Al Pacino in the equally successful sequels "The Godfather Part II" (1974) and "The Godfather Part III" (1990). Pacino's performance as Michael Corleone in these films is regarded as one of the greatest screen performances in film history. Pacino received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination for "Serpico" (1973); he was also nominated for "The Godfather Part II", "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975) and "...And Justice for All" (1979), and won the award in 1993 for his performance as blind Lieutenant Colonel Slade in "Scent of a Woman" (1992). For his performances in "The Godfather", "Dick Tracy" (1990), and "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1992),
Al Pacino 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." Pacino returned to film in 1989's "Sea of Love", when he portrayed a detective hunting a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper. The film earned solid reviews. 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". Later in the year he followed this up in a return to