With his autobiography Sonny Boy being launched Al Pacino is with us in London and doing the PR rounds where he has been asked all manner of questions befitting of an actor of his stature. With eight Oscar nominations to his name ( The Godfather, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon., And Justice For All, Dick Tracy, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Irishman) he finally won one for Scent Of A Woman arguably the weakest of all the films he was nominated. But on BBC Radio 4 breakfast news programme he opened up about the others films and specifically the role Al Pacino wanted to be Oscar nominated.
It might not come as much of a surprise but that film was Scarface where he played Cuban gangster Tony Montana. It was a remake oif the 1932 film starring Paul Muni but this 1983 version was much much more violent. Written by Oliver Stone it was helmed by Brian de Palma with several grisly set pieces (that one with the chainsaw in the bathroom has many still wincing). And yet the film was lambasted at the time and was completely ignored by the Academy ( although the Golden Globes gave it three nominations including one for Pacino though ultimately it won none). It is looked on much more favourably today and has bizarrely become a favourite of rappers and who hasn’t had the urge to yell Pacino’s infamous line in the climatic scene, ‘Say hello to my leeeetle friend !’
“I would have liked to have even got nominated for that one,” Pacino told the news presenter. If he had been nominated he would have been up against his GodFather Part co-star Robert de Niro for Raging Bull, Jack Lemmon for Tribute, John Hurt for the Elephant Man, Peter O’Toole for The Stunt Man and Robert Duvall for The Great Santini. De Niro won.
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