Editing Shadows and Fog (section)

==Reception==

===Box office===
After its premiere in 1991, ''Shadows and Fog'' opened to wide release on March 20, 1992 in 288 North American cinemas.  In its first three days, it grossed $1,111,314 ($3,858 per screen).  It finished its run with $2,735,731.<ref name="www.boxofficemojo.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shadowsandfog.htm |title=Shadows and Fog |access-date=2007-07-31 |archive-date=2014-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140401053938/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=shadowsandfog.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It did not turn up in the United Kingdom until February 1993, where it attained a total gross of only £87,622.<ref name="Donatello"/>

Its production budget has been estimated at $14 million.<ref name="www.boxofficemojo.com"/>

===Critical response===
''Shadows and Fog'' received a mixed response from critics and holds an approval rating of 54% on the review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] from 28 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The critical consensus reads: "''Shadows and Fog'' recreates the chiaroscuro aesthetic of German Expressionism, but Woody Allen's rambling screenplay retreads the director's neurotic obsessions with derivative results."<ref>{{cite web |title=Shadows and Fog (1992) |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shadows_and_fog/ |access-date=September 18, 2015 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904055752/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shadows_and_fog/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' gave the film modest praise, writing,"Like '[[Zelig]],' 'Shadows and Fog' is a pastiche of references to the works of others, but it's a brazen, irrepressible original in the way it uses those references."  He added, "A note of caution: 'Shadows and Fog' operates on its own wavelength. It is different. It should not be anticipated in the manner of other Allen films. It's unpredictable, with its own tone and rhythm, even though, like all of the director's work, it's a mixture of the sincere, the sardonic and the classically sappy."<ref>{{cite web|last=Canby|first=Vincent|author-link=Vincent Canby|title=Review/Film; Woody Allen on the Loose in Kafka Country|work=The New York Times|date=March 20, 1992|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE5DC123FF933A15750C0A964958260|access-date=September 18, 2015|archive-date=March 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325015318/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE5DC123FF933A15750C0A964958260|url-status=live}}</ref>  ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' similarly wrote, "Exquisitely shot in black & white, Woody Allen's ''Shadows and Fog'' is a sweet homage to German expressionist filmmaking and a nod to the content of socially responsible tales since narrative film began. Allen's fans will regard this as a nice try that falls short."<ref>{{cite web |title=Review: 'Shadows and Fog' |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=December 31, 1991 |url=https://variety.com/1991/film/reviews/shadows-and-fog-1200429257/ |access-date=September 18, 2015 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305062033/http://variety.com/1991/film/reviews/shadows-and-fog-1200429257/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Desson Thomson]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote:{{blockquote|There's nothing particularly objectionable about Woody Allen's "Shadows and Fog." That's part of the problem. This black-and-white seriocomedy, set in the 1920s, is an amiable ramble through some of Allen's favorite themes and European film movements. It has a small army of guest stars and a fair offering of Allen jokes. But it's also flat and peakless. It doesn't conclude so much as stop. There's nothing to take home but your feet.<ref>{{cite news |last=Howe |first=Desson |author-link=Desson Thomson |title='Shadows and Fog' (PG-13) |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 20, 1992 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shadowsandfogpg13howe_a0aeb1.htm |access-date=September 18, 2015 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305062335/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/shadowsandfogpg13howe_a0aeb1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

In 2016 film critics [[Robbie Collin]] and Tim Robey ranked ''Shadows and Fog'' as one of the worst movies by Woody Allen.<ref>{{cite news|title=All 47 Woody Allen movies - ranked from worst to best|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/woody-allens-best-and-worst-movies/|access-date=February 12, 2017|work=The Telegraph|date=October 12, 2016|archive-date=January 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118143535/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/woody-allens-best-and-worst-movies/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Recalling the film’s critical and commercial failure in his 2020 memoir, ''[[Apropos of Nothing]]'', Allen joked that “the filming of Shadows and Fog went off without a hitch except for the movie.”<ref>{{cite news|title=Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen review - a life and an accusation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/09/apropos-of-nothing-by-woody-allen-review-a-life-and-an-accusation|access-date=April 14, 2020|work=The Guardian|date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=April 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413173915/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/09/apropos-of-nothing-by-woody-allen-review-a-life-and-an-accusation|url-status=live}}</ref> Allen also states in his memoir that he "knew the film was destined for commercial doom," but made the movie regardless, disdaining artistic fear he says would yield "safe middle-of-the-road projects," and, summarizing the finished product, added: "It’s not a bad idea but you have to be in the mood for it, and marketing tests showed it did not appeal to homo sapiens."<ref>{{ cite book|title=Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen|date=March 23, 2020}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Recipient
! Result
|-
| [[David di Donatello Awards]]<ref name="Donatello">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG1ZAAAAMAAJ&q=Shadows+and+Fog|title=Woody: Movies from Manhattan|publisher=B.T. Batsford|first=Julia|last=Fox|date=1996 |isbn=0713480297|page=220}}</ref>
| [[David di Donatello for Best International Film|Best International Film]]
| ''Shadows and Fog''
| {{won}}

|-
| [[Nastro d'Argento|Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) Awards]]<ref name="Argento">{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D7cqAQAAIAAJ&q=Shadows+and+Fog|title=Ombre E Nebbia (Shadows and Fog)|page=167|journal=Garage|date=1995|publisher=Scriptorium|isbn=978-88-86231-27-5 }}</ref>
| Best Cinematography
| [[Carlo Di Palma]]
| {{won}}
|}