Diane Keaton Fansite

Diane Keaton has worked with film director Woody Allen many times. Perhaps her best known role was that of the title character in 1977’s Annie Hall.

It was her fourth film project with Allen, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this performance. The film itself also won Best Picture. Annie Hall is a romantic comedy that brought a new level of seriousness to Allen’s work. The film breaks with conventional narrative, as characters often address the camera directly. Diane Keaton played Annie Hall, a ditzy but exuberant character who falls in love with Allen’s character Alvy Singer. Because Keaton’s real name is Diane Hall and she had previously had an affair with Allen, the film is considered to be semi-autobiographical. The character of Annie Hall was definitely written with Keaton in mind.