"With an ingratiatingly natural acting style and quirky off-screen fashion sensibility, Ms. Keaton upended traditional Hollywood notions of star quality in the same way as the unconventional leading men who also came to prominence in the 1970s, including her frequent co-stars Al Pacino and Woody Allen. With Allen as her director and romantic foil, she made "Annie Hall," the bittersweet 1977 comedy based on their own failed relationship that won her the Academy Award for Best Actress."
"A box-office smash, it also won the prize for Best Picture and the directing trophy for Allen. Mixing flawless comic timing with unguarded emotion gave audiences the sense of watching a woman bumble through her life in real time on screen. She played Annie Hall with "an interesting mixture of maternal care, genuine love, and absolute craziness," Roger Ebert wrote at the time."
"But while her charmingly dithering performance as an aspiring singer - who filled her flustered silences with non sequiturs like "La-dee-da, la-dee-da" - could fool audiences into thinking she wasn't acting at all, Ms. Keaton had already proven her dramatic skills as Kay Corleone, the mob wife and anguished moral core of "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II," opposite Pacino, another on-again, off-again love in real life."
Diane Keaton died at age 79. She was an Oscar-winning actress celebrated for an ingratiatingly natural acting style and a quirky off-screen fashion sensibility that upended traditional Hollywood notions of star quality. She rose to prominence in the 1970s alongside unconventional leading men such as Al Pacino and Woody Allen. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Annie Hall (1977), which also won Best Picture and Best Director. Keaton alternated between comic and dramatic roles, including Kay Corleone in The Godfather films, the teacher in Looking for Mister Goodbar, the career woman in Baby Boom, and the midlife romantic lead in Something's Gotta Give. Her performances combined comic timing with unguarded emotion.
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