Denzel Washington: Is he the worst actor who has been constantly nominated for an Oscar

He was okay in Glory, good call Dan, but his repetoire seems to be a smallish bag of tricks - and now he is moving into the face pulling field he is slowly becoming a parody. I'm willing to be disabused of this notion though.

(I've probably butchered that quote. This is what happens when you learn your Shakespeare via Black Adder.)

I think Ethan actually took all the roles clearly meant for Robert Sean Leonard.

lol old ilx contrarianism.

and jokes about killing celebrities

ethan calling "Family Matters" "Urkle" because a bunch of british people won't call him on it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwv655uA_Gw

"Any resemblance between father and son is purely.....hysterical"

Dan Perry did you ever see Training Day? It's about as stupid as it looks from the trailers but he manages to convince you pretty well as the movie goes along. Whatever he convinces you of doesn't really add up to much but, there you go.

Give him two big soliloquies and he is happy to mark time for the rest of the movie.

otm

he's ok in the great debaters but forest whitaker takes his shine off pretty well in their big scene together.

there's just something so uninvolved about his approach, like a little tumor of indifference that grows larger and recedes only every once in a while.

I liked him in Crimson Tide for some reason.

Dan Perry did you ever see Training Day?

Yeah, I did. It was okay as far as movies like that go and he was pretty good in it, but there's NO WAY he should have won an Oscar for that role.

He's the best thing in both Philadelphia and Inside Man. I skip the ones I can smell from the trailers (ie, 90% of his films).

whether you like his movie choices or not he's a pretty undeniably powerful screen presence...

like the hulk

original choice for 'john q'

it is v important to remember that Training Day is a comedy.

no worse than hanks or crowe, for sure.

way to set the bar

I like Russell Crowe.

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trying to think of other consistently nominated actors, tbh.

i like all three of them about equally. i don't think i've seen any of them set the screen alight in anything in the past five years.

Johnny Depp?

has he been nominated that often? he's more interesting, definitely.

He's been nominated at least 3 times (PotC, Finding Neverland, Sweeny Todd), probably more.

Depp was so good in the original POTC it wasn't even funny. Orlando Bloom doesn't belong on the same planet with the guy.

Dan is correct: three times.

i've not seen sweeney todd, don't plan to (burton hasn't really been any good since sleepy hollow for me). should i?

yeah, depp was great in PotC.

finding neverland looked really boring. would have been better with denzel in that role.

anyway, so yeah depp is definitely better than denzel. that's only one consistently-nommed actor.

Since 1980:

Daniel Day-Lewis has been nominated 4 times and has won once.
Michael Caine has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor twice.
Tom Cruise has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor once.
Robert De Niro has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times.
Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor once.
Robert Duvall has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times and Best Supporting Actor once.
Albert Finnet has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor once.
Morgan Freeman has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor twice.
Ed Harris has been nominated for Best Actor once and Best Supporting Actor 3 times.
Dustin Hoffman has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times.
Anthony Hopkins has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times and Best Supporting Actor once.
William Hurt has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times and Best Supporting Actor once.
Ben Kingsley has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor twice.
Martin Landau has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor 3 times.
Paul Newman has been nominated for Best Actor 4 times and Best Supporting Actor once.
Jack Nicholson has been nominated for Best Actor 4 times and Best Supporting Actor 3 times.
Peter O'Toole has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times.
Al Pacino has been nominated for Best Actor once and Best Supporting Actor twice.
Sean Penn has been nominated for Best Actor 4 times.
Geoffrey Rush has been nominated for Best Actor twice and Best Supporting Actor once.
Robin Williams has been nominated for Best Actor 3 times and Best Supporting Actor once.

THANK YOU, OSCARS DB

(obv left out Crowe (3 BA), Depp (3 BA inc this year) and Hanks (5 BA))

thanks, couldn't get that to d'load at work.

i'd argue that deniro, williams and cruise are significantly worse than washington from that list.

Well, now you can make you choice count!

Who is the worst actor to have been consistently nominated for an Oscar?

appreciated, and done!

Bronson Pinchot dishes:

Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bullshit of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it, and what that led to was the very next big movie that I did. I should have said to the producers, “You get that guy in line, or I’m out of here.” Life’s too short.... I’ve never taken abuse again. And I wasn’t vile or anything, it just ripped out of me. Denzel Washington cured me forever of thinking that there is any amount of money or anything that could ever, ever make it okay to be abused. The script supervisor on that movie said it’s like watching somebody kick a puppy. He was so vile. And after that, I just would never endure it again.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/bronson-pinchot%2C34310/