in "empire" magazine's poll of the 500 greatest movies of all time, "crimes and misdemeanors" was ranked number 267. in 2010, it was the first film to win the 20/20 award for best picture, best original screenplay (woody allen), and best supporting actor (martin landau). it also received three additional nominations, for best director (woody allen), best supporting actor (jerry orbach) and best supporting actress (anjelica huston). in a 2016 "time out" contributors' poll, it ranked second only to "annie hall" among allen's efforts, with dave calhoun praising it as "the film in which woody's comic and serious sides most comfortably align". the film achieved the same rank in an article by "the daily telegraph" critics robbie collin and tim robey, who wrote, "here [allen is] thinking deeply about moral choice, the question of whether guilt in your own eyes or the eyes of the world matters more. this bubblingly wise film, rich with beautifully dovetailing metaphors about blindness and conscience and the perils of self-knowledge, [...] is allen on soaring form, gliding so elegantly through its maze of ideas it's as if the spirit of fred astaire gave it lift-off." "crimes and misdemeanors" was also named allen's second best by chris nashawaty of "entertainment weekly" and barbara vandenbergh of "the arizona republic", third by darian lusk of cbs, and fourth by zachary wigon of nerve. in a 2015 bbc critics' poll, it was voted the 57th greatest american film ever made.