BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
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 to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.