In 1996 Nicolas Cage stood on stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and accepted his first, and currently only, Oscar for his tour de force performance in Mike Figgis' Leaving Las Vegas.

Actor Nicolas Cage has signed up to star as Al Capone in filmmaker Brian De Palma's prequel to The Untouchables. Cage, reuniting with his Snake Eyes director, will play the real-life crime boss in The Untouchables: Capone Rising, which is set to start shooting in October.