The Washington Post is reporting that Nora Ephron has died after a battle with leukemia. She was 71.

Ephron was best known for her work on some of the most memorable romantic comedies in movie history, including "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle" (she received Oscar nods for Best Screenplay on both).

Ephron began her career as a reporter for the New York Post, and later went on to pen essays for Esquire and New York magazines. She would get her first taste at screenwriting in the mid-1970s, when she ended up rewriting William Goldman's script for "All the President's Men" (Ephron's husband at the time was Carl Bernstein, whose Nixon Watergate scoop was the film's inspiration). The screenplay never ended up being used, but, as Ephron later told the Guardian, "It was a great way to learn, because Goldman was such a great screenwriter that just typing his stage directions taught me a huge amount."

In 1983, Ephron wrote her first film, "Silkwood." Starring Meryl Streep and directed by Mike Nichols, the movie told the true story of a woman who died in a suspicious car accident while looking into the wrongdoing at the plant she worked at (the script got Ephron her first Oscar nomination). Six years later, she wrote "When Harry Met Sally..." The rom-com, starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, is still considered a classic to this day.

Ephron's 1998 movie, "You've Got Mail" -- which she wrote, produced and directed -- turned out to be her most financially successful, grossing $250 million at the box office.

The last film Ephron worked on was 2009's "Julie and Julia," which she also wrote and directed.

Ephron's friend Liz Smith said that "[Nora] seemed never to want or expect anything, while always demanding the best from the rest of us. She was -- always -- right and somehow left the smartest, most ambitious and silliest of us in the dust at her feet."

According to her son Jacob Bernstein, Ephron's cause of death was pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia. She is survived by her husband, screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, and her sons, Jacob and Max.

滬江娛樂(lè)：美國(guó)著名女導(dǎo)演、編劇諾拉·艾芙隆（Nora Ephron）也于6月26日去世，享年71歲。美國(guó)電影史上非常多叫好又賣(mài)座的浪漫愛(ài)情喜劇皆出自她之手。其導(dǎo)演代表作有：《西雅圖夜未眠》、《電子情書(shū)》《美味關(guān)系》，編劇作品有《當(dāng)哈里遇上薩利》 《絲克伍事件》等。

當(dāng)哈利遇到莎莉 When Harry Met Sally...

導(dǎo)演: 羅伯·萊納
編劇: 諾拉·艾芙隆
主演: 梅格·瑞恩 / 比利·克里斯托 / 凱麗·費(fèi)雪 / 布魯諾·柯比
類(lèi)型: 劇情 / 喜劇 / 愛(ài)情
制片國(guó)家/地區(qū): 美國(guó)
語(yǔ)言: 英語(yǔ)
上映日期: 1989-07-21

莎莉（梅格·瑞恩 飾）開(kāi)車(chē)載哈利（比利·克里斯托 飾）前往紐約，兩人就此相識(shí)。途中二人言語(yǔ)相左，不歡而散，并留下經(jīng)典的問(wèn)題：“排除‘性’的介入，男人和女人可以成為真正的朋友么？”

五年后，兩人在機(jī)場(chǎng)不期而遇。此時(shí)，莎莉沉浸于新戀情的甜蜜，而哈利即將步入正式的婚姻生活。哈利告訴莎莉：“在兩人各有所愛(ài)的時(shí)候，男人和女人或許可以成為朋友，但很快他們會(huì)質(zhì)疑為什么要與只能做朋友的人交往。”莎莉佛袖而去。

十年后，失戀中的莎莉再次偶遇剛剛離婚的哈利。哈利對(duì)莎莉說(shuō)：“我們要成為朋友了么？你或許是我不想帶上床的第一位迷人女性?！?/p>

臨睡前的通話，共度圣誕，為彼此的感情出謀劃策，哈利與莎莉有著不可言喻的默契。然而，這真的是一段美麗友誼的開(kāi)始么？又或者這悄然來(lái)臨的是錯(cuò)認(rèn)了的感情呢……