Al Pacino Reveals The Role He Wished He Had Got An Oscar Nomination For
deadline.comAl Pacino has revealed the movie he seriously wanted to win an Oscar for. The star is promoting his book Sonny Boy this week in the UK and while he has had quite the decorated career, he has said there was one performance he felt was somewhat overlooked – Scarface.
Pacino played Tony Montana in Brian De Palma’s movie, immortalizing the phrase “Say hello to my little friend.” Yet Scarface was completely snubbed by the Academy.
This morning on the BBC Today program, Pacino named the movie as the one he wished he’d got an Oscar for. “I would have liked to have even got nominated for that one,” he said of Scarface.
As it turned out, he was to win his Oscar a decade later for Scent of a Woman, while he has been nominated a further seven times including for the first two Godfathers.
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