The Godfather Part II
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{{Infobox Film | name = The Godfather Part 2
| image = Godfather_part_ii.jpg
| caption = original movie poster
| director = [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
| writer = [[Mario Puzo]]<br>[[Francis Ford Coppola]]
| starring =[[Al Pacino]]<br />[[Robert Duvall]]<br />[[Diane Keaton]]<br />[[Robert De Niro]]<br />[[John Cazale]]<br />[[Talia Shire]]<br>[[Lee Strasberg]]
| producer = [[Francis Ford Coppola]]<br>Gray Frederickson<br>[[Fred Roos]]
| editing = [[Richard Marks]]
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
|music = [[Nino Rota]]<br>[[Carmine Coppola]]|
| released = [[United States]]:<br />[[December 12]], [[1974]] (première)
| runtime = 200 min.
| language = English<br />[[Sicilian language|Sicilian]]<br />
| awards = [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]], [[Academy Award for Best Art Direction|Best Art Direction-Set Decoration]], [[Academy Award for Directing|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Original Music Score|Best Score]], [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| budget = $13,000,000 (est.)
| amg_id = 1:20078
| imdb_id = 0071562
| preceded_by = ''[[The Godfather]]''
| followed_by = ''[[The Godfather Part III]]''
}}
'''''The Godfather Part II''''' is a [[1974 in film|1974]] [[crime drama]] film directed by [[Francis Ford Coppola]] from a script co-written with [[Mario Puzo]]. The film is both a [[sequel]] and a [[prequel]] to ''[[The Godfather]]'', chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the rise to power of the young [[Vito Corleone]]. The film stars [[Al Pacino]], [[Robert Duvall]], [[Diane Keaton]], [[Robert De Niro]], [[John Cazale]], [[Talia Shire]], and [[Lee Strasberg]].
It is ranked as the third best movie of all time on the [[Internet Movie Database]], with the movie's predecessor, ''The Godfather'', ranked as #1, and the [[American Film Institute]] lists it as #32.<ref>{{cite web| title=IMDB Top 250 | url=http://imdb.com/chart/top | accessdate=April 26 | accessyear=2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=AFI 100 Years 100 Movies | url=http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx | accessdate=April 26 | accessyear=2007 }}</ref> ''The Godfather Part II'' was nominated for eleven [[Academy Award]]s and won six, including the Best Picture Award<ref>see [[#Awards]]</ref> and the Best Supporting Actor Award for [[Robert De Niro]].
''The Godfather Part II'' has been selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]].
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==Plot==
''The Godfather Part II'' presents two parallel storylines. One involves [[Mafia]] chief [[Michael Corleone]] following the events of the [[The Godfather|first movie]]; the other is a series of [[flashback]]s following his father, [[Vito Corleone]], from his childhood in [[Sicily]] ([[1901]]) to his founding of the criminal [[Corleone Family]] in [[New York City]] while still a young man ([[1917]]–[[1925]]).
:''The film begins in 1901, in the town of [[Corleone]] in [[Sicily]], at the funeral procession for young Vito's father, Antonio Andolini, who has been ordered killed by the local [[Mafia]] chieftain, [[Don Ciccio]]. During the procession, Vito's older brother Paolo is also murdered because he swore revenge on the Don. Vito's mother goes to Ciccio to beg him to let young Vito live. When he refuses, she holds a knife to his throat, sacrificing herself to allow Vito to escape, and Ciccio's gunmen shoot her. They scour the town for Vito, warning the sleeping townsfolk that they will regret harboring the boy. With the aid of a few of the townspeople, Vito finds his way by ship to New York. Arriving at [[Ellis Island]], an immigration agent, mishearing Vito's hometown of Corleone as his surname, registers him as "Vito Corleone".''
The film then moves into the late 1950s, to a scene similar to the opening of the first film, where Michael Corleone, Godfather of the Corleone Family, deals with various business and family problems at his [[Lake Tahoe]], [[Nevada]] compound during an elaborate party celebrating his son's [[First Communion]]. He meets with Nevada [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Pat Geary]], who despises the Corleones, but has shown up with his wife to accept a large endowment to the state university. Senator Geary demands a grossly exaggerated price for a new gaming license and a monthly payment of 5% of the gross profits from all of the Corleone Family's Nevada gaming interests, to which Michael responds with a counter-offer of "nothing".
Michael also deals with his sister [[Connie Corleone|Connie]], who, although recently divorced, is planning to marry a man with no obvious means of support, whom Michael disapproves of. He also talks with [[Johnny Ola]], the right hand man of Jewish gangster [[Hyman Roth]], who is supporting Michael's move into the gambling industry. Finally, Michael meets with [[Frank Pentangeli|Frank "Five Angels" Pentangeli]], who took over Corleone ''[[caporegime]]'' [[Peter Clemenza]]'s territory after his death, and now has problems with the Rosato Brothers, who are backed by Roth. Michael refuses to allow Pentangeli to kill the Rosatos, due to his desire to prevent interruption of his business with Roth. Pentangeli leaves abruptly, after telling Michael "your father did business with Hyman Roth, your father respected Hyman Roth, but your father never ''trusted'' Hyman Roth."
Later that night, an assassination attempt is made on Michael, which he survives when his wife [[Kay Adams-Corleone|Kay]] notices the bedroom window drapes are inexplicably open. Afterwards, Michael tells [[Tom Hagen]] that the hit was made with the help of someone close, and that he must leave, entrusting Hagen to protect his family.
:''In [[1917]], the 25-year-old Vito Corleone works in a New York grocery store with his close friend [[Genco Abbandando]]. The neighborhood is controlled by a [[Black Hand (blackmail)|blackhander]], [[Don Fanucci]], who [[extort]]s protection payments from local businesses. One night, Vito's neighbor Clemenza asks him to hide a stash of guns for him, and later, to repay the favor, takes him to a fancy apartment where they commit their first crime together, stealing an expensive rug.''
Michael meets with Hyman Roth in his home near [[Miami]], tells Roth that he believes Frank Pentangeli was responsible for the assassination attempt, and that Pentangeli will pay for it. Traveling to [[Brooklyn]], Michael lets Pentangeli know that '''''Roth''''' was actually behind it, and that Michael has a plan to deal with Roth, but needs Frankie to cooperate with the Rosato Brothers in order to put Roth off guard. When Pentangeli goes to meet with the Rosatos, he is told "Michael Corleone says hello", as he is [[garrotte]]d; but the attempted murder is accidentally interrupted by a policeman. Pentangeli is left for dead, and his bodyguard, [[Willi Cicci]], is wounded by gunfire.
In Nevada, Tom Hagen is called to a [[brothel]] run by [[Fredo Corleone|Fredo]], where Senator Geary is implicated in the death of a prostitute. Tom offers to take care of the problem in return for "friendship" between the Senator and the Corleone Family. It is implied that the entire event was staged by the Corleone Family in order to gain leverage with Geary and force his cooperation.
Meanwhile, Michael meets Roth in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]] at the time when dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]] is soliciting American investment, and [[guerrilla]]s are trying to [[Cuban Revolution|bring down the government]]. At a birthday party for Roth, Michael mentions that there is a possibility that the rebels might win, making their business dealings in Cuba problematic. The comment prompts Roth to remark, privately, that Michael has not delivered the two million dollars to seal their partnership.
Fredo, carrying the promised money, arrives in Havana and meets Michael. Michael mentions Hyman Roth and Johnny Ola to him, but Fredo says he has never met them. Michael confides to his brother that it was Roth who tried to kill him, and that he plans to try again. Michael assures Fredo that he has already made his move, and that "Hyman Roth will never see the New Year."
Instead of turning over the money, Michael asks Roth who gave the order to have Frank Pentangeli killed. Roth avoids the question, instead speaking angrily of the murder of his old friend and ally [[Moe Greene]], which Michael had orchestrated (as depicted at the end of the [[The Godfather|first film]]), saying, "I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with ''business''!"
Michael asks Fredo, who knows Havana well, to show Senator Geary and other important American officials and businessmen a good time, during which Fredo pretends to not know Johnny Ola. Soon after, at a sex show, a drunk Fredo comments loudly that he learned about the place from Johnny Ola, contradicting what he told Michael twice earlier, that he didn't know Roth or Ola. Michael now realizes that the traitor in the Corleone Family is his own brother, and dispatches his bodyguard back to their hotel to kill Roth. There, Johnny Ola is strangled, but Roth, whose health is failing, is taken to a hospital before he can be assassinated. Michael's bodyguard follows, but is shot by police while trying to smother Roth with a pillow.
At Batista's New Year's Eve party, at the stroke of midnight, Michael grasps Fredo tightly by the head and kisses him, telling him "I know it was you Fredo; you broke my heart." Batista announces he is stepping down due to unexpected gains by the rebels. The guests flee as the guerrillas pour into the city. Fredo runs away from Michael, despite Michael's pleas that he is still his brother and that the only way out is with him.
Michael returns to Las Vegas, where Hagen tells him that Roth escaped Cuba after suffering a [[stroke]] and is recovering in Miami, that Michael's bodyguard is dead, and that Fredo is likely hiding in New York. Hagen also informs Michael that Kay had a [[miscarriage]] while he was away, which causes Michael to lose his usually calm and collected demeanor.
:''In New York, in 1917, Don Fanucci is now aware of the partnership between Vito, Clemenza and [[Sal Tessio]], and demands that they "wet his beak." Clemenza and Tessio agree to pay, but Vito is reluctant and asks his friends to leave everything in his hands to convince Fanucci to accept less money. Vito manages to get Fanucci to take only one sixth of what he had demanded. Immediately afterwards, during a neighborhood [[Mass (liturgy)|festa]], Vito murders Fanucci.''
Michael returns to his compound in Lake Tahoe, where he wanders the house in silent contemplation. He sees Kay (whom he has prevented from leaving the compound for her own safety) in the bedroom, but does not approach her. In [[Washington, D.C.]], a [[U.S. Senate|Senate]] committee, of which Senator Geary is a member, is conducting an investigation into the Corleone Family. They question disaffected "soldier" Willi Cicci, but he cannot implicate Michael, because he never received any direct orders from him.
:''With Fanucci dead, Vito earns the respect of the neighborhood and begins to intercede in local disputes, operating out of the storefront of his Genco Olive Oil Company (named after his good friend Genco Abbandando).''
[[Image:12 comitee.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Michael Corleone appears before the [[U.S. Senate]] committee.]]When Michael appears before the committee, Senator Geary makes a big show of supporting [[Italian-Americans]] and then excuses himself from the proceedings. Michael makes a statement challenging the committee to produce a witness to corroborate the charges against him. The hearing ends with the Chairman promising a witness who will do exactly that.
Tom Hagen and Michael discuss the problem. They have found out that Frank Pentangeli is the witness who will testify against him, and observe that Roth's strategy to destroy Michael is well planned. Michael's brother Fredo has been found and persuaded to return to Nevada, and in a private meeting he explains to Michael his betrayal: upset about being passed over to head the Family in favor of Michael, he wants respect and his due. He helped Roth, thinking there would be something in it for him, but he swears he didn't know they wanted to kill Michael. He also tells Michael that the Senate Committee's chief counsel is on Roth's payroll. Michael then tells Fredo: "You're nothing to me now. Not a brother, not a friend, nothing", and privately instructs [[Al Neri]] that nothing is to happen to Fredo while their mother is still alive; the understanding is that Fredo will be killed after her death.
Frank Pentangeli has made a deal with the [[FBI]] to testify against Michael, believing he was the one who organized the attempt on his life. At the hearing in which Pentangeli is to testify, Michael arrives accompanied by Pentangeli's brother Vincenzo, brought in from Sicily, whose surprise presence causes Frank to recant his previous statements about Michael. When Pentangeli is pressed, he claims that he just told the FBI what they wanted to hear. With no witness to testify against Michael the committee adjourns, with Hagen, acting as Michael's lawyer, loudly demanding an apology.
At a hotel room afterwards, Kay tries to leave Michael and take their children with her. Michael at first tries to mollify her, but loses his temper and hits her when she coldly reveals to him that her recent "miscarriage" was actually an [[abortion]] to avoid bringing another son into Michael's criminal family.
:''In the 1920s, Vito visits Sicily for the first time since leaving for America 20 years earlier. He is introduced to the elderly Don Ciccio by [[Don Tommasino]] as the man who imports their olive oil to America, and who wants his blessing. When Ciccio asks Vito who his father was, Vito says, "My father's name was Antonio Andolini, and this is for you!" He then plunges a large knife into the old man's stomach and carves it open, thereby avenging the deaths of his father, mother and brother. In the ensuing gun battle, Tommasino is shot, confining him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.''
[[Image:Godfather2 corleone.jpg|275px|thumb|left|Don Michael Corleone]]
[[Carmella Corleone]], Vito's widow and the mother of his children, dies, and the whole Corleone family reunites at the funeral. Michael is still shunning Fredo, who is miserable and depressed, but relents when Connie implores him to. Michael and Fredo embrace, but at the same time Michael signals to his ''capo'' Al Neri that Fredo's protection from harm, in effect while their mother lived, is now over.
Michael, Tom Hagen, Al Neri, and Rocco Lampone discuss their final dealings with Hyman Roth, who has been unsuccessfully seeking [[Right of asylum|asylum]] from various countries, and was even refused entry to [[Israel]] as a [[Aliyah|returning Jew]]. Michael rejects Hagen's advice that the Corleone Family's position is secure, and killing Roth and the Rosato brothers for revenge is an unnecessary risk. Later, Hagen pays a visit to Frank Pentangeli on a military base and suggests that he take his own life in return for having his family taken care of afterwards.
With the connivance of Connie, Kay visits her children, but cannot bear to leave them and stays too long. When Michael arrives, he closes the door in her face.
The film reaches its [[climax]] in a [[montage sequence|montage]] of assassinations and death, reminiscent of the end of ''The Godfather''.
*As he arrives at a U.S. airport to be taken into custody, Hyman Roth is killed by Rocco Lampone disguised as a journalist, who is immediately shot dead in turn.
*Frank Pentangeli is found dead in his bathtub by two FBI agents, having followed Hagen's instructions and committed suicide, slashing his wrists while taking a bath.
*Finally, Fredo is murdered by Al Neri while they are fishing on Lake Tahoe, as Fredo is saying a [[Hail Mary]] to help catch a fish.
The penultimate scene takes place as a flashback in 1941, as the Corleone family is preparing a surprise birthday party for Vito. [[Sonny Corleone|Sonny]] introduces [[Carlo Rizzi]], Connie's future husband and eventual betrayer of Sonny, to his family. [[Sal Tessio]] comes in with the cake for the party, and they all talk about the recent [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] by the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]]. Michael shocks everybody by announcing that he has just enlisted in the [[United States Marine Corps|United States Marines]]. Sonny angrily ridicules Michael's choice, while [[Tom Hagen]] mentions how his father has great expectations for Michael, and had made specific arrangements for his future. Fredo is the only one who supports his brother's decision. When Vito arrives, all but Michael leave to greet him.
The film ends with Michael in the Corleone Lake Tahoe compound, sitting alone, in silence.
==Cast==
* [[Al Pacino]] as ''[[Michael Corleone|Don Michael Corleone]]''
* [[Robert De Niro]] as young ''[[Vito Corleone]]''
* [[Diane Keaton]] as ''[[Kay Adams|Kay Corleone]]''
* [[Robert Duvall]] as ''[[Tom Hagen]]''
* [[John Cazale]] as ''[[Fredo Corleone]]''
* [[Talia Shire]] as ''[[Connie Corleone]]''
* [[Lee Strasberg]] as ''[[Hyman Roth]]''
* [[Michael V. Gazzo]] as ''[[Frank Pentangeli|Frankie Pentangeli]]''
* [[Morgana King]] as ''[[Carmella Corleone|Mama Carmella Corleone]]''
* [[G.D. Spradlin]] as ''[[Pat Geary|Senator Pat Geary]]''
* [[Richard Bright (actor)|Richard Bright]] as ''[[Al Neri]]''
* [[Marianna Hill]] as ''Deanna Corleone''
* [[Troy Donahue]] as ''Merle Johnson''
* [[Dominic Chianese]] as ''Johnny Ola''
* [[Bruno Kirby]] as ''Young [[Peter Clemenza]]''
* [[Frank Sivero]] as ''Young [[Genco Abbandando]]''
* [[James Caan]] as ''[[Sonny Corleone]]'' (cameo)
* [[Abe Vigoda]] as ''[[Salvatore Tessio]]'' (cameo)
* Giuseppe Sillato as ''Don Ciccio''
* [[Roman Coppola]] as ''Young [[Sonny Corleone|Santino Corleone]]''
* [[John Megna]] as ''Young Hyman Roth''
* Julian Voloshin as ''Sam Roth''
* Larry Guardino as ''Vito's Uncle''
===Casting notes===
* [[James Caan]] agreed to reprise the role of Sonny in the birthday flashback sequence on the condition that for the single scene he be paid the same amount he received for the entire last film. He got his wish. [[Marlon Brando]] was also asked to return for the brief but important birthday flashback sequence, but the actor felt mistreated by the board at [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]], and refused to appear for a single day's shooting.
* Also declining to appear in the film was [[Richard Castellano]], who portrayed [[Peter Clemenza|Pete Clemenza]] in the first film. Castellano and the producers could not reach agreement on Castellano's demands that he be allowed to write the character's dialogue in the film. Instead, the character Frankie Pentangeli was created.
* [[Bruno Kirby]] (billed in the credits as B. Kirby, Jr.) plays a younger version of Clemenza. In the television series ''The Super'', Kirby played [[Richard S. Castellano|Castellano]]'s son.
* [[Troy Donahue]], in a small role as Connie's boyfriend, plays a character named Merle Johnson (which is Donahue's real name).
* [[Dominic Chianese]], [[Junior Soprano|Uncle Corrado "Junior" Soprano]] in ''[[The Sopranos]]'', plays the role of Johnny Ola in his film debut.
* Two actors who appear in the film played different character roles in other Godfather films; [[Carmine Caridi]], who plays Carmine Rosato, also went on to play crime boss Albert Volpe in ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'', and [[Frank Sivero]], who plays a young [[Genco Abbandando]], also plays a bystander to the fight between [[Sonny Corleone]] and [[Carlo Rizzi]] in ''The Godfather''.
* Among the Senators in the hearing committee are film producer/director [[Roger Corman]], writer/producer [[William Bowers]], producer Phil Feldman, and science-fiction writer [[Richard Matheson]].
==Production==
''The Godfather Part II'' was shot between [[October 1]], [[1973 in film|1973]] and [[June 19]], [[1974 in film|1974]], the last major American motion picture to be filmed in [[Technicolor]]. . The scenes that took place in [[Cuba]] were shot in [[Santo Domingo]], [[Dominican Republic]].<ref>"[http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/12/5/113159/369/hotels/Movie_Set_Hotel_The_Godfather_II Movie Set Hotel: The Godfather II]", HotelChatter, [[December 5|12-05]]-[[2006]].</ref> [[Charles Bluhdorn]], whose [[Gulf+Western]] [[Conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] owned Paramount, felt strongly about developing the Dominican Republic as a movie-making site.
The Lake Tahoe house and grounds portrayed in the film are Fleur du Lac, the summer estate of [[Henry J. Kaiser]] on the [[California]] side of the lake. The only structures used in the movie that still remain are the complex of old native stone boathouses with their wrought iron gates. Although Fleur du Lac is private property and no one is allowed ashore there, the boathouses and multi-million dollar condominiums may be viewed from the lake.
[[George Lucas]] commented on the film after its five-hour long preview, telling Coppola: "You have two films. Take one away, it doesn't work."
In the [[audio commentary (DVD)|director's commentary]] on the [[DVD]] edition of the film (released in 2002), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use "Part II" in its title. Paramount was initially opposed to his decision to name the movie ''The Godfather Part 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. The success of ''The Godfather Part II'' began the Hollywood tradition of numbered sequels.
==Reception==
''The Godfather Part II'' is considered by many to be the most critically and artistically successful [[sequel]] in movie history, and is certainly the most honored. Many critics praise it as equal, or even superior, to the original film. The [[Internet Movie Database]] consistently ranks this movie in the top five of its "Top 250 movies of all time", as voted by its users, and holds a "98%" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film also regularly ranks independently on many "greatest movies" lists.
''The Godfather Part II'' is ranked as the #1 greatest movie of all time in ''TV Guide Magazine's'' "50 Best Movies of all time", and it is ranked at #7 on ''Entertainment Weekly'' 's list of the "100 Greatest Movies of All Time". The film is also featured on movie critic Leonard Maltin's list of the "100 Must-See Films of the 20th Century" and is also ranked at #32 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years... 100 Movies", the only official sequel to appear on the list. In June 2008, the AFI revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ''The Godfather Part II'' was acknowledged as the third best in the gangster film genre.<ref>{{cite news | publisher = [[American Film Institute]] | title = AFI's 10 Top 10 | date = [[2008-06-17]] | url = http://www.afi.com/10top10/gangster.html | accessdate=2008-06-18}}</ref> It was also featured on ''[[Sight and Sound]]'''s list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1992 and 2002.
As the decades have passed, like the first film, ''The Godfather Part II'' remains seen as one of the finest movies of all time. Like the film itself, Al Pacino's performance became legendary. The general public and many movie critics have praised Pacino's performance in ''Part II'' as perhaps his best and one of the best performances of all time. In 2006, ''Premier Magazine'' issued "The 100 Greatest Performances of all Time", ranking Al Pacino's performance at #20.
===Awards===
{| class="infobox" style="width: 23em; font-size: 85%;"
|- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center
! colspan="2" | Academy Awards record
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| '''1. Best Supporting Actor''', [[Robert De Niro]]
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| '''2. Best Art Direction''', [[Dean Tavoularis]], Angelo P. Graham, George R. Nelson
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| '''3. Best Director''', [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
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| '''4. Best Original Score''', [[Nino Rota]], [[Carmine Coppola]]
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| '''5. Best Picture''', Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson, [[Fred Roos]]
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| '''6. Best Adapted Screenplay''', Francis Ford Coppola, [[Mario Puzo]]
|- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center
! colspan="2" | BAFTA Awards record
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| '''1. Best Actor''', [[Al Pacino]]
|}
''The Godfather Part II'' is the only official sequel ever to win the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. (''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', which won the 2004 Oscar for Best Picture, is the third part of a single trilogy, ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', and ''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'', the 1991 winner for the Academy Award for Best Picture, is not an ''official'' sequel to ''[[Manhunter (film)|Manhunter]]''). ''The Godfather'' series remains the only [[film series]] to win two Academy Awards for Best Picture.
Between ''The Godfather'' and ''The Godfather Part II,'' Coppola directed ''[[The Conversation]],'' which was released in 1974 and was also nominated for Best Picture. This resulted in Coppola being the second director in Hollywood history to have two films released in the same year nominated for Best Picture. (The first was [[Sir Alfred Hitchcock]] in 1941 with ''[[Foreign Correspondent (film)|Foreign Correspondent]]'' and ''[[Rebecca (film)|Rebecca]]'', which won. This achievement was matched by [[Steven Soderbergh]] in 2000, when the films ''[[Erin Brockovich (film)|Erin Brockovich]]'' and ''[[Traffic (2000 movie)|Traffic]]'' were both nominated for Best Picture.)
==Miscellany==
* The scene in which Vito negotiates with [[Don Fanucci]] inspired [[George Lucas]]' deleted (and later restored) scene in ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]'', in which [[Han Solo]] negotiates with [[Jabba the Hutt]] for more time to pay the money he owes.
* The character Hyman Roth, portrayed by [[Lee Strasberg]], is based on [[Meyer Lansky]]. Shortly after the premiere in 1974, Lansky phoned Strasberg and congratulated him on a good performance, but added "You could've made me more sympathetic."
* [[Richard Nixon]] was said by Coppola to have been the inspiration for [[Peter Donat]]'s character, Questadt the Senate lawyer.
* The murder of Roth by Rocco Lampone visually recalls [[Jack Ruby]]'s assassination of [[Lee Harvey Oswald]].
* In an early draft of the script, [[Tom Hagen]] had an affair with Sonny's widow, causing some friction amongst the Corleone family. This sub-plot was soon cut from the script.
* In August 2007, [[Electronic Arts]] announced that they were working on a video game adaptation of ''The Godfather Part II'', the sequel to the [[The Godfather: The Game|original Godfather game]] released in late 2006-early 2007. The game is due to be released in late 2008-early 2009.
* The statue carried during the Festa is of St. Rocco and is currently located at St. Joseph Church in New York City. The priest in the Festa is Rev. Joseph Moffo, who was the pastor of St. Joseph at the time of the filming. In addition, the altarboys and men carrying the canopy were also from St. Joseph.
* The Italian spoken in the film is actually an amalgamation of Southern Italian dialects (or languages: see [[Sicilian language]], [[Calabrian languages]]), markedly different from the standard, Tuscan-based [[Italian language]].
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[[th:เดอะก็อดฟาเธอร์ ภาค 2]]
[[vi:Bố già phần II]]
[[tr:Baba II]]
[[zh:教父2]]