"Jamie Foxx Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, and comedian. For his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film ""Ray"", he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film ""Collateral"". Since spring 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive"
"Collateral (film) Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. It stars Tom Cruise as Vincent and Jamie Foxx as Max. The film also features Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo. ""Collateral"" was released in the United States on August 6, 2004 and grossed $217 million worldwide. The film received positive reviews from critics, and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2004. Cruise and Foxx's performances were widely praised, with Foxx being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting"
"""Billboard"" Hot 100, remaining there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx featured on the single ""Georgia"" by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob, which sampled Ray Charles' hit ""Georgia on My Mind"". Foxx would also portray Ray Charles in the biographical film ""Ray"" (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Foxx is the third male in history (after Barry Fitzgerald and Al Pacino) to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, ""Collateral"" and ""Ray"". In 2005, Foxx was invited"
"in widescreen-only on both formats. Collateral (film) Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Michael Mann and written by Stuart Beattie. It stars Tom Cruise as Vincent and Jamie Foxx as Max. The film also features Jada Pinkett Smith and Mark Ruffalo. ""Collateral"" was released in the United States on August 6, 2004 and grossed $217 million worldwide. The film received positive reviews from critics, and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2004. Cruise and Foxx's performances were widely praised, with Foxx being nominated for the"
"Ray (film) Ray is a 2004 American musical biographical film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was written, produced, and directed by Taylor Hackford, and stars Jamie Foxx in the title role. Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics' Choice awards, becoming the second actor to win all five major lead actor awards for the same performance, and the only one to win the Golden Globe in the Musical or Comedy (rather"
"appeared in the second season of ""My Step Kidz"". Powell was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Mayfair Mansions in Northeast D.C. Powell is a graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Powell was married to Kimberly, with whom he has two children. Clifton Powell Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor, who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in ""Ray"" (2004), for which he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nomination. Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the"
"to a scene showing him taking up piano grudgingly, and a scene implying that Charles had shown mistress and lead ""Raelette"" Margie Hendricks how to shoot heroin. ""Ray"" debuted at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival. ""Ray"" was released in theaters on October 29, 2004. The film went on to become a box-office hit, earning $75 million in the U.S. with an additional $50 million internationally, bringing its worldwide gross to $125 million. The film received mostly positive reviews, with most of the praise going to Jamie Foxx's performance for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor"
"Clifton Powell Clifton Powell (born March 16, 1956) is an American actor, who primarily plays supporting roles in films, such as in ""Ray"" (2004), for which he received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture nomination. Powell has appeared in more than one hundred films, beginning in the 1980s. His credits include ""Menace II Society"" (1993), ""Dead Presidents"" (1995), ""Why Do Fools Fall in Love"" (1998), ""Rush Hour"" (1998), ""Next Friday"" (2000), and its 2002 sequel, ""Friday After Next"", ""Woman Thou Art Loosed"" (2004), and ""Ray"" (2004). He played Martin Luther King, Jr. in the"
"She replaced DJ October Gonzalez from the first season of the show. Jamie Foxx Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, record producer, and comedian. For his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film ""Ray"", he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film"
"a musical film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Latifah herself received the nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role, but lost to co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones. Latifah is one of five hip-hop/R&B artists to receive an Academy Award nomination in an acting category. The others are Will Smith (Best Actor, ""Ali"", 2001, and ""The Pursuit of Happyness"", 2006), Jennifer Hudson (Best Supporting Actress, ""Dreamgirls"", 2007), Jamie Foxx, (Best Actor, ""Ray"", and Best Supporting Actor ""Collateral"", both in 2004, also winning the first) and Mary J. Blige, (Best Supporting Actress, Mudbound. In 2003, she starred with Steve Martin"
"credits state that ""Ray"" is based on true events, but includes some characters, names, locations, and events which have been changed and others which have been ""fictionalized for dramatization purposes."" Examples of the fictionalized scenes include: Ray (film) Ray is a 2004 American musical biographical film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was written, produced, and directed by Taylor Hackford, and stars Jamie Foxx in the title role. Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors"
"2004 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 39th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 9 January 2005, honored the best in film for 2004. (see 2004 National Society of Film Critics Awards nominees). 1. Million Dollar Baby (50)<br> 2. ""Sideways"" (44)<br> 3. ""Before Sunset"" (28) 1. Zhang Yimou – ""House of Flying Daggers"" (""Shi mian mai fu"") and ""Hero"" (""Ying xiong"") (33)<br> 2. Alexander Payne – ""Sideways"" (31)<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Million Dollar Baby"" (30) 1. Jamie Foxx – ""Ray"" and ""Collateral"" (31)<br> 2. Paul Giamatti – ""Sideways"" (29)<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Million Dollar Baby"""
"226 reviews. The critical consensus states that ""Driven by director Michael Mann's trademark visuals and a lean, villainous performance from Tom Cruise, ""Collateral"" is a stylish and compelling noir thriller."" On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 41 reviews. Tom Cruise went on to garner critical acclaim, while Foxx received several award nominations. Richard Roeper placed ""Collateral"" as his 10th favorite film of 2004. The film was voted as the 9th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of ""Los Angeles Times"" writers and editors"
"Best Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. His other films include the satire film ""Buffalo Soldiers"" (2001), the science fiction thriller ""Signs"" (2002), the animated film ""Brother Bear"" (2003), the historical drama film ""Hotel Rwanda"" (2004), the psychological thriller ""The Village"" (2004), the documentary ""Earthlings"" (2005), the romantic drama ""Two Lovers"" (2008), the drama ""The Immigrant"" (2013), the romantic science fiction drama ""Her"" (2013), the crime comedy-drama film ""Inherent Vice"" (2014), and the thriller ""You Were Never Really Here"" (2017), for which he won the Cannes"
"10th Critics' Choice Awards The 10th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2005, honoring the finest achievements of 2004 filmmaking. ""' Jamie Foxx – ""Ray"" ""' Hilary Swank – ""Million Dollar Baby"" ""' ""The Incredibles"" ""' ""Sideways"" ""' Howard Shore – ""The Aviator"" ""' Martin Scorsese – ""The Aviator"" ""' ""Fahrenheit 9/11"" ""' ""Finding Neverland"" ""' ""The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)"" • Spain ""' ""Sideways"" ""' ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"" ""' ""Spider-Man 2"" ""' ""Old Habits Die Hard"" – ""Alfie"" ""Ray"" ""' Thomas Haden Church – ""Sideways"" ""' Virginia Madsen – ""Sideways"" ""' Alexander Payne"
"nominated for seven Academy Awards as a result, including a nomination for Mann's direction. With his next film, ""Ali"" (2001), starring Will Smith, he started experimenting with digital cameras, while Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. For his crime film ""Collateral"", which cast Tom Cruise against type by giving him the role of a hitman, Mann shot all of the exterior scenes digitally so that he could achieve more depth and detail during the night scenes while shooting most of the interiors on film stock. In 2004, Mann produced ""The Aviator"", based on the life of"
"and Jim Taylor – ""Sideways"" ""' Freddie Highmore – ""Finding Neverland"" ""' Emmy Rossum – ""The Phantom of the Opera"" 10th Critics' Choice Awards The 10th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 10, 2005, honoring the finest achievements of 2004 filmmaking. ""' Jamie Foxx – ""Ray"" ""' Hilary Swank – ""Million Dollar Baby"" ""' ""The Incredibles"" ""' ""Sideways"" ""' Howard Shore – ""The Aviator"" ""' Martin Scorsese – ""The Aviator"" ""' ""Fahrenheit 9/11"" ""' ""Finding Neverland"" ""' ""The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)"" • Spain ""' ""Sideways"" ""' ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"" ""' ""Spider-Man 2"" ""' ""Old"
"Academy award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 for his role as Jack in ""Sideways"" (2004), two Golden Globe award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for the film Sideways (2003), and 2007 for the miniseries ""Broken Trail"" (2006), won a Primetime Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie in 2007 for ""Broken Trail"", received one of three Screen Actors Guild award nominations in 2005 for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture for ""Sideways"" (2004). Thomas Haden Church Thomas Haden Church (born Thomas Richard McMillen, June 17, 1960) is an American actor,"
"In 2016, he played Ray, a menacing Texan, in Tom Ford's thriller ""Nocturnal Animals"". For the role, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. Johnson also became first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor winner since Richard Benjamin who did not receive an Academy Award nomination. For the role he also received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 2017, he played an American soldier (alongside John Cena) in Doug Liman's thriller ""The Wall"", and in 2018 he will appear in ""Outlaw King"", an American-British historical"
"as one of the top 10 films of 2007. The board also named Casey Affleck as Best Supporting Actor in the film. The San Francisco Film Critics Circle named ""The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"" as the Best Picture of 2007. The circle also awarded Affleck as best supporting actor for the film. Affleck was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for the 65th Golden Globe Awards. The film received two Academy Award nominations for the 80th Academy Awards. Affleck was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and"
"Empire Award and Satellite Award nominations. In 2001, he teamed up again with Soderbergh for the star-studded caper film ""Ocean's Eleven"", alongside Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and many others. The film was followed by two sequels starring Clooney, ""Ocean's Twelve"" in 2004 and ""Ocean's Thirteen"" in 2007. He has also appeared in ""Solaris"" (2002), ""Welcome To Collinwood"" (2002), ""Intolerable Cruelty"" (2003), ""Syriana"" (2005), for which he was rewarded with a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, ""The Good German"" (2006), ""Michael Clayton"" (2007), ""Burn After Reading"" (2008), ""Up in the Air"" (2009), for the latter earning an Academy Award nomination."
"Worst Picture, also receiving Worst Director and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Eddie Redmayne received Worst Supporting Actor for ""Jupiter Ascending"", while Kaley Cuoco received Worst Supporting Actress for """" and ""The Wedding Ringer"". The Razzie Redeemer Award, given to former Razzie winners and nominees for quality work in film, was given to Sylvester Stallone for his Oscar-nominated role in ""Creed"" after receiving seven Razzie awards in the past. The winners were announced via parody sketches; one of them was performed by an impersonation of Donald Trump, who won Worst Supporting Actor at the 11th Golden Raspberry Awards in"
"Me"" ""' ""Collateral"" ""' ""Hotel Rwanda"" ""' ""Sideways"" ""' ""The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)"" • Spain ""Napoleon Dynamite"" – John Swihart ""' ""Million Voices"" written by Jerry Duplessis, Andrea Guerra and Wyclef Jean – ""Hotel Rwanda"" ""' ""Million Dollar Baby"" – Paul Haggis ""' ""Ray"" – James L. White ""' ""Collateral"" ""' Christopher Walken – ""Around the Bend"" ""' Thomas Haden Church – ""Sideways"" ""' Gena Rowlands – ""The Notebook"" ""' Regina King – ""Ray"" ""' ""The Aviator"" (TIE) ""' ""House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)"" (TIE) Sideways ""' Matthew Fox – ""Lost"" ""' Jason Bateman – ""Arrested"
"Ray, directed, shot, produced and acted in. The film won the Platinum Remi award at the Houston Worldfest International Film Festival, Best of the Fest at Gulf Coast Film Festival, Best Foreign Film at Alexandria Film Festival, Best Film at Bare Bones Film Festival where San received an Indie Auteur award. In summer 2011, San co-produced the film ""Inside Out"" with producing partner and writer Brian Stewart. A month later, he wrote and directed the film The Nowhere Son starring Soumitra Chatterjee, and himself in the lead. Eminent movie critic Joe Leydon named the film in his list of 'Five"
"""The Pacific Between"", which won a 2006 IPPY Book Award (Multicultural Adult Fiction). Other publications include the ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"", the ""Writers Post Journal"", the ""Deepening"", ""Stories of Strength"", and his film column has appeared in ""Actors Ink"", Talk Entertainment, Cleveland.com, Boston.com, and Cincinnati.com. Ray, a Chinese American, was born as Raymond Kin Wong. He grew up in Hong Kong, and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with honor. Later, he studied Creative Writing at UCLA. He became interested in acting and writing in college. Raymond K. Wong Raymond Kin Wong is an American actor and writer. He is the author"
"James Colby James Leo Colby (September 21, 1961 – February 23, 2018) was an American actor in film, television and stage. Colby appeared in multiple Broadway plays and few stage productions in Connecticut. Colby was notable for his film roles in ""The Peacemaker"" (1997), ""Tower Heist"" (2011), ""Safe"" (2012), ""The Amazing Spider-Man 2"" (2014) and in ""Patriots Day"" (2016). In television, he was known for his role as Sergeant Ray Dwyer in ""Chicago P.D."" and Burleson in ""Empire"". Colby was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He studied at Bridgewater State University and Brooklyn College. He moved to Manhattan in the 1980s"
"Ray McAnally Ray McAnally (30 March 1926 – 15 June 1989) was an Irish actor. He was the winner of four BAFTA awards in the late 1980s: twice for Best Supporting Actor (for ""The Mission"" in 1986 and ""My Left Foot"" in 1989), and twice for Best Actor in the television category (for ""A Perfect Spy"" in 1988 and ""A Very British Coup"" in 1989). Ray McAnally was born in Buncrana, a seaside town located on the Inishowen peninsula of County Donegal, Ireland and brought up in the nearby town of Moville from the age of three. The son of"
"alongside his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. He subsequently appeared in another indie film, ""The Good Girl"" (2002) and the climate fiction-disaster film ""The Day After Tomorrow"" (2004), portraying a student caught in a cataclysmic climate event. In 2005, Gyllenhaal portrayed Anthony ""Swoff"" Swofford in ""Jarhead"", Harold Dobbs in ""Proof"", and Jack Twist in Ang Lee's ""Brokeback Mountain."" For his performance in ""Brokeback Mountain,"" he received critical acclaim and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, the"
"crime thriller ""Savages"" (2012), Russian aristocrat Count Vronsky in Joe Wright's adaptation of ""Anna Karenina"" (2012) and Lt. Brody in Gareth Edwards' monster movie ""Godzilla"" (2014). For his performance as psychopathic drifter Ray Marcus in Tom Ford's thriller ""Nocturnal Animals"" (2016), he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was initially credited as Aaron Johnson, but began being billed as Aaron Taylor-Johnson in 2013, with ""Kick-Ass 2"". He had legally changed his name after marrying director Sam Taylor-Wood. Johnson was"
"Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator. Freeman won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Supporting Actor with ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), and he has received Oscar nominations for his performances in ""Street Smart"" (1987), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), ""The Shawshank Redemption"" (1994), and ""Invictus"" (2009). He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including ""Glory"" (1989), """" (1991), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Deep Impact"" (1998), ""The Sum of All Fears"" (2002), ""Bruce Almighty"" (2003), ""The Dark Knight"
"Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Gyllenhaal received further recognition for roles in ""Zodiac"" (2007), ""Brothers"" (2009), """" (2010), ""Love & Other Drugs"" (2010), for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, ""Source Code"" (2011), ""End of Watch"" (2012), ""Prisoners"" and ""Enemy"" (both 2013), ""Nightcrawler"" (2014), ""Southpaw"" (2015), and ""Nocturnal Animals"" (2016), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. For ""Nightcrawler"", his performance was widely acclaimed and received rave"
"Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor, his second time receiving all three awards, having previously won for his role in Tarantino's ""Inglourious Basterds"". The NAACP Image Awards gave the film four nominations, while the National Board of Review named DiCaprio their Best Supporting Actor. ""Django Unchained"" earned a nomination for Best Theatrical Motion Picture from the Producers Guild of America. Tarantino has said in an interview that he has 90 minutes of unused material and considered re-editing ""Django Unchained"" into a four-hour, four-night cable miniseries."
"Foreign Film category was introduced. The 6th Annual Black Reel Awards, held in 2005, presented the first Vanguard Award for entertainer of the year to Jamie Foxx for his performances in "" Collateral"", """", and "" Ray"". Each of the Black Reel Awards ceremonies has ended with the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Film. In 2005, three categories, Outstanding Actor, Outstanding Actress, as well as Outstanding Film awards were split into two separate categories (Drama and Musical/Comedy). In addition, the Outstanding Original Television Program was discontinued in 2005 and later expanded and resurfaced in 2015 as the Outstanding Television Documentary"