Actor: Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle was nominated for Best Actor for Hotel Rwanda, playing Paul Rusesabagina as a hotel manager whose professional competence becomes a moral instrument, which is a difficult thing to sustain.
He came up through Boogie Nights and Devil in a Blue Dress, where his Mouse is genuinely alarming, and worked through the Ocean’s films and the Marvel series as War Machine.
Talk to Me and Traffic show the range, and he has directed once, the Miles Davis film Miles Ahead, which he also co-wrote and financed with difficulty.
He is a consistently better actor than his filmography’s shape suggests, having taken a great deal of ensemble and supporting work.
