
Oscars flashback: Denzel Washington wins 2nd Oscar from gleeful Julia Roberts [Watch]

A gleeful Julia Roberts could hardly contain her excitement when announcing the Best Actor Oscar winner at the 2002 ceremony. After opening the envelope she declared, “I love my life” before saying the name of Denzel Washington for “Training Day.” Watch the video above.
Washington had presented an honorary Academy Award earlier in the ceremony to his acting idol Sidney Poitier. When accepting his second Oscar he said that he had been chasing Poitier for the past 40 years and he would “always be following in your footsteps.”
SEEOscars flashback: Denzel Washington beams in front of his mother winning Best Supporting Actor for ‘Glory’ [Watch]
Following his Oscar win for “Glory” at the 1990 ceremony, Washington went through the 1990s as an A-Lister making one hit movie after another. He added two more Oscar nominations to his record for the title role in “Malcolm X” (1992) and for playing wrongfully imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter in...
Washington had presented an honorary Academy Award earlier in the ceremony to his acting idol Sidney Poitier. When accepting his second Oscar he said that he had been chasing Poitier for the past 40 years and he would “always be following in your footsteps.”
SEEOscars flashback: Denzel Washington beams in front of his mother winning Best Supporting Actor for ‘Glory’ [Watch]
Following his Oscar win for “Glory” at the 1990 ceremony, Washington went through the 1990s as an A-Lister making one hit movie after another. He added two more Oscar nominations to his record for the title role in “Malcolm X” (1992) and for playing wrongfully imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter in...
- 2/27/2018
- by Jack Fields
- Gold Derby
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