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Writer: Nora Ephron

Nora Ephron was nominated for Best Original Screenplay three times, for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, and her scripts are built on people talking around what they mean.

When Harry Met Sally is a decade-long argument about a proposition stated in the first scene, and the deli sequence exists because Ephron insisted the film needed a moment where the woman was demonstrably right.

She came from journalism and essay writing and never lost the essayist’s habit of using a small specific observation to carry a large one.

You've Got Mail (1998) film posterDelia Ephron

You’ve Got Mail (1998) Review

Nora Ephron had been one of the most accomplished American romantic comedy writers and directors of the late twentieth century. The play had been previously adapted as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan,…

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