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Al Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992), receiving the award at the 65th Academy Awards in 1993. He received nine Oscar nominations in total over his career.
Al Pacino was born on the 25th of April 1940, in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. After his parents divorced when he was two, his mother moved with him to the South Bronx, where he was raised by his maternal grandparents.
Pacino trained at HB Studio, where Charlie Laughton became his mentor, attending classes free in exchange for cleaning the studios. He later gained admission to the Actors Studio and studied method acting under Lee Strasberg. His breakthrough came with the 1968 off-Broadway play The Indian Wants the Bronx, which earned him an Obie Award and brought him to the attention of manager Martin Bregman.
Al Pacino has won two Tony Awards. He won Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1969 for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and Best Actor in a Play in 1977 for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. He received a third nomination in 2011 for The Merchant of Venice.
Four of Al Pacino's films have been selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and Scarface.
Al Pacino's memoir is titled Sonny Boy, published by Penguin Press on the 15th of October 2024. The title comes from the Al Jolson song his mother used to sing to him during his childhood in the South Bronx.