Woody Allen's film Annie Hall has beaten off competition from thousands of writers to be voted the funniest screenplay of all time, according to the Writers Guild of America.
Written by Allen and Marshall Brickman in 1975, Annie Hall tells the story of the difficult relationship between a male comedian and a woman in New York.
Woody Allen's semi-biographical film was voted in at number one, ahead of 'Some Like it Hot' starring Marilyn Monroe and 1993 classic 'Groundhog Day'.
Woody Allen's film, starring himself and Diane Keaton, won an impressive four Academy Awards in 1786, including best director and best picture.
eflecting on his film, Allen described Annie Hall as a 'stream of consciousness showing one individual's state of mind.'
The film portrays how 'conversations and events constantly trigger dreams, fantasies and recollections', he told the New York Times.
'I think it's a combination of Woody's unique sensibility and his commitment to drama as well as to joke, said Lowell Peterson, executive director of Writers Guild of America East.
Top Ten
1. Annie Hall (1977)- Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
2. Some Like It Hot (1959)- Screenplay by Billy Wilder & IAL Diamond
3. Groundhog Day (1993)- Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis
4. Airplane! (1980) - Written by James Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
5. Tootsie (1982) - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
6. Young Frankenstein (1974) - Screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks
7. Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern
8.Blazing Saddles (1974)- Screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)- Written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin
10. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) - Written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller
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Topic - Get ready to dook it out: THE TOP 10 FUNNIEST SCREENPLAY - Billy Wonka 17:11:01 11/13/15 (14)
- RE: Get ready to dook it out: THE TOP 10 FUNNIEST SCREENPLAY - RGA 04:38:31 11/16/15 (1)
- RE: Get ready to dook it out: THE TOP 10 FUNNIEST SCREENPLAY - cfraser 10:25:48 11/16/15 (0)
- 'Freebie and the Bean' - mbnx01 15:38:20 11/14/15 (0)
- Bogus. No Adam Sandler. - free.ranger 14:58:21 11/14/15 (1)
- sorry but 'the Waterboy' wins hands down "I love momma!" ;^) nt - PhilJ 19:55:28 11/14/15 (0)
- RE: Get ready to dook it out: THE TOP 10 FUNNIEST SCREENPLAY - mkuller 11:24:09 11/14/15 (1)
- Thanx to the Daily Mail . . . * - Billy Wonka 12:19:47 11/14/15 (0)
- they forgot The Producers, also I think The Forty Year Old Virgin is pretty funny and some on the list may be - PhilJ 06:44:19 11/14/15 (1)
- RE: they forgot The Producers, also I think The Forty Year Old Virgin is pretty funny and some on the list may be - cfraser 09:36:04 11/14/15 (0)
- Funny that the funniest screenplay's don't necessarily... - musetap 21:43:29 11/13/15 (0)
- RE: Get ready to dook it out: THE TOP 10 FUNNIEST SCREENPLAY - Bill the K 20:00:12 11/13/15 (0)
- Personally I would reverse the ordering. Nt - geoffkait 17:30:10 11/13/15 (2)
- Agree -Some Like it Hot the winner nt! - Des 13:59:06 11/16/15 (0)
- Agreed...(nt) - mkuller 12:33:11 11/14/15 (0)