Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, Washington won Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in Glory (1989) and Best Actor for playing a corrupt cop in Training Day (2001).

Has Denzel Washington won an Oscar yet?

After losing in the Best Supporting Actor race for an Academy Award for 1987's Cry Freedom, Washington won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 1989's Glory. Washington's second Oscar win — which was for Best Actor — came for 2001's Training Day.

Is Denzel Washington the Best Actor ever?

Regarded as One of the Best Actors Ever

His Academy Award-winning performances aside, Washington has claimed a further two Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and one Tony Award.

Which actor was nominated 7 times but never won?

Richard Burton had the honor of being nominated seven times by the Academy before his death in 1984. And while the talented Old Hollywood icon, who may be better known to the casual movie fan as the man who married Elizabeth Taylor not once, but twice, never won an Oscar, it feels rather harsh to call him a loser.

What actor has the most Best Actor awards?

Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson, who have three Oscars apiece, are tied as the actors with the most Academy Award wins, while three actresses — Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep — have also won three Oscars. Day-Lewis is the only man with three Oscars for best actor.

Denzel Washington Wins Best Actor | 74th Oscars (2002)

Who is the only man with 3 Best Actor Oscars?

Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Many actors have been nominated for playing kings, but not so many as U.S. Presidents, and Day-Lewis was the first to win. He also became the first person to win three best actor Oscars.

Who is the only man to have won 3 Best Actor Awards?

Which actor has 52 Oscar nominations?

The individual with the most Academy Award nods is not an actor, but a behind-the-scenes talent. With 52 Academy Award nominations to his name, Star Wars composer John Williams is the most Oscar-nominated person alive.

Who has had 52 Oscar nominations?

The film composer has won five Oscars, four Golden Globes, seven BAFTAs and 25 Grammys. With 52 Oscar nominations, he is second only to Walt Disney as most nominated person ever.

Who is the greatest actor to never win an Oscar?

Among the top stars who never won an Oscar are Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Cruise, and Johnny Depp. Jackson has enthralled audiences with his dynamic presence in films such as Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained, while Cruise's career boasts unforgettable roles from Top Gun to Magnolia.

Has a black actor ever won Best Actor?

In the year 1963, Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, for his performance in Lilies Of The Field. Poitier was also the first Black man to be nominated for any acting Oscar for The Defiant Ones (1958).

What movie did Denzel Washington win an Oscar in?

The diversity of his talent can be found in films ranging from Cry Freedom (1987) to The Preacher's Wife (1996) to American Gangster (2007), earning Academy Awards for his performances in Glory (1989) and Training Day (2001).

What is Denzel Washington's religion?

Religious beliefs

Washington is Pentecostal Evangelical Christian and a member of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ. He has considered becoming a preacher. Washington stated in 1999, "A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.'

What is Denzel Washington's best movie?

Which actor was nominated 7 times for Oscar?

Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole both have been nominated seven times without winning an Oscar.

Who is the most nominated actor in history?

Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all, with twenty-one nominations. Jack Nicholson has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations. Both actors have had three wins which included two for lead roles and one for a supporting role.

Who holds the record for most nominations but has never won an Oscar?

The iconic Glenn Close and the late Peter O'Toole are the actors who have received the most nominations without winning, eight each. Close had her last opportunity in 2021 when she was nominated for Best Supporting Role for her turn in Netflix's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' but lost out to Yuh-Jung Youn for her part in 'Minari'.

Who is the only actor to win four Oscars?

Seven actors have won three or more Oscars in the acting categories, with Katharine Hepburn being the only person to win four acting Oscars, spanning from her first in 1934 to her fourth in 1982.

Who is the most mentioned male star in the Oscars?

Incidentally, Jr NTR has topped the list of the most mentioned male celebrities at the Oscars.

Who has 59 Oscar nominations?

Walt Disney (59)

Of this number, Walt won 22, holding the record for the most wins and nominations for any individual in history. He won his first award in 1932 for the short cartoon Flowers and Trees and continued to be celebrated throughout his long and illustrious career.

Who is the oldest actor to win an Oscar?

In 2021, an 83-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins became the oldest person to ever win an acting Oscar for his performance in The Father. Hopkins had already won once for his chilling performance in The Silence of the Lambs.

Who won the oldest living Best Actor Oscar?

Who has won a triple crown of acting?

The eight actors who have completed the British Triple Crown in competitive acting categories are Judi Dench, Virginia McKenna, Peggy Ashcroft, Nigel Hawthorne, Julie Walters, Albert Finney, Helen Mirren, and Mark Rylance. Only Helen Mirren has earned both the American and British Triple Crowns.