Lead or Supporting No. 27: Al Pacino in The Godfather

[Sab227 Joined: Dec 29th, 2012 Topics: 110 Posts: 774 View Predictions]

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Welcome back to another round of Lead or Supporting. This time we have Al Pacino for his unbelievable role in The Godfather. He is in my opinion without a doubt the lead of the film and should have won his first Oscar for this monster of a performance. What do you all think?

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[Magnus Joined: Jan 20th, 2020 Topics: 1 Posts: 426 View Predictions]

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This one’s easy. Lead. Fantastic performance, he should’ve been nominated alongside Brando (and maybe even won over him).

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[KAZ-2.5 Joined: Jan 16th, 2018 Topics: 0 Posts: 575 View Predictions]

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He’s absolutely the lead of the film.

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[Bassett Joined: Dec 21st, 2016 Topics: 9 Posts: 4025 View Predictions]

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Most infamous category fraud in history. No way Pacino was supporting

FYC :

Best Actress - Viola Davis, Frances McDormand
Best Actor - Delroy Lindo, Chadwick Boseman
Best Supporting Actor - Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman
Best Picture - Nomadland
Best Director - Chloé Zhao
SAG Ensemble - Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Cinematography - Nomadland

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 63 Posts: 5624 View Predictions]

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This is the most blatant category fraud ever, to the point where Pacino himself boycotted the Oscars over it.

I don’t understand how anybody can watch this film and honestly say to themselves that he’s a supporting role.

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[ArtIsntEasy Joined: Dec 17th, 2011 Topics: 3 Posts: 1117 View Predictions]

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I can’t add anything different here. He is so obviously a Lead…especially when compared to Brando.

“The art of making art is putting it together...”

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[BenitoDelicias Joined: Nov 3rd, 2010 Topics: 8 Posts: 5195 View Predictions]

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It would’ve been more believeable if Brando had been supporting instead. Of course he wasn’t gonna allow that, but it’s less of a fraud. I don’t believe fraud was behind this like it is today though, just ego and contract stuff from Brando, surely.

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