Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning Hollywood star known for her roles in movies like The Godfather and Annie Hall, died on Saturday morning. She was 79 years-old.

Keaton Passes Away

People Magazine has confirmed that Keaton passed away in California. Her family has asked for privacy, and no further details about her death have been revealed. Indeed, at the time of this writing, no cause of death for Keaton has been released to the public.

Keaton was born in Los Angeles in 1946. She was the oldest of four children, with her father being a civil engineer and her mother being a homemaker. Keaton later credited her mother with getting her interested in the arts.

“Secretly in her heart of hearts she probably wanted to be an entertainer of some kind,” Keaton said in 2004. “She sang, she played the piano. She was beautiful, she was my advocate.”

Keaton began doing plays in high school and initially studied drama in college. However, she quickly dropped out and moved to New York City to pursue her dreams. There, she soon found success on Broadway, earning a Tony nomination in 1969 for her role in Woody Allen’s Broadway show Play It Again, Sam..

Keaton Goes Hollywood

Keaton made her film debut in 1970 in the movie Lovers and Other Strangers. She then skyrocketed to fame with her roles in The Godfather movies, with the first being released in 1972. Though The Godfather was based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo, Keaton had never read it and knew very little about it when she auditioned.

“I think the kindest thing that someone’s ever done for me … is that I got cast to be in The Godfather and I didn’t even read it, I didn’t know a single thing,” she later admitted in 2022. “I just was going around auditioning, I think that was amazing for me. And then I had to kind of read the book.” 

The Godfather was a smash hit and is widely considered to be one of the best films of all time. It won Best Picture at the Oscars, and The Godfather Part II subsequently won that same award after it came out in 1974.

From there, Keaton “became a defining face of 1970s cinema,” according to Daily Mail.

“Known for her quirky charm, wit, and timeless style, Keaton built a career spanning more than five decades,” The Mail continued.

Keaton’s Oscar Success

Keaton won the Oscar for Best Actress for her work in the 1977 Woody Allen classic Annie Hall. She also collaborated with Allen three more times, with those films being: Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).

In recent years, Allen has been targeted by cancel culture due to various sexual misconduct allegations. Despite this, Keaton always stayed loyal to her friend.

“I love him,” Keaton told The Guardian of Allen in 2014. 

So long Diane Keaton. One of the greatest actors of all time that simply lit up the screen with her charisma alone.

The time we met Annie Hall, and a fashion icon was born. pic.twitter.com/A6CSsiFtZ6

— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) October 11, 2025

After Annie Hall, Keaton was nominated for three more Oscars throughout her career, all in the Best Actress category.

Keaton’s other nominations came for Reds (1981), Marvin’s Room (1996), and Something’s Gotta Give (2003). This puts her in the rare category of actors to score Oscar nominations in four different decades, showing the timeless charm that Keaton had at every stage of her career.

Keaton passed away with 74 film and television credits to her name, according to IMDB. Her final film role came in the 2024 comedy Summer Camp. Check out a trailer for that movie below.

Keaton’s Personal Life

Despite being romantically linked to famous co-stars like Allen, Al Pacino, and Warren Beatty over the years, Keaton never married.

“Today I was thinking, I’m the only one in my generation of actresses who has been a single woman all her life,” Keaton previously said in 2019. “I’m really glad I didn’t get married. I’m an oddball. I remember in high school, this guy came up to me and said, ‘One day you’re going to make a good wife.’ And I thought, ‘I don’t want to be a wife. No.’”

“I'm really glad I didn't get married. I'm an oddball. I remember in high school, this guy came up to me and said, ‘One day you're going to make a good wife.’ And I thought, ‘I don't want to be a wife. No.’”

RIP Diane Keaton, Oscar winner for “Annie Hall”. pic.twitter.com/QQKuWB5waK

— Stuart King, Head Reviewer, London Box Office. (@StuartReviews) October 11, 2025

Keaton is survived by a daughter Dexter and son Duke, whom she adopted in 1996 and 2001, respectively.

“Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist, it was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time,” Keaton said in 2008. “So I plunged in.”

In a 2019 interview, Keaton got reflective about her decades-long career in Hollywood.

“I don’t know anything, and I haven’t learned,” she said. “Getting older hasn’t made me wiser. Without acting I would have been a misfit.”

Rest in peace, Diane Keaton.