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Will Smith overshadowed the Oscars. Here’s what else happened during the 94th Academy Awards

After Will Smith’s shocking behaviour at the 94th Academy Awards, we wouldn’t blame you for forgetting what else happened during the ceremony. 

The New Daily · Mar 28, 2022

Anthony Hopkins' brilliant Oscars after-show dancing will help you almost forget that Will Smith slap

It was one of many Oscars 2022 moments you probably didn't realise had happened

Wales Online · Mar 28, 2022

Oscars 2022: Will Smith not facing charges for slapping Chris Rock, says LAPD, as Academy releases statement – as it happened

Family drama Coda won best picture at a ceremony that was overshadowed by Will Smith attacking Chris Rock

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2022

The Godfather at 50: celebrating the mob saga that raised the bar for gangster films

It’s one of the most famous climactic scenes in film: a tense and shocking denouement that sees a series of brutal assassinations intercut with the central character calmly renouncing Satan as he becomes godfather to his nephew.

The Conversation · Mar 11, 2022

The Godfather at 50: set among the American Mafia of the 40s, Coppola's film is unmistakably a film of the disillusioned 70s

When it was released 50 years ago, The Godfather won a swag of Oscars and hailed director Francis Ford Coppola as the voice of a new auteur. But timing is, as they say, everything.

The Conversation · Mar 6, 2022

This thing of ours: why does The Godfather still ring true 50 years on?

From Succession to the real-life drama of the Tory government, the influence of Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia film is everywhere

The Guardian - UK · Mar 4, 2022

‘The Godfather’ star James Caan reflects on Sonny’s iconic moments as film marks 50th anniversary

For James Caan, “The Godfather” remains the don of all movies five decades after its premiere.

Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2022

How Mafia bosses almost scuppered The Godfather and then grew to love it

The Godfather first premiered in 1972 and was the highest grossing film of that year - it also cleaned up at the awards winning best picture and best adapted screenplay

Daily Mirror · Feb 26, 2022

Francis Ford Coppola unimpressed by the ‘big razzle dazzle’ of modern-day Oscars

‘I like it more intimate, when they had a gentle quality,’ director said

The Independent UK · Feb 25, 2022

The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2022