Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo Win Adapted Screenplay: 1975 Oscars
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- Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo win the Oscar for Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) for The Godfather Part II at the 47th Academy Awards. James A. Michener presents the award; hosted by Frank Sinatra.
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It’s absolutely insane to see Sinatra hosting after you watch The Offer lol.
Noticed how Puzo was in abit of a hurry during his speech & how he darted abruptly to get out of Sinatra's sight.
Yes im watching it now in glasgow scotland.... i love it
Dude is just mail it in
I was thinking the same thing!
I bet Sinatra was really happy to host when a Godfather movie won all those awards 🤣🤣🤣
Real life Johnny Fontane lmao
LMAO
The irony it would’ve been had it been Sinatra who presented this award. He and Puzo almost had a fight at Chasen’s in Los Angeles after the movie came out.
My thoughts exactly!
@@dzanier after thr Movie came out? I thought it was during Godfather production 1
RIP Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 - July 2, 1999), aged 78
You will be remembered as a legend
I always imagined Puzo with a VERY heavy Italian accent.
You would think so. From biographies and interviews he comes across as a real New Yorker and one who was able to elevate himself out of his class. Very smart man and great artist who however knew how to entertain an audience.
Yeah born & raised in Hell's Kitchen NYC.
@@deanrane1961 I was surprised when I found out that in the flashbacks to young Vito in the city were set there and not Little Italy. I was under the impression that Hell’s Kitchen was a heavily Irish neighborhood but there wasn’t any hint of that in the movie.
@@steelersguy74 Yeah so was I. That blew my mind.
I expected a hard NY accent. Put him around his relatives and it probably comes out harder
The Godfather Part II has great screenplay.
Great is not the word.
PHENOMENAL.
Godfather 1 and 2 are two of the greatest screenplays of all time. Great is a huge understatement.
I wish it had been nominated in both screenplay categories and made history. Adapted for the scenes of young Vito and Original for Michael's story.
Godfather 1 & 2 best movies ever made. Thank you Mr. Coppolla for making those 2 wonderful perfect movies ever.
Mario Puzo winning Oscar for Adapted Screenplay, t's great!
Two Oscars ( Godfather l and Godfather ll)
Coppola wanted Puzo to have his own speech, he wasn't present when they won for the first one
What did Puzo mean when he said “... all three godfathers “. This is back in 1975, only 2 movies at that point. I guess he meant Brando, DeNiro, and Pacino.
Wowww you guessed right!!! Good for you lil buddy!!!✌️✌️✌️lolzz
@@foxfairchild2458 And in MY head I was thinking Brando, De Niro, and whoever played him as a small boy in italy/ at Ellis island lol
With the Offer being out maybe he was speaking it into existence, business wise. Knowingly, why stop a good thing but I'm sure the studios had enough after the first 2
@@hexed8749 I don’t think he was referring to boy Vito, since the boy was not The Godfather yet…I really think he meant Brando, DeNiro, and Pacino.
I think 🤔 he meant to the actors who played characters of godfather, Brando, Pacino, and DeNiro
Gf 2 is probably the Best Movie in cinematic history.
That ending scene of everyone leaving Michael at the dinner table was absolutely masterpiece.
One of those occasions where the right thing is done without fuss.
Very dignified orcars ceremony, those days !
In 1975, Bert Schneider received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for producing Hearts and Minds (1974), a documentary film about the Vietnam War, directed by Peter Davis. His acceptance speech was one of the most politically controversial in Oscar history. Schneider's speech included this statement: "It’s ironic that we’re here at a time just before Vietnam is about to be liberated." He then read a telegram from the head of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks. It thanked the antiwar movement "for all they have done on behalf of peace. Greetings of friendship to all American people." After receiving thousands of angry telegrams backstage, Frank Sinatra appeared later in the show to read a disclaimer that disavowed Schneider's statement, which in turn provoked angry responses from actors Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty. Beatty later berated Sinatra on stage, calling him "you old Republican."
it was to give context to what Sinatra said
I love how seriously these egomaniacs took this stuff back then. It's still pretty damn stupid, but that whole thing was just clownsville.
Good for Shirley and Warren.
Beatty’s the fucking goat for calling Sinatra an “old republican.”
Sinatra could have had them wacked.
It’s so wild to see Sinatra of all people hosts that year’s Oscars after knowing what was his relationship like with THE GODFATHER’s makers in THE OFFER!
Clearly Johnny Fontaine was very loosely based on Frankie but it was a different time back then. Had it been today, Frankie would've been flattered. In fact, after the film was a huge hit, I'm sure Frankie was indeed flattered.
Frank is a great actor and was great in Man with the Golden Arm.
Must have been a very hard day for Sinatra with all the major awards being bagged by The Godfather II. 😂😂
Btw, I came here after seeing Frank Sinatra and Mario Puzo fight in The Offer. You guys should probably check that!!
I just watched the final episode with a heavy heart knowing that it's a limited 10 part series. I wanted more.
Yeah im here after finishing the offer was a great tv series was sad to see at the end when they showed what happened to everyone that i knew it was definitely limited series
Today Commemorates Mario Puzo's 100th Birthday
Apparently, the character Johnny Fontaine was based on Frank Sinatra. The scene when he goes to see The Godfather because he wanted a part in the movie and the producer didn't want him , was allegedly about Sinatra From here to enternity, and the producer waking up with the horse's head in his bed was fact.
No, he was pissed off about Johnny Fontaine, because it was based on himself, after the release of the book, he was being bombarded by many people about whether he was involved with the mafia and his success of became a singer, when he encounter Mario Puzo they both almost have a fight and even called Joe Colombo to cancelled the movie by warning them with gun shot.
The Godfather Part 2 was the rightful winner but I’m glad that Young Frankenstein got the biggest applause when the nominees were announced.
Godfather 2 the greatest
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I like that Some Enchanted Evening was James Michener's entrance music.
Sinatra hated Puzo because he believed Johnny Fontaine was based on him.
STOP CRYING... ACT LIKE A MAN!
Nah, check out the portrayal in the first episode of, "The Offer." That looked really close to the actual incident. The accuracy in that series will get you hooked & involved with the main characters.
Would you post Rain Man winning Best Original Screenplay?
Mario Puzo could have played Clemenza himself :P
3:01 Nonchalantly flipped off the camera
My favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' ~ James Caan
Puzo, very fast and short acceptance speach for a master writer. Where was Coppola?
With Luca Brasi
The apocryphal story is that apologizing for the Best Documentary winners was in fact Sinatra's personal initiative rather than something the Academy told him to do. He and Hope fumed backstage that a letter from the Viet Cong would be read approvingly. Shirley Maclaine gave Sinatra a furious dressing down after this.
Just think, if JFK had stayed at Sinatra's house, he'd have remained a Democrat!
It would be nice to have an author or a playwright present the Adapted Screenplay Oscar again. Cormac McCarthy and JK Rowling perhaps?
Stephen King
Yeah. Im asking too. Where is Francis?
+missuniworld I think he didn't really "like " this award so decided not to show up.
He might have been backstage and had just gotten his Directing Oscar .
True.
Cursing Puzo because of Johnny Fountaine.
He was standing in a reed field taking a leak and didn't have time to get his Oscar. But he remembered to get the cannoli out of the car.
Sinatra hosting award show for the movie he doesn't want to be made 🤣🤣🤣
Ol’ Blue Eyes. ❤
He is right and that quick statement was good and a good policy to follow unfortunately they do not
I'd like to know who Mario Puzo's hairstylist is..
I WAS LOCATION MGR ON GF, PART 2...WEHO..4/2019
Are you into Hollywood?
Imagine if the academy outlawed political references now? The show would last about 10 minutes.
Three years later he would pen the script for 'Superman'. What a leap!
But Superman was heavily rewritten by Richard Donner’s friend, Tom Mankewick. I think it’s more his script than Puzo’s. Puzo’s script was corny as hell.
Booing on the background.
This whole controversy reminds me of an expression: panis et circensis.
Sinatra did many good things for people he helped Billie Holliday when she was in hospital paying her medical bills and he did many many good things. That said he could also be an incredibly unpleasant man.
Lmao Coppola was walking back and forth from the stage a lot that night so he sat that one out!
It's A duo box of tricks me myself and I have studied IT
Man I wish Sinatra was alive during the last Oscars. Would Willard Smith approach him after a remark of his wife's hairstyle?
0:21. Kinda funny and sad. At that time mixing politics into the awards wasn't encouraged. Nowadays the awards serve primarily for the actors to preach to the masses from their high horses and throw dirt at their political enemies.
they knew better at 1975....
And I love it.
Sinatra didn't look very happy when he fluffed his presentation and a few members of the audience laughed. I wonder if he was straight on the phone to "fat Tony solerno" to silence them
Godfather 2 could have been Original Screenplay because the story they came up with was original it was never in Puzo's novel which ended before the events of Godfather 2 began.
I would say the name Best Adapted Screenplay is a somewhat misleading title. Looking back through the nominees and winners in this category, you realize it's less so which writer did the best job in adapting the book to screen and/or creating an adaptation of the given source material, but instead, which writer created the best story, the best screenplay, that just happens to have some basis in a work that came before it.
There have been winners of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar that are so close to the source material, you would swear that the writers and filmmakers were trying their very best to recreate the book for film. And then there are winners and nominees that have very little, if anything, in common with the original material. Some of them have even been disowned and despised by the authors of the original books and their families.
By default, if nominated for a screenplay based award, all sequels are automatically put into the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees, since they are using characters and continuing a story that was established in a preexisting film. The same rules would apply even if The Godfather was an Original Screenplay.
I would say The Godfather Part II is an excellent film, and better than most films and especially most film sequels, but it cannot truly be called original. It might not be an adaptation in the strictest sense of the word, but because it is still following the characters and story from a prior film, it especially couldn't be described as an original screenplay.
All of DeNiro’s scenes were from the book
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Did Mario just give the finger? I wonder if it was to frank sinatra.
For a world-renowned writer, Mario Puzo sure didn't put a lot of effort into his acceptance speech. I bet Francis regretted his decision to give Mario the spotlight for his own speech. I would have liked to hear what Cope was going to say.
Frank messed up the name, continental vrs. Centennial.
What is Mr. Sinatra referring to when he references politically-motivated statements?
The winner of the Doc Feature award read a statement from the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks and gave a fairly political acceptance speech. So one of the old white guys in the Academy decided to have Sinatra read a disclaimer, as if that was even necessary.
Thank you!
The statement Frank read about Bert Schneider's earlier comments was purely Frank's - he was responsible for that statement, not the Academy. Who cares what someone says in an acceptance speech?
So where had FFC gone? Toilet?
Someone should tell Meryl Streep to keep her political opinions to herself. Even if I agreed with her, it's the wrong platform. At least the Academy knew that in 1975; they don't seem to anymore.
I love it when actors give their political opinions at the Oscars. And at the Golden Globes. And at the Tonys. Then I do my happy dance.
Frank Sinatra you sexy sexy man…..
Of course, we now know that the "Academy" didn't make any such statement ... Sinatra took it upon himself to respond to the awful Bert Scheider's disgusting comments earlier in the evening.
Is disgusting to celebrate peace?
Joan Carles Tomàs Forteza It's disgusting to inject your own political beliefs into an awards show. Give it a rest.
TheTerryE Is it political and disgusting only when it is different to your own beliefs? I think Sinatra's behaviour was disgusting.
Personally, I hate it when conservatives or liberals try to inject their political views in award shows. If a political statement is dear to them they should use their artistic talents to make a film or play as a protest.
You find his comments disgusting, I find them an example of peace and good will.
Why are we so always consumed by criminal films and character?
Young Frankenstein should have won
It's a tough competition, and if any of those movies won best screenplays, I wouldn't be pissed. All great movies.
Why did everyone have such lousy hair back then?
Sinatra was a glorified mob errand boy.