In introducing Screenwriting award winner
Nora Ephron at a Hollywood Film Awards ceremony a couple of
years ago her good friend and admirer Steven Spielberg said, “Nora knows how so easily to make us laugh and to make us cry and embrace the human comedy of it all. And she does it without any bathroom humor.” That was the great thing about this multi-talented writer/director/author who clearly had a knack for writing about men and women, particularly the latter, without ever trivializing them or reaching for the lowest common denominator in what passes for many studio-bred movie comedies today. And she did it all with so much style, sophistication,�flair and wit.�It’s the end of an era. The Hollywood in which Nora Ephron excelled seems to be passing quickly before our eyes.
Related: Nora Ephron Dies At 71 It’s interesting to note that in 1983�when she got her first feature film script produced,
Silkwood (directed by Mike Nichols), there were hardly any women in real power positions in the studios. Slowly, but fortunately that changed because it enabled Nora Ephron to be able to make movies her way in the studio system, and for that we are eternally grateful.
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years ago her good friend and admirer Steven Spielberg said, “Nora knows how so easily to make us laugh and to make us cry and embrace the human comedy of it all. And she does it without any bathroom humor.” That was the great thing about this multi-talented writer/director/author who clearly had a knack for writing about men and women, particularly the latter, without ever trivializing them or reaching for the lowest common denominator in what passes for many studio-bred movie comedies today. And she did it all with so much style, sophistication,�flair and wit.�It’s the end of an era. The Hollywood in which Nora Ephron excelled seems to be passing quickly before our eyes. Related: Nora Ephron Dies At 71 It’s interesting to note that in 1983�when she got her first feature film script produced, Silkwood (directed by Mike Nichols), there were hardly any women in real power positions in the studios. Slowly, but fortunately that changed because it enabled Nora Ephron to be able to make movies her way in the studio system, and for that we are eternally grateful. 
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