Denzel Washington will be opening the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival with the European premiere of "The Equalizer", a film by Antoine Fuqua. The actor will receive the Donostia lifetime achievement award.

The Equalizer, a film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, will be opening out-of-competition the forthcoming San Sebastián Festival on the 19th of September. Actor and director will be presenting the film in the Kursaal Auditorium.

In 2001, Fuqua directed Training Day, a film starring Denzel Washington that has become a classic modern crime film. Thirteen years later, Washington and Fuqua once again join forces in this thriller that will be distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment and will be going on general release in Spain on the 17th of October.

His performance as the violent policeman Alonzo Harris in Antoine Fuqua’s film, Training Day, earned Washington the Oscar for best actor, a second statuette that came on top of another three nominations for best actor for Malcolm X, The Hurricane and Flight. He has won two Golden Globes (as best supporting actor for Glory and best actor for The Hurricane), and he has been nominated for this award on another five occasions. His talent has also been recognized at the Berlin Film Festival, where he won the Silver Bear for best actor in 1993 for Malcolm X and in 2000 for The Hurricane. In 2010 he also won the prestigious Tony Award for the play Fences, and he has won the Black Reel Award five times, an award that acknowledges the work of Afro-Americans in cinema. Among the numerous prizes and awards that he has received throughout his career, honorary awards such as the British Academy of Film and Television Britannia Award (BAFTA) or the Sundance Festival Tribute to Independent Vision Award also stand out.

During the opening gala the star of the film, Denzel Washington, will be presented with the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award.