![]() Less honored by the Academy than its sequel, The Godfather won a second Best Actor for Marlon Brando, as Mafia boss Don Vito Corleone, and screenplay, written by Coppola and Mario Puzo, upon whose best‑seller it was based. Of the two, The Godfather, Part II was more critically acclaimed, but the first one was more popular, grossing over $80 million. More crime films were nominated in the 1970s than in any other decade, and three won Best Picture: the action‑thriller The French Connection, and the two Francis Ford Coppola crime sagas, The Godfather in 1972, and The Godfather, Part II, in 1974. The phenomenal success of the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde revived interest in the crime‑gangster‑film. Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II is considered by many critics to be the best American film made since Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, in 1941. ![]()
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