Woody Allen stars in his most beloved film as neurotic New Yorker Alvy Singer, who undertakes a bumpy, ill-fated romance with an engagingly daffy, free-spirited singer named Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). Annie Hall achieves a near-perfect balance between the zany humor of Allen's earlier comedies and the soul-searching angst of his later comedy/dramas. Originally titled Anhedonia, the technical term for the inability to experience pleasure, the movie has produced any number of now-classic scenes: Annie and Alvy carry on a conversation while their real thoughts are conveyed in subtitles ("My God, I sound like FM radio"); Alvy sneezes away $1000 worth of cocaine; Annie calls up Alvy in the middle of the night to remove a spider "the size of a Buick" from her bathtub; and Alvy's Jewish relatives and Annie's WASP family share a dinner through the magic of a split screen. The script successfully blends romantic comedy with gags and fantasy, while sharpening Allen's urban outsider persona against the cultural differences of both Annie Hall and Los Angeles. Annie Hall won Academy Awards for Best Picture (a rare win for a comedy), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress for Diane Keaton, whose Annie set Seventies trends in both baggy fashion and goofy speech ("La di dah").