{"id":44959,"date":"2016-01-11T14:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T19:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=44959"},"modified":"2016-01-11T14:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T19:27:31","slug":"denzel-washington-honored-at-the-golden-globe-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=44959","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington Honored At The Golden Globe Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Denzel Washington received the Cecil B. DeMille Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oscar-winning actor, producer and director Denzel Washington received the 2016 Cecil B. DeMille Award Sunday (Jan. 9) at the Golden Globe Awards. The honor is bestowed on members of the entertainment community who have made\u00a0several outstanding contributions to the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington\u2019s long and storied career is earmarked by his countless roles in front and behind the\u00a0camera,\u201d said the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Lorenzo Soria. \u201cIt is the HFPA\u2019s privilege to honor his contributions to the entertainment industry with the Cecil B. DeMille Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington, 61, has won two Academy Awards (<em>Glory<\/em> and <em>Training Day<\/em>) out of six nominations, and has won two Golden Globes (<em>Glory<\/em> and <em>The Hurricane<\/em>) out of\u00a0seven nominations (excluding his new honor). He often expounds on the levels of his talents by taking on new roles through producing or directing. He directed the films <em>Antwone Fisher <\/em>(2002) and <em>The Great Debaters<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Other than his obvious talents, Washington is just a good person. He has worked with the\u00a0Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of America, West Los Angeles Church of God in Christ, Fisher House Foundation, Children\u2019s Fund of South Africa and donates to his\u00a0alma mater, Fordham University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denzel Washington received the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Oscar-winning actor, producer and director Denzel Washington received the 2016 Cecil B. DeMille Award Sunday (Jan. 9) at the Golden Globe Awards. The honor is bestowed on members of the entertainment community who have made\u00a0several outstanding contributions to the industry. \u201cWashington\u2019s long and storied career is earmarked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}