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      • Al Pacino has revealed his disappointment over not winning an Oscar for Scarface. The acting legend is currently promoting his autobiography Sonny Boy, and during an interview with BBC's Colin Paterson, Pacino recalled the one performance he felt was overlooked during his prestigious career.
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  2. Michelle Pfeiffer was an almost unknown actress when she appeared in Scarface, and both star Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma initially argued against her casting. Pacino worked with experts in knife combat, trainers, and boxer Roberto Durán to attain the body type that he wanted for the role.

  3. Sep 28, 2003 · Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” rises or falls with Al Pacino‘s performance, which is aggressive, over the top, teeth-gnashing, arm-waving, cocaine-snorting, scenery chewing — and brilliant, some say, while others find it unforgivably flamboyant. What were Pacino’s detractors hoping for?

  4. 2 days ago · Al Pacino wishes he had won an Oscar for Scarface.Directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone as a remake of the 1932 film of the same name, and in turn based on the 1930 novel by Armitage Trail, the 1983 crime drama follows Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who arrives in Miami without money during the Mariel boatlift and rises to become a notorious drug kingpin.

  5. Jun 28, 2024 · The 1983 movie Scarface, featuring Al Pacino in the title role, continues to attract attention more than 40 years after it premiered. Regarded as a cult classic, the Brian De Palma-directed gangster movie, focusing on South Florida’s violent drug wars of the 1980s, is back in the news with the recent publication of The World Is Yours: The ...

  6. May 24, 2024 · Glenn goes on to say that Pacino does fully embrace the audience’s love with the character and has no problem playing the hits at public appearances. “When Pacino’s in front of a crowd and mentions ‘Scarface’ and everybody goes, ‘Heeeeeyyyy,’ then he loves to talk about ‘Scarface’,” Kenny quipped.

  7. Jan 10, 2024 · Prospect Magazine critic Rhik Samadder has a theory: that those who gave Scarface a hard time in 1983 were right. In his opinion, it is a mediocre film, in addition to being narratively...

  8. 2 days ago · Pacino spoke to the BBC about his early experience on The Godfather. “When your director talks to you and says you’re not delivering and you hear the chirping all around you start to feel like ...