Veteran actor will receive SAG-AFTRA\u2019s 2027 Life Achievement Award for his long career and humanitarian contributions<\/p>\n
Actor Al Pacino speaks during the unveiling ceremony of actor Jessica Chastain’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 4, 2025. PHOTO: Reuters <\/p>\n
Celebrated actor Al Pacino will receive a lifetime achievement award for his career achievements and humanitarian work next year, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA announced on \u200bThursday.<\/p>\n
The American actor, best known for playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather<\/em>\u00a0films is \u200cthe 62nd recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.<\/p>\n The union will present the award to him in Los Angeles at the 33rd Actor Awards on February 28, 2027 as part of a ceremony to be \u200blive-streamed on Netflix.<\/p>\n Pacino’s recognition follows a career spanning more than six decades across film, \u200btelevision and stage.<\/p>\n He is known for numerous memorable characters, including real-life police \u2060officer Frank Serpico in 1973’s Serpico<\/em>,\u00a0Miami mobster Tony Montana in 1983’s Scarface<\/em>\u00a0and more recently Hollywood \u200bagent Marvin Schwarz in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time \u2026 in Hollywood<\/em>.<\/p>\n The award is presented \u200bannually to an actor who embodies the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” according to the union.<\/p>\n “I wondered and wandered most of my life but have always felt at home with a script and my fellow actors,” \u200bPacino said in a statement from the actors’ union.<\/p>\n “It’s the work and the actors along the \u200bway that have been among the greatest joys of my life. It’s an honour to be recognised by \u200cSAG-AFTRA \u2060in celebrating the journey,” he added.<\/p>\n Pacino won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman<\/em>,\u00a0and has also won multiple Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe awards.<\/p>\n “Like so many actors, I have spent my life in awe and \u200bappreciation of the force \u200bof nature that \u2060is Al Pacino. When you watch him perform, you are witnessing a student and a master,” SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin added in the statement.<\/p>\n Pacino \u200balso participated in the America: A Tribute to Heroes<\/em>\u00a0telethon following the September \u200b11, 2001 \u2060attacks, and in 2009 received the Arthritis Foundation’s Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award for his charitable work.<\/p>\n The 86-year-old actor was born Alfredo James Pacino in New York. He struggled throughout the 1960s to find \u2060steady work \u200bbefore his eventual film breakthrough in 1972’s The Godfather<\/em>.<\/p>\n SAG-AFTRA represents \u200bapproximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, \u200bvoiceover artists, influencers and other entertainment and media professionals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Veteran actor will receive SAG-AFTRA\u2019s 2027 Life Achievement Award for his long career and humanitarian contributions Actor Al Pacino speaks during the unveiling ceremony of actor Jessica Chastain’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 4, 2025. 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