The “Training Day” actor finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor two years later.
So Washington had himself a “pity party.”
And everyone else was looking at me," Washington said.
Denzel Washington.Karwai Tang/WireImage
“Not that itwasthis way.
Maybe that’s the way I perceived it.
Maybe Ifeltlike everybody was looking at me.
Denzel Washington in 2002.Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect/Getty
Because why would everybody be looking at me?
Thinking about it now, I don’t think they were.”
Washington admitted that the sting of that particular loss stayed with him.
“I’m sure I went home and drank that night.
I had to,” he said.
It wasn’t like that."
“I told her, ‘I don’t care about that.
Hey: They don’t care about me?
I don’t care.
I ain’t watching that,'” he said.
“I gave up.
My pity party.”
; andThe Tragedy of Macbeth.
The latter marked Washington’s 10th overall nomination, making himthe most-nominated Black actor in Academy Awards history.
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Hawke was competing in the Best Supporting Actor category and ultimately lost to Jim Broadbent for his role inIris.
“You don’t want an award to improve your status.
You want to improve the awards status,” Hawke said, explaining Washington’s perspective on the matter.
The Academy Award has more power, because Denzel has a couple.
It didn’t elevate who he was."
