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The film received three awards of its 11 Oscar category nominations, including Puzo's Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Coppola and Puzo then collaborated on sequels to the original film, The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).
May 31, 2024 · The Godfather (1972) Together, The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, the novelist whose book the movie was based on, took home the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award.
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1973 Winner Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The Godfather. Mario Puzo was not present at the awards ceremony. His daughter Dorothy Ann Puzo accepted the award on his behalf. Shared with: Francis Ford Coppola.
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Oct 11, 2024 · Puzo collaborated with director Francis Ford Coppola on the screenplay of The Godfather (1972) and its two sequels (1974 and 1990). The first two won nine Academy Awards, including best picture and best screenplay Oscars for each.
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The Godfather. In 1972, Mario Puzo's bestselling crime novel The Godfather was brought to the big screen by Paramount Pictures and a young writer-director named Francis Ford Coppola.
Feb 6, 2023 · Mario Puzo, the author and screenwriter of 'The Godfather' won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. However, the film was the first script he'd ever written.
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Mario Puzo has also written several screenplays, including Earthquake (1974), Superman (1978), and all three "Godfather" movies, for which he received two Academy Awards. Mario's latest novel, 1996's "The Last Don," was made into a CBS television miniseries in May 1997, starring Danny Aiello, Kirstie Alley and Joe Mantegna. In 1997, Part II was ...
