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 directed by and starring Pacino. 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. Pacino, who plays the role of Herod in the film, describes it as his "most personal project ever". Pacino starred in a 2013 HBO biographical picture about record producer Phil Spector's murder trial, titled "Phil Spector". It was announced in January 2013 that Pacino would play the late former Penn