Was “hannah and her sisters” received well by critics?
Hannah and Her Sisters received seven Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture. Allen’s writing was recognized with an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and he earned a nomination for Best Director. His work on the film was also recognized with two BAFTA Awards. Caine and Wiest each won Oscars, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film was also Oscar-nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, and Best Film Editing. In France, the film was nominated for a César Award for Best Foreign Film. Influential critics Siskel and Ebert each rated the film among the top three of the 1986 film year; Ebert’s 1986 review of the film began with “Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters is the best movie he has ever made.” Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The mo
It’s not his best, but Hannah and Her Sisters is definitely Woody Allen’s second best. The film does everything a Woody film should — it deals with complex issues in a hilarious way. Up this time, as the title suggests, is the notion of family, as Allen skewers a dysfunctional clan led by three sisters (Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, and Barbara Hershey) and the rotten men the come in and out of their lives. Allen plays his neurotic self to perfection, this time a hypochondriac TV executive and ex-husband of Hannah (Farrow). Michael Caine, though, steals the show as Hannah’s current husband who falls in love with sister Lee (Hershey), herself living with an aging, pedantic shut-in (Max von Sydow). The acting is sublime, but the little touches push Hannah to greatness. Allen’s photographic compositions are among his best ever here, spying on Caine as he makes eyes at Hershey from afar while we play along with the game. His musical selections, always impeccable, are fantastic here, with Harr
