movies β ranked from worst to best|last1=Collin|first1=Robbie|last2=Robey|first2=Tim|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=October 12, 2016|access-date=January 31, 2017|archive-date=January 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118143535/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/woody-allens-best-and-worst-movies/|url-status=live}}</ref> It was ranked third among Allen's films in a 2016 poll of ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' contributors, with editor Joshua Rothkopf singling out the character of Holly as "the kind of desperate, flailing Manhattanite that future director-writers would spin entire careers out of".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-best-and-worst-woody-allen-movies#tab_panel_4 |title=The best Woody Allen movies of all time |magazine=Time Out |date=March 24, 2016 |access-date=January 31, 2017 |archive-date=May 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529003144/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-best-and-worst-woody-allen-movies#tab_panel_4 |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Accolades=== [[Michael Caine]] and [[Dianne Wiest]] won [[Academy Award]]s for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] for their portrayals of Elliot and Holly, respectively. ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' was the last film to win in both supporting acting categories until ''[[The Fighter]]'' in 2011. The film was also nominated for [[Best Art Direction-Set Decoration]] and [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]. Allen received the 1986 award for [[National Board of Review Award for Best Director|Best Director]] from the U.S. [[National Board of Review of Motion Pictures]], Dianne Wiest won [[National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]], and the film was nominated for [[National Board of Review Award for Best Film|Best Film]].<ref name="NBRMP">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1986/|title=1986 Award Winners|date=2016|work=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures|access-date=October 31, 2016|archive-date=December 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207025144/http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1986/|url-status=live}}</ref> In France, the film was nominated for a [[CΓ©sar Award for Best Foreign Film]]. {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" |- ! scope="col" | Award ! scope="col" | Category ! scope="col" | Recipient(s) ! scope="col" | Result |- | rowspan="7"| [[59th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]] | [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] | [[Robert Greenhut]] | {{nom}} |- | [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] | rowspan="2"| [[Woody Allen]] |{{nom}} |- | [[Best Original Screenplay]] | {{win}} |- | [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] | [[Michael Caine]] | {{win}} |- | [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] | [[Dianne Wiest]] | {{win}} |- | [[Best Art Direction]] | [[Stuart Wurtzel]], [[Carol Joffe]] | {{nom}} |- | [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]] | [[Susan E. Morse]] | {{nom}} |- | rowspan="8"| [[40th British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]] | [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]] | [[Robert Greenhut]], [[Woody Allen]] | {{nom}} |- | [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Director]] | rowspan="3"| [[Woody Allen]] | {{win}} |- | [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] | {{win}} |- | [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] | {{nom}} |- | [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] | [[Michael Caine]] | {{nom}} |- | [[BAFTA for Best Actress|Best Actress]] | [[Mia Farrow]] | {{nom}} |- | [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actress]] | [[Barbara Hershey]] | {{nom}} |- | [[BAFTA Award for Best Editing|Best Film Editing]] | [[Susan E. Morse]] | {{nom}} |- | [[39th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America]] | [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing β Feature Film|Directing β Feature Film]] | [[Woody Allen]] | {{nom}} |- | rowspan="5"| [[44th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]] | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture β Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture β Comedy or Musical]] | [[Robert Greenhut]] | {{win}} |- | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director]] | rowspan="2"| [[Woody Allen]] | {{nom}} |- | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] | {{nom}} |- | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor β Motion Picture|Supporting Actor]] | [[Michael Caine]] | {{nom}} |- | [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor β Motion Picture|Supporting Actress]] | [[Dianne Wiest]] | {{nom}} |- | rowspan="4"| [[National Society of Film Critics]] | [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film|Best Film]] | rowspan="2"| [[Woody Allen]] | {{nom}} |- | [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] | {{nom}} |- | [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] | [[Barbara Hershey]] | {{nom}} |- | [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] | [[Dianne Wiest]] | {{won}} |- | rowspan="4"| [[1986 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle]] | [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film|Best Film]] | rowspan="3"| [[Woody Allen]] | {{won}} |- | [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]] | {{won}} |- | [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]] | {{nom}} |- | [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] | [[Dianne Wiest]] | {{won}} |- | [[39th Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America]] | [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] | [[Woody Allen]] | {{won}} |- |}
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