List of accolades received by The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Puzo and Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of the fictional Corleone New York crime family, the story spans the years 1945-55, concentrating on the transformation of Michael Corleone from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss while chronicling the family under the patriarch Vito.
Accolades[edit]
The Godfather was nominated for seven awards at the 30th Golden Globe Awards: Best Picture – Drama, James Caan for Best Supporting Actor, Al Pacino and Marlon Brando for Best Actor – Drama, Best Score, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.[1] When the winners were announced on January 28, 1973, the film had won the categories for: Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor - Drama, Best Original Score, and Best Picture – Drama.[2][3] The Godfather won a record five Golden Globes, which still stands today.[4]
Rota's score for the film was also nominated for Grammy Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture or TV Special at the 15th Grammy Awards.[5][6] Rota was announced the winner of the category on March 3 at the Grammys' ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee.[5][6]
When the nominations for the 45th Academy Awards were revealed on February 12, 1973, The Godfather was nominated for eleven awards.[7][8] The nominations were for: Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Marlon Brando for Best Actor, Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola for Best Adapted Screenplay, Pacino, Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor, Best Film Editing, Nino Rota for Best Original Score, Coppola for Best Director, and Best Sound.[7][8][9] Upon further review of Rota's love theme from The Godfather, the Academy found that Rota had used a similar score in Eduardo De Filippo's 1958 comedy Fortunella.[10][11][12] This led to re-balloting, where members of the music branch chose from six films: The Godfather and the five films that had been on the shortlist for best original dramatic score but did not get nominated. John Addison's score for Sleuth won this new vote, and thus replaced Rota's score on the official list of nominees.[13] Going into the awards ceremony, The Godfather was seen as the favorite to take home the most awards.[2] From the nominations that The Godfather had remaining, it only won three of the Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture.[9][14]
Brando, who had also not attended the Golden Globes ceremony two months earlier,[12][15] boycotted the Academy Awards ceremony and refused to accept the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award after George C. Scott in 1970.[16][17] 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.[16][17][18][19][20] In addition, Pacino boycotted the ceremony. He was insulted at being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor award, noting that he had more screen time than his co-star and Best Actor winner Brando and thus he should have received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.[21]
The Godfather had five nominations for awards at the 26th British Academy Film Awards.[22] The nominees were: Pacino for Most Promising Newcomer, Rota for the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, Duvall for Best Supporting Actor, and Brando for Best Actor, the flim's costume designer Anna Hill Johnstone for Best Costume Design.[22] All of The Godfather's nominations failed to win except for Rota.[22]
Guilds[edit]
In 1990, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[23] In 1998, Time Out' conducted a poll and The Godfather was voted the best film of all time.[24] In 2002, Sight & Sound polled film directors voted the film and its sequel as the second best film ever;[25] the critics poll separately voted it fourth.[26] Also in 2002, The Godfather was ranked the second best film of all time by Film4, after Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.[27] In 2005, it was named one of the 100 greatest films of the last 80 years by Time magazine (the selected films were not ranked).[28][29] In 2006, the Writers Guild of America, west agreed, voting it the number two in its list of the 101 greatest screenplays, after Casablanca.[30] In 2008, the film was voted in at No. 1 on Empire magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[31] Entertainment Weekly named it the greatest film ever made.[32][33][34] The film has been selected by the American Film Institute for many of their lists.
American Film Institute recognition[edit]
- 1998: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – #3[35]
- 2001: AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – #11[36]
- 2003: AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains:
- Vito Corleone – Nominated Villain[37]
- 2005: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
- 2006: AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – #5[40]
- 2007: AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – #2[41]
- 2008: AFI's 10 Top 10 – #1 Gangster Film[42]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "The 30th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1973)". HFPA. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on July 17, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "'Godfather' Wins Four Globe Awards". The Telegraph. Associated Press. January 30, 1973. p. 20. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Ruth Bizzi Cited By Golden Globes". The Age. Associated Press. February 1, 1973. p. 14. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Trivia". HFPA. Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Archived from the original on July 17, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Roberta Flack Is Big Winner In Awarding Of 'Grammys'". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Associated Press. March 5, 1973. p. 11-A. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Edward W. Coker Jr. (March 9, 1973). "Roberta Flack Is Big Winner In Awarding Of 'Grammys'". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Bruce Russell (February 13, 1973). "'Godfather' Gets 11 Oscar Nominations". Toledo Blade. Reuters. p. P-2. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Godfather Gets 11 Oscar Nominations". The Michigan Daily. United Press International. February 14, 1971. p. 3. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". Oscars. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on July 17, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ↑ "'Godfather' Song Used Before". Daytona Beach Morning Star. Associated Press. March 2, 1973. p. 10. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Godfather, Superfly music out of Oscars". The Montreal Gazette. Associated Press. March 7, 1973. p. 37. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Kris Tapley (January 21, 2008). "Jonny Greenwood's 'Blood' score disqualified by AM-PAS". Variety. Retrieved March 4, 2010.
- ↑ "100 Years of Paramount: Academy Awards". Paramount Pictures. Retrieved June 16, 2013.
- ↑ "The Godfather". The Val d'Or Star. October 26, 1977. p. 2. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Brando Expected To Skip Oscar Award Rites". The Morning Record. Associated Press. March 26, 1973. p. 7. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Brando Rejects Oscar Award". The Age. March 29, 1973. p. 10. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Brando snubs Hollywood, rejects Oscar". The Montreal Gazette. Gazette. March 28, 1973. p. 1. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ "American Indians mourn Brando's death – Marlon Brando (1924–2004)". MSNBC. February 7, 2004. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
- ↑ "Only the most talented actors have the nerve to tackle roles that push them to their physical and mental limits". The Irish Independent. November 26, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
- ↑ Pinsker, Beth. "An Offer He Could Refuse". EW.com. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
- ↑ Grobel; p. xxi
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 "BAFTA Awards Search". BAFTA. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on July 17, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
- ↑ "Films Selected to The National Film Registry, 1989-2010". National Film Preservation Board. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
- ↑ "Top 100 Films (Readers)". AMC Filmsite.org. American Movie Classics Company LLC. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ↑ "Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 – The Directors' Top Ten Films". British Film Institute. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 – The Critics' Top Ten Films". British Film Institute. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
- ↑ "Film Four's 100 Greatest Films of All Time". AMC Filmsite.org. American Movie Classics Company LLC. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ↑ "All-TIME 100 Movies". Time. Time Inc. March 14, 2012. Archived from the original on July 17, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ↑ TIME Staff (October 3, 2011). "That Old Feeling: Secrets of the All-Time 100". Time. Time Inc. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ↑ "101 Greatest Screenplays". Writers Guild of America, West. Writers Guild of America, West. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
- ↑ "Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". Empire magazine. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ↑ Burr, Ty. The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. Time-Life Books. ISBN 1-883013-68-2. Search this book on
- ↑ "Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time". AMC Filmsite.org. American Movie Classics Company LLC. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ↑ "Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time". Harris County Public Library. The Harris County Public Library. May 12, 2009. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ↑ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Nominees" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ "AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" (PDF). American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
- ↑ "AFI's 10 Top 10: Top 10 Gangster". American Film Institute. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
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