Jeffrey Wright was nominated for Best Actor for American Fiction, playing a novelist whose satire of the publishing industry becomes a bestseller, after three decades of consistently excellent supporting work.
Basquiat gave him an early lead, and Angels in America won him an Emmy for a role he had already won a Tony playing.
Westworld, the Bond films and The Batman fill out the commercial run, and he has been consistently outspoken on political matters.
Benedict CumberbatchWhat If...? Season 1 (2021) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. An anthology is the correct form for a franchise this size, because each episode can end somewhere unrecoverable. The Doctor Strange episode is the darkest thing…
Daniel Craig2006 Martin Campbell Bond film with Daniel Craig's debut. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, Le Chiffre poker tournament, franchise hard reboot.
Jeffrey WrightRide with the Devil is Ang Lee's overlooked Civil War film. Tobey Maguire plays Jake Roedel, the son of a German immigrant in western Missouri who joins a Confederate guerrilla band more out of loyalty to his friends than out…
Jake GyllenhaalDuncan Jones's time travel thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal in eight-minute consciousness-transfer repetitions. The ending raises the entire production.
Anthony HopkinsWestworld Season 1 is near-perfect science fiction television. The other three seasons are a masterclass in how prestige TV destroys itself.
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