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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

Robbie Robertson
for Robbie Robertson in Spider-Man: The birth of the Goblin
Suggested by george_warner

After two years of trials, and after the beating he recieved from Peter Parker, Ben Parker's killer, a man called Cletus Kasady, has finnally been found, submited to judgement and found guilty for his murder. This means a great improvement in Peter's life, who has finished college and is working as a photographer at the Daily Bugle, and now is in a relationship with his former classmate, Gwen Stacy. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn, Harry Osborn (Peter's best friend)'s dad, is in a race against time, because he's been working on a biologic weapon project, and he has to deliever it to the government within two weeks, before his company, Oscorp, goes broke. Desperate times require desperate decisions, so Osborn decides to blackmail the warden of the prison in which Cletus is going to be executed, and manages to get him out of there, just to use him as a test subject for his experiment. The experiment goes terribly wrong, and the killer ends crazier than he originally was. With no other choice left, Norman decides to use the serum on himself, giving birth to a creature who's no longer a human being, but a hungry of destruction and chaos monster.