Gathering together three recipients of the AFI Life Achievement Award – Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and co-writer/director Francis Ford Coppola – THE GODFATHER (1972) also features impeccable art direction from Dean Tavoularis and groundbreaking sound from “post production consultant” Walter Murch, both recipients of the AFI Honorary Degree. Secure in the pantheon of the greatest American films of all time, this first installment of the iconic trilogy earned its place across six of the American Film Institute’s lists – first appearing at #3 on the original list of cinema’s greatest screen stories and moving into the #2 slot for the 10th anniversary edition. The iconic family saga is also immortalized among the art form’s greatest thrills, film scores and movie quotes – “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” – and is the #1 ranked gangster film of all time in AFI’s 10 TOP 10.
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