On Denzel Washington's Enduring Stardom
The <em>Fences</em> actor might collect his third Oscar this year, an achievement only attained by a handful of Hollywood’s biggest icons.
The list of actors who have won three Oscars is vanishingly short. Walter Brennan (a character actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age), Jack Nicholson, and Daniel Day-Lewis are the only men to do it, with Meryl Streep, Katherine Hepburn (who won four), and Ingrid Bergman the only women. Awards season can be fickle, sometimes memorializing films and performances that don’t linger in the public eye, but multiple wins are rare enough that they usually cement an actor’s iconic status in the industry. This year’s Oscars are a mostly decided affair, with expected to sweep the major categories, but there’s one top award that
