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Al Pacino attending the Venice Film Festival in September 2004
Born
Alfredo James Pacino

(1940-04-25) April 25, 1940 (age 84)
New York City, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Years active1968–present
Children2 daughters, 1 son

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːn[invalid input: 'ɵ']/; born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law — as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year.

He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Other Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor were for Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. Oscar nominations for Best Actor include The Godfather Part II, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, ...And Justice for All and Scent of a Woman.

In addition to a career in film, he has also enjoyed a successful career on stage, winning Tony Awards for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. A longtime fan of Shakespeare, he made his directorial debut with Looking for Richard, a quasi-documentary on the play Richard III. Pacino has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including one from the American Film Institute. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York.

Although he has never married, Pacino has had several relationships with actresses and has three children.

Early life and education

Pacino was born in East Harlem, New York City to Italian American parents Salvatore Pacino and Rose, who divorced when he was two years old.[1] When he was two, his mother moved to the South Bronx near the Bronx Zoo, to live with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi, who originated from Corleone, Sicily.[2] His father Salvatore moved to Covina, California, and worked as an insurance salesman and restaurateur.[1] Pacino attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York.[2] During his teenage years 'Sonny', as he was known to his friends, aimed to become a baseball player, though he was also nicknamed 'The Actor'.[3] Pacino flunked nearly all of his classes except English and dropped out of school at 17. His mother disagreed with his decision; they had an argument and he left home. He worked at a string of low-paying jobs, including messenger boy, busboy, janitor, and postal clerk, in order to finance his acting studies.[1] He started smoking at age nine, drinking and casual marijuana use at age thirteen, but never took hard drugs.[4] His two closest friends died young of drug abuse at the ages of 19 and 30.[5] Growing up in the Bronx, he got into occasional fights and was something of a troublemaker at school.[6]

He acted in basement plays in New York's theatrical underground but was rejected for the Actors Studio while still a teenager.[3] Pacino then joined the Herbert Berghof Studio (HB Studio), where he met acting teacher Charles Laughton, who became his mentor and best friend.[3] During this period, he was frequently unemployed and homeless, and sometimes had to sleep on the street, in theaters, or at friends' houses.[2][7] In 1962, his mother died at the age of 43.[8] The following year, his grandfather, James Gerardi, one of the most influential people in his life, also died.[1]

Actors Studio training

After having spent four years at HB Studio, Pacino successfully auditioned for the Actors Studio.[3] The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.[9] Pacino studied "method acting"[1] under acting coach Lee Strasberg, who later appeared with Pacino in the films The Godfather Part II and in ...And Justice for All.[2] During later interviews he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his career. "The Actors Studio meant so much to me in my life. Lee Strasberg hasn’t been given the credit he deserves ... Next to Charlie, it sort of launched me. It really did. That was a remarkable turning point in my life. It was directly responsible for getting me to quit all those jobs and just stay acting."[10] During another interview he added, "It was exciting to work for him [Lee Strasberg] because he was so interesting when he talked about a scene or talked about people. One would just want to hear him talk, because things he would say, you’d never heard before ... He had such a great understanding... he loved actors so much."[11]

Pacino is currently co-president, along with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel, of the Actors Studio.[9]

Stage career

In 1967, Pacino spent a season at the Charles Playhouse in Boston, performing in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! (his first major paycheck: $125 a week); and in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's America, Hurrah, where he met actress Jill Clayburgh while working on this play. They went on to have a five-year romance and moved together back to New York City.[12]

In 1968, Pacino starred in Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx at the Astor Place Theater, playing Murph, a street punk. The play opened January 17, 1968, and ran for 177 performances; it was staged in a double bill with Horovitz's It's Called the Sugar Plum, starring Clayburgh. Pacino won an Obie Award for Best Actor for his role, with John Cazale winning for Best Supporting actor and Horowitz for Best New Play.[13] Martin Bregman saw the play and offered to be Pacino's manager, a partnership that became fruitful in the years to come, as Bregman encouraged Pacino to do The Godfather, Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon.[14] Pacino and this production of The Indian Wants the Bronx traveled to Italy for a performance at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. It was Pacino's first journey to Italy; he later recalled that "performing for an Italian audience was a marvelous experience".[12] Pacino and Clayburgh were cast in "Deadly Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC television series N.Y.P.D., premiering November 12, 1968. Clayburgh at the time was also appearing on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, playing the role of Grace Bolton. Her father would send the couple money each month to help.[15]

On February 25, 1969, Pacino made his Broadway debut in Don Petersen's Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? at the Belasco Theater produced by A&P Heir Huntington Hartford. It closed after 39 performances on March 29, 1969, but Pacino received rave reviews and won the Tony Award on April 20, 1969.[12] Pacino continued performing onstage in the 1970s, winning a second Tony Award for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and performing the title role in Richard III.[1] In 1980s Pacino again achieved critical success on the stage while appearing in David Mamet's American Buffalo, for which Pacino was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.[1] Since 1990 Pacino's stage work has included revivals of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, Oscar Wilde's Salome and in 2005 Lyle Kessler's Orphans.[16]

Pacino made his return to the stage in summer 2010, as Shylock in a Shakespeare in the Park production of The Merchant of Venice.[17] The acclaimed production transferred to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in October, earning US$1 million at the box office in its first week.[18][19] The performance also garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play.[20]

Film career

Early film career

Pacino found acting to be enjoyable and realized he had a gift for it while studying at The Actors Studio. However, his early work was not financially rewarding.[2] After his success on stage, Pacino made his movie debut in 1969 with a brief screen appearance in Me, Natalie, an independent film starring Patty Duke.[21] In 1970, Pacino signed with the talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA).[12]

1970s

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With Robert Duvall in The Godfather.

It was the 1971 film The Panic in Needle Park, in which he played a heroin addict, that brought Pacino to the attention of director Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him as Michael Corleone in the blockbuster Mafia film The Godfather (1972). Although several established actors – including Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and then little-known Robert De Niro – also tried out for the part, Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino, much to the dismay of studio executives.[2] Pacino was even teased on the set because of his short stature. Pacino's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination, and offered a prime example of his early acting style, described by Halliwell's Film Guide as "intense" and "tightly clenched". Pacino boycotted the Academy Award ceremony, as he was insulted at being nominated for the Supporting Acting award, noting that he had more screen time than costar and Best Actor winner Marlon Brando – who was himself boycotting the awards.[22]

In 1973, he co-starred in Scarecrow, with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor after starring in Serpico, based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of fellow officers.[22] In 1974, Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in the sequel The Godfather Part II, which became the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar; Pacino, meanwhile, was nominated for his third Oscar.[22] Newsweek has described his performance in the film as "arguably cinema's greatest portrayal of the hardening of a heart".[23] In 1975, he enjoyed further success with the release of Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz.[2] It was directed by Sidney Lumet, who also directed him in Serpico a few years earlier, and Pacino was again nominated for Best Actor.[24]

In 1977, Pacino starred as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama for his portrayal of the title role, losing out to Richard Burton, who won for Equus. His next film was the courtroom drama ...And Justice for All, which again saw Pacino lauded by critics for his wide range of acting abilities, and nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for a fourth time.[24] However he lost out that year to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer — a role that Pacino had declined.[24]

During the 1970s, Pacino had four Oscar nominations for Best Actor, for his performances in Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and ...And Justice for All.[2]

1980s

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Al Pacino's performance in Scarface received a Golden Globe nomination.

Pacino's career slumped in the early 1980s; his appearances in the controversial Cruising, a film which provoked protests from New York's gay community,[25] and the comedy-drama Author! Author! were critically panned.[1] However, 1983's Scarface, directed by Brian De Palma, proved to be a career highlight and a defining role.[2] Upon its initial release, the film was critically panned,[26] but did fairly well at the box office, grossing over US$45 million domestically.[27] Pacino earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Cuban drug lord Tony Montana.[28]

In 1985, Pacino worked on his personal project, The Local Stigmatic, a 1969 Off Broadway play by the English writer Heathcote Williams. He starred in the play, remounting it with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in a 50-minute film version. The film was never released theatrically but was later released as part of the Pacino: An Actor's Vision box set in 2007.[2]

His 1985 film Revolution about a fur trapper during the American Revolutionary War, was a commercial and critical failure, which Pacino blamed on a rushed production,[29] resulting in a four-year hiatus from films. During this time Pacino returned to the stage. He mounted workshop productions of Crystal Clear, National Anthems and other plays; he appeared in Julius Caesar in 1988 in producer Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Pacino remarked on his hiatus from film: "I remember back when everything was happening, '74, '75, doing The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui on stage and reading that the reason I'd gone back to the stage was that my movie career was waning! That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately."[30] Pacino returned to film in 1989's Sea of Love,[2] in which he portrayed a detective hunting a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper. The film earned solid reviews.[31]

1990s

Al Pacino at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy in 1990, in which critic Roger Ebert wrote that Pacino is "the scene-stealer".[32] Later in the year he followed this up by a return to one of his most famous characters, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990).[2] The film received mixed reviews, and had problems during pre-production due to script rewrites and the withdrawal of actors shortly before production. In 1991, Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-starred with Pacino in Scarface. Pacino portrays a recently paroled cook who begins a relationship with a waitress (Pfeiffer) in the diner he works in. It was adapted by Terrence McNally from his own Off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1987), which featured Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates. The film received mixed reviews, although Pacino later said he enjoyed playing the part.[33] Janet Maslin in The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Pacino has not been this uncomplicatedly appealing since his "Dog Day Afternoon" days, and he makes Johnny's endless enterprise in wooing Frankie a delight. His scenes alone with Ms. Pfeiffer have a precision and honesty that keep the film's maudlin aspects at bay."[34]

In 1992, Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman.[2] That year, he was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross, making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two different movies in the same year, and to win for the lead role.[2]

Pacino starred alongside Sean Penn in the crime drama Carlito's Way in 1993, in which he portrayed a gangster who is released from prison with the help of his lawyer (Penn) and vows to go straight. Pacino starred in Michael Mann's Heat (1995), in which he and Robert De Niro appeared on-screen together for the first time (though both Pacino and De Niro starred in The Godfather Part II, they did not share any scenes).[2]

In 1996, Pacino starred in his theatrical docudrama Looking for Richard, which is both a performance of selected scenes of William Shakespeare's Richard III and a broader examination of Shakespeare's continuing role and relevance in popular culture. The cast brought together for the performance included Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, and Winona Ryder. Pacino played Satan in the supernatural thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997) which co-starred Keanu Reaves. The film was a success at the box office, taking US$150 million worldwide.[35] Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, ‘The satanic character is played by Pacino with relish bordering on glee.’[36] In Donnie Brasco Pacino played mafia gangster "Lefty", in the true story of undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) and his work in bringing down the mafia from the inside. Pacino also starred as real life 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman in the multi-Oscar nominated The Insider opposite Russell Crowe, before starring in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday in 1999.

2000s

Al Pacino at the Rome Film Festival in 2008.

Pacino has not received another nomination from the Academy since Scent of a Woman, but won two Golden Globes since the year 2000, the first being the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.[37]

In 2000, Pacino released a low budget film adaptation of Ira Lewis' play Chinese Coffee to film festivals.[38] Shot almost exclusively as a one-on-one conversation between the two main characters, the project took almost three years to complete and it was funded entirely by Pacino.[38] Chinese Coffee was included along with Pacino's two other rare films he has been involved in producing, The Local Stigmatic and Looking for Richard, on a special DVD boxset titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision which was released in 2007. Pacino produced prologues and epilogues for the discs containing the films.[39]

Pacino turned down an offer to reprise his role as Michael Corleone in the computer game version of The Godfather. As a result, Electronic Arts was not permitted to use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game, although his character does appear in it. He did allow his likeness to appear in the video game adaptation of the remake of 1983's Scarface, titled Scarface: The World is Yours.[40]

Director Christopher Nolan worked with Pacino for Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name, co-starring Robin Williams. Newsweek stated that "he [Pacino] can play small as rivetingly as he can play big, that he can implode as well as explode".[41] The film and Pacino's performance were well-received, gaining a favorable rating of 93 percent on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.[42] The film did moderately well at the box office, taking in $113 million dollars worldwide.[43] His next film, S1m0ne, was one that Pacino liked, but which did not gain much critical praise or box office success.[44]

He played the part of a publicist in People I Know, a small film that received little attention despite Pacino's well-received performance.[45] Rarely taking a supporting role since his commercial breakthrough, he accepted a small part in the box office flop Gigli in 2003 as a favor to director Martin Brest.[45] The Recruit, released in 2003, featured Pacino as a CIA recruiter and co-stars Colin Farrell. The film received mostly negative reviews,[46] and was described by Pacino as something he "personally couldn't follow".[45] Pacino next starred as lawyer Roy Cohn in the 2003 HBO miniseries Angels in America, an adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name.[2] For this performance, Pacino won his third Golden Globe, for Best Performance by an Actor, in 2004.[47]

Pacino starred as Shylock in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice, choosing to bring compassion and depth to a character traditionally played as a villainous caricature.[48] In Two for the Money, Pacino portrays a sports gambling agent and mentor for Matthew McConaughey, alongside Rene Russo. The film was released on October 8, 2005 and received mixed reviews.[49] Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Post, "Al Pacino has played the mentor so many times, he ought to get a kingmaker's award (...) the fight between good and evil feels fixed in favor of Hollywood redemption."[50]

On October 20, 2006, the American Film Institute named Pacino the recipient of the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award.[51] On November 22, 2006, the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin awarded Pacino the Honorary Patronage of the Society.[52]

Pacino starred in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean's Thirteen alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould and Andy García as the villain Willy Bank, a casino tycoon targeted by Danny Ocean and his crew. The film received generally favorable reviews.[53]

88 Minutes was released on April 18, 2008 in the United States, having already been released in various other countries in 2007. The film co-starred Alicia Witt and was critically panned,[54] although critics found the fault to be in the plot instead of Pacino's acting.[55] In Righteous Kill, Pacino and Robert De Niro co-star as New York detectives searching for a serial killer. The film was released to theaters on September 12, 2008. Although it was an anticipated return for the two stars, it was not well received by critics.[56] Lou Lumenick of The New York Post gave Righteous Kill one star out of four, saying: "Al Pacino and Robert De Niro collect bloated paychecks with intent to bore in Righteous Kill, a slow-moving, ridiculous police thriller that would have been shipped straight to the remainder bin at Blockbuster if it starred anyone else."[57]

2010s

Pacino played Dr. Jack Kevorkian in an HBO Films biopic entitled You Don't Know Jack, which premiered April 2010. The film is about the life and work of the physician-assisted suicide advocate. The performance earned Pacino his second Emmy Award[58] for lead actor[59] and his fourth Golden Globe award.[28]

Pacino and Robert De Niro are reportedly set to star in the upcoming project The Irishman, that will be directed by Martin Scorsese and co-star Joe Pesci.[60] He's also filming a biographical picture about Phil Spector.[61]

It was announced in May 2011 that Pacino was to be honored with the "Glory to the Film-maker" award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival.[62] The award will be presented ahead of the premier of his film Wilde Salome, which is the third film Pacino has directed.[62] Pacino, who plays the role of Herod in the film, describes it as his "most personal project ever".[62]

The United States premiere of Wilde Salomé took place on the evening of March 21, 2012, before a full house at the 1,400-seat Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District. Marking the 130th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's visit to San Francisco, the event was a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society.[63][64][65]

Personal life

Although he never married, Pacino has three children. The eldest, Julie Marie (born 1989), is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. He also has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born 2001), with actress Beverly D'Angelo, with whom he had a relationship from 1996 until 2003.[66][67] Pacino had a relationship with Diane Keaton, his co-star in the Godfather Trilogy. The on-again, off-again relationship ended following the filming of The Godfather Part III.[68] Other women he has had relationships with include Tuesday Weld, Marthe Keller, Kathleen Quinlan and Lyndall Hobbs.[39]

The Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against Pacino claiming he owes the government $169,143.06 in 2008 and $19,140.44 in 2009 for a total of $188,283.50. A representative for Pacino blamed his former business manager Kenneth Starr for the discrepancy.[69]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1969 Me, Natalie Tony Film debut
1971 The Panic in Needle Park Bobby
1972 The Godfather Michael Corleone Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor[22]
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer[70]
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1973 Scarecrow Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi
Serpico Frank Serpico Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor[22]
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role[71]
1974 The Godfather Part II Michael Corleone BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role[72]
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor[22]
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1975 Dog Day Afternoon Sonny Wortzik BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role[73]
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor[24]
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1977 Bobby Deerfield Bobby Deerfield Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1979 ...And Justice for All Arthur Kirkland Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor[24]
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1980 Cruising Steve Burns
1982 Author! Author! Ivan Travalian Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy[28]
1983 Scarface Tony Montana Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1985 Revolution Tom Dobb
1989 Sea of Love Frank Keller Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1990 The Local Stigmatic Graham Filmed in 1985
Dick Tracy Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor[33]
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role[74]
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture[28]
The Godfather Part III Michael Corleone Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1991 Frankie and Johnny Johnny
1992 Glengarry Glen Ross Ricky Roma Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor[75]
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture[28]
Scent of a Woman Frank Slade Academy Award for Best Actor[75]
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama[28]
1993 Carlito's Way Carlito 'Charlie' Brigante
1995 Two Bits Gitano Sabatoni
Heat Lt. Vincent Hanna
1996 Looking for Richard Director / Narrator / Richard III Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries[76]
City Hall John Pappas
1997 Donnie Brasco Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
The Devil's Advocate John Milton
1999 The Insider Lowell Bergman
Any Given Sunday Tony D'Amato
2000 Chinese Coffee Harry Levine Also director; filmed in 1997
2002 Insomnia Will Dormer
S1m0ne Viktor Taransky
People I Know Eli Wurman
2003 The Recruit Walter Burke
Gigli Starkman
Angels in America Roy Cohn TV Miniseries
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie[77]
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film[28]
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie[78]
2004 The Merchant of Venice Shylock
2005 Two for the Money Walter Abrams
2007 Ocean's Thirteen Willie Bank
88 Minutes Dr. Jack Gramm
2008 Righteous Kill Det. David "Rooster" Fisk
2010 You Don't Know Jack Dr. Jack Kevorkian TV Film
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie[59]
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film[28]
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie[79]
2011 Jack and Jill Himself
The Son of No One Det. Stanford
Wilde Salome Director
2012 Untitled Phil Spector Biopic Phil Spector TV Film
2013 King Lear King Lear
Stand Up Guys
Gotti Aniello Dellacroce
Despicable Me 2 Gru's nemesis (voice)

Video game

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Scarface: The World Is Yours Tony Montana Video game (likeness)

Awards and nominations

Further information: List of awards and nominations received by Al Pacino

Pacino has been nominated and has won many awards during his acting career, including eight Oscar nominations (winning one), 15 Golden Globe nominations (winning four), five BAFTA nominations (winning two), two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television, and two Tony Awards for his work on the stage. In 2007, the American Film Institute awarded Pacino with a lifetime achievement award and in 2003 British television viewers voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all time in a poll for Channel 4.[80]

Notes

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  3. ^ a b c d Grobel; p. xix
  4. ^ Grobel; p. 9
  5. ^ Grobel; p. 8
  6. ^ Grobel; p. 6
  7. ^ Grobel; p. 14
  8. ^ Grobel; p. 10
  9. ^ a b "Actors Studio History by Andreas Manolikakis". Actors Studio Official Website. Archived from the original on July 25, 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ Grobel; p. 15
  11. ^ Lipton, James. Inside Inside, Dutton (2007)
  12. ^ a b c d Yule, A. Al Pacino: Life on the Wire, Time Warner Paperbacks (1992)
  13. ^ Grobel; p. 200
  14. ^ Grobel; p. 16
  15. ^ Smith, Kyle (December 13, 1999). "Scent of a Winner". People. 52 (23). ISSN 0093-7673. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
  16. ^ "Al Pacino to Headline Lyle Kessler's Orphans on Broadway". Broadway Official Website. August 12, 2005. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
  17. ^ Brantley, Ben (July 1, 2010). "Railing at a Money-Mad World". The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 05 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ "Next Showing, The Merchant of Venice". New York City Theatre Website. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  19. ^ Cox, Gordon (October 30, 2010). "'Merchant of Venice' sells briskly thanks to Al Pacino's name". Variety. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  20. ^ Jones, Kenneth (May 3, 2011). "2011 Tony Nominations Announced; Book of Mormon Earns 14 Nominations". Playbill. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
  21. ^ Grobel; p. xx
  22. ^ a b c d e f Grobel; p. xxi
  23. ^ Grobel; p. xxii
  24. ^ a b c d e Grobel; p. xxiii
  25. ^ Lee, Nathan (August 27, 2007). "Gay Old Time". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  26. ^ Snyder, S. James (November 19, 2008). "Scarface Nation". Time. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
  27. ^ "Scarface (1983) Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 25, 2007.
  28. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Al Pacino Golden Globe History". Golden Globes Official Website. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  29. ^ Grobel; p. xiv
  30. ^ Lovece, Frank (September 17, 1989). "Pacino re-focuses on film career; after five-year absence, actor returns to the big screen". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  31. ^ Grobel; p. xxv
  32. ^ Roger Ebert (June 15, 1990). "Dick Tracy Review". Chicago Sun-Times.
  33. ^ a b Grobel; p. xxvii
  34. ^ Janet Maslin (October 11, 1991). "Short-Order Cookery And Dreams of Love". The New York Times.
  35. ^ "The Devils Advocate Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on September 11, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  36. ^ Ebert, Roger (October 17, 1997). "Devil's Advocate Review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
  37. ^ "Cecil B. DeMille Award". Golden Globes Official Website. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  38. ^ a b "Searchlight buys 'Coffee' with Pacino". Variety. August 6, 2000. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
  39. ^ a b Grobel; p. xxxviii
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