Terry George Articles

Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte, Hotel Rwanda According to a Reuters report, Rwanda’s current Tutsi president Paul Kagame, who led the country’s counter-takeover to end the genocide, accused Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda of depicting a "falsehood," adding, "Some of the things actually attributed to this person [Paul Rusesabagina, played by Don Cheadle] are not true. Even those that are true do not merit the level of [...]

Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda, starring Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo, won the top Audience Award at the 2004 AFI FEST, held at the ArcLight theater complex at Sunset and Vine, in the heart of Hollywood. Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke’s Temporada de patos / Duck Season received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film in competition. The Jury Prize in the [...]

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 [...]