Denzel Washington has admitted he “got bitter” and “gave up” on the Oscars after he lost to Kevin Spacey in 2000.
The actor had been nominated for a Best Actor award for his performance as Rubin Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder, in The Hurricane, but was beaten to the prize by Spacey, who won it for playing Lester Burnham, an ad exec who has a midlife crisis in American Beauty.
