‘The Godfather’ (1972)
Diane Keaton played outsider Kay Adams-Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s three Godfather films.
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‘Play It Again, Sam’ (1972)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton with Woody Allen in Play It Again, Sam, one of many collaborations with the actor-writer-director, which also included 1977’s Annie Hall (more on that later), Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979) and Radio Days (1987).
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‘Annie Hall’ (1977)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton and Allen in Annie Hall, for which she won the best actress Oscar for her role as the iconic “la-di-da” female lead, which Allen wrote for her based on their real-life romance.
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‘Looking for Mr. Goodbar’ (1977)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton, seen here with Richard Gere, delivered an acclaimed performance as a schoolteacher who goes to singles bars in 1977’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s Sheri Linden says she “never panders to audience sympathy as she digs beneath the film’s lurid surface and her troubled character’s emotional armor.”
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‘Reds’ (1981)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton played journalist Louise Bryant in 1981’s Reds alongside Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, who also co-wrote, directed and produced the historical drama about American leftists and the Russian Civil War.
THR’s Linden said Keaton’s character “is the essence of convention-defying modernity and independence, and all the more fascinating for her off-putting contradictions.”
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‘Baby Boom’ (1987)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection In one of many collaborations with Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, Keaton’s driven management consultant J.C. Wiatt finds herself surprisingly having to care for a 14-month-old baby after a distant cousin dies and leaves her the child as her inheritance.
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‘Father of the Bride’ (1991)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton teamed with Meyers and Shyer again for their remake of Father of the Bride, starring as mother of the bride Nina Banks in the 1991 film and its sequel opposite Steve Martin’s titular character, George Banks.
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‘First Wives Club’ (1996)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton alongside Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler in 1996’s First Wives Club, where the trio starred as divorcées seeking revenge against their ex-husbands.
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‘Marvin’s Room’ (1996)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton with Meryl Streep in 1996’s Marvin’s Room, where she played a sympathetic aunt to a teenage Leonardo DiCaprio in yet another Oscar-nominated performance.
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‘The Other Sister’ (1999)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton with Juliette Lewis in the Garry Marshall-directed The Other Sister.
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‘Hanging Up’ (2000)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton directed and co-starred in this film about a trio of sisters, with Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow, looking after their father (Walter Matthau in his final film role).
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Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Columbia/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton reunited with Nicholson and Meyers for the 2003 rom-com Something’s Gotta Give, earning her fourth best actress Oscar nomination for her role as playwright Erica Barry.
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‘The Family Stone’ (2005)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton laughed it up with Rachel McAdams and Sarah Jessica Parker as the matriarch of a tight-knit, abrasive family in the fan-favorite holiday comedy.
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‘Because I Said So’ (2007)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton played a meddling mom to Mandy Moore’s daughter in the 2007 rom-com.
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‘Book Club’ (2018)
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection Keaton alongside Candice Bergen in one of her last film roles, in which she played one of four friends (including Jane Fonda and Mary Steenburgen) who undergo romantic awakenings after reading Fifty Shades of Grey. The 2018 movie also spawned a 2023 sequel.