Saltzman Sees...Talk to Me (2007)

Talk to Me won my Best Supporting Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Best Supporting Actress (Taraji P. Henson) and was nominated for my Best Actor (Don Cheadle) in 2007.

Saltzman Sees...Crash (2004)

Crash was my Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Paul Haggis), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Pena) and Best Supporting Actress (Thandie Newton)

Saltzman Sees...A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

A Lesson Before Dying stars Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson and Mekhi Phifer. Tyson is always brilliant, but Cheadle gives another masterful performance for HBO.  He was tremendous as Earl Manigault in Rebound three years earlier, and he is again magnificent as Grant Wiggins.  This was a novel and a teleplay before becoming an HBO Movie and is certainly adapted well to the screen.  Very much like Dead Man Walking, which got much acclaim, Wiggins is asked to help a man on death row.  With the racial tension of the 1940's and a young black man in jail for killing a white man, Wiggins becomes the only person willing to help.

Saltzman Sees...Rebound (1996)

Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault is a true story of the greatest basketball player nobody got to see play.  Manigault, played by Don Cheadle, became legendary for his play at Rucker Park in New York.  However, he became a drug addict and wasn't ever able to pursue any dreams of playing basketball professionally.  It is a tragic look at the young life of "The Goat" but in the end it is the story of redemption and recovery.  James Earl Jones, Forrest Whitaker and Loretta Devine are all terrific in Eriq La Salle's directorial debut for HBO.

Eriq La Salle won my Best Director of 1996.

The TV Movie did not win any awards.  It is not even the most well-known movie named Rebound, ever since Martin Lawrence came out with a comedy of the same name in 2005.