Mario Puzo

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1920 age 0

   Born

2. 1972 age 52

   CreditThe Godfatherscreenwriter

3. 1974 age 54

   CreditEarthquakescreenwriter

   CreditThe Godfather Part IIscreenwriter

4. 1977 age 57

   CreditThe Godfather Sagascreenwriter

5. 1978 age 58

   CreditSupermanscreenwriter

6. 1980 age 60

   CreditSuperman IIscreenwriter

7. 1984 age 64

   CreditThe Cotton Clubscreenwriter

8. 1990 age 70

   CreditThe Godfather Part IIIscreenwriter

9. 1999 age 78

   Died

• FCFrancis Ford Coppola5 titles
• NRNino Rota4 titles
• APAl Pacino4 titles
• JCJohn Cazale4 titles
• DKDiane Keaton4 titles
• TSTalia Shire4 titles
• AMAl Martino4 titles
• SCSofia Coppola4 titles
• GWGordon Willis4 titles
• DTDean Tavoularis4 titles

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  Photo:Bernard GotfrydPublic domain

• The Mafia liked the book. They come out looking good. Of course, it's a romantic novel and the Mafia is romanticized.

  Mario Puzo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I thought of it as a man's book. I have no idea why women like it, too. The book is an ironic commentary on romantic love. The whole concept of romantic love for women is very phony. They really don't want to be considered delicate vessels any more.

  Mario Puzo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think of Wall Street guys as the crookedest in the world... They're [judges] the most corrupt part of the system... [The Catholic Church is] the worst influence on all civilization — they're against everything.

  Mario Puzo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm fascinated by the movies simply because it is an enormous machine for making money and no matter how badly they run it, it still makes money. It's the perfect industry to put your nephew in and your idiot cousin, because they'll be geniuses.

  Mario Puzo, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The horse's head in the producer's bed was totally my imagination. I made it up based on Sicilian folklore. In the old days, they would kill a man's favorite animal and hang it up as a warning.

  Mario Puzo, CC BY-SA 4.0