All That Jazz

All That Jazz is a 1979 musical film and semi-autobiographical fantasy by and about Bob Fosse.

Roy Scheider plays a chain-smoking, pill-popping, womanizing, workaholic choreographer and director. Fosse was inspired by his own manic effort to edit his movie Lenny about Lenny Bruce while staging his musical Pippin at the same time.

It was written by Robert Alan Arthur and Fosse, and directed by Fosse. Besides Scheider, it starred Ann Reinking (as the Fosse-Scheider character's girl friend and lead dancer), Cliff Gorman (who played Lenny Bruce on stage) and Ben Vereen (Fosse's star in Pippin), and featured Jessica Lange (another sometime Fosse girl friend) in a small role.

An odd tribute to show business, sex and death, All That Jazz was nominated for several Oscars, winning for Art Direction, stage direction, best costume, Best Editing (Alan Heim) and original score.

The film won the 1980 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

"All That Jazz" is also a song from the musical Chicago.