...not including the man himself. What would your picks be? There are so many that it is difficult to leave out, and the top four or five on my list I consider to be all-time world class work, any of which would be a fitting pick for the top spot...

1. Martin Landau in Crimes and Misdemeanours - Makes my no. 1 as the most complex, fascinating character Allen ever scripted. Landau, who was on a sensational career roll at the time, knocks it out of the park. A performance of delicate shades, light and dark, which improves with each viewing.
2. Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway - She is super in Hannah too, but here she grabs what could have been a one-note, if amusing, caricature and transforms it into one of the funniest things I have ever seen on film.
3. Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives - Sensational - my favourite of Allen's many neurotic women. She has most of the best lines in one of his strongest scripts, and runs with it - but she also achieves so much with her eyes and body language.
4. Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine - Finally I got what everybody saw in Blanchett with this brilliant piece of controlled overacting. A fine character study.
5. Diane Keaton in Annie Hall - Probably should be higher, and I possibly placed her 'down' the list because it seems such a quintessential Keaton role that it's difficult to separate Diane from Annie. Much more difficult to pull off than she makes it look.
6. Barbara Hershey in Hannah and Her Sisters
7. Elaine May in Small Time Crooks
8. Alan Alda in Crimes and Misdemeanours
9. Sydney Pollack in Husbands and Wives
10. Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo