1. The Greatest Actor of 21 st Century: Early life:Stage
Career: Film Career: 1970's: 1980s: 1990s: 2000s: Awards and
nominations:
2. The Greatest Actor of 21st Century: American stage and film
actor,director, screenwriter, producer. Well known for
playingmobsters, often appeared on the other side of the lawas a
police officer, a detective and lawyer. Received seven
Oscarnominations, including one Oscar.
3. Early life: Full name: Alfred James Pacino Date of Birth:
25th of April, 1940. Birth place: East Harlem, New YorkCity.
Hometown: Corleone , Sicily.Parents: Salvatore Pacino and Rose.
Aimed to be a baseball player. School drop-out, worked at
low-paying jobs, messenger, busboy, janitor, and postal clerk, to
finance acting studies.
4. Stage Career: Inaugurated acting career performing
inClifford Odets' Awake and Sing! (1967). Starred in Israel
Horovitz's The IndianWants the Bronx (1968), including several
plays like "Deadly Circle of Violence, Search for Tomorrow, Does a
Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969), The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,
Richard III (1970), American Buffalo(1982), Hughie, Salome (1997),
orphan (2005). After a long break, returned to the stage insummer
2010, as Shylock in a Shakespeare in the Park production of The
Merchant of Al Pacino in The Basic Training of Venice and Glengarry
Glen Ross (2013). Pavlo Hummel(1971)
5. Film Career: Made his movie debut in 1969 with a
briefappearance in Me, Natalie.signed with the talent agency
Creative Management Associates (CMA).
6. 1970's: Became illustrious by playing as MichelCorleone in
The Godfather (1972). Nominated for Academy Award onaccount of
Serpico (1973). Relished exorbitant success owing toThe Godfather
Part II (1974). Was nominated for Oscar four times andtwo times for
Academy Awards in addition for brilliant performance in Dog day
afternoon (1975), Bobby Deerfield (1977) and .And justice for
all.
7. 1980's: Career slumped in early 80s. Had a prodigious
comeback through themasterpiece Scarface(1983), which proved to be
a career highlight and a defining role. Received Golden Globe
nomination forScarface. Worked on his personal project TheLocal
Stigmatic, which was released in 2007. Portrayed a detective in
1989's Sea ofLove.
8. 1990's: Received an Academy Awardnomination for playing Big
Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy in 1990. Later in the
year followed this up in areturn to Michael Corleone, in The
Godfather Part III (1990) Won the Academy Award for Best Actor,for
his portrayal of the blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
in Scent of a Woman. Played Satan in the supernatural thrillerThe
Devil's Advocate (1997). Heat(1995), Any Given Sunday
(1999),Carlito's Way (1993), Donnie Brasco (1996), The Insider
(1998) - the films that gave rise to the legend AL PACINO.
9. 2000's: Turned down an offer from EA to voice-act in a
Godfather based game, though appeared in the Scarfaces VG version
Scarface: The World is Yours. Played in Insomnia(2000), people
Iknow, Gigli ,The Recruit, Angels in America (2003), Two for the
money(2005), Oceans Thirteen, 88 minutes (2008) and Righteous Kill
(2009). Starred in the mini-series Angels inAmerica and won an Emmy
Award and a Golden Globe. Received an AFI Lifetime AchievementAward
in 2006
10. Awards and nominations: Nominated for Oscar eight times.
Won oncefor Best Actor in Leading Role. Nominated for the BAFTA
awards four times.Won once for Best Actor. Nominated For the Golden
Globe awardsfourteen times. Won three times for Best Actor. Won an
Emmy Award for Best Actor in aSeries. Won a Screen Guild Award for
Best Actor in aSeries. Won Two Tony Awards For Best Actor in
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