She received rave reviews for her feature directorial debut The Virgin Suicides in 1999, and has continued to earn acclaim for her subsequent films: Coppola was the first American woman to receive a Best Director Oscar nomination (for 2003's Lost in Translation), the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion (for 2010's Somewhere), and the Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award (for 2017's The Beguiled). NOW: Coppola has appeared onscreen a few more times, including in a small role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (for which she earned another Razzie nomination was that really necessary?), but has since found her true calling behind the camera. Coppola also appeared in the first Godfather, playing Connie's infant son in the climactic baptism scene. Her performance as Michael's innocent daughter Mary was one of the threequel's most-criticized elements, with Coppola winning two Razzie Awards for Worst Supporting Actress and Worst New Star. THEN: Sofia Coppola, Francis Ford's daughter, was famously cast in Part III at the last minute, after Winona Ryder dropped out of the film. Related: The 20 essential Robert De Niro performances Up next, De Niro will team with Scorsese yet again for the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon.
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His later projects include 2019's Joker (in a role nodding to his and Scorsese's The King of Comedy), The Irishman, which reunited him with both Pacino and Scorsese, and 2020's The War with Grandpa, a movie only notable for dethroning Tenet at the box office during the COVID-19 pandemic. NOW: De Niro became one of the most acclaimed actors of the New Hollywood era with his performances in Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Deer Hunter, among other films. De Niro won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Godfather Part II, and he and Brando remain the only actors to have won Oscars for playing the same character.
Before appearing in the sequel, he had received notice for his performances in 1973's Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, his first collaboration with Martin Scorsese. THEN: After unsuccessfully auditioning for several roles in The Godfather, Robert De Niro won the role of the young Vito Corleone in Part II. Related: Revisiting the highs (and low) of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino's big-screen collaborations
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He's currently having something of a renaissance: 2019 brought acclaimed roles in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Irishman (the latter being his first collaboration with director Martin Scorsese) and 2020 saw Pacino's first regular TV role, as a Nazi hunter in Amazon and Jordan Peele's Hunters. NOW: Pacino has had an illustrious career in the ensuing decades, including another turn as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III and a long-awaited Oscar win for Scent of a Woman in 1993. The Godfather rocketed Pacino to stardom, earning him his first Oscar nomination and kicking off a string of acclaimed performances, with such films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and, of course, his return as Michael in The Godfather Part II. THEN: Coppola fought hard to cast the then-unknown Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, against executives who wanted a star like Robert Redford or Warren Beatty in the role.