Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1974 (CLOSED)

10.........Spoiler below


Also, btw this film - maybe the greatest film ever made (I said "maybe"), with maybe the greatest male lead performance of all time (hey, YOU picked it as such MAR - I didn't vote!), has maybe my favorite directorial choice moment ever........Pacino comes into the room.........as the camera snakes and weaves as it comes in on Fredo and you see family, friends, villains........you don't notice Al Neri (Richard Bright) at first much.......but Michael sure does........the camera goes from Fredo's hand squuezing his brothers back.......when the camera goes from that to Michael's face - it is, well just terrifying.....so terrifying, Neri can't meet his eyes.......all without any dialog, from anyone, at all

How is it that Pacino - who to some (okay, me), is the GOAT - BECAUSE of how he could handle all kinds of dialog, could also be the actor who didn't actually have to speak at all in several of his best roles.......

9, it just insists on itself too much.

SPOILER: Click to show

Nah it's a 10, and any such arguments are pure nonsense

10

8. What it does well it does really well, but I've never really loved the young Vito stuff as much as I should.

Michael Corleone Milos Forman says hello.

10 / 10

10 - best win in this category.

10/10



Oh, Stephen.......won't see him no more

The Tennest of Tens

When I started doing this poll, I thought there was only one candidate who could possibly receive a perfect 100: Coppola. And I believed the same thing when the time finally came to posting this round. OH WELL.

Needless to say, it's a 10.

True, true. Both of his wins tbh. But if I were a betting man, I'd have placed my dough on Coppola. And... Stephen would've fucked me over