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April 25, 1940

Alfredo James Pacino

1970-75: Lived with Jill Clayburgh.

Actor

Arbitrage (2012)

Hands Of Stone (2012)

King Lear (2012)

The Son of No One (2011)

Jack and Jill (2011)

Mary Mother of Christ (2011)

You Don't Know Jack (2009) (TV)

Righteous Kill (2008)

Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

88 Minutes (2007)

Two for the Money (2005)

The Merchant of Venice (2004)

"Angels in America" (6 episodes, 2003)

Gigli (2003)

The Recruit (2003)

People I Know (2002)

S1m0ne (2002)

Insomnia (2002)

Chinese Coffee (2000)(director)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

The Insider (1999)

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

Donnie Brasco (1997)

City Hall (1996)

Heat (1995)

Two Bits (1995)

Carlito's Way (1993)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Frankie and Johnny (1991)

The Godfather: Part III (1990)

Dick Tracy (1990)

The Local Stigmatic (1990)(producer)

Sea of Love (1989)

Revolution (1985)

Scarface (1983)

Author! Author! (1982)

Cruising (1980)

...And Justice for All. (1979)

"The Godfather: A Novel for Television" (4 episodes, 1977)

Bobby Deerfield (1977)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Serpico (1973)

Scarecrow (1973)

The Godfather (1972)

The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

Me, Natalie (1969)

"N.Y.P.D." (1 episode, 1968)

Director

Salomaybe? (2009)(writer)

Chinese Coffee (2000)

Looking for Richard (1996) (writer,producer)

Appearances

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)

"Caia Quem Caia" (2008) TV series

"Film '72" (1 episode, 2008)

Entertainment Tonight (5 episodes, 2007-2008)

Late Show with David Letterman (3 episodes, 2002-2008)

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (2008) (TV)

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Al Pacino (2007) (TV)

"Larry King Live" (1 episode, 2007)

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1 episode, 2007)

"HBO First Look" (1 episode, 2007)

Brando (2007) (TV)

Inside the Actors Studio (1 episode, 2006)

"The American Experience" (1 episode, 2006)

'Dog Day Afternoon': After the Filming (2006)

'Dog Day Afternoon': Casting the Controversy (2006)

'Dog Day Afternoon': The Story (2006)

'Dog Day Afternoon': Recreating the Facts (2006)

Al Pacino: An American Cinematheque Tribute (2006) (TV)

The Making of 'Two for the Money' (2006)

"Magacine" (3 episodes, 1999-2005)

"Corazón de..." (2 episodes, 2005)

This Morning (1 episode, 2005)

The Making of 'Heat' (2005)

'Merchant of Venice': Shakespeare Through the Lens (2005)

The Oprah Winfrey Show (1 episode, 2005)

The 77th Annual The Academy Awards (2005) (TV)

Pacino and DeNiro: The Conversation (2005)

The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2005) (TV)

"The Culture Show" (1 episode, 2004)

The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004) (TV)

10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004) (TV)

The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (2004) (TV)

Unseen + Untold: Scarface (2003) (TV)

Scarface: Creating (2003)

Scarface: The Rebirth (2003)

Scarface: Acting (2003)

The 100 Greatest Movie Stars (2003) (TV)

"Cartaz Cultural" (2003) TV series

180°: Christopher Nolan Interviews Al Pacino (2002)

"Leute heute" (1 episode, 2002)

"Exclusif" (1 episode, 2002)

America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) (TV)

The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2001) (TV)

The 54th Annual Tony Awards (2000) (TV)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1 episode, 1999)

The Making of 'Scarface' (1998)

"Mundo VIP" (1 episode, 1998)

À part ça... Al Pacino (1998) (TV)

The 69th Annual The Academy Awards (1997) (TV)

Pitch (1997)

"Caiga quien caiga" (1 episode, 1996)

"Primer plano" (1 episode, 1996)

Looking for Richard (1996)

"Showbiz Today" (1 episode, 1995)

The 67th Annual The Academy Awards (1995) (TV)

"Nyhetsmorgon" (1 episode, 1995)

The 66th Annual The Academy Awards (1994) (TV)

Jonas in the Desert (1994)

"The Barbara Walters Special" (1 episode, 1993)

The 65th Annual The Academy Awards (1993) (TV)

Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) (uncredited)

The 63rd Annual The Academy Awards (1991) (TV)

"Tonight with Jonathan Ross" (1 episode, 1991)

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside (1990) (TV)

James Bond: The First 21 Years (1983) (TV)

Night of 100 Stars (1982) (TV)

The 33rd Annual Tony Awards (1979) (TV)

The 28th Annual Tony Awards (1974) (TV)

The 46th Annual The Academy Awards (1974) (TV)

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes (1971)

The Academy Awards

1993 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Scent of a Woman (1992)

1993 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

1991 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Dick Tracy (1990)

1980 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: ...And Justice for All (1979)

1976 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

1975 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: The Godfather: Part II (1974)

1974 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Serpico (1973)

1973 Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Godfather (1972)

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

1998 Nominated Saturn Award Best Actor for: The Devil's Advocate (1997)

1991 Nominated Saturn Award Best Supporting Actor for: Dick Tracy (1990)

American Cinematheque Gala Tribute

2005 American Cinematheque Award

American Comedy Awards

1991 Won American Comedy Award Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for: Dick Tracy (1990)

American Film Institute

2007 Life Achievement Award

American Movie Awards

1980 Nominated Marquee Best Actor for: ...And Justice for All. (1979)

BAFTA Awards

1991 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Dick Tracy (1990)

1976 Won BAFTA Film Award Best Actor for: Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Also for The Godfather: Part II (1974).

1975 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actor for: Serpico (1973)

1973 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for: The Godfather (1972)

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

2000 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actor - Drama for: Any Given Sunday (1999)

Boston Film Festival

1992 Won Film Excellence Award

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

1997 Won BSFC Award Best Actor for: Donnie Brasco (1997)

Chlotrudis Awards

1998 Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Actor for: Donnie Brasco (1997)

David di Donatello Awards

1974 Won David Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero) for: Serpico (1973) Tied with Robert Redford for The Sting (1973).

1973 Won Special David for: The Godfather (1972) For his acting.

Directors Guild of America

1997 Won DGA Award Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for: Looking for Richard (1996)

Emmy Awards

2004 Won Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for: "Angels in America" (2003)

Film Society of Lincoln Center

2000 Gala Tribute

Golden Apple Awards

1975 Nominated Golden Apple Male Star of the Year

Golden Globe Awards

2004 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television for: "Angels in America" (2003)

2001 Won Cecil B. DeMille Award

1993 Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Scent of a Woman (1992)

1993 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

1991 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: The Godfather: Part III (1990)

1991 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Dick Tracy (1990)

1990 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Sea of Love (1989)

1984 Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for: Scarface (1983)

1983 Nominated Golden Globe Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical for: Author! Author! (1982)

1980 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: ...And Justice for All. (1979)

1978 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: Bobby Deerfield (1977)

1976 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

1975 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: The Godfather: Part II (1974)

1974 Won Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: Serpico (1973)

1973 Nominated Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama for: The Godfather (1972)


Gotham Awards

1996 Lifetime Achievement Award

Independent Spirit Awards

1997 Nominated Truer Than Fiction Award for: Looking for Richard (1996)

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

1976 Won KCFCC Award Best Actor for: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

1980 Won Best Actor for: ...And Justice for All. (1979) Tied with Uelese Petaia for Sons for the Return Home (1979).

London Critics Circle Film Awards

2003 Nominated ALFS Award Actor of the Year for: Insomnia (2002)

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

1975 Won LAFCA Award Best Actor for: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

MTV Movie Awards

1998 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Villain for: The Devil's Advocate (1997)

National Board of Review, USA

1973 Won NBR Award Best Actor for: Serpico (1973) Tied with Robert Ryan for The Iceman Cometh (1973).

1972 Won NBR Award Best Supporting Actor for: The Godfather (1972) Tied with Joel Grey for Cabaret (1972).

National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

1973 Won NSFC Award Best Actor for: The Godfather (1972)

San Sebastián International Film Festival

1996 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award

1975 Won Prize San Sebastián Best Actor for: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Satellite Awards

2004 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television for: "Angels in America" (2003)

2000 Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for: The Insider (1999)

Screen Actors Guild Awards

2004 Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for: "Angels in America" (2003)

Teen Choice Awards

2007 Nominated Teen Choice Award Choice Movie: Villain for: Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Television Critics Association Awards

2004 Nominated TCA Award Individual Achievement in Drama for: "Angels in America" (2003)

Valladolid International Film Festival

1992 Won Best Actor for: Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Shared with:Jack Lemmon,Ed Harris,Alan Arkin,Kevin Spacey,Alec Baldwin,Jonathan Pryce

Venice Film Festival

1994 Career Golden Lion

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Born in the Bronx, New York, Al Pacino is the gold standard against which most American actors - indeed, most world actors - are judged. A lifelong bachelor, occasional film director (Looking for Richard, 1996), and performer inclined toward artistically varied pursuits, although one owing a tremendous debt to Hollywood's deep pockets, Pacino is quintessentially American. An ethnic type who succeeded beyond the usual bounds to help define the mainstream, he has prospered despite numerous obstacles.

With age, his once pretty face has begun to droop, taking away the initial shine of youth. But his face is cut with a rich, dangerous smile and bright, orbital eyes that frequently give his performances a sense of caricature, inasmuch as Pacino has so wholly embodied cartoon-style villains (Dick Tracy, 1990), leading men (The Godfather: Part II, 1974), monsters (The Devil's Advocate, 1997), and working-class nobodies (Frankie and Johnny, 1991) with equal panache. His body also has a tendency to softness and is hunched, almost plodding, whereas his voice is explosive and angry. His dynamic range quickly changes, but it is the more minute details of his performances we often admire - typically the pair of everlarge hands he uses with great expressivity. In short, his physical vessel is not easily categorized as "handsome" in a field replete with handsome men. But perhaps it is because of this refreshing contrast with the elitist WASP type that Pacino has been movie royalty for nearly two generations.

More remarkably, his roles are where words and actions truly leave the stage or screen, as the case may be, and it is here that Pacino has always made his mark. Trained as a Method actor under the tutelage of Lee Strasberg, he has honed his technique to a point. His style is therefore concerned with capturing emotional states and embodying them through physical performance, as well as in the employment of setting, decor, and lights - the purview of important collaborators like Sidney Lumet, Norman Jewison, Francis Ford Coppola, and Michael Mann. Consequently, Pacino is central to the golden period of Hollywood in the 1970s, and it's his career-long association with quality work, with one or two exceptions (Cruising, 1980; Revolution, 1985), that makes him such a respected performer.

Over the decades he has become a legend, a performer sui generis while miraculously continuing a seemingly neverending career prime, and all this despite originally possessing a rather effeminate voice now made gruff with age, a slight presence, and being Italian during a period when such traits were normally the stuff of support players at best. Pacino is therefore a working-class hero and gentleman's model both, which is a testament to his skill and the application of thoughtful craftsmanship.

Witness his eponymous hero in Serpico (1973), the sad-sack bank robber Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), hanger-on Lefty Ruggiero in Donnie Brasco (1997), or the maniacal Tony Montana in Scarface (1983). Yet all roads flow through The Godfather (1972), that bedrock of modern U.S. cinema, because Al Pacino will be forever remembered as Michael Corleone.

In one performance - indeed the role of a lifetime - Pacino embodies the American dream of "hard work wins out" and the nightmare of loyalty to tribe, with the entire twentieth-century immigrant experience providing a backdrop of fratricide, murder, dashed love, and the accumulation of power. Still, he can cater for those who are partial to the "hoo-aah" of Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992), his Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning performance. But for others, the standout performances lie off to one side in such projects as Heat (1995), The Insider (1999), Carlito's Way (1993), and his Emmy Award-winning, electrifyingly nasty Roy Cohn in the HBO adaptation for television of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (2003). Pacino stands out as one of the most origianl and influential actors of his generation.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Roles turned down:

Dave Kujan in The Usual Suspects (1995)

Crimson Tide (1995)

Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas (1990)

Turned down Pretty Woman (1990)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Han Solo in Star Wars (1977)

Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)


Is an avid fan of opera.

Once worked as an usher at Carnegie Hall.

Larry King considers Pacino's appearance on his show "Larry King Live" (1985) in November 1996 as one of his personal all-time favorite interviews.

One of the few Hollywood stars who has never married.

He is an avid William Shakespeare fan.

Read for Chazz Palminteri's part in The Usual Suspects (1995).

His favorite actress is Julie Christie.

When asked by the AFI, he named L'albero degli zoccoli (1978) and Singin' in the Rain (1952) as his favorite films.

He is a huge fan of Dick Van Dyke.

Salary

S1m0ne (2002) $11,000,000

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) $1,500,000

The Godfather: Part III (1990) $5,000,000

The Godfather: Part II (1974) $500,000 and 10% of the gross after break-even

The Godfather (1972) $35,000