Washington stars opposite Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth in the film directed by her husband, Joel Coen. "With Frances and Joel and a guy named Shakespeare, it's hard to say no," he said.

Meanwhile, Meryl Streep, whose feature film debut preceded Washington's by four years, continues to hold the most acting Oscar nominations of all time with 21 nods.

Film at Lincoln Center announces Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth as Opening Night of the 59th New York Film Festival, making its World Premiere at Alice Tully Hall on September 24.

2022 Oscars (1 of 33) Still, he is prolific. With this year's nomination, Washington has now been nominated for the Academy Awards in every decade since the 1980s.

Left-right: A film still from F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise" (1927) and Alex Hassell as Ross in a still from Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth." ...

Washington stars opposite Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth in the film directed by her husband, Joel Coen. "With Frances and Joel and a guy named Shakespeare, it's hard to say no," he said.

Joel Coen’s triumphant film of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” which just opened the New York Film Festival on its way to Apple TV+, is not the stodgy Shakespeare of a lit-class lecture.