I don’t know anyone who dislikes Al Pacino’s acting, he is a legend and a killer actor to this day. So it is no surprise that he’s been honored with the AFI’s Lifetime Achievement award. Yahoo.com gives us this:
Al Pacino can add another acting accolade to his collection. The 66-year-old actor will receive the American Film Institute’s highest honor, the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, it was announced Friday.
Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of the AFI board of trustees, called Pacino “an icon of American film.” “His career inspires audiences and artists alike,” Stringer said.
The 35th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Pacino at a tribute dinner in Los Angeles on June 7, 2007.
Good for Pacino. He really deserves this, this is a guy who earned his acting chops the old fashioned way. He started in school plays, he was one of the best users of Lee Strasburg’s Method acting style, he used to have to borrow money for buses to auditions but it paid off when he won a Tony award (before he even started into film)for Does the Tiger wear a necktie. The guy worked hard, and beat out Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson for the role of The Godfather. He’s direct, written and produced movies and is an avid supporter of theater. Pacino has been nominated 7 times for an academy award and won for Scent of a Woman.
Everything Pacino is in is better because he is in it. My favorite Al Pacino movie is Frankie and Johnny, with The Merchant of Venice coming a close second. But there are so many other amazing roles that he’s played.
What makes him so good? I don’t know but it’s seems to be a mix between his eyes and his voice, and his crazy sexy confidence. Yeah I said it; Al Pacino is sexy.
Congratulations Al. You really deserve it.
A true artist, whose work will be always appreciated both by critics and by common movie-lovers. He played different kinds of characters, leaving a bit of his soul in each one. He really deserves this famous award.