Denzel Washington was mad that he lost two Oscars

Denzel Washington was “bitter” about missing out on two Best Actor Oscars, so he stopped voting in the Oscars and had a “pity party.”

The star of “Training Day” won his first Oscar for “Glory” in 1989 as Best Supporting Actor. But he lost the Best Actor award for “Malcolm X” to Al Pacino as “Scent of a Woman” in 1993, and he lost again in 2000 when he was nominated for “Hurricane” and Kevin Spacey won for “American Beauty.” Denzel says it was a tough loss.

“At the Oscars, they called Kevin Spacey’s name for ‘American Beauty,'” he told Esquire magazine. When I remember turning around to look at him, there was no one else standing but the people around him. 

“And everyone else looked at me.” It wasn’t like this. That might have been how I saw it. It’s possible that I thought everyone was looking at me. Why do you think everyone is looking at me? I don’t think they were, now that I think about it.

“That night, I’m sure I went home and drank.” I had to. I don’t want to sound like I said, “Oh, he won my Oscar” or something. That wasn’t how it was.”

He got his wife to vote for the winners instead because he didn’t like the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences anymore.

He also said, “There was a time when my wife Pauletta would watch all the Oscar movies. I told her, ‘I don’t care about that.'” Hey. They don’t care about me? It doesn’t bother me. You pick. You watch them. I’m not going to watch that.

“I gave up.” I turned mean. “My sad party.”

In just two years, though, Denzel made a big comeback when he won the coveted Best Actor Oscar for his part in “Training Day.” Since then, he has been nominated for four more Oscars for “Flight,” “Fences,” “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” and “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”