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Underlying figures and their caveats: Box Office, Awards, Body Count.

Critical reception

The Godfather
97%
Part II
96%
Coda (2020)
86%
Part III (1990)
67%

Rotten Tomatoes approval. The gap between Part III and Coda — nineteen points for essentially the same footage, four minutes shorter and resequenced — is the best evidence available for how much structure alone was doing. See Part III Reassessed.

The Godfather
100
Part II
90
Coda (2020)
76
Part III (1990)
60

Metacritic. The Godfather holds one of a very small number of perfect 100s on the site.

Academy Awards

Part II — noms
11
Part II — wins
6
The Godfather — noms
10
The Godfather — wins
3
Part III — noms
7
Part III — wins
0

28 competitive nominations, 9 wins. All three films were nominated for Best Picture — matched only by The Lord of the Rings. Full tables: Awards.

Budget vs. worldwide gross

The Godfather
~$270M
Part III
$136.9M
Part II
~$93M

Worldwide gross across all releases. The Godfather figure is the midpoint of a contested $250–291M range — see Box Office for why no precise number exists.

Part III
$54M
Part II
$13M
The Godfather
~$6.5M

Production budgets. The most expensive film in the trilogy is the least successful, which is the ordinary fate of third installments and not, on its own, an aesthetic verdict.

Runtime

Part II
202–205 min
The Godfather
175 min
Part III
162 min
Coda
158 min

US theatrical runtimes. The full theatrical trilogy runs about nine hours; The Godfather Trilogy: 1901–1980 runs 583 minutes.

Deaths per Don

Michael — ordered
14
Michael — by hand
2
Vito — ordered
2
Vito — by hand
2

Named deaths across the trilogy. Both men killed exactly two people personally. Vito stopped; Michael delegated. That distance is what the films mean by power — see Body Count.

Building your own

The pattern is four lines of HTML with a percentage. Copy this, set the widths yourself, and add alt or warn to the bar class for the purple or red variants:

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<p class="chart-caption">What the reader should take from it, and where the number came from.</p>

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Rules. Widths are proportions of the largest value in that chart, set by hand — there is no runtime calculation, so check your arithmetic. Always caption with the source. Never plot a number the underlying data page doesn't support.

See also