Writer
Mario Puzo
1920 – 1999
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1972–1990
- Schools and movements
- New Hollywood
Directors worked with
Biography
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for its sequel Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for Superman (1978) and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
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Awards and honours
International
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 1973
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 1975
- Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 1979
National / local
- Writers Guild of America Award
3 films on this site
- The Godfather 1972 · Francis Ford Coppola · IMDb 9.2 · Writer
- The Sicilian 1987 · Michael Cimino · IMDb 5.4 · Writer
- The Godfather Part III 1990 · Francis Ford Coppola · IMDb 7.5 · Writer