Video: 'Bullets over Broadway' trailer

(Sunday, September 4, 1994) — Bullets over Broadway, a crime-comedy film about a struggling playwright who is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced, premiered today at the Venice Film Festival.

Directed by Woody Allen, the film stars John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, Mary-Louise Parker, Jack Warden, Joe Viterelli, Rob Reiner, Tracey Ullman, Jim Broadbent and Harvey Fierstein.

The film would be nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Allen for Best Director, Allen and Douglas McGrath for Best Original Screenplay, Palminteri for Best Supporting Actor, and both Tilly and Wiest for Best Supporting Actress, with the latter winning for her performance, the second time Allen directed her to an Academy Award.

Considered one of his best works, Bullets Over Broadway is the most recent film directed by Allen with a shared writing credit.