Al Pacino honoured

Veteran actor Al Pacino has been honoured at the Venice Film Festival for his work as a moviemaker. Pacino is in Venice to promote his new directorial project Wilde Salome, a part-documentary about writer-poet Oscar Wilde and part-movie adaptation of his play Salome.

"We do know that he (Oscar Wilde) was... a very liberal thinker and a visionary in terms of his feeling for people and how he wanted society to be more humane," dailystar.co.uk quoted Pacino as saying.

"Part of his sexuality was what they used against him. They wanted to silence him," he said. Pacino was awarded the Jaeger Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award Sunday night.

Source: IANS

Al Pacino wins Emmy for best actor

Hollywood veteran Al Pacino bagged the outstanding lead actor in a mini series or movie award at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Directed by Barry Levinson, the miniseries is about the life and work of physician-assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, which is played by Pacino.

Mick Jackson won the outstanding directing for a miniseries, movie or a dramatic special award for making the biopic Temple Grandin, about a woman with autism who revolutionised practices for the humane handling of livestock on cattle ranches and slaughter houses.