Nora Ephron

I hold Nora Ephron in the highest regard as a filmmaker and writer. Raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, she climbed from journalism to screenwriting and directing, and won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay in 1990. What sets her apart, in my view, is that she brought genuine intelligence and a sly bite to the romantic comedy, a genre too often dismissed. She wrote smart women who got to stay smart while falling in love, which was rarer than it should have been. Three Academy Award nominations attest to her craft. She passed in 2012, but her scripts still make people smile, and I admire her without reservation.

Name (English)

Nora Ephron

Name (Japanese)

ノーラ・エフロン

Reading

のーら・えふろん

Born

May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

Origin

Upper West Side, New York, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / film producer / film director / journalist / novelist

High school

Beverly Hills High School

University

Wellesley College

Awards & achievements

• 1990 BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
• 1994 Crystal Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora%20Ephron
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%95%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214677

Tags

• New York
• screenwriter
• film producer
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.