Denzel Washington

Actor Mykelti Williamson has been in 100s of films but that didn’t stop the Missouri native from considering retirement. The Tom Joyner Morning Show talked to Williamson about why he considered quitting, his early influences, working in the stage and film productions of Fences, the secret behind Viola Davis‘ powerful scenes, and Denzel Washington‘s directing […]

The rising chorus for “La La Land” is suddenly missing a very conspicuous note. The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild nominations, announced Wednesday in West Hollywood, California, included nominations for the leads of Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed musical, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. But the perceived Oscar front-runner was notably absent in the SAGs’ top category, […]

  Fences tells the story of an African American father (Denzel Washington) struggling with race relations in the United State while trying to raise his family (Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo) in the 1950s. Jovan talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about how he landed the critically acclaimed role and what it was like working with Washington […]

This second sneak peek highlights more of Davis' performance, which has been hailed as a "masterpiece of quiet grace."

Is Viola Davis on her way to another Oscar?

Denzel Washington and his wife Pauletta have been Black love goals for decades – but rumors are swirling that their relationship may not be so picture perfect.

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis give Oscar-worthy performances in the trailer for 'Fences.'

Ahead of its Christmas Day release nationwide, Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Denzel Washington’s “Fences,” based on August Wilson’s 1987 play. The trailer sees Washington as Pittsburgh garbage collector Troy Maxson – the lead role that won him a Tony Award in 2010 – launching into the memorable “How come you ain’t […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Movie stars don’t open movies anymore? Tell that to Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks. The pair, once co-stars in “Philadelphia,” have together dominated the last three weeks of the box office. After Clint Eastwood’s Miracle on the Hudson docudrama “Sully,” starring Hanks as Captain Chesley Sullenberger, topped ticket sales of the […]

Denzel Washington was asked about the meme of his mustached face that has flooded the Internet since May of 2015. At the time, Washington was in production on his current film The Magnificent Seven – a western that required him to grow a handlebar mustache – when he attended the Manny Pacquiao/Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight in Las […]

TORONTO (AP) — The 41st Toronto International Film Festival got underway Thursday with Antoine Fuqua’s remake of “The Magnificent Seven,” an old-school Western with more modern faces. The film’s Thursday night premiere kicked off North America’s largest film festival, which is set to unspool some 300 films over the next 10 days. On tap are […]

Denzel Washington is circling the lead role in “Inner City,” a legal drama billed as a character study in the vein of Paul Newman’s 1982 classic “The Verdict,” according to Variety.   Dan Gilroy will direct from his own script about a lawyer (Washington) in an ambulance-chasing firm who takes over when his boss falls […]