Oscars 2024: Al Pacino says he was told not to name best picture nominees
Actor, whose abrupt announcement of Oppenheimer confused some in the room, says he understands that ‘to not be fully recognised is offensive and hurtful’
Al Pacino to release ‘revealing’ memoir in October
Sonny Boy, the actor’s first memoir, will cover his upbringing in New York, Hollywood career and thoughts on ‘love and purpose’
Al Pacino, British mothers and a codpiece envelope: the real winners and losers of the 2024 Oscars
It was the most watchable Oscars in years where Brits and Godzilla triumphed – but Louis Vuitton zippers and a certain ex-president didn’t
December 2023
Scarface at 40: why is Al Pacino’s murderous kingpin still so idolized?
Serpico at 50: a daring look at police corruption anchored by Al Pacino
August 2023
Serpico review – Al Pacino is at his intense best in classic 70s corrupt-cop thriller
The Exorcist and French Connection director William Friedkin – a life in pictures
June 2023
Al Pacino, 83, and girlfriend Noor Alfallah, 29, welcome new baby
Acting, sexiness and late babies: why Pacino v De Niro is the daddy of all rivalries
Stuart Heritage
May 2023
Johnny Depp casts Al Pacino in biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
Pacino is to star as art collector Maurice Gangnat in Modi, a drama about the Italian painter’s life in Paris. It will be Depp’s second film as director
December 2022
The Game awards: three patience-testing hours of video game advertorials
By focusing on the near-future of the industry, the honours failed to adequately celebrate its present
November 2022
Explain it to me quickly
Goncharov: why has the internet invented a fake Martin Scorsese film?
Thousands of Tumblr users have been making posters, soundtracks, drawings and fan fiction for a 1973 Scorsese film starring Robert De Niro – but it never existed
October 2022
Glengarry Glen Ross at 30: David Mamet’s still electric salesmen drama
A cast of never-better actors, including Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin, give added life to the playwright’s punchy, Pulitzer prize-winning dialogue
August 2022
Johnny Depp to direct film about celebrated Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani
Film about the artist who died aged 35 will be Depp’s first directing credit for a quarter of a century and he will produce the film alongside actor Al Pacino
June 2022
To prove a villain: the many faces of Richard III – in pictures
Heat: Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite to discuss their hit thriller
April 2022
From the Guardian archive
Daddy of ‘em all: the phenomenal success of The Godfather – archive, 1972
6 April 1972: In New York, everyone is talking about The Godfather. What’s more, everyone thinks it’s great
February 2022
The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling
Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama
November 2021
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