Marlon Brando was in a movie.
The Academy Awards , now known officially as the Oscars , is a set of twenty-four awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry , given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy 's voting membership . Marlon Brando . The Godfather was then one of the most commercially successful films of all time . The Godfather . It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family .