The Godfather Wins Best Picture: 1973 Oscars

The Godfather 1972 Director Francis Ford Coppola collaborated on the epic film's screenplay with Mario Puzo who had written the best-selling novel of the same name. This gangster film centers on the Corleone crime "family" in the boroughs of New York City in the mid 1940s, dominated at first by aging godfather/patriarch "Don" Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) A turn-of-the-century Sicilian immigrant, he is the head of one of the five Italian-American "families" that operates a crime syndicate. This epic story traces the history of their close-knit Mafia family and organization over a ten year period. Also starring is Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton