Diane Keaton in ‘Annie Hall’. Photo: United Artists.
Diane Keaton has passed away, and the iconic actress will never be forgotten.
The Oscar-winning actress appeared in such beloved franchises as ‘The Godfather‘ and ‘Father of the Bride‘ series, classic comedies like ‘Baby Boom,’ ‘The First Wives Club‘ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give,’ as well as Woody Allen films such as ‘Manhattan,’ and ‘Annie Hall,’ for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Release Date: Apr 20, 1977
Run Time: 1 hr 33 min
Budget: $4,000,000
In honor of the new movie, Moviefone is counting down the 25 best films of Diane Keaton’s career.
Let’s begin!
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Just when George Banks (Steve Martin) has recovered from his daughter’s wedding, he receives the news that she’s (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) pregnant … and that George’s wife (Keaton) is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that’s a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
“Just when his world is back to normal… he’s in for the surprise of his life!”
Release Date: Dec 8, 1995
Run Time: 1 hr 46 min
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege (Andy Garcia) under his wing.
“All the power on earth can’t change destiny.”
Release Date: Dec 25, 1990
Run Time: 2 hr 42 min
Budget: $54,000,000
A trio of sisters (Keaton, Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow) bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father (Walter Matthau), to whom none of them was particularly close.
“Every family has a few hang-ups.”
Release Date: Feb 16, 2000
Run Time: 1 hr 34 min
Budget: $60,000,000
A young and devoted morning television producer (Rachel McAdams) is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor (Harrison Ford) who disapproves of co-hosting with the current morning host (Keaton).
Release Date: Nov 10, 2010
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $40,000,000
An uptight, conservative businesswoman (Sarah Jessica Parker) accompanies her boyfriend (Dermot Mulroney) to his eccentric and outgoing family’s annual Christmas celebration and finds that she’s a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Release Date: Dec 15, 2005
Run Time: 1 hr 43 min
Budget: $19,000,000
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Michelle (Emma Roberts) and Allen (Luke Bracey), who have reached the point in their relationship where they are considering next steps, decide to invite their parents (Keaton and William H. Macy, Susan Sarandon and Richard Gere) to finally meet and to offer some understanding of why marriage works. Except the parents already know each other quite well, which leads to some very distinct opinions about the value of marriage.
“Maybe you stay married for the kids.”
Release Date: Jan 27, 2023
Run Time: 1 hr 35 min
Budget: $7,500,000
The story of a woman (Keaton) who loves her dog more than her husband (Kevin Kline). And then her husband loses the dog.
Release Date: Apr 20, 2012
Run Time: 1 hr 43 min
A leukemia patient (Keaton) attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister (Meryl Streep) to get her bone marrow.
“A story about the years that keep us apart… And the moments that bring us together.”
Release Date: Dec 18, 1996
Run Time: 1 hr 38 min
Budget: $23,000,000
Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) is reunited with her friends Nemo (Hayden Rolence) and Marlin (Albert Brooks) in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
“An unforgettable journey she probably won’t remember.”
Release Date: Jun 17, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
Budget: $200,000,000
A dedicated schoolteacher (Keaton) spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
“To her father, Theresa was a dutiful daughter. To the children she taught, Theresa brought warmth and hope. To the men she met in bars, Theresa was easy. All kinds of people loved Theresa. Diane Keaton plays Theresa in Looking for Mr. Goodbar.”
Release Date: Oct 19, 1977
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
(L to R) Diane Keaton as Diane, Mary Steenburgen as Carol, Candice Bergen as Sharon, and Jane Fonda as Vivian in ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter,’ a Focus Features release.
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends (Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen) as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
“Slightly scandalous. Totally fabulous.”
Release Date: May 12, 2023
Run Time: 1 hr 48 min
Budget: $20,000,000
A middle-aged couple (Woody Allen and Keaton) suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife (Lynn Cohen) suddenly drops dead.
13. ‘Poms‘ (2019)
A woman (Keaton) moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents (Jacki Weaver and Pam Grier).
“It’s never too late to chase a dream.”
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Run Time: 1 hr 31 min
When 30-year-old self-proclaimed homebody Mack Martin (Elizabeth Lail) reluctantly joins a Palm Springs bachelorette trip for her best friend Carla (Taylour Paige), her inner 70-year-old (Keaton) is released — literally.
Release Date: Aug 12, 2022
Run Time: 1 hr 35 min
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer (Woody Allen) dating a teenage girl (Mariel Hemingway) is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend’s mistress (Keaton).
“Woody Allen’s New Comedy Hit”
Release Date: Apr 25, 1979
Run Time: 1 hr 36 min
Budget: $9,000,000
(L to R) Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson in ‘Something’s Gotta Give’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Amanda Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother, Erica (Keaton). Left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Keanu Reeves), a love triangle starts to take shape.
“After a lifetime of going from girl to girl, the ultimate bachelor is about to encounter something new.”
Release Date: Dec 12, 2003
Run Time: 2 hr 8 min
Budget: $80,000,000
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites (Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler) have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts – in the wallet!
“Don’t get mad. Get everything.”
Release Date: Sep 20, 1996
Run Time: 1 hr 42 min
Budget: $26,000,000
Four lifelong friends (Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen) decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey‘ in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.
“The next chapter is always the best.”
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Run Time: 1 hr 44 min
Budget: $10,000,000
Three sisters (Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek) try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother’s suicide.
“Meg just left one. Lenny never had one. Babe just shot one. The MaGrath sisters sure have a way with men.”
Release Date: Dec 12, 1986
Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
Budget: $20,000,000
6. ‘Reds‘ (1981)
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty), who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant (Keaton).
“Not since Gone with the Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!”
Release Date: Dec 25, 1981
Run Time: 3 hr 15 min
Budget: $35,000,000
Diane Keaton in ‘The Godfather’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
In the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino) steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
“An offer you can’t refuse.”
Release Date: Mar 24, 1972
Run Time: 2 hr 55 min
Budget: $6,000,000
The life of super-yuppie J.C. (Keaton) is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
“JC Wiatt, corporate powerhouse, just received an inheritance. And it sucks.”
Release Date: Oct 30, 1987
Run Time: 1 hr 50 min
Budget: $15,000,000
George Banks (Steve Martin) is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can’t think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife (Keaton) tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner (Martin Short) takes over the ceremony, he becomes slightly insane.
“Love is wonderful. Until it happens to your only daughter.”
Release Date: Dec 20, 1991
Run Time: 1 hr 45 min
Budget: $20,000,000
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba, while his wife (Keaton) wants out of the family.
“The rise and fall of the Corleone empire.”
Release Date: Dec 20, 1974
Run Time: 3 hr 22 min
Budget: $13,000,000
Diane Keaton in ‘Annie Hall’. Photo: United Artists.
New York comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall (Keaton).
Release Date: Apr 20, 1977
Run Time: 1 hr 33 min
Budget: $4,000,000
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