
Angela and the Academy, Plus Sam Pollard on Documentary Filmmaking
Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay
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Don Cheadle Never Won an Oscar
Don Cheadle never won an Oscar before. You just want to ask in a movie where his performance, Love Will Smith to death. What would you say about the one Denzel won for? Training day, but Denzel won before then as well. That was his second best actor. People were saying he should have won for Malcolm X. The woman king was probably wasn't going to get rewarded by the academy. They only really reward slave movies where white people are in some way the hero. In 12 years of slave, they reward that movie. But if you remember in that movie, Brad Pitt ended up being a dude that passed the letter along and glory back to Broderick
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