academy award for best actor jamie foxx
Foxx also starred in the 1990-1994 sketch comedy show In Living Color and his own television show from 1996 to 2001, the sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he played Jamie King. Check out this scorecard of how comedians have been rewarded on Oscar night. 1  Best Actor - 1949 - Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator (Nominated; lost to Jimmy Stewart, The Philadelphia Story). 2  Best Supporting Actor - 1957 - Red Buttons, Sayonara (Won). 3  Best Supporting Actor - 1975 - George Burns, The Sunshine Boys (Won). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the action film Collateral. Other prominent roles include the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and William Stacks in the 2014 version of Annie. Foxx is the second male in history to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray (the only other male actor to achieve this feat being Al Pacino). In 2005, Foxx was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Actor/Singer Foxx first grabbed national attention on the groundbreaking sketch comedy show In Living Color, creating hilarious characters like Miss “I’m gonna rock your world” Wanda Jackson. But his deft portrayal of the musical genius Ray Charles in the 2004 biopic Ray earned Foxx an Academy Award for Best Actor. 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. Jamie Foxx. Foxx first grabbed national attention on the groundbreaking sketch comedy show In Living Color, creating hilarious characters like Miss “I’m gonna rock your world” Wanda Jackson. Perhaps because comedians are so rarely recognized for their contributions to film, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has seen fit to award Honorary Oscars (sometimes called Lifetime Achievement Awards) on many occasions in the past. Here is the list of comedians how have been awarded Honorary Oscars: 1  1928 - Charlie Chaplin (for directing The Circus). 2  1937 - Edgar Bergen. 3  1940 - Bob Hope (for services to the Motion Picture Industry). 4  1944 - Bob Hope (for services to the Academy). 5  1952 - Bob Hope (for contribution to the laughter of the world). Five years later, Foxx played taxi driver Max Durocher in the film Collateral alongside Tom Cruise, for which he received outstanding reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1994, Foxx released an album (on the Fox record label) entitled Peep This. Charlize Theron presents Jamie Foxx with the Best Actor Oscar for Ray at the 77th Academy Awards. See more 2005 Oscar highlights: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Become an Oscar Insider: http://www.oscars.org/insider/. Check out our Academy Originals: https://www.youtube.com/user/AcademyO... ABOUT THE ACADEMY.
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