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The Godfather is a 1972 American film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is

an adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel, The Godfather. The action of the film takes
place around the 40's and 50's and presents the fictional life of the Corleone
mafia families. The cast of the film is impressive: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino,
James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton. The film received many awards,
including 3 Oscars and 5 Golden Globes.

- Best Picture  Albert S. Ruddy

- Best Actor  Marlon Brando
- Best Supporting Actor  James Caan
Robert Duval
 Nominated Al Pacino
- Best Adapted Screenplay  Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
- Best Film Music  Nino Rota
- Best Director - Motion Picture  Francis Ford Coppola

Actors:
-Vito Corleone (born Vito Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969
novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy.
Vito is originally portrayed by Marlon Brando in the 1972 film The Godfather,
and later by Oreste Baldini as a boy and by Robert De Niro as a young man in
The Godfather Part II (1974). He is an orphaned Sicilian immigrant who builds a
Mafia empire.
- Michael Corleone is a fictional character and the protagonist of Mario Puzo's
1969 novel The Godfather. In the three Godfather films, directed by Francis Ford
Coppola, Michael was portrayed by Al Pacino, for which he was twice-
nominated for Academy Awards. Michael is the youngest son of Vito Corleone,
a Sicilian immigrant who builds a Mafia empire. Upon his father's death,
Michael succeeds him as the gift of the Corleone crime family.
- James Caan as Sonny: Vito's eldest son
- Richard Castellano as Clemenza
- Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen etc.

Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer, and
screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood
filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s and is the recipient of five
Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Palmes d'Or, and a British
Academy Fil. His best-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the
1983 dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, the crime dramas The Cotton Club
(1984) and The Godfather Part III (1990), and the 1992 romantic-horror film
Bram Stoker's Dracula , based on the novel of the same name.

Why you should watch The Godfather?

- There are films dedicated to characters and films dedicated to plot, and a
handful knock both out of the park. These do so with the same characters three
times. The Godfather Trilogy is to the Italian-American mafia what “Citizen
Kane” was to American politics. The story involves everything a good film or
novel should: lies, murder, love, and loyalty. The trilogy manages to show just
what you think the mob would do — on steroids. In other words, the plot
remains just beyond the average moviegoer’s active imagination, which is part
of its lasting appeal.
- “The Godfather Part II,” released two years after the original, is said to be
one of the best sequels of our time. It presents parallel dramas, prequel and
sequel to the first. This centers on Michael’s ability to lead as the new don,
keeping his business ventures successful. The film shows several flashbacks of
Vito’s childhood in Sicily and migration to New York City.
 -"The Godfather Part III" was not released until 1990. It completes Michael's
journey as a don, as he tries to legitimize his mafia empire. Sonny’s son Vincent
begins to take over for Michael. It includes several fictionalized real-life events
like the death of Pope John Paul I.