Jamie Foxx: All About Image
Apparently, 2005 is the year of the Foxx--Jamie Foxx.
The Oscar-, Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning Ray star collected even more hardware at Saturday's 36th Annual NAACP Image Awards, taking home trophies for Outstanding Actor for his turn in the Ray Charles biopic and Outstanding Actor in a TV Movie for Redemption.
"This has been an absolute wonderful ride," Foxx said, as he accepted his Ray award from presenters Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll.
"Thank you, Taylor Hackford, for having the vision on this beautiful movie of Ray Charles. You took a chance in Hollywood. They said this was a black film...but he stuck to his guns for 15 years."
The Image Awards celebrate the best and brightest of the year's accomplishments in film, television, music and books by and about people of color. This year's ceremony was hosted by Chris Tucker and taped for broadcast on Mar. 25.
The multi-nominated biopic about the late Ray Charles captured a leading four of the seven awards it was up for: Outstanding Motion Picture, Best Actor for Foxx, Best Actress for Kerry Washington and Best Supporting Actress for Regina King.
"I am so proud to be a part of this film, and I want to thank the NAACP," Washington said in her acceptance speech. "In these times, we need the NAACP more than ever, because we are in a time when so many of our rights as people of color, as women and as poor people are in danger of being stripped from us."
An absent Morgan Freeman was awarded Outstanding Supporting Actor for his turn as a sage ex-boxer in Million Dollar Baby.
For the first time ever, the NAACP bestowed an Image Award on an Outstanding Foreign or Independent Film, tapping Woman Thou Art Loosed, about a woman on death row, for the inaugural honor.
Ray Charles, who passed away three months after he was inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame last year, was clearly still a presence at this year's ceremony. In addition to the accolades heaped upon Ray, Genius: A Night for Ray Charles nabbed the award for Outstanding Variety Series.
Other small-screen honorees included The Bernie Mac Show, which picked up Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for Bernie Mac and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Camille Winbush.
Taye Diggs won Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for Kevin Hill and Nia Long took home the award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for Third Watch.
On a musical note, Alicia Keys was a two-time winner, nabbing both Outstanding Music Video and Outstanding Song for "If I Ain't Got You." Kanye West won Outstanding New Artist for The College Dropout and Usher won Outstanding Male Artist for Confessions.
American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino won Outstanding Female Artist for Free Yourself and Destiny's Child took home Outstanding Group for Destiny Fulfilled.
Prince, who took the stage to perform, was also a double winner, taking home the Vanguard Award and Outstanding Album for Musicology.
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois received the Chairman's Award.
"There is an element of show business to politics," Obama said. "But I think it's important to remind ourselves that what's at stake in our politics is more than just image."
Oprah Winfrey, the reigning Queen of Daytime, was this year's inductee to the Image Awards Hall of Fame.
A complete list of winners can be found online at the NAACP Image Awards Website, naacpimageawards.net.
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