Entertainment Movies Robert De Niro, Al Pacino Reunite for 'The Godfather' 50th Anniversary at Tribeca Film Festival Al Pacino, 82, and Robert De Niro, 78, stood side-by-side on the red carpet in N.Y.C By Glenn Garner Glenn Garner Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily with PEOPLE's Movies and TV verticals. He left PEOPLE in 2023. People Editorial Guidelines Published on June 18, 2022 08:14PM EDT Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty for Tribeca Festival Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are still repping the family business half a century later. The screen legends reunited Thursday for a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather at United Palace, hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival, which De Niro, 78, co-founded in 2002 to revive the cultural scene of lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11. Pacino, 82, and author Michael Hainey participated in a discussion about the seminal mafia title from director Francis Ford Coppola before Tribeca screened the film's restoration. Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro Celebrate The Godfather in 50-Year Tribute at 2022 Oscars De Niro and Pacino previously joined Coppola, 83, onstage at the 94th Academy Awards, where the iconic director reflected on his magnum opus' milestone anniversary. "I feel moments like this should be sincere and brief," he said, turning to De Niro and Pacino. "And I'm so grateful for my wonderful friends to come here to help me celebrate with you. CBS via Getty Images "This project that we began 50 years ago with really the most extraordinary collaborators, many of them legends and so many of them that I can't take the time to list them all, but you know them all well. So I'm going to only thank two from the bottom of my heart," Coppola added. Pacino told The New York Times that he's been "deeply honored" to see the film's lasting acclaim over the past 50 years, while musing on the anniversary. "It's a piece of work that I was so fortunate to be in. But it's taken me a lifetime to accept it and move on," Pacino said in March. "It's not like I played Superman." RELATED VIDEO: Penelope Ann Miller Worked With All 3 'Godfathers' and Shares Her Favorite Marlon Brando Memory The Academy Award winner added that he's "surprised" when people tell him they've never seen the movie, adding: "They've heard about it. You get that. 'Oh, I heard — were you in that? That was a film, wasn't it?'" The Godfather tells the story of the Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) as his youngest son Michael (Pacino) joins the mafia and tries to juggle the violent family business with his marriage to wife Kay (Diane Keaton). The film, which is based on screenwriter Mario Puzo's 1969 novel of the same name, has been widely regarded as one of the best films of all time since it premiered in 1972. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to nominations for Coppola and Pacino. De Niro starred in 1974's The Godfather Part II as a younger version of Vito.