Who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the film Ray?
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Angeles for which he had been hospitalized six weeks prior. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in an unmarked grave in Glendale, California. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles Ray received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8, 1960, located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard. Charles Ray (actor) Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young, wholesome hicks in silent comedy films. Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and moved to Springfield as"
"Charles Ray (actor) Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young, wholesome hicks in silent comedy films. Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and moved to Springfield as a child where he attended elementary school. He then moved to Needles, California for a time before finally relocating to Los Angeles where he finished his education. He initially began his career on the stage before working for director Thomas H. Ince as a film extra in December 1912. He appeared in several"
"""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"
"Charles ""Story"" was put into development. Benjamin was first introduced to Ray Charles in the late 1980s and had tried for years to get Mr. Charles' story made into a movie. During the course of those efforts, Benjamin and Ray Charles developed a friendship, resulting in Ray Charles agreeing to make the picture and with Mr. Charles fully participating in its development. Benjamin produced ""Ray"", which was released in Fall, 2004 by Universal Pictures. The picture garnered six (6) Academy Award Nominations including a Best Picture, which gave Benjamin his first Academy Awards Nomination. The film went on to receive"
"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"
"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"
"Ray Teal Ray Teal (January 12, 1902April 2, 1976) was an American actor who appeared in more than 250 films and some 90 television programs in his 37-year career. His longest-running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on NBC's western series ""Bonanza"" (1960–1972). He also played a sheriff in the film ""Ace in the Hole"" (1951). Teal was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A saxophone player, he worked his way through the University of California, Los Angeles as a bandleader before becoming an actor. After more than 15 years performing in films and in early television, Teal secured a recurring"
"""Louisiana Purchase"" in 1942, ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" in 1944, and ""Lady in the Dark"" in 1945. Ray Rennahan Ray Rennahan, A.S.C. (May 1, 1896 – May 19, 1980) was a movie cinematographer. For his work in movies, he became one of the only six cinematographers to have a ""Star"" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The other five are: Haskell Wexler, Conrad L. Hall, J. Peverell Marley, Leon Shamroy and Hal Mohr. He won two Academy Awards for Color Cinematography, for ""Gone with the Wind"" in 1940, and ""Blood and Sand"" in 1942. He was also nominated in"
"Bhushan in 1965 and the highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, shortly before his death. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Ray an Honorary Oscar in 1992 for Lifetime Achievement. It was one of his favourite actresses, Audrey Hepburn, who represented the Academy on that day in Calcutta. Ray, unable to attend the ceremony due to his illness, gave his acceptance speech to the Academy via live video feed from the hospital bed. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the ""Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing"" at the San Francisco International Film Festival; it was accepted"
"Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie ""Rebel Without a Cause."" Ray is also appreciated for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including ""Bigger Than Life"", ""Johnny Guitar"", ""They Live by Night"", and ""In a Lonely Place"", as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled ""We Can't Go Home Again"", which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are"
"Ray Girardin Ray Girardin (born Charles Raymond Girardin on January 23, 1953 in Wakefield, Massachusetts) is an American actor and director. Girardin studied acting at Boston University on the GI Bill, got his Equity card at the Charles Playhouse, then went off to New York where he did a lot of stage work and met his wife Marlene. With a move to Hollywood, he found himself in front of cameras at MGM working with Julie Andrews on the movie ""Star!"". In the next 30 years, Ray directed, taught acting, and appeared in more than 200 films, television series and commercials"
"Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called ""Brother Ray"". He was often referred to as ""The Genius"". Charles started losing his vision at the age of 5, and at 7 he was blind. He pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic. He contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music during the"
"90. Ray West George ""Ray"" West (November 29, 1925 – February 17, 2016) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film ""Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"". He worked on over 60 films between 1977 and 1993. West also did extensive work in television. He was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and, in 1978, won an award for sound mixing for the NBC TV movie ""The Winds of Kitty Hawk"" (1978), starring Michael Moriarty, and, in 1986, for ""Unnatural Causes"", starring John Ritter. West died in February 2016 at the age"
"James L. White James L. White (November 15, 1947 – July 23, 2015) was an American screenwriter best known for his original screenplay for the 2004 film, ""Ray"", a biopic on Ray Charles. White received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his work on ""Ray"". White was born on November 15, 1947, in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He was raised by his single mother in Mount Sterling, approximately 35 miles east of Lexington. A love of reading led White to pursue a career as a writer. He served in the U.S. Navy before enrolling at the University of"
"Tequan Richmond Tequan Richmond (""Tuh-kwon""; born October 30, 1992), also known in his music career as T-Rich, is an American actor and rapper. Tequan is best known for his character, Drew Rock, on the UPN/CW sitcom ""Everybody Hates Chris"". Richmond played Ray Charles, Jr. (son of singer/musician Ray Charles) in the motion picture ""Ray"". Since 2012, he has portrayed TJ Ashford on the ABC soap opera ""General Hospital"". Richmond has been performing musically as T-Rich. Richmond moved to Los Angeles, California in 2001, not intending to become an actor. He appeared in magazine ads such as ""Sports Illustrated"", ""Reader's Digest"","
"at the age of 96 on April 6, 2015, in Beverly Hills, California. He was survived by two sons, Michael (born 1941) and Jonathan (born 1946). His wife Bernice (19162002) and daughter Wendy (19502004) predeceased him. Charles donated a collection of his personal papers, including his scripts and musical arrangements for the Kennedy Center Honors galas, to the Great American Songbook Foundation shortly before his death. Ray Charles (musician, born 1918) Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader"
"Ray Rennahan Ray Rennahan, A.S.C. (May 1, 1896 – May 19, 1980) was a movie cinematographer. For his work in movies, he became one of the only six cinematographers to have a ""Star"" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The other five are: Haskell Wexler, Conrad L. Hall, J. Peverell Marley, Leon Shamroy and Hal Mohr. He won two Academy Awards for Color Cinematography, for ""Gone with the Wind"" in 1940, and ""Blood and Sand"" in 1942. He was also nominated in that category for ""Drums Along the Mohawk"" in 1940, ""Down Argentine Way"" and ""The Blue Bird"" in 1941,"
"Arts where he has directed productions of ""Grease"", ""Biloxi Blues"", ""Amadeus"", ""Lend Me a Tenor"" and ""Social Security"". Ray Girardin Ray Girardin (born Charles Raymond Girardin on January 23, 1953 in Wakefield, Massachusetts) is an American actor and director. Girardin studied acting at Boston University on the GI Bill, got his Equity card at the Charles Playhouse, then went off to New York where he did a lot of stage work and met his wife Marlene. With a move to Hollywood, he found himself in front of cameras at MGM working with Julie Andrews on the movie ""Star!"". In the"
"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 Charles (musician, born 1918) Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers who were featured on Perry Como's records and television shows for 35 years and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s and 1960s for the Essex, MGM, Decca and Command labels. As a vocalist, Charles, along with Julia Rinker Miller, sang the theme song to the television series ""Three's Company"" (""Come and Knock"
"& Television Producers Association. Barrie Dunn Barrie Dunn (born June 5, 1952) is a Canadian actor, lawyer, film and television producer best known for his character Ray on the Canadian mockumentary television program ""Trailer Park Boys"". Dunn received a Diploma in Theatre from the London Drama Studio in London, England in 1976. He received his Bachelor of Public Relations from Mount St. Vincent University in 1985, receiving the President's Award for his academic achievements. Dunn graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) in 1998. Dunn worked for many years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, winning the Moonsnail"
"2004: Jamie Foxx – ""Ray"" as Ray Charles † 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Capote"" as Truman Capote † 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin † 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview † 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk † 2009: Jeff Bridges – ""Crazy Heart"" as Otis ""Bad"" Blake † 2010: Colin Firth – ""The King's Speech"" as King George VI † 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King ‡ 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln † 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas"
"groups of underprivileged youth and provide art and history to those without access to such documents. Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called ""Brother Ray"". He was often referred to as ""The Genius"". Charles started losing his vision at the age of 5, and at 7 he was blind. He pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic."
"November 12, 2014, he was bestowed the honor of Freedom of the City by the City of London. In August 2017, he was named the 54th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. 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"
"returned to TV in the late 1970s with a string of TV movies, including a sequel to ""Lilies of the Field"" called Christmas Lilies of the Field which starred Billy Dee Williams, Maria Schell, and Fay Hauser. He died in 1987 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 71. Ralph Nelson Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor. He was best known for directing the Oscar-winning films ""Lilies of the Field"" (1963), ""Father Goose"" (1964), and ""Charly"" (1968). Nelson was born in Long Island City, New"
"Taylor Hackford Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1945) is an American film director and former president of the Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for ""Teenage Father"" (1979). Hackford went on to direct a number of highly regarded feature films, most notably ""An Officer and a Gentleman"" (1982) and ""Ray"" (2004), the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture. Hackford was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Mary (née Taylor), a waitress, and Joseph Hackford. He"
"Ray West George ""Ray"" West (November 29, 1925 – February 17, 2016) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film ""Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"". He worked on over 60 films between 1977 and 1993. West also did extensive work in television. He was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards and, in 1978, won an award for sound mixing for the NBC TV movie ""The Winds of Kitty Hawk"" (1978), starring Michael Moriarty, and, in 1986, for ""Unnatural Causes"", starring John Ritter. West died in February 2016 at the age of"
"career includes prominent roles in several films, including two music-related films. In the Oscar-winning film ""Ray"" he plays band leader and blues guitar player Lowell Fulson. During production he collaborated with Ray Charles in scoring the film. In ""O Brother Where Art Thou?"", he portrays a skilled blues guitarist who claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his skill on guitar. The character is based on blues musicians Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson, both of whom have been linked to selling their soul to the devil at a rural Mississippi crossroads. King also accompanies the film's"
"Kevin Costner Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Emmy Award. Costner has played Eliot Ness in ""The Untouchables"", Crash Davis in ""Bull Durham"", Ray Kinsella in ""Field of Dreams"", Lt. John J. Dunbar in ""Dances with Wolves"", for which he won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, Jim Garrison in ""JFK"", Robin Hood in """", Frank Farmer in ""The Bodyguard"", Roy McAvoy in ""Tin Cup"", Jonathan Kent in the DC Extended Universe,"
"films in 2016, and also eliminate two venues that had been used in prior years. Films such as ""American Beauty"", ""Ray"", ""Mr. Nobody"", ""127 Hours"", ""Black Swan"", ""The Five Obstructions"", ""Singapore Sling"", and ""I Am Love"" have premiered at TIFF. Jamie Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles ultimately won him the Academy Award for Best Actor while ""Slumdog Millionaire"" went on to win eight Oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards. ""Precious"", which won the 2009 TIFF People's Choice Award, went on to win two Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards. ""The King's Speech"", the winner of the 2010 TIFF People's Choice"