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21
October 2006
Al
Pacino To Receive
Lifetime
Award
Al
Pacino
is to receive the
American Film
Institute's highest
honour, the AFI Lifetime
Achievement
Award.
Sir
Howard Stringer,
chairman of the AFI
board of trustees,
called 66-year-old
Pacino "an icon of
American
film".
"His
career inspires
audiences and artists
alike," Stringer
said.
The
35th AFI Lifetime
Achievement Award will
be presented to Pacino
at a tribute dinner in
Los Angeles on June 7,
2007.
Past
recipients of the honour
include Sean Connery,
Martin Scorsese, Steven
Spielberg and Elizabeth
Taylor.
A
two-time Tony winner and
eight-time Oscar
nominee, Pacino won an
Academy Award in 1992
for his role in Scent of
a Woman.
He
was honoured with a
Lifetime Achievement
Award in 1996 by the
Independent Feature
Project.
The
Hollywood Foreign Press
presented Pacino with
its Cecil B. De Mille
Award at the Golden
Globes ceremony in
2001.
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