De Niro rightly won Best Supporting Actor, but Pacino absolutely should have Best Actor.

…dditional shout to the excellent Robert Duvall, as loyal, mild-mannered consigliere Tom Hagen), but two outstanding performances lie at the heart of the film: The brilliant, understated Robert De Niro, and the truly electrifying Al Pacino. That Pacino didn’t win an Oscar for what is surely his greatest-ever performance remains one of the Academy’s most bafflingly idiotic decisions. Consider the spine-freezing moment where he confronts Fredo in Cuba. (“I know it was you, Fredo. Yo…
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De Niro rightly won Best Supporting Actor, but Pacino absolutely should have Best Actor. Maybe since Brando won it for playing Vito as well, the stupid Academy didn’t want three different actors to win for playing the same character. Unforgivable.
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