Letty Aronson

American film producer

Sidney Aronson

(m. 1968; died 2002)

Children3FamilyWoody Allen (brother)
Ronan Farrow (nephew)AwardsGolden Globe Award (2009)

Ellen Letty Aronson (née Konigsberg;^[1] born November 30, 1943) is an American film producer. She is the younger sister of writer and director Woody Allen.^[2]

Personal life

Aronson was born Ellen Letty Konigsberg in 1943 in New York City,^[3] to Nettie (née Cherry) and Martin Königsberg,^[4] and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York.^[5] Her older brother is writer and director Woody Allen. Aronson comes from a Jewish family; her grandparents were from Lithuania and Austria. She was educated at Brooklyn College and New York University. Aronson was married to Sidney Aronson, an elementary school principal in Brooklyn who died in 2002.^[6] They had three children together, Christopher, Erika, and Alexa.^[7]

Career

She has produced many of her brother Woody Allen's films including Bullets over Broadway (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Celebrity (1998), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Anything Else (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), Match Point (2005), Scoop (2006), Cassandra's Dream (2007), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Whatever Works (2009), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010), Midnight in Paris (2011), To Rome with Love (2012), and Blue Jasmine (2013).

Filmography

As a producer

Year	Title	Notes
1994	Bullets over Broadway
1994	Don't Drink the Water	Television movie
1995	Mighty Aphrodite
1996	Everyone Says I Love You
1997	Deconstructing Harry
1997	The Spanish Prisoner	Co-executive producer
1998	Into My Heart	Executive producer
1998	Celebrity
1999	Sweet and Lowdown
	Story of a Bad Boy	Co-executive producer
	Women Talking Dirty \|
	Just Looking \|
2000	Small Time Crooks
2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2002	Hollywood Ending
2003	Anything Else
2004	Melinda and Melinda
2005	Match Point
2006	Scoop
2007	Cassandra's Dream
2008	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009	Whatever Works
2010	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2011	Midnight in Paris
2012	To Rome with Love
2013	Blue Jasmine
2014	Magic in the Moonlight
2015	Irrational Man
2016	Café Society
2017	Wonder Wheel
2019	A Rainy Day in New York
2020	Rifkin's Festival
2023	Coup de chance

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2008	Golden Globe Awards	Best Picture - Musical or Comedy	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Won
2012	Academy Awards	Best Picture	Midnight in Paris	Nominated
	Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Best Picture		Nominated
	Hollywood Film Awards	Producer of the Year		Won
	Producers Guild of America Awards	Best Theatrical Motion Picture		Nominated
2014	Producers Guild of America Awards	Best Theatrical Motion Picture	Blue Jasmine	Nominated

References

^ Hoffman, Barbara, "Woody and his sister", The New York Post, October 15, 2011
^ "Woody Allen's Sister Says His Daughter Dylan Farrow 'Capitalized' on the #MeToo Movement". People. January 28, 2018.
^ Woody Allen; Robert E. Kapsis; Kathie Coblentz (2006). Woody Allen: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-1-57806-793-0.
^ "Martin Konigsberg, 100, Woody Allen's Father". The New York Times. January 11, 2001. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
^ Toy, Vivian S. (December 4, 2009). "Living In Midwood, Brooklyn". The New York Times. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
^ "Paid Notice: Deaths ARONSON, SIDNEY". The New York Times. May 19, 2002. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
^ "Paid Notice: Deaths ARONSON, SIDNEY". New York Times. May 19, 2002. Retrieved August 8, 2012.