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The following article is a List of awards and nominations received by Denzel Washington.
Denzel Washington is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Over his career, he has received numerous honorary awards including the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Award in 2007, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden in 2022.
Washington has received ten Academy Award nominations winning once for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of a soldier in the Edward Zwick Civil War film Glory (1989), and Best Actor for playing a corrupt cop in Antoine Fuqua's crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for playing Steve Biko in the historical epic Cry Freedom (1987), the title role in the biographical drama Malcolm X (1992), Rubin Carter in the sports drama The Hurricane (1999), an Airline pilot fighting substance abuse in Flight (2012), a working class family man in the period drama Fences (2015), a Los Angeles lawyer in the legal drama Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), and Macbeth in the thriller The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
Washington is one of eight actors who has been nominated for an acting Academy Award in five different decades (1980s, '90s. 2000s, '10s and '20s), joining Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand. He has received nine Golden Globe Award nominations winning twice for his performances in Glory (1989) and The Hurricane (1999). He has also received seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations winning for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in the film adaptation of Fences (2015).
For his work on stage he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Troy Maxon in the Broadway revival of the August Wilson play Fences (2010). He was Tony-nominated for playing a Hickey, hardware salesman in the revival of the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh (2018). He received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work with documentary series on the baseball player Hank Aaron and photographer Gordon Parks. He was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the folk tale, John Henry in 1996.
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1987 | Best Supporting Actor | Cry Freedom | Nominated | [1] |
1989 | Glory | Won | [2] | |
1992 | Best Actor | Malcolm X | Nominated | [3] |
1999 | The Hurricane | Nominated | [4] | |
2001 | Training Day | Won | [5] | |
2012 | Flight | Nominated | [6] | |
2016 | Fences | Nominated | [7] | |
Best Picture | Nominated | |||
2017 | Best Actor | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Nominated | [8] |
2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Nominated | [9] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
1995 | Outstanding Informational Series or Special | Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream | Nominated | [10] |
2001 | Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special | Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks | Nominated | [11] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1987 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Cry Freedom | Nominated | [12] |
1989 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Glory | Won | [12] |
1992 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Malcolm X | Nominated | [12] |
1999 | The Hurricane | Won | [12] | |
2001 | Training Day | Nominated | [12] | |
2007 | American Gangster | Nominated | [12] | |
2012 | Flight | Nominated | [12] | |
2015 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Won | [12] | |
2016 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama | Fences | Nominated | [12] |
2017 | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Nominated | [12] | |
2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Nominated | [12] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1996 | Best Spoken Word Album for Children | John Henry | Nominated | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1999 | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture | The Hurricane | Nominated | [13] |
2001 | Training Day | Nominated | [14] | |
2007 | Outstanding Ensemble in a Motion Picture [lower-alpha 1] | American Gangster | Nominated | [15] |
2012 | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture | Flight | Nominated | [16] |
2016 | Fences | Won | [17] | |
Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture [lower-alpha 1] | Nominated | |||
2017 | Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | Nominated | [18] |
2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Nominated | [19] | |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Best Leading Actor in a Play | Fences | Won | [20] |
2018 | The Iceman Cometh | Nominated | [21] | |
Organizations | Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
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American Academy of Achievement | 2005 | Golden Plate Award | Honored | [22] [23] |
BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards | 2007 | Statue | Honored | [24] |
San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2014 | Donostia Award | Honored | [25] |
Golden Globe Awards | 2016 | Cecil B. DeMille Award | Honored | [26] |
Santa Barbara International Film Festival | 2017 | Maltin Modern Master Award | Honored | [27] |
American Film Institute | 2019 | AFI Life Achievement Award | Honored | [28] |
Presidential Medal of Freedom | 2022 | Medal | Honored | [29] |
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his versatile work spanning over four decades of screen and stage, he has been regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, with The New York Times naming him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020. Washington has received a number of honors, including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award and AFI Life Achievement Award, and nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. With a career spanning over four decades, she is known for her versatile work across screen and stage. Bening has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for five Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards, making her one of few artists nominated for the Triple Crown of Acting without winning.