Academy Award winner Diane Keaton died Saturday, Oct. 11, at the age of 79.
Without providing a cause of death, Keaton’s family confirmed the news on Saturday, Oct. 12.
Keaton had an illustrious career in Hollywood that spanned more than five decades and garnered four Oscar nominations. She won her only Oscar for her role as the title character in “Annie Hall.” In addition to on-screen appearances, Keaton was also a director; notably, she directed a Season 2 episode of David Lynch’s masterwork “Twin Peaks.”
The actress’ filmography is nearly 100 movies long, but here are 13 movies you can check out on streaming now to celebrate the life of one of the greats.
Keaton’s first major Hollywood role was Kay Adams-Corleone, the girlfriend and later wife of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in “The Godfather” and both of its sequels.
The entire “Godfather” trilogy is available to buy and rent on Prime Video.
Keaton made eight films throughout her career with Woody Allen, including “Sleeper,” “Love and Death,” and “Manhattan Murder Mystery,” but the Allen collaboration that won Keaton her first and only Academy Award was “Annie Hall.” Keaton played the titular Annie, a role which Allen wrote for her.
Keaton earned her second Oscar nomination for “Reds,” where she played real-life activist Louise Bryant. She starred opposite Warren Beatty in the historical drama that chronicled the life and career of John Reed, a journalist who covered the October Revolution
Keaton starred alongside Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Marvin’s Room,” which led to her third Oscar nomination. In it, she plays Bessie, a woman who is forced to reunite with her sister (Streep) when she is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
Keaton’s fourth and final Oscar nomination is for her performance in Nancy Meyers’ “Something’s Gotta Give.” Keaton and Meyers collaborated frequently, culminating in this 2003 rom-com about a dramatist (Keaton) finding love late in life with a record company owner (Jack Nicholson).
Meyers paid tribute to Keaton on Instagram, calling her “a brilliant actress who time and again laid herself bare to tell our stories.”
In “Looking for Mr. Goodbar,” Keaton plays Theresa Dunn, a young schoolteacher ignoring the advances of the well-meaning but nerdy social worker James (William Atherton), and pursuing the likes of Tony (Richard Gere), whose threatening knife and swagger excite her.
Keaton co-starred with Steve Martin in the 1991 remake of 1950s “Father of the Bride.” The first movie follows Martin’s George Banks, a banker who becomes flustered while he and his family (including Keaton’s Nina, George’s wife) prepare for his daughter’s marriage.
Keaton’s highest-grossing film of the 1990s was “The First Wives Club,” in which she co-starred with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler as three divorcées who seek retribution on their ex-husbands for having left them for younger women.
Keaton starred as Sybil Stone, the matriarch of the Stone family in 2005’s “The Family Stone,” which has become a holiday classic in the 20 years since its release. The film follows Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) bringing his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), home to meet his bohemian Connecticut family at Christmas.
Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen make up the cast of “Book Club,” which follows four friends who read “Fifty Shades of Grey” in their book club and begin to change how they view their own relationships.
“Book Club: The Next Chapter” continued the book club’s story on a whirlwind trip to Italy.
One of Keaton’s only prolonged television credits is HBO’s “The Young Pope.” She appeared in all 10 episodes of the limited series as Sister Mary, the confidante to the titular young pope, Pius XIII (Jude Law).
In 2016, Keaton received her first voice acting credit in the animated movie “Finding Dory.” The Disney/Pixar movie is a sequel to “Finding Nemo,” which follows Ellen DeGeneres’ Dory as she journeys to reunite with her parents.; Keaton voices, Jenny, Dory’s mother.
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