Gangster film Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" was released. The epic story of the Corleone family, its generational transition from post-prohibition to post-war, its fratricidal intrigues, and its tapestry of mid-century America's criminal underworld became a huge critical and commercial success. It accounted for nearly 10% of gross proceeds for all films for the entire year. It won the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as the award for Best Actor for Marlon Brando and is widely considered one of the greatest American films of all time. Two years later, "The Godfather Part II" became the fifth-highest-grossing film of the year and garnered
The Time Machine (1960 film) childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. George Pal, who had made the first film version of Wells' "The War of the Worlds" (1953), always intended to make a sequel to "The Time Machine", but he died before it could be produced; the end of "" functions as a sequel of sorts. In 1985, elements of this film were incorporated into the documentary "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal". "The Time Machine" received an Oscar for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the