Diane Keaton receive AFI Life Achievement Award

It’s just been announced that Diane Keaton will receive the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award next June and what a great choice she is for one of the highest awards there is in the movie industry.

Past recipients include Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Gene Kelly, Barbara Stanwyck, Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbra Streisand, James Cagney, Mike Nichols, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Sidney Poitier, Gregory Peck, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon, among others.
Keaton, 70, is one of the rare actresses of a certain age who continues to get lead roles in films including last year’s Love the Coopers and 2014’s 5 Flights Up opposite Morgan Freeman. She’s still funny, still sexy, as talented as ever and she doesn’t appear to have had many, if any, nips and tucks.

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 more recent films include The Family Stone, Because I Said So, Mad Money, The Big Wedding, And So It Goes and Morning Glory.

Here is just a sampling of Keaton moments from some of those great films: