Throughout the 94-year history of the Academy Awards, film aficionados have their respective choices of Best Picture through the years. Top of mind in Oscar Best Picture winners is Francis Ford Coppola’s mob drama, The Godfather, based on Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel of the same title. It turns half a century old this year. At the recent Academy Awards, filmmaker Coppola came out in the tribute to The Godfather with actors Al Pacino and Robert de Niro onstage.