Editing Hannah and Her Sisters

{{short description|1986 film by Woody Allen}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Hannah and Her Sisters
| image          = Hannah and her sisters.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Woody Allen]]
| producer       = [[Robert Greenhut]]
| writer         = Woody Allen
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* Woody Allen
* [[Michael Caine]]
* [[Mia Farrow]]
* [[Carrie Fisher]]
* [[Barbara Hershey]]
* [[Lloyd Nolan]]
* [[Maureen O'Sullivan]]
* [[Daniel Stern (actor)|Daniel Stern]]
* [[Max Von Sydow]]
* [[Dianne Wiest]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Carlo Di Palma]]
| editing        = [[Susan E. Morse]]
| studio         = [[A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production]]
| distributor    = [[Orion Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1986|01|25|[[US Film Festival]]|1986|02|07|United States}}
| runtime        = 106 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $6.4 million
| gross          = $40.1 million<ref name="NUM">{{Cite The Numbers |id=Hannah-and-Her-Sisters-(1986) |title=Hannah and Her Sisters |access-date=Feb 8, 2023}}</ref>}}

'''''Hannah and Her Sisters''''' is a 1986 American [[comedy-drama]] film written and directed by [[Woody Allen]]. It tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family [[Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner|Thanksgiving dinner]]. Allen also stars in the film, along with [[Mia Farrow]] as Hannah, [[Michael Caine]] as her husband, and [[Barbara Hershey]] and [[Dianne Wiest]] as her sisters. Alongside them, the film features [[Carrie Fisher]], [[Lloyd Nolan]], [[Maureen O'Sullivan]], [[Max Von Sydow]], [[Daniel Stern (actor)|Daniel Stern]], [[John Turturro]], [[Lewis Black]] (debut), and [[Julie Kavner]].

''Hannah and Her Sisters'' was, for a long time, Allen's biggest box office success, with a North American gross of US$40 million. The film won [[Academy Awards]] for [[Best Original Screenplay]] (for Allen), [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] (for Caine), and [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]] (for Wiest). It is often considered one of Allen's major works, with critics continuing to praise its writing and ensemble cast.

==Plot==
The story is told in three main [[story arcs]], with most of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties, held at [[The Langham (apartment building)|The Langham]], hosted by Hannah, and her husband, Elliot.  Hannah serves as the stalwart hub of the narrative; most of the events of the film connect to her.

Elliot becomes infatuated with one of Hannah's sisters, Lee, and eventually begins an affair with her.  Elliot attributes his behavior to his discontent with his wife's self-sufficiency and resentment of her emotional strength.  Lee has lived for five years with a reclusive artist, Frederick, who is much older.  She finds her relationship with Frederick no longer intellectually or sexually stimulating, in spite of (or maybe because of) Frederick's professed interest in continuing to teach her.  She leaves Frederick after admitting to having a dalliance with Elliot.  For the remainder of the year between the first and second Thanksgiving gatherings, Elliot and Lee carry on their affair despite Elliot's inability to end his marriage to Hannah.  Lee finally ends the affair during the second Thanksgiving, explaining that she is finished waiting for him to commit and that she has started dating someone else.

Hannah's ex-husband Mickey, a television writer, is present mostly in scenes outside of the primary story.  Flashbacks reveal that his marriage to Hannah fell apart after they were unable to have children because of his infertility.  However, they had twins who are not biologically his, before divorcing.  He also went on a disastrous date with Hannah's sister Holly, when they were set up after the divorce.  A hypochondriac, he goes to his doctor complaining of hearing loss, and is frightened by the possibility that it might be a brain tumor.  When tests prove that he is perfectly healthy, he is initially overjoyed, but then despairs that his life is meaningless.  His [[existential crisis]] leads to unsatisfying experiments with [[religious conversion]] to [[Catholicism]] and an interest in [[Krishna Consciousness]].  Ultimately, a suicide attempt leads him to find meaning in his life after unexpectedly viewing the [[Marx Brothers]]' ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' in a movie theater.  The revelation that life should be enjoyed, rather than understood, helps to prepare him for a second date with Holly, which this time blossoms into love.

Holly's story is the film's third main arc.  A former cocaine addict, she is an unsuccessful actress who cannot settle on a career.  After borrowing money from Hannah, she starts a catering business with April, a friend and fellow actress.  Holly and April end up as rivals in auditions for parts in Broadway musicals, as well as for the affections of an architect, David.  Holly abandons the catering business after the romance with David fails and decides to try her hand at writing.  The career change forces her once again to borrow money from Hannah, a dependency that Holly resents.  She writes a script inspired by Hannah and Elliot, which greatly upsets Hannah.  It is suggested that much of the script involved personal details of Hannah and Elliot's marriage that had been conveyed to Holly through Lee (having been transmitted first from Elliot).  Although this threatens to expose the affair between Elliot and Lee, Elliot soon disavows disclosing any such details.  Holly sets aside her script, and instead writes a story inspired by her own life, which Mickey reads and admires greatly, vowing to help her get it produced and leading to their second date.

A minor arc in the film tells part of the story of Norma and Evan.  They are the parents of Hannah and her two sisters, and still have acting careers of their own.  Their own tumultuous marriage revolves around Norma's alcoholism and alleged affairs, but the long-term bond between them is evident in Evan's flirtatious anecdotes about Norma while playing piano at the Thanksgiving gatherings.

By the time of the film's third Thanksgiving, Lee has married a literature professor she met while taking random classes at [[Columbia University]]. Hannah and Elliot have reconciled their marriage.  The film's final shot reveals that Holly is married to Mickey and that she is pregnant.

==Cast==
(in order of appearance)
{{Cast listing|
* [[Barbara Hershey]] as Lee
* [[Carrie Fisher]] as April
* [[Michael Caine]] as Elliot
* [[Mia Farrow]] as Hannah
* [[Dianne Wiest]] as Holly
* [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] as Norma
* [[Lloyd Nolan]] as Evan
* [[Max Von Sydow]] as Frederick
* [[Woody Allen]] as Mickey
* [[Lewis Black]] as Paul
* [[Julia Louis-Dreyfus]] as Mary
* [[Christian Clemenson]] as Larry
* [[Julie Kavner]] as Gail
* [[J. T. Walsh]] as Ed Smythe
* [[John Turturro]] as Writer
* [[Rusty Magee]] as Ron
* Allen DeCheser 
* Artie DeCheser as Hannah's Twins
* Ira Wheeler as Dr. Abel
* [[Richard Jenkins]] as Dr. Wilkes
* Tracy Kennedy as Brunch Guest
* [[Fred Melamed]] as Dr. Grey
* [[Benno Schmidt (actor and academic)|Benno Schmidt]] as Dr. Smith
* [[Joanna Gleason]] as Carol
* [[Maria Chiara]] as Manon Lescaut
* [[Daniel Stern (actor)|Daniel Stern]] as Dusty
* Stephen deFluiter as Dr. Brooks
* [[The 39 Steps (band)|The 39 Steps]] as Rock Band
* [[Bobby Short]] as Himself
* Rob Scott as Drummer
* [[Beverly Peer]] as Bass Player
* [[Daisy Previn]] 
* [[Moses Farrow]] as Hannah's Children
* Paul Bates as Theater Manager
* Carrotte 
* Mary Pappas as Theater Executives
* [[Bernie Leighton]] as Audition Pianist
* Ken Costigan as Father Flynn
* Helen Miller as Mickey's Mother
* Leo Postrel as Mickey's Father
* Susan Gordon-Clark as Hostess
* William Sturgis as Elliot's Analyst
* Daniel Haber as Krishna
* Verna O. Hobson as Mavis
* [[John Doumanian]]
* [[Fletcher Previn]]
* Irwin Tenenbaum
* Amy Greenhill
* Dickson Shaw
* Marie Sheridan as Thanksgiving Guests
* Ivan Kronenfeld as Lee's Husband                                                  
}}
{|class=wikitable
|-
|+Uncredited (in order of appearance)
|-
|[[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]]||Norman, Mickey's former partner in writing sitcoms
|-
|[[Sam Waterston]]||David, the architect who points out to April and Holly his favorite buildings
|-
|[[Soon-Yi Previn]]||Thanksgiving guest
|}

==Influences==
Part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Fanny and Alexander]]'' (1982). In both films, a large theatrical family gather for three successive years' celebrations (Thanksgiving in Allen's film, Christmas in Bergman's). The first of each gathering is in a time of contentment, the second in a time of trouble, and the third showing what happens after the resolution of the troubles. The sudden appearance of Mickey's reflection behind Holly's in the closing scene also parallels the apparition behind Alexander of the Bishop's ghost. Additional parallels can be found with [[Luchino Visconti]]'s 1960 film ''[[Rocco and His Brothers]]'', which, besides the connection to its name, also uses the structural device of dividing sections of the film for the different siblings' plot arcs.<ref>{{Cite web|url= http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7344|title= Rocco And His Brothers|work= The Spinning Image|access-date= April 10, 2014|first= Dan|last= Schneider|year= 2012|archive-date= April 13, 2014|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131524/http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7344|url-status= live}}</ref>

==Production==
The film was originally about a man who fell in love with his wife's sister. Woody Allen then re-read the novel ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' "and I thought, it's interesting how this guy gets the various stories going, cutting from one story to another. I loved the idea of experimenting with that."<ref name="new">{{cite news|title=Auteur! Auteur!|last=James|first=Caryn|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 19, 1986|page=SM18|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

He was particularly intrigued by the character of Nicholas Levin "who can't seem to find any meaning to life, he's terribly afraid of dying. It struck home very deeply. I thought it would be interesting to do one story about the relationship between three sisters and one story about someone else and his obsession with mortality."<ref name="new"/>

Allen admits the role of Hannah was based on Farrow being "a romanticized perception of Mia. She's very stable, she has eight children now, and she's able to run her career and have good relationships with her sister and her mother. I'm very impressed with those qualities, and I thought if she had two unstable sisters, it would be interesting."<ref name="new"/>

Allen says he was also inspired by the title. "I thought I'd like to make a film called ''Hannah and Her Sisters''", he said, saying this prompted him to give Hannah two sisters.<ref name="new"/> He was interested in making something about the relationship between sisters which he felt was more complex than that between brothers. "Maybe that comes from childhood; my mother had seven sisters and their children were female so all I knew were aunts and female cousins."<ref name="new"/>

Shooting began in October of 1984 in New York City, with Mia Farrow's real-life apartment being used.

Mia Farrow later wrote that Allen had been intrigued about the subject of sisters for a long time. His earlier co-stars [[Janet Margolin]] and [[Diane Keaton]] both had two sisters each, and Farrow had three. She says Allen gave her an early copy of ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' saying she could play whatever sister she wanted, but that "he felt I should be Hannah, the more complex and enigmatic of the sisters ... whose stillness and internal strength he likened to the quality [[Al Pacino]] projected in ''[[The Godfather]]''".<ref>{{harvnb|Farrow|1997|p=225}}</ref>

Farrow wrote, "It was the first time I criticized one of his scripts. To me, the characters seemed self-indulgent and dissolute in predictable ways. The script was wordy but it said nothing." She claims "Woody didn't disagree and tried to switch over to" an alternative idea, "but preproduction was already in progress, and we had to proceed".<ref>{{harvnb|Farrow|1997|pp=225–226}}</ref>

She later elaborated:
<blockquote>It was my mother's stunned, chill reaction to the script that enabled me to see how he had taken many of the personal circumstances and themes of our lives, and, it seemed, had distorted them into cartoonish characterizations. At the same time he was my partner. I loved him. I could trust him with my life. And he was a writer: this is what writers do. All grist for the mill. Relatives have always grumbled. He had taken the ordinary stuff of our lives and lifted it into art. We were honored and outraged.<ref name="Farrow266">{{harvnb|Farrow|1997|p=226}}</ref></blockquote>

Farrow admitted "a small sick feeling ... deep inside me" which "I shared with nobody was my fear that ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' had openly and clearly spelled out his feelings for my sister. But this was fiction, I told myself ... So I put those thoughts out of my mind."<ref name="Farrow266"/>

==Release==
The film premiered at the [[US Film Festival]] in Utah on January 25, 1986.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 27, 1985|page=5|title=Indie Aussie Films; U.S. Preems Listed For Utah Festival}}</ref>

The film was screened out of competition at the [[1986 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/801/year/1986.html|title=Festival de Cannes: Hannah and Her Sisters|access-date=July 18, 2009|publisher=[[Cannes Film Festival]]|archive-date=October 2, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002162808/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/801/year/1986.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Box office===
''Hannah and Her Sisters'' opened on February 7, 1986, in 54 theaters, where it grossed $1,265,826 ($23,441 per screen) in its opening weekend, the first time an Allen film had debuted in theaters in cities other than New York City.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Daily Variety]]|title='Down and Out' Up and Over Last Week's Nat'l B.O. Tally|date=February 11, 1986|page=6|last=Greenberg|first=James|issn=0011-5509}}</ref> When it expanded to 761 theaters on March 14, it garnered a respectable $2,707,966 ($3,809 per screen). It went on to gross $40,084,041 in the United States and Canada (including a re-release the following year), and remains one of the highest-grossing Woody Allen films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hannahandhersisters.htm|title=Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=September 18, 2012|archive-date=June 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622063145/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hannahandhersisters.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Adjusted for inflation it falls behind ''[[Annie Hall]]'' (1977) and ''[[Manhattan (1979 film)|Manhattan]]'' (1979), and possibly also one or two of his early comedies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=woodallen.htm|title=Woody Allen|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-date=July 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716200104/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=woodallen.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Midnight in Paris]]'' (2011) surpassed its box office as well.

==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 – 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 – 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 [[César Award for Best Foreign Film]].

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! 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 – Feature Film|Directing – Feature Film]]
| [[Woody Allen]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="5"| [[44th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – 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 – Motion Picture|Supporting Actor]]
| [[Michael Caine]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – 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]]
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| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Dianne Wiest]]
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| 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]]
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| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| {{won}}
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| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
| {{nom}}
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| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Dianne Wiest]]
| {{won}}
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| [[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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==Legacy==
In 1986, ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine satirized the film as "Henna and Her Sickos" which was written by Debbee Ovitz with art by [[Mort Drucker]].

In 2016, [[Olivia Wilde]] directed a live table reading of ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' at ''[[The New York Times]]''{{'}} small and packed-out [[Center Theatre (New York City)|Times Center theatre]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/14/hannah-and-her-sisters-live-read-review-woody-allen-olivia-wilde|title=Hannah and Her Sisters Live Read review – Olivia Wilde leads confident staging|first=Paul|last=Owen|work=The Guardian|date=May 14, 2016|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=May 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531093838/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/14/hannah-and-her-sisters-live-read-review-woody-allen-olivia-wilde|url-status=live}}</ref> The cast included, Wilde as Hannah, [[Rose Byrne]] as Lee, [[Uma Thurman]] as Holly, [[Michael Sheen]] as Elliott, [[Bobby Cannavale]] as Mickey, and [[Salman Rushdie]] as Frederick with [[Maya Rudolph]], [[Jason Sudeikis]] and [[Justin Long]] filling out the supporting parts.<ref name="hollywoodreporter.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/critics-notebook-an-all-star-894194|title=Critic's Notebook: An All-Star Cast Performs Woody Allen's 'Hannah and Her Sisters' at a NYC Edition of Live Read|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=May 15, 2016|access-date=May 29, 2020|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802090628/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/critics-notebook-an-all-star-894194|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Questlove]] served as the musical director who cued the musical selections ranging from jazz renditions of the Great American Songbook to Bach.<ref name="hollywoodreporter.com"/>

==Soundtrack==
Note:  not all of these selections appear on the soundtrack issued by [[MCA Records]].
* Sola, perduta abbandonata – Segment from the opera "Manon Lescaut" by [[Giacomo Puccini]] – Orchestra del [[Teatro Regio di Torino]] – Conductor Angelo Campori
* You Made Me Love You – by Thomas Joseph McCarthy and [[James V. Monaco]] – Performed by [[Harry James]]
* I've Heard That Song Before – by [[Sammy Cahn]] and [[Jule Styne]] – Performed by Harry James
* Bewitched – by [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Lorenz Hart]] – Performed by [[Lloyd Nolan]] and [[Maureen O'Sullivan]]
* Just You, Just Me – by Raymond Klages and [[Jesse Greer]] – Performed by [[Dick Hyman]]
* Where Or When – by [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Lorenz Hart]]
* Concerto For Two Violins and Orchestra – by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] – The Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra – Conducted by Vasil Kazandzhiev
* Back to the Apple – by Frank Foster and [[Count Basie]] – Performed by Count Basie and His Orchestra
* The Trot – by [[Benny Carter]] – Performed by Count Basie and His Orchestra
* I Remember You – by [[Johnny Mercer]] & Victor Schertzinger – Performed by [[Dave Brubeck]]
* Madama Butterfly – by Giacomo Puccini – Performed by Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma – Conducted by [[John Barbirolli]]
* Concerto For Harpsichord In F minor – by Johann Sebastian Bach – Performed by [[Gustav Leonhardt]]
* You Are Too Beautiful – by Lorenz Hart and [[Richard Rodgers]] – Performed by Derek Smith
* If I Had You – by Jimmy Campbell, [[Reginald Connelly]], and [[Ted Shapiro]] – Performed by [[Roy Eldridge]]
* I'm in Love Again – by Cole Porter – Performed by [[Bobby Short]]
* I'm Old Fashioned – by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer – Sung by [[Dianne Wiest]] – Piano: Bernie Leighton
* The Way You Look Tonight – by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields – Sung by Carrie Fisher – Piano: Bernie Leighton
* It Could Happen to You – by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen – Performed by Dick Hyman
* Polkadots and Moonbeams – by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen – Performed by Dick Hyman
* Avalon – Written by Vincent Rose, Al Jolson, and Buddy G. DeSylva – Performed by Dick Hyman
* Isn't It Romantic – by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart – Performed by Derek Smith
* Slip Into the Crowd – by Michael Bramon – Performed by Michael Bramon and The 39 Steps
* Freedonia's Going to War – from ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' (1933) – Music by Harry Ruby – Performed by Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, and Harpo Marx with chorus<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091167/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd|title=Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - IMDb|website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=July 7, 2020|archive-date=November 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104221927/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091167/soundtrack?ref_=tt_trv_snd|url-status=live}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
* {{cite book |last=Farrow |first=Mia |title=What Falls Away: A Memoir |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-3854-7187-9 }}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb title|0091167}}
* {{AFI film|57340}}
* {{TCMDb title|77299}}
* [http://www.tvguide.com/movies/grand-exit/review/125549/ ''Hannah and Her Sisters''] at ''[[TV Guide]]'' (revised and shortened version of 1987 write-up originally published in ''The Motion Picture Guide'')
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|hannah_and_her_sisters}}
* {{Metacritic film}}

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