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Who wrote the screenplay for The Godfather?

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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background. — Francis Ford Coppola American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola won the Oscar for best director for *The Godfather: Part II* (1974).

The screenplay for the 1972 film The Godfather was written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. The two collaborators shared an Academy Award for their work on the film's screenplay.12