Screenrush Essentials... Denzel Washington

Two time Oscar winner Denzel Washington has carved a career that will see him immortalised in the history of Hollywood. Intense, intelligent and charismatic though sometimes diffident, here is an actor who dominates whatever movie he appears in: a statement especially true as regards his latest film Flight. Robert Zemeckis's first live-action movie since god-knows when is a sober character study of an airline pilot who goes from hero to zero after his miraculous efforts to land his malfunctioning passenger jet safely is discovered by Federal investigators to have been performed under the influence of an intoxicating cocktail of drugs and about half a gallon of Smirnoff. We thought the occassion of its release and his thoroughly deserved fifth Best Actor nomination would be a perfect time to take a look back over this great actor's career.