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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).
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Batman: Dark War is a 2022 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman and inspired by the Injustice comics and the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Produced by DC Films and RatPac-Dune Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the first film in the DC Blood War Universe. Directed by Lexi Alexander, who wrote the screenplay with Zack Snyder, the film stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Elizabeth Olsen, Peter Sarsgaard, James McAvoy, Jim Caviezel, Natalie Portman, Denzel Washington, Jaimie Alexander, Anya Taylor-Joy, Timothèe Chalamet, Sterling K. Brown, and Patrick Stewart. Batman: Dark War was released on October 26th, 2022; it received overwhelmingly positive reviews upon release, with critics praising the visual effects, direction, screenplay, action sequences, the serious and dark tone, musical score, performances (particularly from Morgan, Olsen, Sarsgaard and Caviezel) and the emotionally thematic elements. The film was a box-office success and performed far above expectations, grossing $791 million worldwide. Two sequels are in development, while a film focusing on Livewire is scheduled to be released on 2024.
