In 1901 Corleone, Sicily, nine-year-old Vito Andolini’s father is killed for insulting local Mafia chieftain Don Ciccio, who later kills his elder brother Paolo and mother after she pleads Ciccio to let her remaining son live. Ī sequel, The Godfather Part III, was released 16 years later in 1990. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 for being "culturally significant". The film was ranked as the thirty-second greatest film in American cinematic history by the American Film Institute in 1997 and it kept its rank 10 years later.
The Godfather Part II, like its predecessor, is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made and it remains a highly influential film in the gangster genre. Pacino won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film also received Academy Awards for Best Director for Coppola, Best Supporting Actor for De Niro and Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola and Puzo. This made Part II the first film sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and it remained the only sequel to do so until The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won the award in 2003. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture.
The Godfather Part II was released in 1974, and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with some even deeming it superior to its predecessor.
The main storyline, following the events of the first film, centers on Michael Corleone (Pacino), the new Don of the Corleone crime family, trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959 the other is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone (De Niro), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to his founding of the Corleone family in New York City. The film is in part, both a sequel and a prequel to 1972 The Godfather film, presenting two parallel dramas. The film stars Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, Morgana King, John Cazale, Marianna Hill, Michael V.
The screenplay was once again written by Coppola and Puzo. The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and partially based on Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather.