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Jamie Foxx Trivia
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- First African American to be nominated for two Oscars in the same year.
- At the 2005 Grammy Awards, he performed "Georgia on my Mind" with Alicia Keyes as a tribute to Ray Charles, whom he portrayed in Ray (2004/I) the previous year and became good friends with him before he passed away.
- His top five favorite songs are "Do Me, Baby" by Prince, "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye, "Always and Forever" by Heatwave, "It's All About the Benjamins" by Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and "Lady" by Lionel Richie.
- As of January 25th, 2005, he became the sixth actor nominated for playing a pianist. The first to be nominated (and win) was F. Murray Abraham, who beat out co-star Tom Hulce for the Best Actor Oscar in _Amadeus (1984)_ . The second to be nominated was Holly Hunter who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a mute pianist in _Piano, The (1993)_ . Geoffrey Rush won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in Shine (1996). And in 2002, Adrien Brody won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Pianist (2002). And now, Jamie Foxx is nominated for his performance as the legendary musician Ray Charles in the hit biopic Ray (2004/I).
- He said that Richard Pryor is his idol in comedy, Denzel Washington is his idol in acting, and that Steve Hardin is his idol in music.
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