Woody Allen turns 80 after a life of films, affairs and controversies

The filmmaker's career has included celebrated films, affairs and controveries

The filmmaker's career has included celebrated films, affairs and controversies (AP)

As legendary as he is controversial, filmmaker Woody Allen has turned 80 - with a career encompassing, multiple classic movies, affairs and oddities.

With classics such as Annie Hall and Manhattan from the 1970s and the more recent Midnight In Paris and Blue Jasmine, Allen is cemented in cinema history. He has received 24 nominations for the Academy Awards, and won four times.

Allen has been married three times and had several long-term partners, including Mia Farrow. Adding to the twists and turns of his life, his current wife, Soon-Yi Previn, is the adopted daughter of Farrow and her husband, Andre Previn, the composer. She is much, much younger than him.

Farrow also accused Allen of sexually abusing anther of her children, an allegation denied by Allen and that the subject of a seventh-month probe by police. The case was eventually dropped and police said they found no evidence to support the allegation.