Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando Were the First Actors To Win Oscars for the Same Character

The epic 1972 gangster film The Godfather and its 1974 sequel, The Godfather Part II, are united by the presence of Don Vito Corleone, who is played by Marlon Brando in The Godfather as the aging patriarch of the Corleone organized crime family, while Robert De Niro plays Vito as a young man in the sequel, which follows Vito from his Sicilian childhood to the formation of his criminal family enterprise in New York City.
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