1. Nora Ephron was an American journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
38 Facts About Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron is best known for writing and directing romantic comedy films and received numerous accolades including a British Academy Film Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award and three Writers Guild of America Awards.
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In 2013, Nora Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy.
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Nora Ephron wrote columns for Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and The New Yorker.
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Nora Ephron was born in New York City on May 19,1941, to a Jewish family.
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Nora Ephron was the eldest of four daughters, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California.
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Nora Ephron's parents, Phoebe and Henry Ephron, were both East Coast-born playwrights and screenwriters.
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Nora Ephron's parents named her Nora after the protagonist in the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.
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Nora Ephron's sister Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and novelist who writes crime fiction.
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Nora Ephron has cited her high school journalism teacher, Charles Simms, as the inspiration for her pursuit of a career in journalism.
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Nora Ephron graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958, and from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in political science.
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Nora Ephron rewrote a script for All the President's Men in the mid-1970s, along with her then husband, investigative journalist Carl Bernstein.
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In 1983, Nora Ephron co-scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen.
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Nora Ephron adapted her own novel into the screenplay for the film.
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In 1986, Nora Ephron wrote the script for the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally.
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Nora Ephron claimed that she wrote this screenplay with Reiner in mind as the character of Harry, and herself as the character of Sally.
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Nora Ephron said she wrote the part of Sally simulating an orgasm into the script per Ryan's suggestions.
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Nora Ephron's script was nominated for the 1990 Oscar in Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
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In 1993, Nora Ephron directed and wrote the script for the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle.
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Nora Ephron was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay losing to Jane Campion for The Piano.
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In 1994, Nora Ephron was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.
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Nora Ephron co-wrote the screenplay with her sister Delia Ephron.
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Nora Ephron then directed the comedy fantasy film Michael starring John Travolta, Andie MacDowell and William Hurt.
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In 1998, Nora Ephron directed the film You've Got Mail, which she co-wrote with her sister Delia Ephron.
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Nora Ephron co-authored the play Love, Loss, and What I Wore with her sister Delia, and it has played to sold-out audiences in Canada, New York City and Los Angeles.
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In 2007, Nora Ephron received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member George Lucas.
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Nora Ephron received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Alexis Soloski of The Guardian praised the production and Nora Ephron's writing declaring, "She has a lively sense of the caffeine-addled cut and thrust of newsroom life, and can make you very nearly weepy for the past triumphs of the tabs, even as she shows what a closed, testosterone-heavy world they occupied".
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In 1979, Nora Ephron was pregnant with their second son when she discovered Bernstein's affair with their mutual friend, British journalist Margaret Jay, the daughter of former British prime minister James Callaghan, who was at the time married to the British ambassador to the United States Peter Jay.
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Nora Ephron was inspired by the affair to write the novel Heartburn, which was then made into a 1986 Mike Nichols film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.
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Nora Ephron wrote that the character Thelma looked like a giraffe with "big feet".
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Nora Ephron was married for 25 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi from 1987 until her death in 2012.
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For many years, Nora Ephron was one of the very few people who knew the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous informer for articles written by her ex-husband Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward uncovering the Watergate scandal.
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Nora Ephron read in Woodward and Bernstein's book All the President's Men that in Bernstein's notes, he referred to Deep Throat as "MF"; Bernstein said it stood for "My Friend", but Nora Ephron correctly guessed it stood for Mark Felt, the former associate director of the FBI.
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Nora Ephron chose not to disclose her diagnosis to friends or colleagues, fearing that the knowledge that she was ill would have impeded her career.
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On June 26,2012, Nora Ephron died at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan from pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia, at the age of 71.
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The Nora Ephron Prize is a $25,000 award by the Tribeca Film Festival for a female writer or filmmaker "with a distinctive voice".
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The first Nora Ephron Prize was awarded in 2013 to Meera Menon for her film Farah Goes Bang.