The Godfather
- #2 on IMDB.com’s Top 250 Best Movies
- #3 on Metacritic.com’s Best Movie Scores
- #3 on AFI.com’s Top 100 Best Movies
- #4 on TopTenReview.com’s All Time Best Movies
- #9 on RottenTomatoes.com’s Best Movies of Rotten Tomatoes
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IMDB.com’s Top 250 Best Movies
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Godfather
- The Godfather: Part II
- Inception
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
RottenTomatoes.com Best Movies of all Time
- Toy Story 2
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- Taxi to the Dark Side
- Toy Story
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Metacritic.com’s Best Movie Releases by Score
- Balthazar
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Godfather
- The Leopard
- The Conformist
AFI.com’s Top 100 Best Movies
- Citizen Kane
- Casablanca
- The Godfather
- Gone with the Wind
- Lawrence of Arabia
TopTenReview.com’s All Time Best Movies
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Citizen Kane
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Godfather, The
- 12 Angry Men
The Godfather is an Academy Award winning 1972 American mob-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton, and features John Cazale, Talia Shire, Al Martino, and Abe Vigoda. The story spans ten years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the fictional Italian American Corleone crime family. Two sequels followed: The Godfather Part II in 1974, and The Godfather Part III in 1990.
The Godfather received Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In addition, it is ranked third, behind Citizen Kane and Casablanca, on the AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. It was moved up to second when the list was published again in 2008.