American Filmmaker and Director Nora Ephron was best known for her romantic comedies. On June 26, 2012, Ephron passed away from pneumonia in Manhattan.

Ephron not only held the title as a filmmaker and director, but as a successful screenwriter, journalist, blogger, essayist, novelist and playwright. Her later box office success included "You've Got Mail" and "Julia & Julia," with the latter being her final film.

Ephron became one of her era's most successful screenwriters and filmmakers, making romantic comedy hits like "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally."

By the end of her life, through remaining remarkably youthful looking, she had become something of a philosopher about age and its indignities.

"Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger?" she wrote in "I Feel Bad About My Neck," her 2006 best-selling collection of essays. "It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday."

According to her son, Jacob Bernstein, Ephron's pneumonia was brought on by acute myeloid leukemia.   

Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who both appeared in "Sleepless in Seattle" (Hanks also later appeared in Ephron's "You've Got Mail"), recalled the times they spent with her when the cameras weren't rolling. "Nora Ephron was a journalist/artist who knew what was important to know; how things really worked, what was worthwhile, who was fascinating and why," Hanks and Wilson said in a statement to E! News.  

Ephron was 71 years old.