Al Pacino
Pacino in 2016
Born	Alfredo James Pacino (1940-04-25) April 25, 1940 (age 85) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Actors Studio HB Studio
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1967–present
Works	Full list
Partner(s)	Lyndall Hobbs (1989–1996)^[1] Beverly D'Angelo (1997–2003) Lucila Polak (2008–2018)
Children	4
Awards	Full list

Michael Corleone
Tony Montana

Alfredo James Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnoʊ/ pə-CHEE-noh; Italian: [paˈtʃiːno]; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] His career spans more than five decades, during which he has earned many accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, achieving the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also received four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2007, the National Medal of Arts in 2011, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2016.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

A method actor, Pacino studied at HB Studio and the Actors Studio, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. Pacino went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Scent of a Woman (1992). His other Oscar-nominated roles were in The Godfather (1972), Serpico (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), ...And Justice for All (1979), Dick Tracy (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), and The Irishman (2019). Pacino has starred in many commercially successful films, including Scarface (1983), Sea of Love (1989), The Godfather Part III (1990), Frankie and Johnny (1991), Carlito's Way (1993), Heat (1995), Donnie Brasco, The Devil's Advocate (both 1997), The Insider, Any Given Sunday (both 1999), Insomnia (2002), The Recruit (2003), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), and House of Gucci (2021).

On television, Pacino has acted in multiple productions for HBO, including Angels in America (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic You Don't Know Jack (2010), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each. Pacino starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Hunters (2020–23). He has also had an extensive career on stage. He is a two-time Tony Award winner, winning Best Featured Actor in a Play in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969) and Best Actor in a Play for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977).

Pacino made his directorial debut with the documentary Looking for Richard (1996). He has played the lead role on stage in 1977. He has also acted as Shylock in a 2004 feature film adaptation and 2010 stage production of The Merchant of Venice. Pacino directed and starred in Chinese Coffee (2000), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Since 1994, he has been the joint president of the Actors Studio.

Early life and education

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Alfredo James Pacino was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on April 25, 1940, the only child of Sicilian Italian-American parents Rose (née Gerardi) and Salvatore Pacino. His father had immigrated from San Fratello.^[10]^: xix^[11]^: 2 His parents divorced when he was two years old.^[12]^[11]^: 2 His mother took him to the South Bronx and they lived with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi. They had immigrated from Corleone when young.^[13]^[11]^: 1–2 Pacino's father moved to California to work as an insurance salesman and restaurateur in Covina, California.^[12]^[14]

In his teenage years, Pacino was known as "Sonny" to his friends.^[10]^: xix He had ambitions to become a baseball player and was also nicknamed "The Actor".^[10]^: xix He attended Herman Ridder Junior High School,^[15] but soon dropped out of most of his classes except for English. He subsequently attended the High School of Performing Arts,^[16] after gaining admission by audition. His mother disagreed with his decision and, after an argument, he left home. To finance his acting studies, Pacino took low-paying jobs as a messenger, busboy, janitor, and postal clerk,^[12] as well as once working in the mailroom for Commentary.^[17]

Pacino began smoking and drinking at age nine, and used marijuana casually at age 13, but he abstained from hard drugs.^[10]^: 9 His two closest friends died from drug abuse at the ages of 19 and 30.^[10]^: 8 Growing up in the South Bronx, Pacino got into occasional fights and was considered something of a troublemaker at school.^[10]^: 6 He acted in basement plays in New York's theatrical underground, but was rejected as a teenager by the Actors Studio.^[10]^: xix Instead, Pacino joined the HB Studio, where he met acting teacher Charlie Laughton,^[a] who became his mentor and best friend.^[10]^: xix In this period, he was often unemployed or homeless, and sometimes slept on the street, in theaters, or at a friend's home.^[10]^: 14^[13]

In 1962, Pacino's mother died at the age of 43.^[10]^: 10 The following year, his maternal grandfather also died.^[12] Pacino recalled it as the lowest point of his life and said, "I was 22 and the two most influential people in my life had gone, so that sent me into a tailspin."^[14]

After four years at HB Studio, Pacino successfully auditioned for the Actors Studio.^[10]^: xix The Actors Studio is a membership organization of professional actors, theater directors, and playwrights in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.^[18] Pacino studied "method acting"^[12] under acting coach Lee Strasberg, who appeared with Pacino in the films The Godfather Part II and in ...And Justice for All.^[13]

During later interviews, he spoke about Strasberg and the Studio's effect on his career. "The Actors Studio meant so much to me in my life. Lee Strasberg hasn't been given the credit he deserves ... Next to Charlie, it sort of launched me. It really did. That was a remarkable turning point in my life. It was directly responsible for getting me to quit all those jobs and just stay acting."^[10]^: 15 In another interview he added, "It was exciting to work for him [Lee Strasberg] because he was so interesting when he talked about a scene or talked about people. One would just want to hear him talk, because things he would say, you'd never heard before ... He had such a great understanding ... he loved actors so much."^[19]

In 2000, Pacino was selected as co-president of the Actors Studio, along with Ellen Burstyn and Harvey Keitel.^[18]

Career

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1967–1971: Theater roles and film debut

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In 1967, Pacino spent a season at the Charles Playhouse in Boston, performing in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! (his first major paycheck: US$125 a week); and in Jean-Claude Van Itallie's America Hurrah. He met actress Jill Clayburgh on this play. They had a five-year romance and moved back to New York City.^[11] In 1968, Pacino starred in Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx at the Astor Place Theatre, playing Murph, a street punk. The play opened January 17, 1968, and ran for 177 performances; it was staged in a double bill with Horovitz's It's Called the Sugar Plum, starring Clayburgh. Pacino won an Obie Award for Best Actor for his role, with John Cazale winning for Best Supporting Actor and Horowitz for Best New Play.^[20] Martin Bregman saw the play and became Pacino's manager, a partnership that became fruitful in the years to come, as Bregman encouraged Pacino to do The Godfather, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon.^[21] About his stage career, Pacino said, "Martin Bregman discovered me ... I was 26, 25 ... he discovered me and became my manager. And that's why I'm here. I owe it to Marty, I really do".^[22]

Pacino took the production of The Indian Wants the Bronx to Italy for a performance at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. It was Pacino's first journey to Italy; he later recalled that "performing for an Italian audience was a marvelous experience".^[11] Pacino and Clayburgh were cast in "Deadly Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC television series NYPD, premiering November 12, 1968. Clayburgh at the time was also appearing on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, playing the role of Grace Bolton. Her father would send the couple money each month to help with finances.^[23]

On February 25, 1969, Pacino made his Broadway debut in Don Petersen's Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? at the Belasco Theater, produced by A&P Heir Huntington Hartford. It closed after 39 performances on March 29, 1969, but Pacino received rave reviews and won the Tony Award on April 20, 1969.^[11] Pacino continued performing onstage in the 1970s, winning a second Tony Award for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and performing the title role in Richard III.^[12] In the 1980s, Pacino again achieved critical success on stage while appearing in David Mamet's American Buffalo, for which Pacino was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.^[12] Since 1990, Pacino's stage work has included revivals of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, Oscar Wilde's Salome and in 2005 Lyle Kessler's Orphans.^[24] Pacino found acting enjoyable and realized he had a gift for it while studying at The Actors Studio. However, his early work was not financially rewarding.^[13] After his success on stage, Pacino made his film debut in 1969 with a brief appearance in Me, Natalie, an independent film starring Patty Duke.^[25] In 1970, Pacino signed with the talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA).^[11] Pacino made his feature film debut portraying a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971).

1972–1983: Stardom and acclaim

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Francis Ford Coppola cast him as Michael Corleone in what became a blockbuster Mafia film, The Godfather (1972).^[26] Although Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, and the little-known Robert De Niro tried out for the part, Coppola selected Pacino, to the dismay of studio executives who wanted someone better known.^[13]^[27] Pacino's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination, and offered a prime example of his early acting style, described by Halliwell's Film Guide as "intense" and "tightly clenched". Pacino boycotted the Academy Award ceremony, insulted at being nominated for the Supporting Acting award, as he noted that he had more screen time than co-star and Best Actor winner Marlon Brando—who also boycotted the awards, but for unrelated reasons.^[28] In 1973, Pacino co-starred in Scarecrow with Gene Hackman, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor after starring in Serpico, based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of fellow officers.^[28] In 1974, Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II, which was the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar; Pacino was nominated a third time for an Oscar, this second nomination for the Corleone role being in the lead category.^[28] Newsweek has described his performance in The Godfather Part II as "arguably cinema's greatest portrayal of the hardening of a heart".^[29]

In 1975, he enjoyed further success with the release of Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz.^[13] It was directed by Sidney Lumet, who had directed him in Serpico a few years earlier, and Pacino was again nominated for Best Actor.^[30] In 1977, Pacino starred as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his portrayal of the title role. His next film was the courtroom drama ...And Justice for All. Pacino was lauded by critics for his wide range of acting abilities, and nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for a fourth time.^[30] He lost out that year to Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer—a role that Pacino had declined.^[30] During the 1970s, Pacino had five Oscar nominations, including four for Best Actor for his performances in Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, and ...And Justice for All.^[13]

Pacino's career slumped in the early 1980s; his appearances in the controversial Cruising, a film that provoked protests from New York's gay community,^[31] and the comedy-drama Author! Author!, were critically panned.^[12] However, his performance in Scarface (1983), directed by Brian De Palma, proved to be a career highlight and a defining role.^[13] Upon its initial release, the film was critically panned due to violent content, but later received critical acclaim.^[32] The film did well at the box office, grossing over US$45 million domestically.^[33] Pacino earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Cuban drug lord Tony Montana.^[34]

In 1983, Pacino became a major donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Paul Newman, matching a grant from Laurance Rockefeller.^[35] The men were inspired to invest by their connection with Lee Strasberg, as Strasberg's daughter-in-law Sabra Jones was the founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Mirror. In 1985, Pacino offered the company his production of Hughie by Eugene O'Neill, but the company was unable to do it at the time due to the small cast.^[35] In 1985, Pacino worked on his personal project, The Local Stigmatic, a 1969 off-Broadway play by the English writer Heathcote Williams. He starred in the play, remounting it with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in a 50-minute film version. The film was not released theatrically, but was later released as part of the Pacino: An Actor's Vision box set in 2007.^[13]

1984–1999: Career fluctuations

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His 1985 film Revolution about a fur trapper during the American Revolutionary War, was a commercial and critical failure, which Pacino blamed on a rushed production,^[36] resulting in a four-year hiatus from films. At this time Pacino returned to the stage. He mounted workshop productions of Crystal Clear, National Anthems and other plays; he appeared in Julius Caesar in 1988 in producer Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival. Pacino remarked on his hiatus from film: "I remember back when everything was happening, '74, '75, doing The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui on stage and reading that the reason I'd gone back to the stage was that my movie career was waning! That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately."^[37] Pacino returned to film in 1989's Sea of Love,^[13] when he portrayed a detective hunting a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper. The film earned solid reviews.^[38] Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit Dick Tracy in 1990, of which critic Roger Ebert described Pacino as "the scene-stealer".^[39] Later in the year he followed this up in a return to one of his most famous characters, Michael Corleone, in The Godfather Part III (1990).^[13]

In 1991, Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-starred with Pacino in Scarface. Pacino played a recently paroled cook who begins a relationship with a waitress (Pfeiffer) in the diner where they work. It was adapted by Terrence McNally from his own off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1987), that featured Kenneth Welsh and Kathy Bates. The film received mixed reviews, although Pacino later said he enjoyed playing the part.^[40] Janet Maslin in The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Pacino has not been this uncomplicatedly appealing since his Dog Day Afternoon days, and he makes Johnny's endless enterprise in wooing Frankie a delight. His scenes alone with Ms. Pfeiffer have a precision and honesty that keep the film's maudlin aspects at bay."^[41] For his portrayal of the irascible, blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman (1992)^[13] Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor next year. He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross, making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two movies in the same year, and to win for the lead role.^[13]

Pacino starred alongside Sean Penn in the crime drama Carlito's Way in 1993, in which he played Carlito Brigante, a gangster released from prison with the help of his corrupt lawyer (Penn) and vows to go straight.^[42] Pacino starred in Michael Mann's Heat (1995), in which he and Robert De Niro appeared on-screen together for the first time (though both Pacino and De Niro starred in The Godfather Part II, they did not share any scenes).^[13]^[43] In 1996, Pacino starred in his theatrical docudrama Looking for Richard, a performance of selected scenes of William Shakespeare's Richard III and a broader examination of Shakespeare's continuing role and relevance in popular culture. The cast brought together for the performance included Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, and Winona Ryder.^[44]

Pacino played Satan in the supernatural thriller The Devil's Advocate (1997) which co-starred Keanu Reeves. The film was a success at the box office, taking US$150 million worldwide.^[45] Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "The satanic character is played by Pacino with relish bordering on glee."^[46] In 1997's Donnie Brasco, Pacino played gangster "Lefty" in the true story of undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) and his work in bringing down the Mafia from the inside.^[47] In 1999, Pacino starred as 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman in the multi-Oscar nominated The Insider opposite Russell Crowe, and in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday.^[48]^[49]

2000–2018: Television roles and return to Broadway

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Pacino won three Golden Globes since 2000; the first being the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.^[50] In 2000, Pacino starred alongside Jerry Orbach in a low-budget film adaptation of Ira Lewis' play Chinese Coffee, which was released to film festivals.^[51] Shot almost exclusively as a one-on-one conversation between two main characters, the project took nearly three years to complete and was funded entirely by Pacino.^[51] Chinese Coffee was included with Pacino's two other rare films he was involved in producing, The Local Stigmatic and Looking for Richard, on a special DVD box set titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision, which was released in 2007. Pacino produced prologues and epilogues for the discs containing the films.^[52] Pacino turned down an offer to reprise his role as Michael Corleone in the computer game version of The Godfather. As a result, Electronic Arts was not permitted to use Pacino's likeness or voice in the game, although his character does appear in it.^[53] He did allow his likeness to appear in the video game adaptation of 1983's Scarface, the quasi-sequel Scarface: The World is Yours.^[54]

In October 2002, Pacino starred in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui for the National Actor's Theater and Complicite.^[55] Directed by Simon McBurney, the production starred a host of Hollywood names, including John Goodman, Charles Durning, Tony Randall, Steve Buscemi, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Giamatti, Jacqueline McKenzie, Billy Crudup, Lothaire Bluteau, Dominic Chianese, and Sterling K. Brown.^[56] The production was a critical success in which "Pacino grabs and holds the attention like a coiled spring about to snap. He is all brooding menace and crocodile grimace, butchering his way to the top with unnervingly sinister glee."^[57] Director Christopher Nolan worked with Pacino on Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name, co-starring Robin Williams. Newsweek stated that "he [Pacino] can play small as rivetingly as he can play big, that he can implode as well as explode".^[58] The film and Pacino's performance were well received, gaining a favorable rating of 93 percent on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.^[59] The film did moderately well at the box office, taking in $113 million worldwide.^[60] His next film, S1m0ne, however, did not receive much critical praise or box office success.^[61]

He played a publicist in People I Know, a small film that received little attention despite Pacino's well-received performance.^[62] Rarely taking a supporting role since his commercial breakthrough, he accepted a small part in the critical and box office flop Gigli, in 2003, as a favor to director Martin Brest.^[62]^[63] The Recruit, released in 2003, featured Pacino as a CIA recruiter and co-stars Colin Farrell. The film received mixed reviews,^[64] and has been described by Pacino as something he "personally couldn't follow".^[62] Pacino next starred as lawyer Roy Cohn in the 2003 HBO miniseries Angels in America, an adaptation of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name.^[13] For this performance, Pacino won his third Golden Globe, for Best Performance by an Actor, in 2004.^[65]

Pacino starred as Shylock in Michael Radford's 2004 film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. Critics praised him for bringing compassion and depth to a character traditionally played as a villainous caricature.^[66] In Two for the Money, Pacino portrays a sports gambling agent and mentor for Matthew McConaughey, alongside Rene Russo. The film was released on October 8, 2005, to mixed reviews.^[67] Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Post, "Al Pacino has played the mentor so many times, he ought to get a kingmaker's award ... the fight between good and evil feels fixed in favor of Hollywood redemption."^[68] On October 20, 2006, the American Film Institute named Pacino the recipient of the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award.^[69] On November 22, 2006, the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin awarded Pacino the Honorary Patronage of the Society.^[70]

Pacino starred in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Thirteen, alongside George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Elliott Gould, and Andy García, as the villain Willy Bank, a casino tycoon targeted by Danny Ocean and his crew. The film received generally favorable reviews.^[71] 88 Minutes was released on April 18, 2008, in the United States, after having been released in various other countries in 2007. The film co-starred Alicia Witt and was critically panned,^[72] although critics found fault with the plot, and not Pacino's acting.^[73] In Righteous Kill, Pacino and Robert De Niro co-star as New York detectives searching for a serial killer. The film was released to theaters on September 12, 2008. While it was an anticipated return for the two stars, it was not well received by critics.^[74]

Pacino returned to the stage in the summer of 2010, playing Shylock in the Shakespeare in the Park production, The Merchant of Venice.^[75] The acclaimed production moved to Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in October, earning US$1 million at the box office in its first week.^[76]^[77] The performance also garnered him a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play.^[78] Pacino played Jack Kevorkian in an HBO Films biopic titled You Don't Know Jack, which premiered April 2010. The film is about the life and work of the physician-assisted suicide advocate. The performance earned Pacino his second Emmy Award^[79] for lead actor^[80] and his fourth Golden Globe award.^[81] He co-starred as himself in the 2011 comedy film Jack and Jill. The film was panned by critics, and Pacino "won" the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor at the 32nd ceremony.^[82] Elaborating on his decision to join the cast of the film, he stated: "It came at a time in my life that I needed it, because it was after I found out I had no more money. My accountant [Kenneth I. Starr] was in prison, and I needed something quickly. So I took (Jack and Jill.)"^[83]

He was presented with Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award on September 4, 2011, prior to the premiere of Wilde Salomé, a 2011 American documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Pacino.^[84]^[85] Its US premiere on the evening of March 21, 2012, before a full house at the 1,400-seat Castro Theatre in San Francisco's Castro District, marked the 130th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's visit to San Francisco. The event was a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society.^[86]^[87]^[88] Pacino, who plays the role of Herod in the film, describes it as his "most personal project ever".^[85] In February 2012, President Barack Obama awarded Pacino the National Medal of Arts.^[89]^[90] Pacino starred in the 30th-anniversary Broadway revival of David Mamet's play, Glengarry Glen Ross, which ran from October 2012 to January 20, 2013.^[91] He starred on Broadway in China Doll, a play written for him by Mamet, which opened on December 5, 2015, and closed on January 21, 2016, after 97 performances.^[92] The previews were done in October 2015.^[93]

Pacino starred in a 2013 HBO biographical picture about record producer Phil Spector's murder trial, titled Phil Spector.^[94] He took the title role in the comedy-drama Danny Collins (2015). His performance as an aging rock star garnered him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination.^[95] In 2016, Pacino received the Kennedy Center Honor.^[96] The tribute included remarks by his former costars Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Bobby Cannavale and Chris O'Donnell.^[97] In September 2012, Deadline Hollywood reported that Pacino would play the former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno in the television film Paterno based on a 2012 biography by sportswriter Joe Posnanski.^[98] Paterno premiered on HBO on April 7, 2018.^[99]

2019–present

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Pacino starred alongside Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino's comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was released on July 26, 2019.^[100] Later in 2019, Pacino played Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa, alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, in Martin Scorsese's Netflix film The Irishman, based on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt. This was the first time Pacino was directed by Scorsese, and he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 92nd Academy Awards—his ninth to date.^[101] Pacino's performance received positive reviews. Peter Bradshaw described it as "glorious" in The Guardian.^[102] Justin Chang wrote, "De Niro, Pesci and Pacino are at the top of their game, in part because they aren't simply rehashing the iconic gangster types they've played before."^[103]

In February 2020, Pacino starred as Meyer Offerman, a fictional Nazi hunter, in the Amazon Prime Video series Hunters.^[104] This is Pacino's first television series since Angels in America (2003). Hunters was renewed for a second season in August 2020.^[105] In 2021, Pacino played Aldo Gucci in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci.^[106] The film received mixed to positive reviews, with Pacino's performance being highlighted as a standout, along with Lady Gaga's and Jared Leto's. That same year, he played the lead defense attorney in American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally.

In 2024, Pacino starred in Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, a film about Amedeo Modigliani, which he co-produced alongside Johnny Depp and Barry Navidi.^[107] The film is based on a play by Dennis McIntyre, which was previously adapted for the 2004 film of the same name.^[107] Principal photography commenced in September 2023.^[108] On March 10, 2024, Pacino presented the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards.^[109]

Personal life

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Relationships

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Pacino has four children. The eldest, Julie Marie (born October 16, 1989), is his daughter with acting coach Jan Tarrant. He has twins, son Anton James and daughter Olivia Rose (born January 25, 2001), with actress Beverly D'Angelo, with whom he had a relationship from 1997 until 2003. He has a son, Roman (born June 15, 2023) with his producer girlfriend Noor Alfallah, who is 53 years younger than he is.^[110] Pacino, at age 83, is one of the oldest fathers on record.^[111] He has never been married.^[112]^[113]

Pacino had a relationship with his The Godfather Trilogy co-star Diane Keaton. Their on-again, off-again relationship ended after the filming of The Godfather Part III. Keaton said of Pacino, "Al was simply the most entertaining man ... To me, that's, that is the most beautiful face. I think Warren [Beatty] was gorgeous, very pretty, but Al's face is like whoa. Killer, killer face."^[114] He has had relationships with Jill Clayburgh, Tuesday Weld, Marthe Keller, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Kathleen Quinlan, Lyndall Hobbs, and Penelope Ann Miller.^[52]^[115]^[116] Pacino had a ten-year relationship with Argentine actress Lucila Polak from 2008 to 2018.^[117]

Substance abuse issues

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Pacino has admitted to abusing drugs and alcohol early in his career, partly because he found his sudden fame after The Godfather difficult to cope with.^[118]^[119] He achieved sobriety in 1977.^[118]

Health

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Pacino revealed in 2024 that he almost died of COVID-19 in 2020; his near-death experience has led him to believe in no afterlife.^[120]

Acting credits and accolades

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Pacino has won and been nominated for many awards during his acting career, including nine Oscar nominations (winning one) and five BAFTA nominations (winning one) for his film work; 19 Golden Globe nominations (winning four) and seven SAG Award nominations (winning two), each recognizing both his film and TV work; three Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning two) solely for his work on television; and three Tony Award nominations (winning two) for his stage work. In 2007, the American Film Institute awarded Pacino with a lifetime achievement award and, in 2003, British television viewers voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all time in a poll for Channel 4.^[121]

Bibliography

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Pacino, Al (2024). Sonny Boy: A Memoir (First hardcover ed.). New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 9780593655115. OCLC 1425980020.

Explanatory notes

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^ Not to be confused with the British actor Charles Laughton.

References

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General and cited references

Grobel, Lawrence (2006). Al Pacino: The Authorized Biography. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-9497-1.

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Preceded by Paul Newman	President of the Actors Studio 1994–present With: Ellen Burstyn Harvey Keitel	Incumbent
Preceded by Lee Strasberg	Artistic Director of the Actors Studio 1982 With: Ellen Burstyn	Succeeded by Ellen Burstyn

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Filmography Awards
Director	Looking for Richard (1996) Chinese Coffee (2000) Wilde Salomé (2011) Salomé (2013)
Producer	The Humbling (2014) Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness (2024)
Related	Michael Corleone Tony Montana

Awards for Al Pacino

v t e Academy Award for Best Actor
1928–1950	Emil Jannings (1928) Warner Baxter (1929) George Arliss (1930) Lionel Barrymore (1931) Fredric March / Wallace Beery (1932) Charles Laughton (1933) Clark Gable (1934) Victor McLaglen (1935) Paul Muni (1936) Spencer Tracy (1937) Spencer Tracy (1938) Robert Donat (1939) James Stewart (1940) Gary Cooper (1941) James Cagney (1942) Paul Lukas (1943) Bing Crosby (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Fredric March (1946) Ronald Colman (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) José Ferrer (1950)
1951–1975	Humphrey Bogart (1951) Gary Cooper (1952) William Holden (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Yul Brynner (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) Charlton Heston (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) Gregory Peck (1962) Sidney Poitier (1963) Rex Harrison (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Cliff Robertson (1968) John Wayne (1969) George C. Scott¹ (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Marlon Brando¹ (1972) Jack Lemmon (1973) Art Carney (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)
1976–2000	Peter Finch (1976) Richard Dreyfuss (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall (1983) F. Murray Abraham (1984) William Hurt (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Dustin Hoffman (1988) Daniel Day-Lewis (1989) Jeremy Irons (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Al Pacino (1992) Tom Hanks (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Roberto Benigni (1998) Kevin Spacey (1999) Russell Crowe (2000)
2001–present	Denzel Washington (2001) Adrien Brody (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Jeff Bridges (2009) Colin Firth (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Matthew McConaughey (2013) Eddie Redmayne (2014) Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Gary Oldman (2017) Rami Malek (2018) Joaquin Phoenix (2019) Anthony Hopkins (2020) Will Smith (2021) Brendan Fraser (2022) Cillian Murphy (2023) Adrien Brody (2024)
¹ refused award that year

AFI Life Achievement Award

John Ford (1973)
James Cagney (1974)
Orson Welles (1975)
William Wyler (1976)
Bette Davis (1977)
Henry Fonda (1978)
Alfred Hitchcock (1979)
James Stewart (1980)
Fred Astaire (1981)
Frank Capra (1982)
John Huston (1983)
Lillian Gish (1984)
Gene Kelly (1985)
Billy Wilder (1986)
Barbara Stanwyck (1987)
Jack Lemmon (1988)
Gregory Peck (1989)
David Lean (1990)
Kirk Douglas (1991)
Sidney Poitier (1992)
Elizabeth Taylor (1993)
Jack Nicholson (1994)
Steven Spielberg (1995)
Clint Eastwood (1996)
Martin Scorsese (1997)
Robert Wise (1998)
Dustin Hoffman (1999)
Harrison Ford (2000)
Barbra Streisand (2001)
Tom Hanks (2002)
Robert De Niro (2003)
Meryl Streep (2004)
George Lucas (2005)
Sean Connery (2006)
Al Pacino (2007)
Warren Beatty (2008)
Michael Douglas (2009)
Mike Nichols (2010)
Morgan Freeman (2011)
Shirley MacLaine (2012)
Mel Brooks (2013)
Jane Fonda (2014)
Steve Martin (2015)
John Williams (2016)
Diane Keaton (2017)
George Clooney (2018)
Denzel Washington (2019)
Julie Andrews (2022)
Nicole Kidman (2024)
Francis Ford Coppola (2025)

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

1952–1967

British	Ralph Richardson (1952) John Gielgud (1953) Kenneth More (1954) Laurence Olivier (1955) Peter Finch (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) Trevor Howard (1958) Peter Sellers (1959) Peter Finch (1960) Peter Finch (1961) Peter O'Toole (1962) Dirk Bogarde (1963) Richard Attenborough (1964) Dirk Bogarde (1965) Richard Burton (1966) Paul Scofield (1967)
Foreign	Marlon Brando (1952) Marlon Brando (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) François Périer (1956) Henry Fonda (1957) Sidney Poitier (1958) Jack Lemmon (1959) Jack Lemmon (1960) Paul Newman (1961) Burt Lancaster (1962) Marcello Mastroianni (1963) Marcello Mastroianni (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Rod Steiger (1966) Rod Steiger (1967)

1968–present

Spencer Tracy (1968)
Dustin Hoffman (1969)
Robert Redford (1970)
Peter Finch (1971)
Gene Hackman (1972)
Walter Matthau (1973)
Jack Nicholson (1974)
Al Pacino (1975)
Jack Nicholson (1976)
Peter Finch (1977)
Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
Jack Lemmon (1979)
John Hurt (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Ben Kingsley (1982)
Michael Caine / Dustin Hoffman (1983)
Haing S. Ngor (1984)
William Hurt (1985)
Bob Hoskins (1986)
Sean Connery (1987)
John Cleese (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
Philippe Noiret (1990)
Anthony Hopkins (1991)
Robert Downey Jr. (1992)
Anthony Hopkins (1993)
Hugh Grant (1994)
Nigel Hawthorne (1995)
Geoffrey Rush (1996)
Robert Carlyle (1997)
Roberto Benigni (1998)
Kevin Spacey (1999)
Jamie Bell (2000)
Russell Crowe (2001)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2002)
Bill Murray (2003)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
Forest Whitaker (2006)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
Mickey Rourke (2008)
Colin Firth (2009)
Colin Firth (2010)
Jean Dujardin (2011)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013)
Eddie Redmayne (2014)
Leonardo DiCaprio (2015)
Casey Affleck (2016)
Gary Oldman (2017)
Rami Malek (2018)
Joaquin Phoenix (2019)
Anthony Hopkins (2020)
Will Smith (2021)
Austin Butler (2022)
Cillian Murphy (2023)
Adrien Brody (2024)

BFI Fellowship recipients

Marcel Carné / David Lean / Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger / Satyajit Ray / Orson Welles (1983)
Sidney Bernstein (1984)
John Brabourne / Laurence Olivier (1985)
Jeremy Isaacs / Deborah Kerr / Akira Kurosawa / Dilys Powell (1986)
Dirk Bogarde / Bette Davis / Elem Klimov (1987)
Graham Greene / Vanessa Redgrave / Anthony Smith (1988)
Peggy Ashcroft / Gérard Depardieu / David Francis (1989)
Derek Jarman / Krzysztof Kieślowski / Jeanne Moreau / Fred Zinnemann (1990)
Alec Guinness / Leslie Hardcastle (1991)
Richard Attenborough / Maggie Smith (1992)
Clint Eastwood / Denis Forman / Maureen O'Hara (1993)
Nicolas Roeg / Jean Simmons (1994)
Michelangelo Antonioni / John Mills / Martin Scorsese / Robert Wise (1995)
Michael Caine / Ken Loach (1996)
Michael Parkinson / Lynda La Plante / Verity Lambert / David Puttnam / Sydney Samuelson / Thelma Schoonmaker / Alan Yentob (1997)
Bernardo Bertolucci / Jeremy Thomas (1998)
John Paul Getty Jr. (1999)
Elizabeth Taylor (2000)
Robert Altman / Lewis Gilbert (2001)
Jack Cardiff / Bob Weinstein (2002)
Abbas Kiarostami / Mike Leigh / Ousmane Sembène (2005)
Terence Davies (2007)
Souleymane Cissé / John Hurt / Ridley Scott (2009)
Danny Boyle / David Rose (2010)
Isabelle Huppert / Judi Dench / Ralph Fiennes / David Cronenberg (2011)
Bryan Forbes / Helena Bonham Carter / Tim Burton / Richard Lester (2012)
Philip French / Christopher Lee / John Boorman (2013)
Al Pacino / Stephen Frears (2014)
Mel Brooks / Cate Blanchett (2015)
Hugh Grant / Greg Dyke / Steve McQueen (2016)
Peter Morgan / Paul Greengrass (2017)
Olivia Colman (2019)
Amanda Nevill / Tilda Swinton (2020)
Michael G. Wilson / Barbara Broccoli (2022)
Spike Lee (2023)

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Cecil B. DeMille (1951)
Walt Disney (1952)
Darryl F. Zanuck (1953)
Jean Hersholt (1954)
Jack L. Warner (1955)
Mervyn LeRoy (1956)
Buddy Adler (1957)
Maurice Chevalier (1958)
Bing Crosby (1959)
Fred Astaire (1960)
Judy Garland (1961)
Bob Hope (1962)
Joseph E. Levine (1963)
James Stewart (1964)
John Wayne (1965)
Charlton Heston (1966)
Kirk Douglas (1967)
Gregory Peck (1968)
Joan Crawford (1969)
Frank Sinatra (1970)
Alfred Hitchcock (1971)
Samuel Goldwyn (1972)
Bette Davis (1973)
Hal B. Wallis (1974)
No Award (1975)
Walter Mirisch (1976)
Red Skelton (1977)
Lucille Ball (1978)
Henry Fonda (1979)
Gene Kelly (1980)
Sidney Poitier (1981)
Laurence Olivier (1982)
Paul Newman (1983)
Elizabeth Taylor (1984)
Barbara Stanwyck (1985)
Anthony Quinn (1986)
Clint Eastwood (1987)
Doris Day (1988)
Audrey Hepburn (1989)
Jack Lemmon (1990)
Robert Mitchum (1991)
Lauren Bacall (1992)
Robert Redford (1993)
Sophia Loren (1994)
Sean Connery (1995)
Dustin Hoffman (1996)
Shirley MacLaine (1997)
Jack Nicholson (1998)
Barbra Streisand (1999)
Al Pacino (2000)
Harrison Ford (2001)
Gene Hackman (2002)
Michael Douglas (2003)
Robin Williams (2004)
Anthony Hopkins (2005)
Warren Beatty (2006)
No Award (2007)
Steven Spielberg (2008)
Martin Scorsese (2009)
Robert De Niro (2010)
Morgan Freeman (2011)
Jodie Foster (2012)
Woody Allen (2013)
George Clooney (2014)
Denzel Washington (2015)
Meryl Streep (2016)
Oprah Winfrey (2017)
Jeff Bridges (2018)
Tom Hanks (2019)
Jane Fonda (2020)
No Award (2021)
Eddie Murphy (2022)
No Award (2023)
Viola Davis (2024)

David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor

1957–1975

Laurence Olivier (1957)
Marlon Brando / Charles Laughton (1958)
Jean Gabin (1959)
Cary Grant (1960)
Charlton Heston (1961)
Anthony Perkins / Spencer Tracy (1962)
Gregory Peck (1963)
Fredric March / Peter O'Toole (1964)
Rex Harrison (1965)
Richard Burton (1966)
Richard Burton / Peter O'Toole (1967)
Warren Beatty / Spencer Tracy (1968)
Rod Steiger (1969)
Dustin Hoffman / Peter O'Toole (1970)
Ryan O'Neal (1971)
Chaim Topol (1972)
Yves Montand / Laurence Olivier (1973)
Al Pacino / Robert Redford (1974)
Burt Lancaster / Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau (1975)

1976–1996

Jack Nicholson / Philippe Noiret (1976)
Dustin Hoffman / Sylvester Stallone (1977)
Richard Dreyfuss (1978)
Richard Gere / Michel Serrault (1979)
Dustin Hoffman / Jack Lemmon (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Klaus Maria Brandauer (1982)
Paul Newman (1983)
Woody Allen (1984)
Tom Hulce (1985)
William Hurt (1986)
Dexter Gordon (1987)
Michael Douglas (1988)
Dustin Hoffman (1989)
Philippe Noiret (1990)
Jeremy Irons (1991)
John Turturro (1992)
Daniel Auteuil (1993)
Anthony Hopkins (1994)
John Travolta (1995)
Harvey Keitel (1996)

Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

Barbara Kopple (1991)
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (1992)
Barbara Kopple (1993)
Steve James (1994)
Terry Zwigoff (1995)
Al Pacino (1996)
Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell (1997)
Jerry Blumenthal, Peter Gilbert, and Gordon Quinn (1998)
Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen (1999)
Charles Braverman (2000)
Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim (2001)
Tasha Oldham (2002)
Nathaniel Kahn (2003)
Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni (2004)
Werner Herzog (2005)
Arūnas Matelis (2006)
Asger Leth (2007)
Ari Folman (2008)
Louie Psihoyos (2009)
Charles Ferguson (2010)
James Marsh (2011)
Malik Bendjelloul (2012)
Jehane Noujaim (2013)
Laura Poitras (2014)
Matthew Heineman (2015)
Ezra Edelman (2016)
Matthew Heineman (2017)
Tim Wardle (2018)
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert (2019)
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (2020)
Stanley Nelson Jr. (2021)
Sara Dosa (2022)
Mstyslav Chernov (2023)
Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev (2024)

Donostia Award

Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival

1986: Gregory Peck / Gene Tierney
1987: Glenn Ford
1988: Vittorio Gassman
1989: Bette Davis
1990: Claudette Colbert
1991: Anthony Perkins
1992: Lauren Bacall
1993: Robert Mitchum
1994: Lana Turner
1995: Susan Sarandon / Catherine Deneuve
1996: Al Pacino
1997: Michael Douglas / Jeremy Irons
1998: Jeanne Moreau / Anthony Hopkins / John Malkovich
1999: Anjelica Huston / Fernando Fernán Gómez / Vanessa Redgrave
2000: Michael Caine / Robert De Niro
2001: Julie Andrews / Warren Beatty / Francisco Rabal
2002: Jessica Lange / Bob Hoskins / Dennis Hopper / Francis Ford Coppola
2003: Robert Duvall / Sean Penn / Isabelle Huppert
2004: Annette Bening / Jeff Bridges / Woody Allen
2005: Willem Dafoe / Ben Gazzara
2006: Max von Sydow / Matt Dillon
2007: Liv Ullmann / Richard Gere
2008: Meryl Streep / Antonio Banderas
2009: Ian McKellen
2010: Julia Roberts
2011: Glenn Close
2012: Oliver Stone / Ewan McGregor / Tommy Lee Jones / John Travolta / Dustin Hoffman
2013: Carmen Maura / Hugh Jackman
2014: Denzel Washington / Benicio del Toro
2015: Emily Watson
2016: Sigourney Weaver / Ethan Hawke
2017: Ricardo Darín / Monica Bellucci / Agnès Varda
2018: Hirokazu Kore-eda / Danny DeVito / Judi Dench
2019: Penélope Cruz / Costa-Gavras / Donald Sutherland
2020: Viggo Mortensen
2021: Johnny Depp / Marion Cotillard
2022: Juliette Binoche / David Cronenberg
2023: Javier Bardem / Víctor Erice / Hayao Miyazaki
2024: Pedro Almodóvar / Cate Blanchett

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

1975–2000

Anthony Hopkins (1975)
John Wood (1976)
Al Pacino (1977)
Barnard Hughes (1978)
Philip Anglim (1979)
John Rubinstein (1980)
Ian McKellen (1981)
Christopher Plummer (1982)
Harvey Fierstein (1983)
Dustin Hoffman (1984)
John Lithgow (1985)
Ed Harris (1986)
James Earl Jones (1987)
Ron Silver (1988)
Philip Bosco (1989)
Nathan Lane (1990)
Ron Rifkin (1991)
Brian Bedford (1992)
Ron Leibman (1993)
Brian Bedford (1994)
Ralph Fiennes (1995)
Frank Langella (1996)
David Morse / Christopher Plummer (1997)
Anthony LaPaglia (1998)
Brian Dennehy (1999)
Stephen Dillane (2000)

2001–2022

Richard Easton (2001)
Alan Bates (2002)
Eddie Izzard (2003)
Kevin Kline (2004)
Brían F. O'Byrne (2005)
Richard Griffiths (2006)
Frank Langella (2007)
Mark Rylance (2008)
Geoffrey Rush (2009)
Liev Schreiber (2010)
Bobby Cannavale (2011)
James Corden (2012)
Tracy Letts (2013)
Bryan Cranston (2014)
Alex Sharp (2015)
Frank Langella (2016)
Kevin Kline (2017)
Andrew Garfield (2018)
Jay O. Sanders (2019)
Edmund Donovan (2020)
No Award (2021)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (2022)

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
1953–1975	Thomas Mitchell (1953) Robert Cummings (1955) Lloyd Nolan (1956) Jack Palance (1957) Peter Ustinov (1958) Fred Astaire (1959) Laurence Olivier (1960) Maurice Evans (1961) Peter Falk (1962) Trevor Howard (1963) Jack Klugman (1964) Alfred Lunt (1965) Cliff Robertson (1966) Peter Ustinov (1967) Melvyn Douglas (1968) Paul Scofield (1969) Peter Ustinov (1970) George C. Scott (1971) Keith Michell (1972) Laurence Olivier (1973) Anthony Murphy (1973) Hal Holbrook (1974) William Holden (1974) Laurence Olivier (1975) Peter Falk (1975)
1976–2000	Anthony Hopkins (1976) Hal Holbrook (1976) Ed Flanders (1977) Christopher Plummer (1977) Fred Astaire (1978) Michael Moriarty (1978) Peter Strauss (1979) Powers Boothe (1980) Anthony Hopkins (1981) Mickey Rooney (1982) Tommy Lee Jones (1983) Laurence Olivier (1984) Richard Crenna (1985) Dustin Hoffman (1986) James Woods (1987) Jason Robards (1988) James Woods (1989) Hume Cronyn (1990) John Gielgud (1991) Beau Bridges (1992) Robert Morse (1993) Hume Cronyn (1994) Raul Julia (1995) Alan Rickman (1996) Armand Assante (1997) Gary Sinise (1998) Stanley Tucci (1999) Jack Lemmon (2000)
2001–present	Kenneth Branagh (2001) Albert Finney (2002) William H. Macy (2003) Al Pacino (2004) Geoffrey Rush (2005) Andre Braugher (2006) Robert Duvall (2007) Paul Giamatti (2008) Brendan Gleeson (2009) Al Pacino (2010) Barry Pepper (2011) Kevin Costner (2012) Michael Douglas (2013) Benedict Cumberbatch (2014) Richard Jenkins (2015) Courtney B. Vance (2016) Riz Ahmed (2017) Darren Criss (2018) Jharrel Jerome (2019) Mark Ruffalo (2020) Ewan McGregor (2021) Michael Keaton (2022) Steven Yeun (2023) Richard Gadd (2024)

Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees

Charlie Chaplin (1972)
Fred Astaire (1973)
Alfred Hitchcock (1974)
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (1975)
George Cukor (1978)
Bob Hope (1979)
John Huston (1980)
Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
Billy Wilder (1982)
Laurence Olivier (1983)
Claudette Colbert (1984)
Federico Fellini (1985)
Elizabeth Taylor (1986)
Alec Guinness (1987)
Yves Montand (1988)
Bette Davis (1989)
James Stewart (1990)
Audrey Hepburn (1991)
Gregory Peck (1992)
Jack Lemmon (1993)
Robert Altman (1994)
Shirley MacLaine (1995)
Clint Eastwood (1996)
Sean Connery (1997)
Martin Scorsese (1998)
Mike Nichols (1999)
Al Pacino (2000)
Jane Fonda (2001)
Francis Ford Coppola (2002)
Susan Sarandon (2003)
Michael Caine (2004)
Dustin Hoffman (2005)
Jessica Lange (2006)
Diane Keaton (2007)
Meryl Streep (2008)
Tom Hanks (2009)
Michael Douglas (2010)
Sidney Poitier (2011)
Catherine Deneuve (2012)
Barbra Streisand (2013)
Rob Reiner (2014)
Robert Redford (2015)
Morgan Freeman (2016)
Robert De Niro (2017)
Helen Mirren (2018)
Spike Lee (2020)
Cate Blanchett (2022)
Viola Davis (2023)
Jeff Bridges (2024)
Pedro Almodóvar (2025)

v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
1943–1975	Paul Lukas (1943) Alexander Knox (1944) Ray Milland (1945) Gregory Peck (1946) Ronald Colman (1947) Laurence Olivier (1948) Broderick Crawford (1949) José Ferrer (1950) Fredric March (1951) Gary Cooper (1952) Spencer Tracy (1953) Marlon Brando (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Kirk Douglas (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) David Niven (1958) Anthony Franciosa (1959) Burt Lancaster (1960) Maximilian Schell (1961) Gregory Peck (1962) Sidney Poitier (1963) Peter O'Toole (1964) Omar Sharif (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Rod Steiger (1967) Peter O'Toole (1968) John Wayne (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Marlon Brando (1972) Al Pacino (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)
1976–2000	Peter Finch (1976) Richard Burton (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Dustin Hoffman (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Robert Duvall / Tom Courtenay (1983) F. Murray Abraham (1984) Jon Voight (1985) Bob Hoskins (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Dustin Hoffman (1988) Tom Cruise (1989) Jeremy Irons (1990) Nick Nolte (1991) Al Pacino (1992) Tom Hanks (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Geoffrey Rush (1996) Peter Fonda (1997) Jim Carrey (1998) Denzel Washington (1999) Tom Hanks (2000)
2001–present	Russell Crowe (2001) Jack Nicholson (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Leonardo DiCaprio (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Mickey Rourke (2008) Jeff Bridges (2009) Colin Firth (2010) George Clooney (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Matthew McConaughey (2013) Eddie Redmayne (2014) Leonardo DiCaprio (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Gary Oldman (2017) Rami Malek (2018) Joaquin Phoenix (2019) Chadwick Boseman (2020) Will Smith (2021) Austin Butler (2022) Cillian Murphy (2023) Adrien Brody (2024)

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film

Mickey Rooney (1981)
Anthony Andrews (1982)
Richard Chamberlain (1983)
Ted Danson (1984)
Dustin Hoffman (1985)
James Woods (1986)
Randy Quaid (1987)
Michael Caine / Stacy Keach (1988)
Robert Duvall (1989)
James Garner (1990)
Beau Bridges (1991)
Robert Duvall (1992)
James Garner (1993)
Raul Julia (1994)
Gary Sinise (1995)
Alan Rickman (1996)
Ving Rhames (1997)
Stanley Tucci (1998)
Jack Lemmon (1999)
Brian Dennehy (2000)
James Franco (2001)
Albert Finney (2002)
Al Pacino (2003)
Geoffrey Rush (2004)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005)
Bill Nighy (2006)
Jim Broadbent (2007)
Paul Giamatti (2008)
Kevin Bacon (2009)
Al Pacino (2010)
Idris Elba (2011)
Kevin Costner (2012)
Michael Douglas (2013)
Billy Bob Thornton (2014)
Oscar Isaac (2015)
Tom Hiddleston (2016)
Ewan McGregor (2017)
Darren Criss (2018)
Russell Crowe (2019)
Mark Ruffalo (2020)
Michael Keaton (2021)
Evan Peters (2022)
Steven Yeun (2023)
Colin Farrell (2024)

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

1969–2000

Luis Buñuel (1969)
Orson Welles (1970)
John Ford / Marcel Carné / Ingmar Bergman (1971)
Charlie Chaplin / Anatoli Golovnya / Billy Wilder (1972)
Alessandro Blasetti / Luis Buñuel / Frank Capra / George Cukor / Jean-Luc Godard / Alexander Kluge / Akira Kurosawa / Michael Powell / Satyajit Ray / King Vidor / Sergei Yutkevich / Cesare Zavattini (1982)
Michelangelo Antonioni (1983)
Federico Fellini (1985)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1986)
Luigi Comencini / Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1987)
Joris Ivens (1988)
Robert Bresson (1989)
Miklós Jancsó / Marcello Mastroianni (1990)
Mario Monicelli / Gian Maria Volonté (1991)
Francis Ford Coppola / Jeanne Moreau / Paolo Villaggio (1992)
Claudia Cardinale / Robert De Niro / Roman Polanski / Steven Spielberg (1993)
Suso Cecchi d'Amico / Ken Loach / Al Pacino (1994)
Woody Allen / Giuseppe De Santis / Goffredo Lombardo / Ennio Morricone / Alain Resnais / Martin Scorsese / Alberto Sordi / Monica Vitti (1995)
Robert Altman / Vittorio Gassman / Dustin Hoffman / Michèle Morgan (1996)
Gérard Depardieu / Stanley Kubrick / Alida Valli (1997)
Warren Beatty / Sophia Loren / Andrzej Wajda (1998)
Jerry Lewis (1999)
Clint Eastwood (2000)

2001–present

Éric Rohmer (2001)
Dino Risi (2002)
Dino De Laurentiis / Omar Sharif (2003)
Manoel de Oliveira / Stanley Donen (2004)
Hayao Miyazaki / Stefania Sandrelli (2005)
David Lynch (2006)
Tim Burton (2007)
Ermanno Olmi (2008)
John Lasseter (2009)
John Woo (2010)
Marco Bellocchio (2011)
Francesco Rosi (2012)
William Friedkin (2013)
Thelma Schoonmaker / Frederick Wiseman (2014)
Bertrand Tavernier (2015)
Jean-Paul Belmondo / Jerzy Skolimowski (2016)
Jane Fonda / Robert Redford (2017)
David Cronenberg / Vanessa Redgrave (2018)
Pedro Almodóvar / Julie Andrews (2019)
Ann Hui / Tilda Swinton (2020)
Roberto Benigni / Jamie Lee Curtis (2021)
Catherine Deneuve / Paul Schrader (2022)
Liliana Cavani / Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2023)
Sigourney Weaver / Peter Weir (2024)

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor
1980s	John Adames – Gloria / Laurence Olivier – The Jazz Singer (1980) Steve Forrest – Mommie Dearest (1981) Ed McMahon – Butterfly (1982) Jim Nabors – Stroker Ace (1983) Brooke Shields (with a mustache) – Sahara (1984) Rob Lowe – St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Jerome Benton – Under the Cherry Moon (1986) David Mendenhall – Over the Top (1987) Dan Aykroyd – Caddyshack II (1988) Christopher Atkins – Listen to Me (1989)
1990s	Donald Trump – Ghosts Can't Do It (1990) Dan Aykroyd – Nothing but Trouble (1991) Tom Selleck – Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) Woody Harrelson – Indecent Proposal (1993) O. J. Simpson – Naked Gun 33+1⁄3: The Final Insult (1994) Dennis Hopper – Waterworld (1995) Marlon Brando – The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Dennis Rodman – Double Team (1997) Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998) Ahmed Best – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
2000s	Barry Pepper – Battlefield Earth (2000) Charlton Heston – Cats & Dogs, Planet of the Apes, and Town & Country (2001) Hayden Christensen – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) Sylvester Stallone – Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) Donald Rumsfeld – Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Hayden Christensen – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) M. Night Shyamalan – Lady in the Water (2006) Eddie Murphy – Norbit (2007) Pierce Brosnan – Mamma Mia! (2008) Billy Ray Cyrus – Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
2010s	Jackson Rathbone – The Last Airbender and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) Al Pacino – Jack and Jill (2011) Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) Will Smith – After Earth (2013) Kelsey Grammer – The Expendables 3, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, Think Like a Man Too, and Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Eddie Redmayne – Jupiter Ascending (2015) Jesse Eisenberg – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Mel Gibson – Daddy's Home 2 (2017) John C. Reilly – Holmes & Watson (2018) James Corden – Cats (2019)
2020s	Rudy Giuliani – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020/21) Jared Leto – House of Gucci (2021) Tom Hanks – Elvis (2022) Sylvester Stallone – Expend4bles (2023) Jon Voight – Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land, and Strangers (2024)

v t e Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Combo
1990s	Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt – Interview with the Vampire / Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone – The Specialist (1994) Any combination of two people (or two body parts) – Showgirls (1995) Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds – Striptease (1996) Dennis Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme – Double Team (1997) Leonardo DiCaprio and Leonardo DiCaprio (as twins) – The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Kevin Kline and Will Smith – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s	John Travolta and anyone sharing the screen with him – Battlefield Earth (2000) Tom Green and any animal he abuses – Freddy Got Fingered (2001) Adriano Giannini and Madonna – Swept Away (2002) Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez – Gigli (2003) George W. Bush and either Condoleezza Rice or his pet goat – Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman – Bewitched (2005) Shawn Wayans and either Kerry Washington or Marlon Wayans – Little Man (2006) Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan (as twins) – I Know Who Killed Me (2007) Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore – The Hottie and the Nottie (2008) Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper – All About Steve (2009)
2010s	The entire cast of Sex and the City 2 (2010) Adam Sandler and either Katie Holmes, Al Pacino or Adam Sandler – Jack and Jill / The entire cast of Jack and Jill (2011) Mackenzie Foy and Taylor Lautner – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 / The entire cast of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) Jaden Smith and Will Smith on planet nepotism – After Earth (2013) Kirk Cameron and his ego – Saving Christmas (2014) Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Any two obnoxious Emojis – The Emoji Movie (2017) Donald Trump and "His Self Perpetuating Pettiness" – Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) Any two half-feline/half-human hairballs – Cats (2019)
2020s	Rudy Giuliani and his pants zipper – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) LeBron James and any Warner cartoon character (or Time-Warner product) he dribbles on – Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) Tom Hanks and his latex-laden face (and ludicrous accent) – Elvis (2022) Pooh and Piglet (as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers) – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga – Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Between 2010–2012, the category also included Worst Screen Ensemble.

v t e Kennedy Center Honorees (2010s)
2010	Merle Haggard Jerry Herman Bill T. Jones Paul McCartney Oprah Winfrey
2011	Barbara Cook Neil Diamond Yo-Yo Ma Sonny Rollins Meryl Streep
2012	Buddy Guy Dustin Hoffman David Letterman Led Zeppelin Natalia Makarova
2013	Martina Arroyo Herbie Hancock Billy Joel Shirley MacLaine Carlos Santana
2014	Al Green Tom Hanks Patricia McBride Sting Lily Tomlin
2015	Carole King George Lucas Rita Moreno Seiji Ozawa Cicely Tyson
2016	Martha Argerich Eagles Al Pacino Mavis Staples James Taylor
2017	Carmen de Lavallade Gloria Estefan LL Cool J Norman Lear Lionel Richie
2018	Cher Philip Glass Reba McEntire Wayne Shorter Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler)
2019	Earth, Wind & Fire Sally Field Linda Ronstadt Sesame Street Michael Tilson Thomas
Complete list 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

1975–2000

Al Pacino (1975)
Robert De Niro (1976)
Richard Dreyfuss (1977)
Jon Voight (1978)
Dustin Hoffman (1979)
Robert De Niro (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Ben Kingsley (1982)
Robert Duvall (1983)
F. Murray Abraham / Albert Finney (1984)
William Hurt (1985)
Bob Hoskins (1986)
Jack Nicholson / Steve Martin (1987)
Tom Hanks (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
Jeremy Irons (1990)
Nick Nolte (1991)
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Anthony Hopkins (1993)
John Travolta (1994)
Nicolas Cage (1995)
Geoffrey Rush (1996)
Robert Duvall (1997)
Ian McKellen (1998)
Russell Crowe (1999)
Michael Douglas (2000)

2001–2021

Denzel Washington (2001)
Daniel Day-Lewis / Jack Nicholson (2002)
Bill Murray (2003)
Liam Neeson (2004)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
Sacha Baron Cohen / Forest Whitaker (2006)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
Sean Penn (2008)
Jeff Bridges (2009)
Colin Firth (2010)
Michael Fassbender (2011)
Joaquin Phoenix (2012)
Bruce Dern (2013)
Tom Hardy (2014)
Michael Fassbender (2015)
Adam Driver (2016)
Timothée Chalamet (2017)
Ethan Hawke (2018)
Antonio Banderas (2019)
Chadwick Boseman (2020)
Simon Rex (2021)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
1945–1975	Ray Milland (1945) Laurence Olivier (1946) Michael Redgrave (1947) Walter Huston (1948) Ralph Richardson (1949) Alec Guinness (1950) Richard Basehart (1951) Ralph Richardson (1952) James Mason (1953) Bing Crosby (1954) Ernest Borgnine (1955) Yul Brynner (1956) Alec Guinness (1957) Spencer Tracy (1958) Victor Sjöström (1959) Robert Mitchum (1960) Albert Finney (1961) Jason Robards (1962) Rex Harrison (1963) Anthony Quinn (1964) Lee Marvin (1965) Paul Scofield (1966) Peter Finch (1967) Cliff Robertson (1968) Peter O'Toole (1969) George C. Scott (1970) Gene Hackman (1971) Peter O'Toole (1972) Al Pacino / Robert Ryan (1973) Gene Hackman (1974) Jack Nicholson (1975)
1976–2000	David Carradine (1976) John Travolta (1977) Jon Voight / Laurence Olivier (1978) Peter Sellers (1979) Robert De Niro (1980) Henry Fonda (1981) Ben Kingsley (1982) Tom Conti (1983) Victor Banerjee (1984) William Hurt / Raul Julia (1985) Paul Newman (1986) Michael Douglas (1987) Gene Hackman (1988) Morgan Freeman (1989) Robert De Niro / Robin Williams (1990) Warren Beatty (1991) Jack Lemmon (1992) Anthony Hopkins (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Nicolas Cage (1995) Tom Cruise (1996) Jack Nicholson (1997) Ian McKellen (1998) Russell Crowe (1999) Javier Bardem (2000)
2001–present	Billy Bob Thornton (2001) Campbell Scott (2002) Sean Penn (2003) Jamie Foxx (2004) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005) Forest Whitaker (2006) George Clooney (2007) Clint Eastwood (2008) George Clooney / Morgan Freeman (2009) Jesse Eisenberg (2010) George Clooney (2011) Bradley Cooper (2012) Bruce Dern (2013) Michael Keaton / Oscar Isaac (2014) Matt Damon (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) Tom Hanks (2017) Viggo Mortensen (2018) Adam Sandler (2019) Riz Ahmed (2020) Will Smith (2021) Colin Farrell (2022) Paul Giamatti (2023) Daniel Craig (2024)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
1954–1975	John Williams (1954) Charles Bickford (1955) Richard Basehart (1956) Sessue Hayakawa (1957) Albert Salmi (1958) Hugh Griffith (1959) George Peppard (1960) Jackie Gleason (1961) Burgess Meredith (1962) Melvyn Douglas (1963) Martin Balsam (1964) Harry Andrews (1965) Robert Shaw (1966) Paul Ford (1967) Leo McKern (1968) Philippe Noiret (1969) Frank Langella (1970) Ben Johnson (1971) Joel Grey / Al Pacino (1972) John Houseman (1973) Holger Löwenadler (1974) Charles Durning (1975)
1976–2000	Jason Robards (1976) Tom Skerritt (1977) Richard Farnsworth (1978) Paul Dooley (1979) Joe Pesci (1980) Jack Nicholson (1981) Robert Preston (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) John Malkovich (1984) Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985) Daniel Day-Lewis (1986) Sean Connery (1987) River Phoenix (1988) Alan Alda (1989) Joe Pesci (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Jack Nicholson (1992) Leonardo DiCaprio (1993) Gary Sinise (1994) Kevin Spacey (1995) Edward Norton (1996) Greg Kinnear (1997) Ed Harris (1998) Philip Seymour Hoffman (1999) Joaquin Phoenix (2000)
2001–present	Jim Broadbent (2001) Chris Cooper (2002) Alec Baldwin (2003) Thomas Haden Church (2004) Jake Gyllenhaal (2005) Djimon Hounsou (2006) Casey Affleck (2007) Josh Brolin (2008) Woody Harrelson (2009) Christian Bale(2010) Christopher Plummer (2011) Leonardo DiCaprio (2012) Will Forte (2013) Edward Norton (2014) Sylvester Stallone (2015) Jeff Bridges (2016) Willem Dafoe (2017) Sam Elliott (2018) Brad Pitt (2019) Paul Raci (2020) Ciarán Hinds (2021) Brendan Gleeson (2022) Mark Ruffalo (2023) Kieran Culkin (2024)

v t e National Medal of Arts recipients 2010s & 2020s
2010	Robert Brustein Van Cliburn Mark di Suvero Donald Hall Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Quincy Jones Harper Lee Sonny Rollins Meryl Streep James Taylor
2011	Will Barnet Rita Dove Al Pacino Emily Rauh Pulitzer Martin Puryear Mel Tillis United Service Organization (USO) André Watts
2012	Herb Alpert Lin Arison Joan Myers Brown Renée Fleming Ernest Gaines Ellsworth Kelly Tony Kushner George Lucas Elaine May Laurie Olin Allen Toussaint Washington Performing Arts Society
2013	Julia Alvarez Brooklyn Academy of Music Joan Harris Bill T. Jones John Kander Jeffrey Katzenberg Maxine Hong Kingston Albert Maysles Linda Ronstadt Billie Tsien & Tod Williams James Turrell
2014	John Baldessari Ping Chong Míriam Colón The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Sally Field Ann Hamilton Stephen King Meredith Monk George Shirley University Musical Society Tobias Wolff
2015	Mel Brooks Sandra Cisneros Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Morgan Freeman Philip Glass Berry Gordy Santiago Jiménez Jr. Moisés Kaufman Ralph Lemon Audra McDonald Luis Valdez Jack Whitten
2019	Alison Krauss Sharon Percy Rockefeller The Musicians of the United States Military Jon Voight
2020	Toby Keith Ricky Skaggs Mary Costa Nick Ut Earl A. Powell III
2021	Bruce Springsteen Gladys Knight Mindy Kaling Julia Louis-Dreyfus José Feliciano Vera Wang Joan Shigekawa Judith Francisca Baca Fred Eychaner Antonio Martorell The Billie Holiday Theatre The International Association of Blacks in Dance
2022	Ruth Asawa Randy Batitsa Clyde Butcher Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Missy Elliott Flaco Jiménez Eva Longoria Idina Menzel Herbert Ohta Bruce Sagan Carrie Mae Weems
2023	Mark Bradford Ken Burns Bruce Cohen Jo Carole Lauder Spike Lee Queen Latifah Selena Quintanilla Steven Spielberg
Complete list 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor

Michael Caine (1966)
Rod Steiger (1967)
Per Oscarsson (1968)
Jon Voight (1969)
George C. Scott (1970)
Peter Finch (1971)
Al Pacino (1972)
Marlon Brando (1973)
Jack Nicholson (1974)
Jack Nicholson (1975)
Robert De Niro (1976)
Art Carney (1977)
Gary Busey (1978)
Dustin Hoffman (1979)
Peter O'Toole (1980)
Burt Lancaster (1981)
Dustin Hoffman (1982)
Gérard Depardieu (1983)
Steve Martin (1984)
Jack Nicholson (1985)
Bob Hoskins (1986)
Steve Martin (1987)
Michael Keaton (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis (1989)
Jeremy Irons (1990)
River Phoenix (1991)
Stephen Rea (1992)
David Thewlis (1993)
Paul Newman (1994)
Nicolas Cage (1995)
Eddie Murphy (1996)
Robert Duvall (1997)
Nick Nolte (1998)
Russell Crowe (1999)
Javier Bardem (2000)
Gene Hackman (2001)
Adrien Brody (2002)
Bill Murray (2003)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (2005)
Forest Whitaker (2006)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2007)
Sean Penn (2008)
Jeremy Renner (2009)
Jesse Eisenberg (2010)
Brad Pitt (2011)
Daniel Day-Lewis (2012)
Oscar Isaac (2013)
Timothy Spall (2014)
Michael B. Jordan (2015)
Casey Affleck (2016)
Daniel Kaluuya (2017)
Ethan Hawke (2018)
Antonio Banderas (2019)
Delroy Lindo (2020)
Hidetoshi Nishijima (2021)
Colin Farrell (2022)
Andrew Scott (2023)
Colman Domingo (2024)

Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries, Limited Series or Television Film

Alan Rickman (1996)
Gary Sinise (1997)
Delroy Lindo (1998)
William H. Macy (1999)
James Woods (2000)
Richard Dreyfuss (2001)
William H. Macy (2002)
James Woods (2003)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005)
Bill Nighy (2006)
David Oyelowo (2007)
Paul Giamatti (2008)
Brendan Gleeson (2009)
Al Pacino (2010)
Jason Isaacs (2011)
Benedict Cumberbatch (2012)
Michael Douglas (2013)
Mark Ruffalo (2014)
Mark Rylance (2015)
Bryan Cranston (2016)
Robert De Niro (2017)
Darren Criss (2018)
Jared Harris (2019)
Ethan Hawke (2020)
Ewan McGregor (2021)
Evan Peters (2022)
Guy Pearce (2023)
Colin Farrell (2024)

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Raul Julia (1994)
Gary Sinise (1995)
Alan Rickman (1996)
Gary Sinise (1997)
Christopher Reeve (1998)
Jack Lemmon (1999)
Brian Dennehy (2000)
Ben Kingsley (2001)
William H. Macy (2002)
Al Pacino (2003)
Geoffrey Rush (2004)
Paul Newman (2005)
Jeremy Irons (2006)
Kevin Kline (2007)
Paul Giamatti (2008)
Kevin Bacon (2009)
Al Pacino (2010)
Paul Giamatti (2011)
Kevin Costner (2012)
Michael Douglas (2013)
Mark Ruffalo (2014)
Idris Elba (2015)
Bryan Cranston (2016)
Alexander Skarsgård (2017)
Darren Criss (2018)
Sam Rockwell (2019)
Mark Ruffalo (2020)
Michael Keaton (2021)
Sam Elliott (2022)
Steven Yeun (2023)
Colin Farrell (2024)

Silver Shell for Best Actor

Francisco Rabal (1953)
Enrique Diosdado (1954)
No Award (1955)
Otto Eduard Hasse / Alberto Closas (1956)
Charles Vanel (1957)
Kirk Douglas / James Stewart (1958)
Adolfo Marsillach (1959)
Richard Attenborough / Bryan Forbes / Jack Hawkins / Roger Livesey / Nigel Patrick (1960)
Gert Fröbe (1961)
Peter Sellers (1962)
Jack Lemmon (1963)
Richard Attenborough / Maurice Biraud (1964)
Marcello Mastroianni (1965)
Frank Finlay (1966)
John Mills / Maurice Ronet (1967)
Sidney Poitier / Claude Rich (1968)
Nicol Williamson (1969)
Zoltán Latinovits / Innokenti Smoktounovsky (1970)
Vittorio Gassman (1971)
Fernando Rey / Topol (1972)
Giancarlo Giannini / Lino Ventura (1973)
Martin Sheen (1974)
Al Pacino (1975)
Zdzislaw Kozien (1976)
Héctor Alterio (1977)
José Sacristán (1978)
Nelson Villagra (1979)
No Award (1980–1984)
Piotr Siwkiewicz (1985)
Imanol Arias (1986)
Francisco Regueiro / Fernando Rey (1987)
Andy Bausch / Felipe Vega (1988)
Ari Bery (1989)
Mulie Jarju (1990)
Silu Seppälä (1991)
Roberto Sosa (1992)
Juan Echanove (1993)
Javier Bardem / Imanol Uribe (1994)
Nicolas Cage (1995)
Michael Caine (1996)
Federico Luppi (1997)
Ian McKellen (1998)
Jacques Dufilho (1999)
Gianfranco Brero (2000)
Düzgün Ayhan (2001)
Liu Peiqi (2002)
Luis Tosar (2003)
Ulrich Thomsen (2004)
Juan José Ballesta (2005)
Juan Diego (2006)
Henry O. (2007)
Oscar Martínez (2008)
Pablo Pineda (2009)
Connor McCarron (2010)
Antonis Kafetzopoulos (2011)
José Sacristán (2012)
Jim Broadbent (2013)
Javier Gutiérrez (2014)
Javier Cámara / Ricardo Darín (2015)
Eduard Fernández (2016)
Bogdan Dumitrache (2017)
Darío Grandinetti (2018)
Bukassa Kabengele (2019)
Thomas Bo Larsen / Magnus Millang / Mads Mikkelsen / Lars Ranthe (2020)

v t e Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play
1947–1975	José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947) Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948) Rex Harrison (1949) Sidney Blackmer (1950) Claude Rains (1951) José Ferrer (1952) Tom Ewell (1953) David Wayne (1954) Alfred Lunt (1955) Paul Muni (1956) Fredric March (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Jason Robards Jr. (1959) Melvyn Douglas (1960) Zero Mostel (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Arthur Hill (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) Walter Matthau (1965) Hal Holbrook (1966) Paul Rogers (1967) Martin Balsam (1968) James Earl Jones (1969) Fritz Weaver (1970) Brian Bedford (1971) Cliff Gorman (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Michael Moriarty (1974) John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975)
1976–2000	John Wood (1976) Al Pacino (1977) Barnard Hughes (1978) Tom Conti (1979) John Rubinstein (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Roger Rees (1982) Harvey Fierstein (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Judd Hirsch (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) Ron Silver (1988) Philip Bosco (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Nigel Hawthorne (1991) Judd Hirsch (1992) Ron Leibman (1993) Stephen Spinella (1994) Ralph Fiennes (1995) George Grizzard (1996) Christopher Plummer (1997) Anthony LaPaglia (1998) Brian Dennehy (1999) Stephen Dillane (2000)
2001–present	Richard Easton (2001) Alan Bates (2002) Brian Dennehy (2003) Jefferson Mays (2004) Bill Irwin (2005) Richard Griffiths (2006) Frank Langella (2007) Mark Rylance (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Denzel Washington (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) James Corden (2012) Tracy Letts (2013) Bryan Cranston (2014) Alex Sharp (2015) Frank Langella (2016) Kevin Kline (2017) Andrew Garfield (2018) Bryan Cranston (2019) Andrew Burnap (2020/21) Simon Russell Beale (2022) Sean Hayes (2023) Jeremy Strong (2024)

v t e Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
1949–1975	Arthur Kennedy (1949) Eli Wallach (1951) John Cromwell (1952) John Williams (1953) John Kerr (1954) Francis L. Sullivan (1955) Ed Begley (1956) Frank Conroy (1957) Henry Jones (1958) Charlie Ruggles (1959) Roddy McDowall (1960) Martin Gabel (1961) Walter Matthau (1962) Alan Arkin (1963) Hume Cronyn (1964) Jack Albertson (1965) Patrick Magee (1966) Ian Holm (1967) James Patterson (1968) Al Pacino (1969) Ken Howard (1970) Paul Sand (1971) Vincent Gardenia (1972) John Lithgow (1973) Ed Flanders (1974) Frank Langella (1975)
1976–2000	Edward Herrmann (1976) Jonathan Pryce (1977) Lester Rawlins (1978) Michael Gough (1979) David Rounds (1980) Brian Backer (1981) Zakes Mokae (1982) Matthew Broderick (1983) Joe Mantegna (1984) Barry Miller (1985) John Mahoney (1986) John Randolph (1987) BD Wong (1988) Boyd Gaines (1989) Charles Durning (1990) Kevin Spacey (1991) Laurence Fishburne (1992) Stephen Spinella (1993) Jeffrey Wright (1994) John Glover (1995) Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1996) Owen Teale (1997) Tom Murphy (1998) Frank Wood (1999) Roy Dotrice (2000)
2001–present	Robert Sean Leonard (2001) Frank Langella (2002) Denis O'Hare (2003) Brían F. O'Byrne (2004) Liev Schreiber (2005) Ian McDiarmid (2006) Billy Crudup (2007) Jim Norton (2008) Roger Robinson (2009) Eddie Redmayne (2010) John Benjamin Hickey (2011) Christian Borle (2012) Courtney B. Vance (2013) Mark Rylance (2014) Richard McCabe (2015) Reed Birney (2016) Michael Aronov (2017) Nathan Lane (2018) Bertie Carvel (2019) David Alan Grier (2020/21) Jesse Tyler Ferguson (2022) Brandon Uranowitz (2023) Will Brill (2024)

Triple Crown of Acting winners

listed by duration and year of completion

Helen Hayes (1932–1953)
Thomas Mitchell (1940–1953)
Ingrid Bergman (1945–1960)
Shirley Booth (1949–1962)
Melvyn Douglas (1960–1968)
Paul Scofield (1962–1969)
Jack Albertson (1965–1975)
Rita Moreno (1962–1977)
Maureen Stapleton (1951–1982)
Jason Robards (1959–1988)
Jessica Tandy (1947–1990)
Jeremy Irons (1984–1997)
Anne Bancroft (1958–1999)
Vanessa Redgrave (1978–2003)
Maggie Smith (1970–2003)
Al Pacino (1969–2004)
Geoffrey Rush (1997–2009)
Ellen Burstyn (1975–2009)
Christopher Plummer (1974–2012)
Helen Mirren (1996–2015)
Frances McDormand (1997–2015)
Jessica Lange (1983–2016)
Viola Davis (2001–2017)
Glenda Jackson (1971–2018)

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