Denzel Washington Says There Were Rumors About Kevin Spacey Decades Ago: 'That's Between Him and God'

Denzel has received Oscar nominations across 6 decades. That's quite something.

What if he doesn’t believe in a “maker?”

Has Kevin Spacey vacated his Bal’mer property yet?

We been knew

American Beauty won every top prize except Best Actress. These were the days when the BP winner was always a big hit. Spacey benefited from this.

Washington did win at the Globes.

Denzel been running that mouth a lot lately. He on his Quincy Jones shit.

What I want to know is did Diane know?

In retrospect Spacey’s performance seems less brilliant because he was essentially playing a straight version of himself 😂.

It’s between him and God but then Washington goes on and on-maybe Denzel is God? He used to be a God…

I want nothing to do with Kevin Spacey.

R9 No he’s pointing out the hypocrisy of Hollywood. Notice that with someone like puffy mad people are tryna indict every black personal in the industry. You bitches here do it. What about Kevin Stacey’s friends. What about Harvey Weinstein’s friends. You don’t even hear it. The coverups and those associations with their peers. Because complexion for the protection. But with blacks they all guilty. That’s why Trump won.

Mafukin' Denzel Washinton done did talk bout dat Spacey man

[quote] What if he doesn’t believe in a “maker?”

That, too, is between him and his Maker.

A broken clock is right twice a day. Congratulations, r11.

Didn’t Spacey move on over to team trump now that he’s officially a sex offender- it is a prerequisite you know.

[quote] American Beauty won every top prize except Best Actress.

A grave oversight. Not even Bening's finest performance but I would not have guessed she'd still be Oscar-less 25 years later. After Glenn, she is the Academy's biggest embarassment.

r16 who beat her?

"I am just another entitled, pompous asshole of limited talent with nothing of value to say."

R17, you know who, gurl!!!

Even in print, Denzel bores me so.

There was no way Bening was winning over Swank that year.

Ooo Boys Don’t Cry. Nah she wasn’t better than Hillary Swank in that.

I thought that movie (and everyone's performance) was so overrated. No wonder Denzel drank that night.

Hillary Swank should be stripped of her Oscar for transphobia and Elliot Page should be digitally created in the role instead.

No love for Spacey here, but gawd Denzel sounds insufferable.

R21 Bening won at SAG. I picked Swank to win, but there was a big chance Bening could take the Oscar too. Considering how AB cleaned up in the top awards that year. To say no way isn’t accurate. The film has aged like shit. In retrospect Bening deserved to win and not Spacey.

R25 true. Washington knows how the Oscars work. It’s timing and luck. He goes on to say they didn’t appreciate him and let his wife fill out the annual ballot. Fuck man you already won once. He did some of his best work in the 90s, but doesn’t bitch about losing to Pacinos career award. Glenn Close is really not appreciated going home 8 times empty handed. My heart doesn’t bleed for you Denzel.

R26 -

He has won 2 Oscars: Supporting (Glory Days) and Best (Training Days)

He should have won for Malcolm X

Denzel is a homophobic asshole.

R27 he had won once at the time he lost to Spacey.

All this talk about God. What does his Maker think of Denzel's notorious womanizing? The man has spent decades cheating on his wife.

Denzel& Spacy are both predator assholes!!

I don’t know her.

R28 Any receipts? Did he drop F bombs around his children like Matt Damon?

R31 why bring feminism back 50 years?

R27 Glory and Training Day

He was never going to win the year in question, brilliant as he was in The Hurricane. That year was ALL about American Beauty. I'm surprised he's surprised he lost.

He also should not have won for Glory or Training Day. I bet he'd love to hear someone say that to his face.

That said, I do think in most other years he'd have deservedly won for The Hurricane, and he should have won for Malcolm X too, but that was the year of Al Pacino finally getting his due.

So much of this stuff depends on luck and timing.

R36 Perhaps he thought maybe the Academy wanted to mend itself of its 30 year streak and award him the Oscar rather than the guy they knew were groping their teenage sons once they left the room to get coffee lol.

Rome if you want to, Rome around the world

Everyone knows about your side of the street, Denzel. In fact, you used to be pretty good at taking it bareback a few streets down from the piers in New York around 1983 ;)

R39 Please spill the tea if you aren’t lying. Was he on drugs back then?

When Denzel Washington won the Oscar for Training Day, that was not supposed to happen, as Russell Crowe was winning all of the post Oscar awards for Best Actor (BAFTA, SAG, Golden Globe & Critic's Choice) for A Beautiful Mind. Two things happened during voting: RC was being quite obnoxious (being a prickly a-hole during interviews, and when he won at the SAG awards, he was going to read a poem, but he was cut off. He angrily threatened a crew member backstage afterward) and during an interview, Julia Roberts, who had won Best Actress the year before and had shot the Pelican Brief with DW, spoke glowingly about working with him and how he was such an excellent act and it was a shame that he had been nominated more than once and had yet to win a Best Actor statue.

On Oscar night 2002, A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress.

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R41. Also people have to remember the Oscars are so prestigious, it’s part legacy award. It’s hard to be nominated once for leading actor let alone 3 times in a single decade. Denzel was well liked and the Academy knew it was the year to break the 40 something gap between the last time a black male won. It’s funny because after Halle won, every black family was like well Denzel is going to be 0-3. And then he actually won.

On the same night that Sidney Poitier was given a special Oscar.

Such a touching moment:

Wasn't that also the year Russell Crowe threw a phone at a bellboy? He totally fucked up his chances.

Just like Eddie Murphy a few years later for Dreamgirls.

R45 I think that happened a few years after that Oscars. He hadn’t gone full cray cray yet.

Russel Crowe had just won the previous year for Gladiator. It is very hard to win 2 consecutive years in a row.

You are so right (*eye roll*)

r48 Hard not impossible.

I remember Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, and others raving about his performance in Training Day. His Hollywood peers felt it was his time to win that year.

[quote]Wasn't that also the year Russell Crowe threw a phone at a bellboy?

The YEAR? I do that every time I check into a hotel.