Filmmaker Nora Ephron Dies At Age 71

Beloved writer and director Nora Ephron died at the age of 71 Tuesday night, from leukemia.

Best known for films like  Sleepless In Seattle  and  When Harry Met Sally  (a film in which she wrote the screenplay), Ephron was a talented filmmaker, a gifted writer, and also a respected prose writer, starting her career writing essays for various outlets.

Breaking into the film world with the script for  Silkwood, the Mike Nichols film, she was given an Oscar nomination for that very screenplay, and when on to script twelve more features, and ultimately direct eight of them, starting with  This Is My Life  in 1992.

Singlehandedly changing the romantic comedy game cinematically, Ephron has always been a name worthy of reverence, and with films like those previously mentioned, garnering her a slew of Oscar nominations, she’ll be a director that won’t be soon forgotten. One of the most singular names of her era, she will be missed.

Source  THR