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Between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Coppola directed The Conversation, released in 1974 and also nominated for Best Picture.

Coppola was the third director in Hollywood history to have two films released in the same year, each nominated for Best Picture.

The first was Victor Fleming for his 1939 films Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

This achievement was matched by Alfred Hitchcock with his 1940 films Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca.

Since Coppola, two other directors have done the same: Herbert Ross in 1977 with The Goodbye Girl and The Turning Point, and Steven Soderbergh in 2000 with Erin Brockovich and Traffic.

Coppola, however, is the only one to have done this with films he produced as well as directed.