Al Pacino (born April 25, 1940, New York City) is an American actor of Italian descent whose career spans New York's avant-garde theater scene of the 1960s through decades of landmark Hollywood films. He is best known for playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, and won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Scent of a Woman (1992). Among the most decorated performers in American stage and screen history, he holds an Oscar, two Emmys, two Tony Awards, and in 2026 received the Sam Wanamaker Award from Shakespeare's Globe for his lifelong connection to Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's Globe awarded Pacino the Sam Wanamaker Prize for lifetime contribution to Shakespearean theatre and film.
The thriller Father Joe (screenplay by Luca Besson), in which Pacino plays a mafia boss, had its world premiere at the 83rd Venice Film Festival.
Pacino is preparing for the role of King Lear in the upcoming film Lear Rex alongside Jessica Chastain and Ariana DeBose.
The horror film The Ritual was released in cinemas, in which Pacino played priest-exorcist Theophil Riesinger alongside Dan Stevens.
Penguin Press published Pacino's memoir Sonny Boy, in which the actor describes his childhood in the Bronx and his entire career.
Film screening at MAT Cinema in Prague. Starts at 19:30, admission 189 CZK.
A sports drama about a young quarterback who gets his chance in the NFL when his predecessor is injured. Starring Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, and Cameron Diaz.
The final chapter of Coppola's iconic trilogy about the Corleone family screens in Čáslav.
The film "Insomnia" screens at Kino MAT in Prague at 20:00.
A legal thriller starring Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino about an ambitious lawyer who discovers his charismatic boss is the devil.
Francis Ford Coppola's legendary mafia epic with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. A six-time Academy Award winner that unfolds the story across two generations of the Corleone family.
