Source: Variety
Iconic, Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79. Her long and celebrated career was defined by her versatility, most notably her Academy Award-winning role as the titular, stylish, and charming love interest in Woody Allen’s 1977 romantic comedy, Annie Hall.
In a New Yorker profile published at the height of Keaton’s first flush of fame, Penelope Gilliatt noted, “She is not at all like the many actresses who have skimmed some mannerisms off her and done insultingly mild imitations by relying on ‘Well’s and dither. Miss Keaton…is not a whit like the flustered ingénue she was cast to play.
Beyond her comedic roles, Keaton demonstrated significant dramatic range, perhaps most famously as Kay Adams, the troubled wife of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), in Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece films, The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). She received her second Oscar nomination for playing radical socialite Louise Bryant in Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic, Reds.
Throughout her five-decade career, Keaton continued to earn critical and popular acclaim, garnering two more Oscar nominations for Marvin’s Room (1996) and the Nancy Meyers rom-com Something’s Got to Give (2003). In addition to her acting work, Keaton was also an active director, producer, photographer, and bestselling memoirist.
Keaton, who never married and is survived by her two adopted children, received the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, celebrating a singular talent that evolved across generations of cinema.
