Diane Keaton: An appreciation

Diane Keaton died today at the age of 79. Cause of death has not been revealed and it’s not known if the Oscar-winning movie legend had been ill.

My all-time favorite Keaton films: Something’s Gotta Give, Baby Boom, First Wives Club, The Family Stone and Marvin’s Room.

We got to know her in the 70s through a string of Woody Allen movies (including Oscar winning role in Annie Hall), the Godfather I and II and Looking for Mr. Goodbar. The 80s brought more big movies like her Oscar-nominated performance in Reds, the hit comedy Baby Boom and the dramas Shoot the Moon and Mrs. Soffel. In the 90s, she was in the hit comedy Father of the Bride and its sequel and the blockbuster smash The First Wives Club, an Oscar nominated performance in the drama Marvin’s Room and one of my personal faves Manhattan Murder Mystery.

Another Oscar nomination came for 2003’s Something’s Gotta Give and some of her other films after that include The Family Stone, Because I Said So, Mad Money, The Big Wedding, And So It Goes,Morning Glory, Love the Coopers and 2014’s 5 Flights Up opposite Morgan Freeman.

In 2018 she starred with Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenbergen in Book Club, headlined the charming comedy Poms and its sequel in 2023. Other more recent films include Love, Weddings & Other Disasters, Mack and Rita, Maybe I Do and last year’s Summer Camp and Arthur’s Whisky.

Here is just a sampling of Keaton moments from some of her most memorable films: