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Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his dramatic roles on stage and screen, he is widely regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, with The New York Times declaring him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020. Over his career, he has received several accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Washington has been honoured with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2016, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022. After training at the American Conservatory Theatre, Washington began his career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway. He first came to prominence in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere (1982–1988) and in the war film A Soldier's Story (1984). He won two Academy Awards, his first for Best Supporting Actor for playing an American Civil War soldier in the war drama Glory (1989) and his second for Best Actor for playing a corrupt police officer in the crime thriller Training Day (2001). He was Oscar-nominated for his performances in Cry Freedom (1987), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), Flight (2012), Fences (2016), Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). A prominent leading man, Washington also acted in Mo' Better Blues (1990), Mississippi Masala (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Remember the Titans (2000), Man on Fire (2004), Inside Man (2006), American Gangster (2007), and The Equalizer trilogy (2014–2023). Washington directed and starred in the films Antwone Fisher (2002), The Great Debaters (2007), and Fences (2016). On stage, he has acted in productions of both Coriolanus (1979) and The Tragedy of Richard III (1990) at the Public Theater. He made his Broadway debut in the Ron Milner play Checkmates (1988). He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as a disillusioned working-class father in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences (2010). He has also acted in the Broadway revivals of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh (2018).
Bruce Wayne, multi-billionaire and son of one of the wealthiest families in Gotham City is also known as Batman, a vigilante and dark knight of Gotham. A gang war breaks out between Carmine Falcone and Sal Maroni due to the killing of one of each gang’s high ranking men to provoke chaos between the two factions. A masked man follows Batman and stalks him to learn his preferences, the way he fights, and who he really is under the mask. As the gang war escalated further, Batman saw more of this masked man and his watching of him. Finally, the masked man shows himself and challenges Batman to a fight and calls himself, “the bane of you existence” and Batman calls him Bane for short. Batman eventually gets his back broken over Bane’s knee and is left to die. Batman calls Alfred to come get him and bring him to the Batcave. Batman gets fixed up with a brace on his broken spine and matches the voice to a Diego Torres and owns a Sionis Industries warehouse on the docks in Otisburg. Before finding Bane, he takes on a whole group of thugs from both gangs before confronting Carmine Falcone with his newfound evidence to call off the gang war. Batman drives to the warehouse and catches Bane by surprise when he pulls him through the floor and into the basement. Batman beats Bane by cutting off his venom supply and beating him into the ground. He leaves Bsne hanging and gives him to Jim Gordon. The movie ends with a flying shot of Gotham with Batman narrating.
