Diane Keaton, the iconoclastic and left-of-center Oscar-winning film and fashion icon, has died, according to a family spokesperson who shared the news with People magazine. She was 79 years old. Further details about her death were not made available. She received four Academy Award nominations, winning in 1977 for “Annie Hall,” the film that turned her into a household name and one of the most recognizable figures in American movies. Keaton received an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.
Her collaborations with Woody Allen began onscreen with director Herbert Ross’ “Play It Again, Sam” in 1972, the same year she starred as Kay Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather.” Her comedic appeal was cemented in Allen films — the two were also romantically involved — like “Sleeper’ and “Love and Death” before the title character in “Annie Hall” changed the course of her career and the course of movies. Before that, though, she had…
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