Eight-time Oscar-nominee and two-time Tony Award-winner Al Pacino was selected by the American Film Institute's (AFI) Board of Trustees to receive the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award, one of the highest honors for a career in film.

From an auspicious beginning, hand-picked by Francis Ford Coppola for the sought-after role of Michael Corleone in THE GODFATHER, Pacino has established himself as one of his generation's finest actors. His resume includes training at the Actor's Studio and acting for the stage, cinema and television, as well as directing and producing. In 1992, he became the first male actor to be nominated for acting Academy Awards for two different films.

Diverse, intense, and passionate about craft, Pacino brings to his roles operatic intensity combined with the finest nuances of character. AFI Silver is pleased to present several of Pacino's career-defining roles in this tribute retrospective. Please join us in honoring this cinematic icon.

Read more about Al Pacino's life and career on AFI.com.

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SCARFACE

"Say hello to my little friend!" Pacino's over-the-top, crazed and utterly magnetic performance in Brian De Palma's epic of the 1980s Miami underworld made him an icon of pop culture mythology. Pacino's Cuban transplant Tony Montana emerges from the Mariel boatlift to make a formidable rise to gangland boss — before the inevitable fall: "That's what makes this a great country."

DIR Brian De Palma; SCR Oliver Stone; PROD Martin Bregman. US, 1983, color, 170 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. RATED R

Friday, July 13, 6:45; Saturday, July 14, 10:00

SERPICO

"A portrait of a real rebel with a cause."

— Director Sidney Lumet     

Director Sidney Lumet's first full-throttle action picture received a chorus of Oscar nominations and sealed Pacino's reputation as an actor of the first rank. Pacino banks his trademark volcanic temperament to a slow burn as real-life undercover cop Frank Serpico, whose unwillingness to be on the take and willingness to testify for the headrolling Knapp Commission made him a target among his corrupt fellow officers.

DIR Sidney Lumet; SCR Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler, based on the book by Peter Maas; PROD Martin Bregman. Italy/US, 1973, color, 129 min. In English, Spanish and Italian with English subtitles. RATED R

Saturday, July 14, 12:30; Sunday, July 15, 12:50

DOG DAY AFTERNOON

"Attica! Attica!" Based on a real-life incident, director Sidney Lumet's classic earned six Oscar nominations, winning for AFI Artistic Director Frank Pierson's screenplay. As scorching day unravels into night in Gotham, incessant television coverage of Pacino's botched robbery gives him 15 minutes of fame and makes him a surprise folk hero--but the real surprise is his motive for the heist.

DIR Sidney Lumet; SCR Frank Pierson; PROD Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. US, 1975, color, 124 min. RATED R

Saturday, July 14, 5:15; Sunday, July 15, 3:20

...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

Pacino gives an Oscar-nominated performance as a committed Baltimore attorney called on to defend a personal enemy, a judge accused of rape, in director Norman Jewison's blackly comic satire of the justice system. Baltimore native Barry Levinson co-authored the script. The excellent supporting cast includes Jack Warden and then-unknowns Jeffrey Tambor and Craig T. Nelson, with Pacino's acting mentor Lee Strasberg in his final screen role as Pacino's grandfather.

DIR/PROD Norman Jewison; SCR Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson; PROD Patrick J. Palmer. US, 1979, color, 119 min. RATED R

Sunday, July 22, 3:45; Monday, July 23, 4:30; Tuesday, July 24, 4:30; Wednesday, July 25, 4:30; Thursday, July 26, 4:30, 9:30

SCARECROW

Winner of the 1973 Palme D'Or at Cannes and still popular in France, Jerry Schatzberg's picaresque gem is rarely seen by US audiences. Pacino and co-star Gene Hackman had remarkable freedom in developing their characters, aimless drifters and dreamers whose friendship falls victim to intruding reality. Hackman has called this his favorite role.

DIR Jerry Schatzberg; SCR Gary Michael White; PROD Robert M. Sherman. US, 1973, color, 112 min. Rated R

Sunday, July 22, 8:30; Monday, July 23, 9:20; Tuesday, July 24, 9:20

THE INSIDER

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Picture. Pacino leads Mann's adaptation of this true story of journalistic ethics and corporate secrecy. A 60 MINUTES producer goes head-to-head with senior correspondent Mike Wallace (Christopher Plummer) and network brass when they quash an interview with fired whistle-blowing tobacco company scientist Russell Crowe.

DIR/SCR/PROD Michael Mann; SCR Eric Roth; PROD Pieter Jan Brugge. US, 1999, color, 157 min. In English, Japanese and Arabic with English subtitles. RATED R

Friday, August 3, 3:00; Saturday, August 4, 3:30; Monday, August 6, 3:45; Tuesday, August 7, 3:45; Wednesday, August 8, 3:45; Thursday, August 9, 3:45

DONNIE BRASCO

Pacino plays against type as a low-level Mafioso who befriends Johnny Depp's undercover FBI agent. The ever-versatile Depp impresses in an atypical hard-man role, while Pacino wrings a new variation from his repertoire of underworld characters: vulnerable, sad and movingly human.

DIR Mike Newell; SCR Paul Attanasio, based on the book by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley; PROD Louis DiGiamimo, Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Gail Mutrux. US, 1997, color, 127 min. RATED R

Friday, August 10, 4:20; Saturday, August 11, 3:05; Monday, August 13, 4:20; Tuesday, August 14, 4:20, 9:00; Wednesday, August 15, 4:20; Thursday, August 16, 4:20

HEAT

Hollywood icons Pacino and De Niro onscreen together for the first time in this highly intelligent and suspenseful thriller from Oscar-nominated director Michael Mann (LAST OF THE MOHICANS, ALI). Pacino's seasoned LA detective is obsessed with tracking master thief De Niro who wants to make one last score before retirement. Mann weaves their two stories together, setting the noisy action of pursuit against the quiet humanity of the moment, when detective meets thief face-to-face.

DIR/SCR/PROD Michael Mann; PROD Art Linson. US, 1995, color, 188 min. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. RATED R

Friday, August 17, 7:00; Monday, August 20, 7:00; Wednesday, August 22, 7:00

THE GODFATHER shows have been cancelled. The film has been pulled from circulation in anticipation of its restoration and re-release in 2008. We apologize for the inconvenience.

With 11 Oscar nominations, including Supporting Actor for Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall and wins for Best Picture, Screenplay and Actor--for the iconic Brando--Francis Ford Coppola's darkly sympathetic family drama transformed the way we think about the Mafia and made Pacino a star. Coppola's cinematic vision is in full flower, from the inspired casting of Brando and Pacino to the deep hues of Gordon Willis's cinematography and the moving score by Nino Rota.

DIR/SCR Francis Ford Coppola; SCR Mario Puzo,based on his novel; PROD Albert S. Ruddy. US, 1972, color, 175 min. In English, Italian and Latin with English subtitles. RATED R

Friday, August 24, 6:30; Saturday, August 25, 6:00; Tuesday, August 28, 7:00

THE GODFATHER PART II shows have been cancelled. The film has been pulled from circulation in anticipation of its restoration and re-release in 2008. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Eleven Oscar nominations and six wins, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actor for Robert De Niro as the young Don Vito Corleone. The don establishes his family's place in the rough-and-tumble immigrant ghetto of old New York through a mix of savagery and smarts. The Corleones' rise is eloquently crosscut with their fall, as new don Pacino weathers crushing setbacks and familial disintegration.

DIR/SCR/PROD Francis Ford Coppola; SCR Mario Puzo, based on his novel. US, 1974, color, 200 min. In English, Italian and Latin with English subtitles. RATED R

Saturday, September 1, 3:30; Sunday, September 2, 3:30; Monday, September 3, 5:15