Denzel Washington reflected on the 2000 awards season — and noted that some people in Hollywood heard rumors about Kevin Spacey years before he was publicly accused of sexual misconduct — in a new essay for 'Esquire.

Denzel Washington reached for the bottle after losing out on the Academy Award for Best Actor to Kevin Spacey in 2000. The “Gladiator II” star, 69, who had already won an Oscar in 1989, received his fourth nomination for his role as Rubin Carter in the 1999 film,

Denzel Washington wasn't too pleased to lose the Best Actor Oscar to "American Beauty" star Kevin Spacey — so much so, in fact, that he felt bitterness over his "Hurricane" loss for years to come. The actor (who later won the top Oscar for "Training Day") revealed in an interview with Esquire published Tuesday that the resentment of the situation lasted "for about 15 years.