Al Pacino Pacino was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other notable roles include Tony Montana in "Scarface" (1983), Carlito Brigante in "Carlito's Way" (1993), Lieutenant Vincent Hanna in "Heat" (1995), Benjamin Ruggiero in "Donnie Brasco" (1997), Lowell Bergman in "The Insider" (1999), and Detective Will Dormer in "Insomnia" (2002). In television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including the miniseries "Angels in America" (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic "You Don't Know Jack" (2010); he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each role. In addition to
Al Pacino pictures. In 2000, Pacino released a low-budget film adaptation of Ira Lewis' play "Chinese Coffee" to film festivals. 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. "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. Pacino turned down an offer to reprise his