The roof deck of the Nacional was the setting for Lucky Luciano's infamous 1946 summit of leading mafiosos (recreated in The Godfather, Part II) to discuss the carving up of the city.

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Coppola's father, respected director Francis Ford Coppola, previously won a DGA award for The Godfather: Part II.

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