Nora Ephron

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1941 age 0

   Born

2. 1983 age 42

   CreditSilkwoodscreenwriter

3. 1986 age 45

   CreditHeartburnscreenwriter

4. 1989 age 48

   CreditCrimes and Misdemeanors

   CreditWhen Harry Met Sallyproducer

   CreditWhen Harry Met Sallyscreenwriter

5. 1992 age 51

   CreditHusbands and Wives

6. 1993 age 52

   CreditSleepless in Seattledirector

   CreditSleepless in Seattlescreenwriter

7. 1998 age 57

   CreditYou've Got Maildirector

   CreditYou've Got Mailproducer

   CreditYou've Got Mailscreenwriter

8. 2005 age 64

   CreditBewitcheddirector

   CreditBewitchedscreenwriter

9. 2009 age 68

   CreditJulie & Juliadirector

   CreditJulie & Juliaproducer

   CreditJulie & Juliascreenwriter

10. 2012 age 71

    Died

• CACaroline Aaron4 titles
• MBMichael Badalucco3 titles
• ARAnn Roth3 titles
• RGRobert Greenhut3 titles
• MSMeryl Streep3 titles
• MRMeg Ryan3 titles
• THTom Hanks2 titles
• FCFrances Conroy2 titles
• RMRichard Marks2 titles
• RRRob Reiner2 titles

• Spouse

  • NPNicholas Pileggi

• Siblings

  • DEDelia Ephron

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Stare at me in this faceless way, go mad with desire, and rip my clothes off. It's terrific. In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. The fantasy of rape — of which mine is in a kind of prepubescent sub-category — is common enough among women and (in mirror image) among men.

  Nora Ephron, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

  Nora Ephron, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

  Nora Ephron, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease.

  Nora Ephron, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are entering a third era, in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Hollywood] is a very male business, and it has in vast portions of it — the whole action movie part of it might as well be the United States Army in 1943 in that the ethics of it are, you know, boot camp and action movies and guns and explosions and all the rest of it, and that – so that means that about 50% of the business is not only pretty much closed off to women, but women don’t even wanna be in it!

  Nora Ephron, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Cause of death

acute myeloid leukemia

Languages

English

Years active

1973–2012

Education

Beverly Hills High School, Wellesley College