At Oscars, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, & Francis Ford Coppola reunite to celebrate 50th anniversary of The Godfather

There were several reunions at the 94th Academy Awards, but the greatest of the night had to be Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Francis Ford Coppola celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather.

The three icons were greeted with a standing ovation, which they earned. Coppola addressed the audience, having won four Oscars for the first two chapters of the acclaimed series.

“I feel moments like this should be sincere and brief and I’m so grateful to my two wonderful friends who have come here to help me celebrate with you this project that we began 50 years ago with really the most extraordinary collaborators, many of them legends,” Coppola said flanked by Pacino and De Niro. “And so many of them, I can’t take the time to list them all, but you know them all well. So I can only thank two, from the bottom of my heart.”

Coppola went on to express thanks Mario Puzo, the writer of the original Godfather novel and co-writer of the 1972 screenplay, and then the director expressed his thanks to someone he’s “never thanked but the time is due that I do, because it was his participation and his decisions at the end that made it possible: Robert Evans,” the film’s producer.

“Viva Ukraine,” Coppola said at the end of his brief remark, echoing Pacino and De Niro’s sentiments.

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