The Godfather (1972) | Movie Recommendation | Movie Review | Movie Explained | Marlon Brando

The Godfather is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, as well as a landmark of the gangster genre. Pauline Kael wrote that "If ever there was a great example of how the best popular movies come out of a merger of commerce and art, The Godfather is it." The Godfather gets everything near perfect; not only did the movie transcend expectations, it established new benchmarks for the world cinema. The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. Direction is very intelligent. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, chronicling the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone played by Marlon Brando and his superb performance often imitated by many actors later. It focuses on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Puzo and Coppola. In addition, the seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, Caan, and Duvall all for Best Supporting Actor, and Coppola for Best Director. Brando, who did not attend the Golden Globes ceremony two months earlier, boycotted the Academy Awards ceremony and declined the Oscar, becoming the second actor to decline a Best Actor award after George C. Scott in 1971. Brando sent American Indian Rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place, to announce at the awards podium Brando's reasons for declining the award, which were based on his objection to the depiction of American Indians by Hollywood and television. Pacino also boycotted the ceremony; he was insulted at being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, when he had more screen time than his co-star and Best Actor-winner Brando, and thus should have received the nomination for Best Actor.
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