The years passed and his physique is well suited to play characters aggressive and rude. After a brief appearance in the controversial The Ages of Lulu (Bigas Luna, 1990), became one of the principal actors of this fetish and so, with that 18 years later became his wife Penelope Cruz and Jordi Molla, starred in Jamón, jamón (1992), a film that catapulted the trio to fame.

He won in 1994, the Silver Frames for Best Actor Golden Balls of Bigas Luna, the Award for Best Actor at the San Sebastian Festival by days numbered and the detective and death and the Prize Fernando Rey for Outstanding Performance by Days numbered. A year later, and by the latter film won the Goya for Best Male Artist of the cast and the Union Prize for Best Actor Actors, as well as Silver Frame by Word of mouth, through which he won the Goya the protagonist Best Actor in 1996.

After getting in December 1997 Audience Award for Best Actor at the Gala of the European Film Academy in January 1998 competes for the Goya for Best Actor for Flesh. In 1999 would work with Molla in Second Skin.

Mondays in the Sun and The Sea Inside

In 2003 won the Goya for Best Actor for his role in leading Mondays in the Sun, sharing the stage with Luis Tosar, also won a Goya for this film. At the ceremony of delivery of the prize has its say-along with other colleagues, against the war and the invasion of Iraq. In 2004 again won Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, this time for his role in The Sea Inside, which also repeated the Goya for Best Actor.

Jump to the international film

In 2006 he starred in Love in the Time of Cholera, Mike Newell directed with a dash of South African Ronald Harwood and filmed in Cartagena de Indias. In 2008 he starred alongside including Scarlett Johansson and three years later became his wife Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, directed by New Yorker Woody Allen.

In 2008 he won a Golden Globe for the Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film No Country for Old Men from Joel and Ethan Coen. Also, this same film won the BAFTA the best supporting actor and finally the Oscar in the same category, the first Spanish actor to win such an award. After receiving the award, publicly thanked his teacher Corazza your help to write the character. That same year he won the National Film Award. Among his latest projects is Biutiful with whom he won the Goya for best actor.

In late 1979, was an actor almost forgotten, although this will change soon, thanks to three young directors: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, the group known as ZAZ.

In 1980 opens with the ZAZ absurd comedy " Airplane! "playing with great success to Dr. Rumack expressionless. The secret of the comedy that made history is to use serious actors who had never acted in comedies. Leslie Nielsen was known as the guy to good jokes, but his comedic talent was not developed in the film until the premiere of this film. With Airplane!, Recovered and even enjoyed greater popularity.

In 1982, reunites with the ZAZ in the television series Police Squad ("Police Squad!"), where he plays the bumbling police lieutenant Frank Drebin. He predicted success, however, when the truth, failed, as there was a great competition with other series already established on the screen. Lasted only six episodes, despite having very good reviews and being nominated for an Emmy.

After the disappointment at the cancellation of the series, only played a leading role in the drama Mad, along with Barbra Streisand.

In 1988 and hand ZAZ group, opens " The Naked Gun "(The Naked Gun, Naked Gun in Spain and in Latin America and where is the police?), which is a huge success in raising and criticism. Leslie Nielsen returning to play the bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin after the failure of the series. His co-stars in the film were Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy and OJ Simpson.

During the nineties, made two film sequels and became one of the most popular comedians in the world. Was honored to participate in the last two chapters of the legendary series " The Golden Girls "(The Golden Girls), where he marries the character played by Bea Arthur. He also participated in several episodes of the series " Murder, She Wrote It '.


Nielsen in 1982.
In 1998, working again with the writer of "The Naked Gun", Pat Proft, in " Wrongfully Accused "parody films The Fugitive and Titanic, among others.

In 2000, stars in " 2001: A Space Travesty "which, he says, is the worst film in which he worked.

In 2003 David Zucker returns to call to participate in Scary Movie 3. Nielsen and Zucker to meet again in a film nine years later. After months of shooting that film, lends his voice to an animated series called Zeroman for Canadian television.

Later signed to play supporting roles in Scary Movie 4 and Superhero Movie.

Pacino began to enjoy the performance and realized I had talent while studying at the Actors Studio. However, his early works were not financially rewarding. After his success on the stage, Pacino made ​​his film debut in 1969 with a brief appearance in Me, Natalie, an independent film starring Patty Duke. In 1970, Pacino signed with talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA).

1970s: The Godfather and Oscar nominations

His rise to stardom came from the hand of the character of Michael Corleone, who played in the saga of The Godfather (1972, 1974 and 1990). Although numerous established actors, including Robert Redford and Warren Beatty were considered for this character, Coppola selected the relatively unknown Pacino. This action got him nominated for the Academy Awards the Best Supporting Actor.

In 1973, Pacino starred in the popular Serpico, based on the true story of police incorruptible New York, Frank Serpico, who worked several years on the streets as an undercover and exposed the corruption that existed in the police department of that city. That same year he co-starred in Scarecrow, with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1974, Pacino reprized his role as Michael Corleone in the blockbuster sequel The Godfather II. In 1975, achieved greater success with the release of Dog Day Afternoon, publicized the story of a bank robbery. The film was directed by Sidney Lumet, who also directed him in Serpico few years earlier, and both films Pacino won Oscar nominations for Best Actor.

In 1977, Pacino starred as a career aviator in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a nomination for Golden Globe. During the 1970s, Pacino won four nominations for Best Actor Oscar for his performances in Serpico, The Godfather II, Dog Day Afternoon and Justice for all. Pacino continued acting in theater, and won a Tony award in that decade.

Decade of 1980

Pacino's career cinematoráfica suffered a bit in the early 80's, and his work in On the hunt and Author! Author! were failures in the critical and box office. However, Scarface (1983), directed by Brian De Palma, Pacino's career turned for a moment at the top. In its initial release, the film was critically panned, but received good numbers at the box office, earning $ 45 million. Pacino got a nomination for Golden Globe for his role as drug dealer Cuban Tony Montana. Years later, reveal to the interviewer Barbara Walters that Tony Montana represented the best work of his career. His only film since Scarface until 1989, Revolution (1985) was widely criticized and a disaster at the box office. Pacino took refuge in the theater and worked on his more personal projects such as The Local Stigmatic, a play Off Broadway in 1969 the English writer Heathcote Williams, who starred in, and went up with director David Wheeler and the Theater Company of Boston in a movie version was filmed in New York in March 1990. He was later released as part of box set Pacino: An Actor's Vision in 2007. After that Pacino returned to the stage for four years. Mounted works as Crystal Clear and National Anthems, appeared in the New York Shakespeare Festival with Julius Caesar in 1988, produced by Joseph Papp. Pacino remarked on his hiatus from the film: "I remember when everything happened, '74, '75, doing The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the theater and reading that the reason I returned to the stage was that my film career was failing! That was the origin, the way the theater received, unfortunately. " In the late 80's, Pacino returned to films in 1989 with Sea of Love, conventional thriller with a few drops of eroticism that worked at the box office and it was returned to the place where the previous decade. His greatest theatrical success of the decade was American Buffalo, of David Mamet, for which Pacino was nominated for an award Drama Desk.

Decade of 1990

Pacino received an Oscar nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the blockbuster movie Dick Tracy (1990), followed by a return to one of his most famous, Michael Corleone in The Godfather III (1990). In 1991, Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who had co-starred with Pacino in Scarface. Finally won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Lt. Col. retired U.S. Army, Frank Slade in the blockbuster Scent of a Woman (1992). That same year, was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Glengarry Glen Ross, making Pacino the first male actor to receive two nominations for two different movies in the same year, and winning for the lead role.

During the 1990s, Pacino returned briefly to gangster roles in the acclaimed crime dramas, Carlito's Way (1993) and Donnie Brasco (1997). In 1995, Pacino starred as Lt. Vincent Hanna in Fire Fighting Fire (Heat) of Michael Mann, where he and his partner and cinematrgáfico icon Robert De Niro appeared together onscreen for the first time (though both participated in The Godfather II, no shared no scenes). Fire against fire created great expectations because of its protagonists, and though it received favorable reviews, failed large numbers at the box office worldwide. In 1996, Pacino starred in his film Looking for Richard, and was praised for his role as Satan in the supernatural thriller The Devil / The Devil's Advocate in 1997. In 1999, Pacino starred in the sports drama Any Given Sunday of Oliver Stone and the multi Oscar-nominated The Insider of Michael Mann.

2000's

Pacino appeared in Insomnia, with Robin Williams, the film is a remake of a movie Norway the same name and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film and Pacino's work received constructive criticism and did moderately well at the box office. After he played the lawyer Roy Cohn in the miniseries for HBO in 2003, Angels in America of Tony Kushner, with the legendary Meryl Streep.

Continues his interest in film direction and Chinese Coffee earned good response, in turn, his work in theater continued successfully. In the "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains" is one of only two actors who appear on both lists: the "heroes list" as Frank Serpico and the "villains list" as Michael Corleone. Pacino gave a great performance of Shylock, the Jew greedy and ruthless, in the 2004 film based on the work of Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice. While not a blockbuster, along with Jeremy Irons, offered interpretations of great height.

On October 20th of 2006, the American Film Institute gave Pacino the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award. On November 22, 2006, the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin Pacino honored with the Honorary Patronage society.

With box office earnings relatively smaller than previous Pacino preparing new projects. She starred in Ocean's Thirteen of Steven Soderbergh with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Andy Garcia as the villain Willy Bank, a casino tycoon who is targeted by Danny Ocean and his companions, who seek revenge.

On June 19th of 2007 was released a box set titled Pacino: An Actor's Vision, which contains three foreign films of Al Pacino: The Local Stigmatic (Disc 1), Looking for Richard (Disc 2) and Chinese Coffee (Disc 3) and also a documentary on Pacino's entire career, Babbleonia (Disc 4).

In 2007 starred in 88 minutes, same was not on the box office. That same year premiered Righteous Kill, in which Pacino and Robert De Niro play two detectives from New York looking for a serial murderer, marking the first time the two actors involved together in the same scenes throughout the film. The tape did not get good response at the box office and by critics.

His most recent release is the film for HBO You Do not Know Jack (Do not Know Jack) with Susan Sarandon and John Goodman, where Pacino plays the Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The police drama Son of No One, which Pacino starring alongside Channing Tatum, Juliette Binoche, Ray Liotta and Katie Holmes is in post production. appears as himself in the comedy Jack & Jill with Adam Sandler, directed by Dennis Dugan.

Robert Downey Jr. has a famous quote, when you try to explain to the judge, in 1999, his addiction to drugs, "is like having a loaded gun in your mouth and your finger on the trigger, you know that at any time be shoot but I like the taste of gun metal "

Since the late 1980's, Downey developed an addiction to drugs (among which are crack, heroin, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD and Alcohol), the actor himself says it was his father who introduced him to the consumption of marijuana when he was a child, at the age of 8 years. In 1980, he had attended for the first time at a rehabilitation center, who left soon after to no avail.

In 1996, the lifetime of Downey took an unexpected turn, though predictable for friends, family and people close to the actor. He was arrested in Los Angeles lead to speeding and possession of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and crack cocaine and an unloaded gun. He was released on conditional bail of 5,000 U.S. dollars. Before being scheduled for trial on those charges was arrested again, mistakenly entering the house of his neighbor and remain unconscious in this. Had consumed both alcohol and drugs, health care she needed to regain consciousness. He was sent to a rehabilitation center was defined as hearing date for his 2 arrests, but only 4 days after he was arrested by security officers of a rehabilitation center, a few hours after escaping through a window of this and hitchhiking.

On July 29, 1996, was presented to the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, to answer the charges of the two arrests. He was sentenced to 3 years probation and sent to a rehabilitation center to serve a mandatory drug program. These events impacted very negatively on your career, consider a person at high risk (because he could no longer be insured by any manufacturer). In 1997 he was sentenced to 113 days in jail for refusing to take several drug tests and constant violations of probation. In his time in prison, was subjected to a forced detoxification, which sometimes kept him out of his cell. Furthermore, the time spent in prison Downey got into several fights with other inmates broke causing the nose after a fight.

On June 22, 1999, was sent back to rehab by the Court after failing to appear at another drug test. His parole was suspended again in August of that year, which caused him a sentence of 11 months in prison for criminals serving with addiction problems.

In mid-2000, was released and immediately received an offer to appear in 8 episodes of the series Ally McBeal. During that time he was arrested in the rest of the filming, on the weekend of Thanksgiving 2000. The arrest took place in Palm Springs, California, while the actor, depressed and surrounded by people she met at the hotel where he stayed, started smoking crack, cocaine, injecting heroin and alcohol for 24 hours until the morning of 25 November, when an anonymous call to the local police, apparently of the same people I had shared the weekend, he had two officers searched his room and found illegal substances in addition to controlled drugs hidden in a box of tissues.

His work in the television series continued through the arrest did not put him behind bars and was set free, to pay a $ 15,000 bond. But the April 24, 2001, the turbulent life of the actor and his obvious addiction crisis did fall once more arrested, this time, was found in an alley behind a hotel in the suburb of Culver City, Los Angeles; while wandering after midnight, a police officer was arrested and later taken examinations of blood and urine showed that it was under the influence of various narcotics. After that incident, was dismissed from the series where she worked, forcing producers to write a forced end of the season, which eventually led to the definitive cancellation of the show.

Thanks to a new California state law could avoid being sent to jail again, but had access to the court, forcing him to live in a rehabilitation center. On July 16, 2001, his lawyers did not contest the charge of possession of more drugs and misdemeanor charge of poisoning substances, for which obtained the agreement of three years of probation and the condition of minimum term rehabilitation 1 year. It is assumed that domestic remained in an undisclosed rehabilitation unit until 2002, when free from addictions returned to acting.

Although his career early in the new millennium was well affected to be considered a high risk player, has managed to stay clean since then, regaining control of their personal and professional life. It is now listed by the magazine Time as one of the most influential personalities in the world, to overcome their addiction problems.