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.
