LOS ANGELES — 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 Thursday.
\n\nThe American actor, best known for playing Michael Corleone in “The Godfather” films, is the 62nd recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.
\n\nThe 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 live-streamed on Netflix.
\n\nPacino’s recognition follows a career spanning more than six decades across film, television and stage. He is known for numerous memorable characters, including real-life police officer Frank Serpico in 1973’s “Serpico,” Miami mobster Tony Montana in 1983’s “Scarface” and more recently Hollywood agent Marvin Schwarz in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”
\n\nThe award is presented annually to an actor who embodies the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” according to the union.
\n\n“I wondered and wandered most of my life but have always felt at home with a script and my fellow actors,” Pacino said in a statement from the actors’ union.
\n\n“It’s the work and the actors along the way that…
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