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dga quarterly 71 TOUGH GUY: 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Francis Ford Coppola, working with Marlon Brando, sets up one of many scenes around the dining room table in The Godfather (1972). To appease Paramount, Coppola tricked Brando into doing a screen test by pretending he was doing a sample take to test the equipment. HIGH SOCIETY: George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn work on a scene for The Philadelphia Story (1940), shot in eight weeks without any retakes. Hepburn later admitted that she based part of her character's physical mannerisms on the director himself. Cukor received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1981. NO WAY OUT: Elia Kazan (left), who received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, goes for the emotion of a scene with Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). To heighten the sense of Blanche's swelling claustrophobia, Kazan had her apartment set physically shrink as the film progressed.