{"id":1364,"date":"2026-10-15T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:05:44","slug":"al-pacino-to-receive-sag-aftra-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Al Pacino to receive SAG-AFTRA lifetime achievement award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-10-15\/Getty_AlPacino_101526.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Al Pacino attends the premiere of \u2018Modi: Three Days On The Wing Of Madness\u2019 at Writers Guild Theater on Nov. 4, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner Al Pacino is adding another accolade to the list: the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>Pacino, 86, will be honored for his acting work and philanthropy in February during the 33rd annual Actor Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wondered and wandered most of my life but have always felt at home with a script and my fellow actors. It\u2019s the work and the actors along the way that have been among the greatest joys of my life,\u201d Pacino said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pacino\u2019s acting career began on the stage in the 1960s with theaters in Boston and New York. In 1969 he made his Broadway debut in <em>Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?<\/em>, which also led to his first Tony Award \u2014 best featured actor in a play. That same year, Pacino landed a small role in his first film, <em>Me, Natalie. <\/em>Two years later he was cast as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s seminal work <em>The Godfather<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pacino was most recently seen in the films <em>Father Joe<\/em> and <em>Killing Castro<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin said Thursday, \u201cLike so many actors, I have spent my life in awe and appreciation of the force of nature that is Al Pacino. When you watch him perform, you are witnessing a student and a master. Al Pacino is an artist of extraordinary courage, intensity and heart whose work has always set an exceptional standard of skill and talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his more than six-decade career, Pacino\u2019s work has been recognized with an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Actor Awards. He has also received the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Globes\u2019 Cecil B. DeMille Award, a Kennedy Center Honor and a Venice Career Golden Lion.<\/p>\n<p>Pacino will receive the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award during the Actor Awards on Feb. 28, 2027, in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Pacino attends the premiere of \u2018Modi: Three Days On The Wing Of Madness\u2019 at Writers Guild Theater on Nov. 4, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images) Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner Al Pacino is adding another accolade to the list: the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award. Pacino, 86, will be honored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}