They say it's an honor just to be nominated, but Denzel Washington admits he felt 'bitter' after losing the Oscar for Best Actor to Kevin Spacey in 2000: 'I'm sure I went home and drank that night.'
, he had yet to snag a win in the Best Actor category. "I have a memory of turning around and looking at , and nobody was standing but the people around him. And everyone else was looking at me," Washington said. "Not that itlike everybody was looking at me. Because why would everybody be looking at me? Thinking about it now, I don't think they were."
Washington admitted that the sting of that particular loss stayed with him. "I'm sure I went home and drank that night. I had to," he said. "I don't want to sound like, 'Oh, he won my Oscar,' or anything like that. It wasn't like that."When Oscar season rolled back around, Washington had no interest in watching the films and submitting his votes as an Academy member.
"I told her, 'I don't care about that. Hey: They don't care about me? I don't care. You vote. You watch them. I ain't watching that,'" he said. "I gave up. I got bitter. My pity party." Referencing his decision to get sober, he added, "For about fifteen years, from 1999 to 2014 when I put the beverage down, I was bitter."But while the sting stayed with him for a decade and a half, it was just two years after the 2000 loss that Washington finally won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for the cop drama.
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