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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).
Denzel Washington
Hank Elway
for Hank Elway in Gameball: Future Sport
Suggested by jakubduda
The film takes place in the future. The whole world is ruled by one sport that combines American football and basketball, namely Gameball. It is played since 2025 with a football ball, which is also round in the middle and you can dribble, it´s also played with the rules of these sports, but it´s very contact and hard, played 10 vs 10. The sport was invented by Hank Elway, he also founded the first team Denver Marlins, he played there and won with them first five seasons and then another five titles over the next 10 years, also reached record 2,250 Touchballs/750 matches. there were other champs, as Boston Indians, LA Patriots, Paris Musketeers, Chicago Deers and SF Bulls. Elway didn´t start in 16th Season (2041) and decided to end career, then by Dimitri Maximov, captain of Moscow Red Star, ridiculed him and said that Elway decided to end his career only because he is old and they haven´t chance beat Moscow. Moscow won this season, and then the red stars have won every season. After winning five titles, they became unstoppable (2045), Marlins where eventually disbanded, Moscow ruled Gameball for another 4 years. 2049, after the 9th Title, they declared it´s time for world to forget about Marlins. Elway trying to find talents to form new Marlins with trident on jersey and returns them to league, they´re outsiders, and ridiculed by Moscow. The team won hearts of public. In Play-off, they defeated the best from all continents, the played final against Moscow and won.
