Denzel Washington

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Denzel Washington (2000)

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. [ ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ] (born December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon , New York ) is an American actor , director and film producer . He is a two-time Oscar winner and the second African American actor after Sidney Poitier to receive this film award for a leading role.

Life

Early years

Washington was born near New York to Lennis Washington and Denzel Hayes Washington Sr. His mother worked in a beauty salon and his father was a preacher.

Denzel Washington first attended the Pennington-Grimes Elementary School in Mount Vernon until 1968. Then he was sent to the Oakland Military Academy in New Windsor by his mother . After studying journalism at Fordham University , he began acting.

He did so first at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and then went back to New York to become an actor.

Career

Washington at the 62nd Annual Academy Awards in March 1990

He made his first feature film in 1981 at the age of 27. Other smaller roles followed. He was introduced to a wider audience through the hospital series Chief Physician Dr. Westphall , in which he played the role of Dr. Phillip Chandler played. His first major film starring role was that of Steve Biko , founder of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), in the apartheid drama Cry for Freedom . For her he received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor and a Golden Globe nomination for best leading actor in 1988. Washington had its breakthrough in 1989 with the civil war drama Glory ; for his portrayal of the private trip soldier he was awarded an Oscar , received a Golden Globe for best supporting actor and other awards and film award nominations. In 1990 he played a leading role in Spike Lee's film Mo Better Blues .

With Spike Lee's Malcolm X, he cemented his status as one of the most important Afro-American stars in Hollywood . For the role there he was again nominated for an Oscar; He has also received numerous awards and other nominations for renowned film prizes. In the following years he worked in many major Hollywood productions, such as Julia Roberts in The Acts and in the Shakespeare film Much Ado About Nothing next to Kenneth Branagh , who also directed. In the AIDS drama Philadelphia he played the second leading role alongside Tom Hanks as the latter's lawyer . He then directed the cyberspace thriller Virtuosity alongside Russell Crowe and the submarine drama Crimson Tide with Gene Hackman about a possible nuclear war.

In 1996 he starred with Whitney Houston in the romantic comedy Rendezvous with an Angel . After Glory he was in the movie Courage Under Fire by Edward Zwick a military investigators and in the blockbuster state of emergency as an opponent of Bruce Willis an upright FBI agent. In 1998 he starred in Spike Lee's drama about a generation conflict between father and son, Game of Life . In 1999 he played the paraplegic investigator Lincoln Rhyme in the Jeffery Deaver film The Bone Hunter with Angelina Jolie and won over as boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in the film Hurricane by Norman Jewison , which earned him his second Golden Globe.

Washington at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival

The following projects were Training Day and Against Any Rule . The role of the corrupt cop in Training Day earned him a second Oscar. Washington became the second African-American actor, after Sidney Poitier , to win an Oscar for Best Actor (later Jamie Foxx , 2005, and Forest Whitaker , 2007). Most recently he was in the films Déjà Vu - Race against Time and American Gangster as well as in the end-of-time thriller The Book of Eli .

In the meantime, Washington has also directed ambitious material. He made the film Antwone Fisher in 2002 and The Great Debaters in 2007 , in each of which he also took on a role. In Antwone Fisher , Washington was seen in the role of a military psychologist who uncovered the childhood story of a violent soldier in therapeutic sessions. In The Great Debaters he played the main role of the rhetoric professor Mel Tolson, who formed a verbal debating team from students from an African-American southern university, based on a real model.

He received another Oscar nomination in 2013 for the role of William Whitaker as best actor in the drama Flight .

In 2014, Washington played former CIA agent Robert McCall in the adaptation of the television series The Equalizer . In 2016, The Glorious Seven, a remake of the 1960 western of the same name, was released in cinemas. Here he took on the role of Sam Chisolm.

Private

Washington is a devout Christian and had considered becoming a pastor in previous years.

Washington met Pauletta Pearson while filming Wilma in 1977. They married on June 25, 1983; Pearson took her husband's last name. On July 28, 1984, their first son, John David Washington, was born. After a short career as a football player, he is also an actor. Their daughter Katia Washington was born on November 27, 1987. On April 10, 1991, Washington had twins , a son and a daughter. In 1995 the couple renewed their marriage vows .

Filmography

As a performer

As a director

As a producer

Awards

Academy Award (Oscar)

  • 1990: Best Supporting Actor (Glory)
  • 2002: Best Actor (Training Day)

Nominations:

  • 1987: Best Supporting Actor (Cry For Freedom)
  • 1993: Best Actor (Malcolm X)
  • 1999: Best Actor (Hurricane)
  • 2013: Best Actor (Flight)
  • 2017: Best Actor (Fences)
  • 2017: Best Film (Fences)
  • 2018: Best Actor (Roman J. Israel, Esq.)

Critics' Choice Movie Award

Nominations:

Golden Globe Awards

Nominations:

  • 1987: Best Actor, Film Drama (Cry For Freedom)
  • 1993: Best Actor, Film, Drama (Malcolm X)
  • 2002: Best Actor, Film Drama (Training Day)
  • 2007: Best Actor, Film Drama (American Gangster)
  • 2013: Best Actor, Film Drama (Flight)
  • 2017 : Best Actor in Film Drama (Fences)
  • 2018 : Best Actor, Film Drama (Roman J. Israel, Esq.)

Black Reel Award

  • 1999: Best Supporting Actor (The Hurricane)
  • 2001: Best Actor (Training Day)
  • 2002: Best Supporting Actor (Remember The Titans)
  • 2013: Best Supporting Actor (Flight)

Nominations:

  • 2002: Best Supporting Actor (Antwone Fisher)
  • 2003: Best Actor (John Q)
  • 2004: Best Actor (Out of Time)
  • 2007: Best Actor (Inside Man)
  • 2010: Best Actor (The Taking of Pelham 123)
  • 2011: Best Actor (The Book of Eli)
  • 2011: Best Actor (Unstoppable)

Golden camera

  • 2012: Best Actor International

NAACP Image Award

  • 1990: Best Supporting Actor (Glory)

Image Award

Berlinale

MTV Award

  • 1993: Best Actor (Malcolm X)
  • 2002: Best Villain (Training Day)

New York Film Critics Circle Award

  • 1992: Best Actor (Malcolm X)

Nominations:

  • 1989: Best Supporting Actor (Glory)

Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • 2017 : Best Actor (Fences)

Further awards

further nominations:

German synchronization

Washington's German voice actor was Leon Boden from 1991 to 2018 . During that time, he was only voiced by other voice actors in two films. In the film Malcolm X (1992) lent him Randolf Kronberg his voice and in He Got Game (1998) addressed him Tom Vogt . Denzel Washington spoke to Boden in the film Big Bad Man (1989). In its early years, Washington had no fixed voice, for example, from 1984 to 1990 it was spoken once by Thomas Petruo († 2018), Stephan Schwartz , Detlef Bierstedt , Lutz Mackensy , Manfred Lehmann and Christian Brückner .

Since the death of Leon Boden in April 2020, Washington currently has no new party vote.

Web links

Commons : Denzel Washington  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Nickson : Denzel Washington . St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York 1996, ISBN 0-312-96043-3 , pp. 9-11.
  2. ^ Denzel Washington Biography (1954–) . Filmreference.com. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  3. ^ E. Renée Ingram: Buckingham County . Arcadia Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-7385-1842-5 , p. 55.
  4. ^ Denzel Washington Returns to Acting Roots . Fordham.edu. October 28, 2003. Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  5. ^ Denzel Washington Biography , AllMovie.com. Retrieved February 13, 2008
  6. ↑ http://www.livenet.ch/content/denzel-washington-%E2%80%9Eich-spielte-mit-dem-gedanken-pastor-zu-haben%E2%80%9C
  7. ^ Denzel Washington and Wife Celebrate Wedding Anniversary in Italy ( Memento from August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: lovetripper.com from June 28, 2009.
  8. ↑ Gregg Kilday: 'La La Land,' 'Arrival,' 'Moonlight' Top Critics' Choice Nominations In: The Hollywood Reporter, December 1, 2016.
  9. ↑ Luca Celada: The 74th Golden Globe Nominations: La La Land, Moonlight And Emerging TV Talent In: goldenglobes.com, December 12, 2016.
  10. ^ Black Reel Awards (2001). Retrieved April 23, 2016 .
  11. ↑ 'Fences' Denzel Washington Named Publicist Awards Man of the Year In: broadwayworld.com, January 12, 2017.
  12. ↑ Leon Boden. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 3, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Washington, Denzel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Washington, Denzel Hayes junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Vernon , New York, United States