The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
... when they should have been ...
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| The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece seems even more remarkable in that his source material, Mario Puzo's pop novel, could easily have produced what Paramount expected (perhaps even wanted): a routine action thriller. Although Cabaret took the lion's share of Oscars (eight, to The Godfather's three), Academy voters seemed to realize that The Godfather made a statement about American values, and consequently worked on a higher level than Cabaret's rather chilly portrait of pre-World War II decadence in Germany. Even then it passed over Coppola's directing for Bob Fosse's, and ignored Gordon Willis's magisterial cinematography and Dean Tavoularis's production design, which didn't even earn a nomination.
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