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Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actor. He is probably best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" trilogy and as Tony Montana in the 1983 film "Scarface". He is regarded by many as the best film actor of his generation.
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Pacino received an Oscar nomination as Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy (1990) followed by a return to arguably his most famous character, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990). In 1991, Al Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who ... co-starred with Pacino in Scarface. He would finally win an Oscar for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the depressed, irascible, and retired blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman (1992). That very year, he was also nominated for the supporting actor award 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 (as did Jamie Foxx in 2005).
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Pacino fared far better in the 1992 adaptation of Mamet's blistering "Glengarry Glen Ross", picking up a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination as the real estate office's dynamic hotshot. That same year, he finally copped the elusive Oscar (after eight nominations) for his bravura star turn as the unabashed, hoo-hahing blind veteran cutting loose on the town in "Scent of a Woman", a slight story ennobled by his winning portrayal. Similarly, his prison-sprung drug lord in "Carlito's Way" (1993) showed that his way with gutter-tough poetry and his talent for various ethnic characterizations could be as riveting as ever. Michael Mann's "Heat" (1995) paired Pacino's high-strung police detective opposite De Niro's professional thief, marking their first appearance on screen together, and though both received high marks from reviewers, the lion's share of the praise went to writer-director Mann. That year ... saw him age himself to beautifully render the grandfather in "Two Bits", a Depression-era family drama too slow and delicate to realize its full potential.
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Pacino's return to Hollywood came in the film Sea of Love in 1989, an erotic-romantic film that cast him as a hard-drinking cop. In 1990, Pacino reprised his role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III, earning praise for his acting amid mixed reviews for the film. Dick Tracy was ... released in 1990, and Pacino got rave reviews for his comedic spoof on a gangster, a type of character he usually played seriously. He was nominated for another Oscar for best supporting actor for Dick Tracy.
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Pacino starred as lawyer Roy Cohn in the 2003 HBO miniseries of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America. Pacino still acts on stage and has dabbled in film directing. While The Local Stigmatic remains unreleased, his film festival-screened Chinese Coffee has earned good notices. 100 Heroes and Villains, he is only the second actor to appear on both lists: on the "heroes list" as Frank Serpico and on the "villains list" as Michael Corleone.
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In the announcement from AFI's Board of Trustees, Board Chairman Sir Howard Stringer said, "Al Pacino is an icon of American film. He has created some of the great characters in the movies - from Michael Corleone to Tony Montana to Roy Cohn.
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