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

Alonzo Harris

Sure is! Two iconic dramatic actors, both being of the few black actors to earn Oscars for best lead actor and both were and still are major influences on so many actors today. Definitely iconic.

Sidney who?

That was the icing on the cake for me I love them both back in the late sixties I met mr poitier just briefly after seeing a broadway show that featured a pre godfather al Pacino I felt like I was in the presence of a king the man had a regal aura without being haughty or pretentious now that's real class

@@rngsus4002 you're pitiful

@@johnfulton4921 no u

+Vicky Ray I agree with you

Sidney Poitier?

Yasss Denzel is the man

ffs you get the idea

What about Coolio? His name has the word cool in it.

One of our biggest losses is that we never got a film with them together.

@@kendallrivers1119 just terrible, I still don’t get why they didn’t. RIP to the legend

@@Tonycillian5 unfortunately it just didn't come together.

Yes, Two Outstanding Gentlemen

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Thought that was the movie title 😀

She wanted to say “the love of my life” but didn’t out of respect for his wife.🤔

@@NYCBX9 She's best friend with both Denzel and Pauletta

And she was about to burst into tears. That's pure joy!

Funny thing about them is with Pelican Brief they were supposed to kiss and end up together but Denzel objected to this because he knew how his die hard black female audience would react and still growing in his career at that point he surely didn't wanna piss off his bread and butter. Denzel's a really smart brother.

Is this a joke? Ethan is cool but Denzel didn't need his help to win anything.

mgeek 1....so true!! great statement bro!

@@kerrymclean6499 this was the "its about damn time" Oscar

@@androlibre9661 He won his first Oscar 1990

@@Chinaski1 Supporting actor......not lead. Lead is the one that counts more. This 3 min skit sums it up ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--diYR7IBFK0.html

Historic! People these days just don't know! This was so crucial and also so well deserved for each of them. Award shows are so vapid and self congratulatory now but back then iconic moments like this happened.

I watched this when it aired---20 years ago now, wow. Sidney's was honorary, but up until Denzel later won, Sidney was the sole African American Best Actor winner in 74 years. Halle and Denzel winning Best Actor and Best Actress was a huge moment; there was no social media then, but people talked and wrote about it for weeks after. But even Halle is sore that she remains to this day the only African American to ever win Best Actress.

I guess I’m just the jaded and cynical one who thought this was manufactured, planned, and disappointing that the Best Actor/Actress awards were given to such accomplished black performers portraying the most negative stereotypes. “Two birds in one night” indeed, Mr. Washington.

I hope I live to see the day when we stop patronizing black people. They are no different than anybody else. Why do we continue to count the first this and that.

@@EchoJ Yeah that's pretty cynical lol. Listen, the important thing is that Denzel and Halle KILLED their roles in those movies and deserved their Oscars because their performances were the best in their category. We gotta stop worrying about impressing white people because at the end of the day Black people are multi faceted and layered and we come in all shapes and sizes, good and bad etc. there's no such thing as just "positive' black people like there is no such thing as just "negative" black people, we are both. We can be negative but I choose to be proud because such great talent were recognized in three black superstars.

Yeah fuckin classic 💯💯

His performance in John Q was top tier, his performance in remember the titans top tier, he had to play a crooked cop to get an Oscar

My nigguh

I loved his performance in man on fire amazing 🔥🔥

@@luckyleektv8951 Don’t forget Malcolm X

Top 3 for shooo

@@danielrosas9391 He's right up there with Daniel Day-Lewis for me!

Denzel W. Wil S. Wesley S.

@@BigAlvideos101 WAY BETTER THAN LEWIS. Denzel probably has never used Method in his life. LEWIS HAS TO and does ALL THE TIME. He’s an artist, but that’s not healthy at all. If I have to do that consistently to be called the best actor, this world truly doesn’t know what being an actor means or what goes into it.

@@codyfloydactor Daniel Day-Lewis didn't do method acting every single time though. He had plenty of roles where he did it either in a MUCH smaller capacity or not at all! Method actors are also among the best actors in their entire craft!

Could u explain?

@@Mcgregor22Him and Sydney winning the same night

@@mackinshizzaveli4202 Him and Halle Berry winning the same night

think he meant halle. she won Best Actress for Monster's Ball@@homearcadeclassics

Yesss exactly that

And almost 20 years later the late Chadwick Boseman acknowledged Denzel who paved the way for him. Greatness respecting greatness being passed down from generation to generation.

The advice he gave Will Smith tonight his iconic.

The way he whisks his chin waiting for the crowd to settle. Just iconic moment

@@lauralarrabee7870 Denzel always knows what to say, when to say it and how to say it. 🙌🏽

@@lauralarrabee7870 Yes, Will is going through hell and acted out poorly but Denzel as well as Samuel L and Tyler Perry tried to help steer him in the right direction. I hope Will follows Denzel's example as a younger brother to big brother.

AMEN 🍂

It means even more now. R.I.P. legend.

YESS!!!

Amen

Om Shanti 🙏

Coolest AND handsomest!!

I truly believe that

I thought he was cool untill all that will smith crap.

@@TheJinJang haha yes

AFTER MUHAMMAD ALI

Ryan Stewart No their not.

Dear old friends

@@kiasky1 It's odd, for two people who aren't friends Julia Roberts was sitting directly next to Washington and his wife at the AFI ceremony recently for him...

Old Friends.

@@joshv3585 They are not BFFs because Denzel is not a female. Get it. Best Female Friends.

*THE* Best actor!

He's not ONE of d best He's the best

THE GOAT

him and al pacino

True

He's also been a mentor to the younger generation of actors coming up through the ranks, including one of the Best Actor nominees for this year, Austin Butler. If Austin wins (and I hope he does!), I believe he will give a shout-out to Denzel Washington.

That he is.

"This chess, this ain't checkers."

Hunter Dvorak me too

Are you joke? Russell Crowe that year was hundred Times better

@@fabioagnello7698 Well, i agree... russel was better... But russel shouldnt have won a year before ;)

He literally played the devil

Brandi Fleming he’s just black

This is from 2002, he looks considerably older now lol

@@YoungGrizzly82 he was 47 here and looks so good

@Hamza Hussain yeah no shit it's been 18 years so STFU

black don't crack

Hello Chasni Gifford, yeah she's a nice, Golding heart lady, Once again thanks a lot for your comment, how are you doing today?

yeah

she gets that black sausage that’s why

could've had a little bit more of respect for his wife though

or they were costars in The Pelican Brief, you fvcking low-class goon.@@AH-so1op

I know denzil has that effect on ppl. Wow Julia Roberts is a massive star yet she's was here acting like a fan

They did the movie Pelican Brief together years earlier so she saw his talents first hand.

They're homies! I loved their chemistry in The Pelican Brief.

Yes true friendship

She really loves her some Denzel. 🥰🥰

I just watch it today on BET. He is the best. Denzel Washington is incredible and deserves a Oscar,

I watched it again recently and, all these years later, I felt like it was even better than it was back then. Sometimes when movies first come out and there’s all this fanfare or buzz going around about them, it can be difficult to gauge how good (or bad) a film actually is. But nearly two decades later, it’s much easier to just watch it and appreciate it for what it really is, and that’s a damn good movie. Denzel and Ethan both were outstanding (and I don’t even like Ethan Hawke) and I’m so glad I watched it again.

@@elsabean6791 just wanted to know why you don't like Ethan Hawke

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Well done! 👍🏾 The way your wife responded as the proof that his performance in that role was spot on z! We didn’t see Denzel. We saw a loathsome vile and reprehensible character that we wanted to see dead!😅

@@mancan1531I’m ngl he was so charismatic that I felt a slight bit of sadness when Alonzo was killed, even though he obviously had it coming. For sure an anti hero

Nah, Denzel and Sidney tops that any day. ;)

I really like their friendship too!

Yes I agree 👍💯

Definitely tapped that

They need to do another movie together. Best collaboration in the pelican brief.

@ Alex 🤣

Are you crazy 🤪 man!? 😂

Lmao

😂😂😂😂😂😂

You darn right xD

In fact he's in his early 40s

47

He is looking 60 😁

Will be done.

Hi dear

"2 birds 1 night". He knew what they were doing.

MrAwsomeness45 it was his second oscar actually, not his First.

Dora Jackson well the Oscar he won before was for the best supporting actor category. This is his first win for the best actor category. That is what I meant.

MrAwsomeness45 sorry, you're right abou that.

Dora Jackson its not a problem

And Philadelphia

Art does that also. On a grander were all human leveled scale.

There were more than actor’s in the audience. You have no idea who said it.

King Kong ain't got shit on me!!!

smells like bacon in this muh fucka

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Thank you. I've been saying this for years & years. He can play a cool, calm & collected badass (Man On Fire, Equalizer) just as well as he can play an over the top corrupt cop (Training Day) & a brilliantly awkward lawyer (Roman J Israel, Esq), just to name a few of his diverse roles. The range he has is incredible & I dare say that nobody can deliver a moving speech in a movie like him.

For years my pick was Hoffman; these days I go with Sean Penn, who can convincingly play wildly different characters: I am Sam, Mystic River, Milk...

Mark Daniels Hoffman's definitely in my top 5 along with Denzel and Daniel Day-Lewis

Denzel best actor ever. Meryl Streep best actress ever

Leonardo DiCaprio. DDL if we're including inactive. Deniro and Pacinos careers from 70s-90s outshines Denzel but Denzel has brilliant longevity over them and has set plus maintained a consistent standard of excellence just like DiCaprio and DDL. I'd have no real complaints if it were one of them three to have the title. Sean Penn is good but I sincerely despise the man as a person much like Jodie Foster.

I feel like Denzel was the successor to Sidney as Tom Hanks was to Jimmy Stewart.

*the mOst beautiful woman in Hollywood is Mo´Nique*

I'm with you...

Sorry but Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and especially Tom Hanks were/are far bigger stars than Denzel. Box office doesn’t lie.

True. But Denzel had outlasted Eddie and Hanks. He's still churning out hits. Smith and Cruise are the apex of movie stardom, but Denzel makes up for that with his acting chops.

@@PDC1987 These people you mentioned, the studio movies is their selling point. Denzel doesn't need blockbuster movies to get fans to their seats. He is the draw. Not the gimmicks not special effects not over the top action sequences. Just the acting. The old school star quality and star draw.

@@YwaA-jf1hl Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise literally took ANY type of film to massive grosses in that era. Please educate yourself.

Well said. -bobby balls fan.

oh

Denzel was in the Black Panther party?

@@bdub8522 nope

Denzel was a mentor to Chadwick, which he has been to so many younger actors. He must have promised himself that if he ever got to a position where he could help, he would.

The was very unnecessary and disrespectful to Denzel and his wife. Julia's looking like a little possum😂

@@luzluz7850 she admires him. There is a such thing as platonic love. You’re one of those crazy 😝 xristian zealot Latinos 🤦🏻‍♂️

@@luzluz7850 Maybe you should look up their history. They have been close friends for many years...

​@@luzluz7850 I agree with you. Friendship or no friendship she was disrespectful to him and his wife. No proper breeding. I'm not surprised?

@@user-ik1bk3go1e totally agree

taht was Such a great speech!!

tinyblueflamesx He got overlooked for playing many good guy roles tho!

Crowe was muuuuch better

Ivan B no he was not..

No, he didn't, Crowe's performance in A Beautiful Mind was clearly the best of that year. But the Academy had their reasons for not giving it to him.

@@Mookaron - Why should he only win playing good guys? He's an ACTOR. His job is portraying characters, good and evil. I don't understand this mentality that black actors should only play good people. How boring is that?

He has two. He had won previously for Best Supporting Actor for GLORY (1989).

Lol stop lying

And because they were friends from The Pelican Brief.

@@user-xg2op5xn2i It's a fact, dumbass. She literally spoke publicly about it. Have you noticed 7 months later, and no one agrees with you?

@@anthonycoleman9593 wtf do u want talking to me like that

@@user-xg2op5xn2i You know you like it when I get agressive to you.

Yeah sure. The way she says: My Life, Denzel.

nobody gives a s**t about Julia Roberts ... she's insufferable

And I dont blame her. He is my platonic love too 😄

"Platonic," my azz....she'd love to give Denzel a "touch up!" (If she hasn't ALREADY!)

@@ronjunior who wouldn't

100% agreed

Daniel Day Lewis is more handsome than Denzel.

@@dannytorrance4024 no

@@dannytorrance4024 you need a eye exam!!!😉

Definitely

Nah Russell should have won. He was by far the best.

Russell Crowe should have won for the second year running. It’s arguably the biggest robbery in Oscar history.

Daniel Villalobos exactly Daniel.Denzel Washington had won his first Oscar for playing a soldier. maybe some people don't know that because the other movie is not so well known as Training Day.

+Dora Jackson - No, I think "Glory" is pretty well-known.

mgeek1 It is known but I haven't watched it yet. I think most people got to know Denzel better as an actor from his role in Philadelphia with Tom Hanks.

Agreed. By that logic Louise Fletcher should not have won, I mean her character is the most memorable bitch in cinema history, Hopkins should not have won because he played a serial killer and of course Kathy Bates for playing an insane woman in Misery.

Dora Jackson r

So as Leo

"Goin' up!" and cue one of the best musical transitions in film. Ever.

Madiba 🤔

+Sam Brown yeah he was

Sam Brown Hawke was amazing in that film also. They were so good together. Ethan Hawke is highly underrated.

Well that's the thing, or at the least the funny thing with this movie and it's Oscar nominations... ethan hawke, for all intents and purposes, plays the main character in training day... he is the protagonist and in other words has the leading role, I think he does actually have more screen time in the movie as well. Despite this, their nominations are reversed and denzel is nominated for lead and ethan supporting. Now I'm not saying I don't understand why this happened haha or that there aren't speculations to be made, I just always thought it was a bit funny and wanted to point it out.

@@MaddestMousse Simple answer is Denzel is a much bigger name and had a better shot at being nominated as a lead, so the studio campaigned him as a lead. But it is absolutely a supporting performance. I don't have an issue with it. It was like Marlon Brando in The Godfather or Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, it wasn't a lead performance but it was so captivating that it felt like one.

Yeah that sounds about right. I wouldn't say I have an issue with it either, it's just a little inaccurate.

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