PUZO, Mario [Robert De Niro and Al Pacino].

The Godfather Part II Signed Poster.

Godfather II Release; Signed by Academy Award-winning actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino

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Theatrical release poster for the epic American crime film, The Godfather Part II, signed by Academy Award-winning actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The Godfather Part II was released in the United States in December of 1974. Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, it is loosely based on the 1969 novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. It is both a sequel and a prequel to the 1972 film The Godfather, with Pacino starring as Michael Corleone, the new Don of the Corleone family and De Niro as his father, Vito Corleone. In 1975, the film won six Academy Awards, and became the first sequel to win Best Picture. The piece measures 24 inches by 16 inches.

A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and the powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor that was passed on from father to son. "A voyeur's dream, a skillful fantasy of violent personal power" (New York Times). It was made into the 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. It was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made. It won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and Coppola). Its seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall for Best Supporting Actor and Coppola for Best Director. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in world cinema and one of the most influential, especially in the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and is ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute. It was followed by sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).