On the 1973 Academy Awards, Jack Lemmon took to the stage to ship two Oscars. One was for Greatest Tailored Screenplay, and the opposite was for Greatest Unique Screenplay – they glided by completely different names again then, however that is not essential proper now. What’s essential is who took house these two awards. The primary went to Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola for just a little movie referred to as The Godfather, and the opposite went to Jeremy Larner for The Candidate, starring Robert Redford. Apparently, when Coppola took the stage to simply accept his award, he graciously referred to as out legendary screenwriter Robert Towne for his contributions to the well-known backyard scene within the movie between Al Pacino and Marlon Brandon. Larner would additionally publicly credit score Towne, noting that, with out his contributions to The Candidate, the screenplay by no means would have been completed.