Training Day

…Washington in the crime drama Training Day, directed by Antoine Fuqua. Hawke’s performance as a police officer new to a corrupt narcotics squad earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He continued to collaborate with Linklater in the chamber piece Tape (2001), the ensemble-based Fast Food Nation (2006), and the…

…number of film credits, including Training Day (2001). The rapper lent his distinctive parlance to such animated series as The Boondocks and The Simpsons as well as the features Turbo (2013), The Addams Family (2019), The Addams Family 2 (2021), and The Garfield Movie (2024).

In Training Day (2001), Washington played a corrupt and violent police detective who is assigned a young police officer (Ethan Hawke) to teach. Washington’s menacing and charismatic performance earned him an Oscar for best actor, making him only the second African American actor (the first was…