Who's The Bigger Star? Part 8

Here is a fun post where a compare two actors/actresses, sports stars, TV personalities, etc against each other and determine who is the bigger star.  Let's see who wins this time:

Denzel Washington v. Morgan Freeman

Denzel Washington

• Biggest Role:  Malcolm X
• My Favorite Role:  I have no idea.
• Top Earning Movie:  American Gangster ($130.2 million)
• Biggest Flop:  Basically anything he's done in the past 5 or 6 years.
• Awards:  6 Academy Award Nomination (2 Wins), 7 Golden Globe Nomination (2 Wins), 2 Emmy Nominations (0 Wins)
• Career:  Apparently, Denzel got his start on St. Elsewhere, which I've heard of but have never seen.  Then he got his big break in Glory and for a solid decade, he was Hollywood's go-to black leading man with movies like Malcolm X, Philadelphia, and Training Day.  However, for the past decade he has done a lot of random garbage with a couple of decent movies sprinkled in there.  Up next, he is doing a movie called The Equalizer that has a plot that sounds exactly like Man on Fire.

Morgan Freeman

• Biggest Role:  Hoke Colburn from Driving Miss Daisy
• My Favorite Role:  Easy, Red from The Shawshank Redemption
• Top Earning Movie:  The Dark Knight ($534.9 million)
• Biggest Flop:  Tough call, but I'm going with his part in Wanted, that movie sucked hard.
• Awards:  5 Academy Award Nomination (1 Win), 6 Golden Globe Nomination (2 Wins)
• Career:  Come on, it's Morgan Freeman, do I really need to go over his incredible career?  Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption, Se7en, The Dark Knight Trilogy, he's amazing and we all know it.

I know, I'm comparing two black guys for this post, that's kind of the point of this thing, to compare two similar actors' careers.  And for this one, I at first thought it would go to Denzel hands down mostly because he was such a huge actor during his prime.  But sadly, his career has gone downhill recently (seriously, 2 Guns?) and Morgan Freeman is still going strong after 40 years in the business.  Look at it this way, Denzel has only one movie in production and Morgan has six.  Just for that stat alone, I'm going with Morgan Freeman.

"And Morgan agrees with me."