Sophie Okonedo Articles

Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein isn't at all happy his film Las razones del corazón / The Reasons of the Heart failed to win the Golden Shell at the 2011 edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival a couple of weeks ago. As quoted in the Mexican publication La Jornada (via the Basque publication Vara), Ripstein has lashed out against the festival and its 2011 jury, [...]

HOTEL RWANDA (2004) Direction: Terry George Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, Neil McCarthy, Jean Reno Screenplay: Keir Pearson and Terry George Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Sophie Okonedo, Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda In the second quarter of 1994, while much of the world was gearing up to the World Cup to be held in Los Angeles, one of history's [...]

Sophie Okonedo in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin tells the factually inspired (and quite curious) story of Sandra Laing (Hotel Rwanda's Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo as an adult; Ella Ramangwane as child), the "black" daughter of "white" Afrikaner parents (veterans Sam Neill and Alice Krige), who until then — South Africa in [...]

Sophie Okonedo, Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda Based on the true story of a hotel manager who saved hundreds of lives during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda has won the People's Choice award at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival. In the film, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) saves the lives of those hiding in his establishment by bribing military officers with [...]