Al Pacino, Evander Holyfield, Quincy Jones, Robert De Niro, and Sylvester Stallone were live at The American Icon Awards!

May 29, 2025

Al Pacino, Evander Holyfield, Quincy Jones, Robert De Niro, and Sylvester Stallone were live at The American Icon Awards at the iconic Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, along with a star-studded line up of stars including: Naomi Campbell (presenter), Joe Mantegna (presenter), Robin Thicke, David Foster, Kat McPhee, Laila Ali (presenter), Peter Facinelli (presenter) and girlfriend Lily Anne Harrison, Barry Bostwick, Sugar Ray Leonard, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Bebe Winans, Devon Still (NFL great and honoree), Oscar De La Hoya, Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, Caleb Emery, Jonathan Baker (Director/Producer), Jack Perry, Bill Mack (artist), Sheléa (singer), Jackie Cruz (“Orange Is The New Black”), Matteo Bocelli (singer), Pia Toscano, Ruby Ofee, Matthias Schweighofer, Diana Madison (Mob Town), Sebastian Maniscalco (comedian), Janice Dickinson, Josh Altman, Christian Olivo, Jake Hoffman (“The Irishman”), Jonathan D. Fischer and Christine Avanti-Fischer (humanitarians), Joanne Lara (Autism Movement Therapy/Autism Works), Shari Liss and Anissa Kalinowski of Ignited organization, and many, many more! In the below photo taken at the Pre-Show VIP Cocktail Reception, are Left to Right: Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, and Robert De Niro: In this show you will see interviews with many of these stars, done by our our Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey, and our Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today TV News Reporter: Melanie Murphy – who both did a great job, with great in-depth interviews!

The American Icon Awards was a Black Tie star-studded Gala that included a private VIP cocktail reception, cocktail hour, spectacular silent and live auctions, a seated gala gourmet dinner, awards ceremony and a star-studded concert, with red carpet arrivals, speeches by charity beneficiaries, video montages to the honorees, musical performances and various other programming throughout the evening.

Earlier that same day, there was Private VIP Meet and Greet with Al Pacino, as part of an intimate 2 hour long luncheon that was held at Spago’s Beverly Hills, where Al Pacino engaged in a Q&A moderated by Leonard Maltin !

Martin Scorcese and Larry King: The late Larry King is on the left of the below photo at a past event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, with our Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today TV Show Host Margie Rey on the right:& He is again on the left of the below photo, at another past event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, being interviewed by the our Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today TV News Reporter: Melanie Murphy:

Martin Scorcese and Larry King both served as honoree dinner chairmen at this Gala event to honor Academy Award Winner- Actor- the legendary Al Pacino; Music Industry Icon, and Multi Grammy Award Winner: Quincy Jones; Sports Icon and Boxing Legend: Evander Holyfield; humanitarians Jonathan D. Fischer and Christine Avanti-Fischer, and Still Strong Foundation founder NFL Veteran, Devon Still.

2 time Academy Award Winner: Robert De Niro presented Al Pacino with the “American ICON Award” honor, NAOMI CAMPBELL presented Quincy Jones with the “Lifetime Achievement Award” honor (as you can see in the above photo- Quincy is on the left at the Grammy Awards, with our Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today TV Show Host: Margie Rey, who on the right of the photo) and Muhammad Ali’s daughter and undefeated champion boxer: Laila Ali presented the ONLY 4 time Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World- Evander Holyfield with the “American Sports Legend Award” honor! The Boxing Champ is on the left of the below photo with Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today TV, Event, & Music Producer: Steve Taylor: NFL great Devon Still was awarded the “Sports Philanthropy Award” honor.

In the below photo are 2 of the most famous boxers: from the movies and TV: Sylvester Stallone, and the real deal himself, from the Boxing world- World Boxing Champion: Evander Holyfield: This show was one that you will never forget, with spectacular entertainment and concert with live musical performances. Robin Thicke who wowed the room with an incredible live stage show.

The night was made special by Musical Genius and record producer David Foster! When it looked the show was over- after the last award was handed out at 10:30 PM, David just kept adding on singers to perform for the concert- that went on for about an hour and a half- so that the show went till about 12 Midnight. David Foster is in the middle of the photo below with Music Producer: Steve Taylor on the left, and the TV Show Host: Margie Rey on the right: “Al Pacino, Evander Holyfield, Quincy Jones, De Niro & Stallone: AIA !” (The American Icon Awards) at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. CO-Producer: Steve Taylor, also the Executive Producer of Entertainment Today TV, and Entertainment & Sports Today. https://www.entertainmentandsportstoday.com/

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Entertainment Today is a proud sponsor of the American Icon Awards Tribute to Al Pacino ! All funds go to the following charities: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital EIN: 62-0646012, Autism Movement Therapy, Inc. EIN 27-0503622, and Ignited 501 (c)(3) EIN: 77-0143865.

At this live show: Robin Thicke performed: “When I Get You Alone” – The track samples Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven”, which is based on Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Songwriting credits thus went to “Murphy/Thicke”and “Brand New Jones” from the “A Beautiful World” Album: and “Lost Without U”, and “Got 2 Be Down” from the The Evolution of Robin Thicke” album; and “The Sweetest Love” – from the Label: Interscope/Star Trak Entertainment from the “Something Else” album; and “All Tied Up” from the “Love After War” album; and “Testify” from a Non-album single.

This segment of the stage show of “American Icon Awards” was done by: David Walter Foster, the composer, arranger, and producer. Link to the entire show: “Al Pacino, Evander Holyfield, Quincy Jones, De Niro & Stallone: AIA !” (The American Icon Awards) Music Producer: Steve Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXe67ostW2s

Also at the musical portions of this show, co-produced by Steve Taylor: the song: “I will Always Love You”- from the movie: The Bodyguard- the hit song by Whitney Houston is performed in the American Icon Awards Concert at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Credits and personnel · Performed by Whitney Houston · Produced and arranged by David Foster · Vocal arrangement – Whitney Houston · Directed by Rickey Minor – Synth programmers – Tony Smith, Claude Gaudette – String arrangements – Ronn Huff – Recording engineers – Bill Schnee, Dave Reitzas, Peter J. Yianilos – Mixing engineer – Dave Reitzas – Executive producers – Clive Davis, and Whitney Houston.

Link to this show segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfibLOuGmNg

Record Producer: David Foster had Andrea Bocelli’s son: Matteo Bocelli performed up on stage at this event, which was Produced by Music Producer: Steve Taylor. Songs that were performed live: Matteo Bocelli – For You · Matteo Boccelli – Night Of The Proms (Koksijde) · Matteo Bocelli – Solo (Acoustic) · Matteo Bocelli – Chasing Stars.

In the below photo is our Entertainment & Sports Today & Entertainment Today News Team sitting at our table during the show:

In the below photo taken at the Pre-Show VIP Cocktail Reception, you can see the man of the hour, Honoree and Academy Award Winner: Al Pacino posing for a photo with Nadja: Sponsors including JILLUXE, Electra Meccanica’s SOLO Single-Passenger EV (electric vehicle), Unique Life Boost health-conscious beverage, Eclipse Folliceuticals, MD, Jonathan D. Fischer Foundation, Clearly Canadian, BEAUTIFY Skincare.

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