“You don’t want an award to improve your status,” Hawke recalls Washington telling him the night he lost the Academy Award for ‘Training Day.’ “You want to improve the award’s status.”
Hawke, who lost to Jim Broadbent for Iris and would go on to lose three other Oscars —two for best adapted screenplay and another for best supporting actor in 2015’s Boyhood —recalled Washington’s next words of wisdom. “You don’t want an award to improve your status,” the actor reportedly told Hawke. “You want to improve the award’s status.” Hawke went on to say that he believes “The Academy Award has more power, because Denzel has a couple, adding, “It didn’t elevate who he was.
” The same night Washington gave Hawke advice, he collected his second Academy Award—winning best actor for Training Day after a victory in the best supporting actor category for 1989’s Glory. After comparing Washington to baseball giant Babe Ruth, Hawke said, “When all is said and done he’s the greatest actor of our generation.” And once that year’s awards show ended, Hawke had absorbed Washington’s perspective on Hollywood’s highest honor.
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