"$269 million worldwide and won various awards, including: three Academy Awards, five Golden Globes and one Grammy. The film is considered to be tremendously significant in cinematic history. The sequel, ""The Godfather Part II"" won six Oscars, and became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film's plot follows the novel except for such details as backstories of some characters that are excluded, although they were filmed. Some of this footage was included in later re-edited versions such as, ""The Godfather Saga."" The subplot involving Johnny Fontane in Hollywood was not filmed. The most significant"
"46th Academy Awards The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven. ""The Sting"" won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill. ""The Exorcist"" and ""The Way We Were"" were the only other films to win multiple awards. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The 46th Academy Awards ceremony is perhaps best remembered as the ceremony in which a streaker named"
"II"". According to Coppola, the studio's objection stemmed from the belief that audiences would be reluctant to see a film with such a title, as the audience would supposedly believe that, having already seen ""The Godfather"", there was little reason to see an addition to the original story. However, the success of ""The Godfather Part II"" began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels. The movie was released in 1974 and went on to receive tremendous critical acclaim, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and received 6 Oscars, including 3 for Coppola:"
"The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. 46th Academy Awards The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven. ""The Sting"" won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill. ""The Exorcist"" and ""The Way We Were"" were the only other films to win multiple awards. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The 46th Academy"
"contracts now have what is known as the ""Salkind clause"", which stipulates how many films are being made. The film received mostly positive reviews. It was also nominated at the 48th Academy Awards for Best Costumes (Yvonne Blake and Ron Talsky). The Four Musketeers (1974 film) The Four Musketeers (also known as The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) is a 1974 Richard Lester film that serves as a sequel to his ""The Three Musketeers"", and covers the second half of Dumas' 1844 novel ""The Three Musketeers"". Fifteen years after completion of ""The Four Musketeers"", much of the cast and crew reassembled"
"second sequel to appear, though Hooper did not return to direct due to scheduling conflicts with another film, ""Spontaneous Combustion"". """", starring Renée Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey, was released in 1995. While briefly acknowledging the events of the preceding two sequels, its plot makes it a virtual remake of the 1974 original. A straight remake, ""The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"", was released by Platinum Dunes and New Line Cinema in 2003. It was followed by a prequel, """", in 2006. A seventh film, ""Texas Chainsaw 3D"", was released on January 4, 2013. It is a direct sequel to the original 1974"
""""" along with the single nomination for """" brings the series' total to 37 nominations). ""The Fellowship of the Ring"" earned thirteen nominations, the most of any film at the 74th Academy Awards, winning four. ""The Return of the King"" won in every category in which it was nominated, setting the current Oscar record for the highest clean sweep, and its 11 Academy Awards wins ties the record held by ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic"" (though both of those films had additional nominations that they ultimately lost). ""The Return of the King"" became only the second sequel to win the Oscar for"
"Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe. A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was made in 1975, with Wayne reprising his role and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. The plot has been described as a rehash of the original ""True Grit"" with elements of the Bogart-Hepburn film ""The African Queen"". A further made-for-television sequel titled """" appeared in 1978, starring Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Lisa Pelikan as Mattie Ross and featuring subsequent adventures of the valiant pair. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed another adaptation of the novel."
"received multiple awards. The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. 47th Academy Awards The 47th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, April 8, 1975, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra. This was the last year NBC aired the ceremonies before ABC secured broadcasting rights, which they still hold to this day. The success of ""The Godfather Part II"" was notable; it received twice as many Oscars as its predecessor (six) and duplicated its feat of"
"survivors' attempts at escaping a sinking ocean liner overturned by a giant wave triggered by an earthquake. ""The Poseidon Adventure"" was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters and winning for Original Song and receiving a Special Achievement Award for visual effects. The trend reached its zenith in 1974 with the release of ""The Towering Inferno"", ""Earthquake"" and ""Airport 1975"" (the first ""Airport"" sequel). The competing films enjoyed staggering success at the box office, with ""The Towering Inferno"" earning $116 million - 548 million in 2017 adjusted dollars, ""Earthquake"" $79 million - 376 million in"
"47th Academy Awards The 47th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, April 8, 1975, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra. This was the last year NBC aired the ceremonies before ABC secured broadcasting rights, which they still hold to this day. The success of ""The Godfather Part II"" was notable; it received twice as many Oscars as its predecessor (six) and duplicated its feat of three Best Supporting Actor nominations (as of the 90th Academy Awards, the last film to receive three"
"the world, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. It won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Its director Francis Ford Coppola was passed over in favor of Bob Fosse and his musical, ""Cabaret"", which also earned an Oscar for its star, Liza Minnelli. ""The Godfather Part II"" followed in 1974, with roughly the same principal cast and crew, earning Oscars for star Robert De Niro, its director, composer, screenwriters and art directors. The film also earned the Best Picture Oscar for that year. Not all of the ""street smart"" urban related films were 100% live"
"to win an Academy Award, surpassing the 431-minute long ""War and Peace,"" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Following the five-part documentary's win, new Academy rules barred any ""multi-part or limited series"" from being eligible for documentary categories. With Casey Affleck winning the Oscar for Best Actor, him and his older brother, Ben Affleck, became the 16th pair of siblings to win Academy Awards. Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Viola Davis became the first black person to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting with her Oscar, Emmy, and"
"whom the Seven-Up vice squad detectives interview during their criminal investigation. In 1974, Spinell reprised his role as Willie Cicci in ""The Godfather Part II"", where Cicci is still working for the Corleone crime family, but having been promoted from ""soldier"" (aka: 'button man') to being the personal bodyguard to Frank Pentangeli (Michael V. Gazzo). The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and became the first sequel to win for Best Picture. It was Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film of 1974 and was the fifth-highest-grossing picture in North America that year. In 1975, he had a supporting role in as"
"to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's ""West Side Story"". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's ""Two Women"". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh"
"grossing $709 million worldwide, with an estimated 46 million tickets sold in the US. The film won four awards from the Visual Effects Society and was nominated for three Academy Awards, for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects. LaBeouf's performance was praised by ""Empire"", and Cullen's reprisal of Optimus Prime from the 1980s television series was well received by fans. It was soon followed by four sequels and a prequel: """" (2009), """" (2011), """" (2014), and """" (2017). A sixth installment titled, ""Bumblebee"", serving as both a spin-off and aforementioned prequel, will be released on"
"time, having previously been a co-host of the 48th ceremony held in 1976. Meanwhile, this was Chase and Hogan's first Oscars hosting stint. Eight days earlier, in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 22, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Catherine Hicks. ""Platoon"" won four awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Hannah and Her Sisters"" and ""A Room with a View"" with three awards, ""Aliens"" with two awards, and """", ""The Assault"", ""Children of a Lesser God"", ""The Color of Money"", ""Down and Out in America"", ""The Fly"","
"who has regained consciousness. Released in the United States on November 15, 1974, ""Earthquake"" would become the third highest-grossing film of the year; its competition, ""The Towering Inferno"", was the highest. The disaster film trend reached a zenith in 1974 with the combined releases of ""Airport 1975"" (the first ""Airport"" sequel), ""Earthquake"" and ""The Towering Inferno"". The films enjoyed staggering success, with ""The Towering Inferno"" earning $55 million in rentals, ""Earthquake"" earning $36 million and ""Airport 1975"" earning $25 million. By 1976, the disaster film cycle had also left its mark on the list of all-time box office champions, with"
"success of the film launched several other disaster films, many of which following the same blueprint of major stars, a melodramatic script, and great suspense. Three ""Airport"" sequels followed in 1974, 1977, and 1979, each successor making less money than the last. 1972 brought ""The Poseidon Adventure"", which starred a young Gene Hackman leading an all-star cast to safety in a capsized luxury liner. The film earned an Academy Award for visual effects (and Best Original Song for ""The Morning After""), as well as numerous nominations, including one for its notable supporting star, Shelley Winters, but its sequel in 1979"
"over the 66th ceremony in 1994. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Richard Dreyfuss. ""Braveheart"" won five awards, including Best Director for Mel Gibson and Best Picture. Other winners included ""Apollo 13"", ""Pocahontas"", ""Restoration"" and ""The Usual Suspects"" with two awards, and ""Anne Frank Remembered"", ""Antonia's Line"", ""Babe"", ""A Close Shave"", ""Dead Man Walking"", """", ""Leaving Las Vegas"", ""Lieberman in Love"", ""Mighty Aphrodite"", ""One Survivor Remembers"" and ""Sense and Sensibility"" with one. The telecast garnered almost"
"into two shorter features, the second part becoming 1974's ""The Four Musketeers"". According to Ben Mankiewicz on a May 14, 2016 showing of the film on TCM, during an advance screening, attended by the cast, after the movie ended a trailer for The Four Musketeers was shown, which none of the cast had heard anything about until then. This incensed the actors and crew, since they were being paid for one film, and their original contracts made no mention of a second feature, resulting in lawsuits being filed to receive compensation for salaries associated with the sequel. This led to"
"with a double dagger (). These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 42nd Academy Awards The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. Awards were presented by seventeen ""Friends of Oscar"": Bob Hope, John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Fred Astaire, Jon Voight, Myrna Loy, Clint Eastwood, Raquel Welch, Candice Bergen, James Earl Jones, Katharine Ross, Cliff Robertson, Ali MacGraw, Barbara McNair, Elliott Gould, Claudia Cardinale, and Elizabeth Taylor. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony"
"78th ceremony held in 2006. Two weeks earlier in a gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 9, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jessica Alba. ""No Country for Old Men"" won the most awards of the ceremony with four including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Bourne Ultimatum"" with three awards, ""La Vie en Rose (La môme)"" and ""There Will Be Blood"" with two awards, and ""Atonement"", ""The Counterfeiters"", """", ""Freeheld"", ""The Golden Compass"", ""Juno"", ""Michael Clayton"", ""The Mozart of Pickpockets"", ""Once"", ""Peter and the Wolf"", ""Ratatouille"", """", and"
"having previously been a co-host of the 49th ceremony held in 1977. Meanwhile, this was Alda and Williams's first Oscars hosting stint. Eight days earlier, in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 16, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Macdonald Carey. ""Out of Africa"" won seven awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Cocoon"" and ""Witness"" with two awards, and ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"", ""The Trip to Bountiful"", ""Prizzi's Honor"", ""The Official Story"", ""Broken Rainbow"", """", ""Molly's Pilgrim"", ""Anna & Bella"", ""White Nights"", ""Back to the Future"", ""Mask"""
"genre, after ""Raging Bull"", by the American Film Institute in 2008. The film has spawned seven sequels: ""Rocky II"" (1979), ""Rocky III"" (1982), ""Rocky IV"" (1985), ""Rocky V"" (1990), ""Rocky Balboa"" (2006), ""Creed"" (2015) and ""Creed II"" (2018). Stallone portrays Rocky in all seven sequels, wrote the first five, and directed four (Avildsen returned to direct ""Rocky V"" and Ryan Coogler directed ""Creed""). An eighth film and direct sequel to ""Creed"", titled ""Creed II"", was released in 2018 with Steven Caple Jr. directing and Stallone returning to star and writing the script. In late 1975, the heavyweight boxing world champion,"
"ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 68th ceremony in 1996. Nearly a month earlier in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 27, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Anne Heche. ""Shakespeare in Love"" won seven awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""Saving Private Ryan"" with five awards, and ""Life Is Beautiful"" with three. ""Affliction"", ""Bunny"", ""Central Station"", ""Election Night"", ""Elizabeth"", ""Gods and Monsters"", ""The Last Days"", """", ""The Prince of Egypt"" and ""What Dreams May Come"" were all nominated in at least two"
"with Mario Puzo), Best Picture, and his first nomination for Best Director. He followed with ""The Godfather Part II"" in 1974, which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Highly regarded by critics, it brought him three more Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture, and made him the second director, after Billy Wilder, to be honored three times for the same film. ""The Conversation"", which he directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed 1979's ""Apocalypse Now""."
"74th Academy Awards The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2001. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the fourth time. She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 71st ceremony in"
"fields of film, television, theater and music. ★ Bold indicates the winner in each category. ★ Anthony Michael Hall - ""Sixteen Candles"" (Universal) ★ Molly Ringwald - ""Sixteen Candles"" (Universal) ★ Ke Huy Quan - ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" (Paramount) ★ Elisabeth Shue - ""The Karate Kid"" (Columbia) ★ - ""The Day After"" (ABC) ★ Missy Francis - ""Something About Amelia"" (ABC) ★ David Mendenhall - ""General Hospital"" (ABC) ★ Shalane McCall - ""Dallas"" (CBS) ★ - ""Call to Glory"" (ABC) ★ Melora Hardin - """" (ABC) ★ Billy Jacoby - """" (ABC) ★ Justine Bateman -"
"panned. Industry journal ""Variety"" called it ""unsatisfactory... plodding, cliche-ridden"". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a critical approval of 13%, based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 3.6/10. Composer Elmer Bernstein received an Academy Award nomination for his score, a re-recorded version of his score for ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960). The film earned an estimated $1.6 million in rentals during its initial release. The film was re-released in 1969 and earned rentals of $1.3 million. Return of the Seven Return of the Seven (1966) (also called Return of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven 2) is the"
"crew are trapped inside, and a rebellious preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety. It is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the early-mid 1970s such as ""Airport"" (1970), ""Earthquake"" (1974), and ""The Towering Inferno"" (1974). By the end of 1974, it was regarded as a widely successful film. The film won two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award. A 1979 sequel, ""Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"", was also based on a novel by Gallico but was a commercial and critical failure."
"The Four Musketeers (1974 film) The Four Musketeers (also known as The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) is a 1974 Richard Lester film that serves as a sequel to his ""The Three Musketeers"", and covers the second half of Dumas' 1844 novel ""The Three Musketeers"". Fifteen years after completion of ""The Four Musketeers"", much of the cast and crew reassembled to film ""The Return of the Musketeers"" (1989), loosely based on Dumas' ""Twenty Years After"" (1845). During the Anglo-French War (1627–29), which involved suppression of the Protestant rebels of La Rochelle, Cardinal Richelieu continues the machinations he began in ""The Three"
"Picture. Along with ""The Lord of the Rings"", ""The Godfather Trilogy"" shares the distinction that all of its installments were nominated for Best Picture. The video game based on the film was released in April 2009 by Electronic Arts. The Godfather Part II The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Partially based on Puzo's 1969 novel ""The Godfather"", the film is both sequel and prequel to ""The Godfather"", presenting parallel dramas: one picks up the 1958"