Godfather (35 page)

Robert De Niro won an Academy Award for playing the young Vito Corleone in the flashback sequences of
Godfather II
. Coppola received Oscars for directing the film, coauthoring the screenplay, and producing the best picture of the year.

In
Godfather II
, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) ostensibly forgives his brother Fredo (John Cazale) for betraying him, all the while planning to have him murdered (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive).

Francis Ford Coppola (center) directs Joe Mantegna (left) and Al Pacino (right) on the set of
Godfather III
(Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive).

In
Apocalypse Now
, Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) is a renegade American officer who has sunk into madness during the Vietnam War (Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive).

Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is captured by natives in
Apocalypse Now
(Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive).

Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) harangues Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) in
Apocalypse Now
(Museum of Modern Art/Film Stills Archive).

A Catholic chaplain offers Mass (center) in the extended battle scene in
Apocalypse Now Redux
, the expanded version of Coppola's film (Cinemabilia).

Jackie Willow (D. B. Sweeney), a young recruit, with officers Clell Hazard (James Caan) and Goody Nelson (James Earl Jones) in
Gardens of Stone
, Coppola's follow-up to his earlier Vietnam film,
Apocalypse Now
(Ohlinger's Movie Material Store).

Frederic Forrest as Hank and Nastassia Kinski as Leila in
One from the Heart
(Ohlinger's Movie Material Store).

Teri Garr as Frannie in
One from the Heart
, Coppola's least successful film (Ohlinger's Movie Material Store).

Dallas (Matt Dillon), Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell), and Johnny (Ralph Macchio) are buddies in
The Outsiders
(Ohlinger's Movie Material Store).

Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) is comforted by his brothers Sodapop (Rob Lowe) and Darrel (Patrick Swayze) after he is injured in a street fight in
The Outsiders
(Ohlinger's Movie Material Store).

Mickey Rourke as Motorcycle Boy in
Rumble Fish
, Coppola's follow-up to
The Outsiders
(Ohlinger's Movie Material Store).