jamie foxx (21 posts)

Even velvety pipes get rundown every once in awhile. 

Jamie Foxx missed a tour date in Washington Wednesday after a doctor advised him to skip the show in order to focus on his recovery from a bout of bronchitis, the Oscar winner's rep confirmed to E! News.  

But all is not lost—in fact, only one night had to be X-ed off the schedule, as far as Foxx knows. 

"His current North American tour is still going strong and Foxx is scheduled to perform in Atlanta Mar. 30-Apr. 1," his publicist said. 

So if all goes according to plan, Foxx will be bringing his combination song-and-standup tour, in which he both harkens back to his comedic roots and serenades the fans with tunes from his multiplatinum 2005 album Unpredictable, to Atlanta's Fox Theater on Friday. 

Despite the rigors of his schedule, though, Foxx, who kicked off his tour in December and was originally set to wrap it up last month before piling on two month's worth of additional dates, appears to be having a grand time on the road. 

"The tour is absolutely amazing," he said during a recent conference call with reporters. "I'm pioneering this tour with 40 minutes of comedy where I talk about the elements of what's going on with me now…People know me from the stand-up, so I have to service that. It's a great set-up, including a tribute to Ray Charles. It's basically a variety show. I can go back to my roots and get people really going." 

The seriously busy funnyman, most recently on the big screen in Dreamgirls, is up next Sept. 28 with Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman in the action flick The Kingdom, playing an FBI agent hunting an assassin in the Middle East.  

Earlier this month, Foxx also signed on to co-executive-produce the upcoming TBS series Big Shot, about an NBA rookie who still lives at home with mom and dad.

With great power comes great responsibility. And with great wealth comes great big bills. 

Jamie Foxx was sued Wednesday by a fashion stylist who claims she was hired to dress the Oscar winner for several high-profile events and that he failed to come through with the agreed-upon per diem. 

Freelance celebrity stylist Stacy Young filed suit against Foxx and his Foxxhole Records label Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accusing him of failing to pay his full tab after she dressed him for the 2006 BET Awards in June and then again in July for a series of Miami Vice press junkets. 

According to Young's complaint, Foxx agreed to pay her $2,850 a day for her services preceding the awards show and then $3,000 a day for what court documents refer to as "the Miami Vice agreement." She hasn't been paid in full for any of it, she says. 

Young is seeking payment for services rendered as well as an unspecified amount to reimburse her for the "thousands of dollars in costs in connection" with the gig, saying she "turned down employment offers from third parties" to work for Foxx.  

She also doesn't say how much the Dreamgirls star has already paid her.  

The complete list of allegations includes breaches of oral and implied-in-fact agreements, promissory estoppel (trying to force him to pay up on his so-called promise, even without the existence of an official contract), unjust enrichment (he looked that good on her dime) and leaving her with an open-book account for services rendered.  

Foxx, who's set to wrap up a 19-city music-and-comedy tour Friday in Las Vegas and who recently announced the launch of his own Foxxhole channel on Sirius Satellite Radio, was snubbed by Golden Globe and Oscar this season for his turn as a greedy girl-group manager in Dreamgirls, but his awards-show slate is hardly blank. 

The actor scored an NAACP Image Award nod for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and his multi-platinum album Unpredictable is up for best male R&B/Soul Album at the upcoming Soul Train Music Awards. Said honors will be handed out Mar. 2 and Mar. 10, respectively. 

Foxx will probably have to find a new stylist, though.  

But first up, the multifaceted performer hones his journalistic skills interviewing his idol, Sidney Poitier, for The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special, the talk-show maven's first-ever foray into prime-time Academy Awards-related entertainment. The one-hour special, featuring A-list Oscar winners chatting up fellow A-list Oscar winners, airs Feb. 22 on ABC.

Jamie Foxx is hitting the road hot on the tails of Kris Kringle. 

The Oscar winner has announced plans to kick off a 19-city tour Dec. 26 at the San Diego Civic Theater.  

Foxx's label, J Records, said Friday that the concert series will hearken back to the Ray star's roots, featuring a combination of tunes from his multi-platinum debut solo album, Unpredictable, and stand-up comedy.  

Foxx, who's collecting kudos as we speak for his role as a shady girl-group manager in the mega-hyped big-screen adaptation of Dreamgirls—which opened in limited release Friday—will wind up his tour Feb. 16 in Las Vegas. He'll be joined in Sin City by Fantasia Barrino, who is also set to lend her vocal styling to five other shows during Foxx's cross-country jaunt. 

And while few remember Foxx's 1994 musical offering, Peep This, the 39-year-old singer-actor has more than proved himself lately. In fact, Eddie Murphy, a Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actor this year, took time out at Dreamgirls' New York premiere last week to pay tribute to Foxx's multifaceted talent. 

"I'm really happy to be in this movie with Jamie, he's one of my favorite actors," Murphy told E! News, an especially nice sentiment considering Foxx cut his $15 million asking price only when he heard that Murphy was aboard the Dreamgirls train, as well, according to an article in Vanity Fair's January issue. 

"He's one of the most talented people in the business," Murphy continued. "Jamie does everything. How many people in this business do everything? Jamie's a great musician; he's an actor, a comedian." 

All of which will supposedly be on display when Foxx heads out on tour later this month. 

Meanwhile, Dreamgirls is living up to the buzz so far, collecting four Golden Globes nods in addition to Murphy's—Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; Best Original Song for "Listen"; Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Beyoncé Knowles; and, as expected by critics and industry insiders the world over, Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for newcomer Jennifer Hudson. 

The American Idol also-ran told E! News in New York she never imagined what winning the role of Effie White (ironically beating out Idol champ Barrino in the process) would mean for her.  

"I didn't know it was going to be this big," said Hudson, whose scrapbook must be bursting from all the recent magazine and newspaper clips discussing her Dreamgirls success. "I had no idea."

Jamie Foxx's song "Heaven" doesn't put everyone on cloud nine.

A $75 million lawsuit was filed against the Oscar winner in March by a Detroit man claiming that Foxx's "Heaven" is a reworked version of a song the plaintiff copyrighted in December 2003, according to papers filed in Eastern Michigan's U.S. District Court and obtained by TMZ.com.

Michael A. Johnson has stated that, after seeing Foxx perform the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show in December, he recognized his own tune, called "One of God's Angels Is AWOL." Johnson also said that he had mailed out a mass number of copies of his song lyrics to record companies, including Sony, whose J Records label put out Foxx's album, Unpredictable.

"The songs are so similar that, if my song was released today, people would think I copied Jamie's song," Johnson wrote in his complaint. "My songs were sent out in hopes of a contract, not to be changed and disguised as someone else's creation."

He is asking for $15 million apiece from Foxx, J Records, Sony Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Face Production to cover damages, royalties that he has missed out on and the "mass exposure" he would have received if that song had been attributed to him.

Foxx has said that "Heaven," about an angel missing from heaven and living on Earth with him, was inspired by his 11-year-old daughter Corrine.

"The song is basically saying that there was an angel up in heaven who was this little girl angel and it was God's favorite angel," Foxx, who provided his own piano accompaniment for the song, said last year. "She would always look at the plight of this couple who weren't able to have a kid, so, one day when God was having a role call, she didn't answer. She had snuck off and blessed them with a child."

But Johnson had thought of that, going on to state in his complaint:

"Even if Mr. Foxx's song was inspired by his daughter, they are still my lyrics. Maybe Mr. Foxx thought or assumed, because my songs were sent out hand-written, that I was not professional enough to have had my songs copyrighted and took advantage of that."

If people were to begrudge Foxx's success, they have been given plenty of ammunition to use. Since wowing the critics with his Ray performance in 2004, Foxx went on to ink a contract with J Records, perform at the Grammys, land a plum role in Michael Mann's big-screen version of Miami Vice and serenade millions with his stock acceptance speech while picking up nearly every acting honor imaginable.

Unpredictable dropped in December, selling nearly 598,000 copies its first week out and landing Foxx a number-two spot on the Billboard 200. It hit number one a week later, coincidentally becoming the first album since Ray Charles' 2004 effort Genius Loves Company to reach the top spot without debuting there.

The 38-year-old multitasker is also up for five BET Awards this year in both acting and music categories. The honors will be handed out Tuesday, June 27 in Hollywood.

It's a week before Crash has a chance to crash the Oscars, but in the meantime, the racially charged film can content itself with a couple of key prizes at the 37th Annual NAACP Image Awards

Coming in with a leading six nominations, Crash was named Best Picture, beating out a field that included Hitch, Coach Carter , Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and Howard's own Hustle & Flow. Terrence Howard, whose Hustle & Flow turn lost out to Coach Carter's Samuel L. Jackson in the Best Actor race, made up for it, winning Supporting Actor honors for Crash.

Howard doubled his pleasure, winning Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries for HBO's Lackawanna Blues.

The Image Awards pay tribute to positive portrayals of people of color in film, TV, music and literature, and are voted on by a committee of 300 industry professionals and NAACP leaders. The awards were handed out Saturday night in Pasadena.

Alicia Keys dominated the music side, winning prizes for Best Female Musical Artist, Best Song and Best Video for "Unbreakable."

Proving himself a double-threat, Jamie Foxx was named Best Male Musical Artist for his chart-topping, platinum-selling Unpredictable a year after winning two acting Image Awards to go along with his Oscar last year.

"It's good to be surrounded by black folks," Foxx said, clutching his trophy. "Black folks are music."

Meanwhile, fresh off a trio of Grammy Awards earlier this month, Mariah Carey earned Best Album props for The Emancipation of Mimi.

The Bernie Mac Show took home three awards--Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for Bernie Mac, Outstanding Supporting Actress for Camille Winbush and Outstanding Director for TV for Millicent Shelton.

"America, I heard your prayers, and you wanted me here," said Mac, one of the Original Kings of Comedy. "The Mac Man cometh and I'm bringing hell with me."

Chris Rock, meanwhile, scored in the Best Television Series category for his semi-autobiographical sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris.

"I want to thank all the white kids who beat [me]," the comic cracked. "I'm rich!"

Carlos Santana, who received the NAACP Hall of Fame Award, performed, as did New Orleans' Neville Brothers, who took home the Chairman Award.

The ceremony paid tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, as well as two civil rights icons, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, both of whom died recently.

"I think [Coretta] is setting up there with her husband smiling as we continue to chase the dream," said Young and the Restless star Shemar Moore, who along with costar Victoria Rowell won Best and Actor and Actress in a Daytime Drama.

The NAACP Image Awards, hosted by thesp Cuba Gooding Jr., airs next Friday on Fox. The complete list of winners can be found online at naacpimageawards.net.

Another week, another game of musical chairs between Mary J. Blige and Jamie Foxx.

Ever since their albums opened in the top two spots on the Billboard 200 late last month, Blige's The Breakthrough and Foxx's Unpredictable repeatedly switched back and forth as the chart champ. Blige kicked off the tug-o-war at number one, Foxx took over the top spot for the next two weeks and then Blige recaptured the chart perch in week four. Week five was a photo finish.

Foxx's Unpredictable returned to number one on 97,000 copies, according to the latest Nielsen SoundScan numbers, a mere 2,000 copies above The Breakthrough, which fell back to number two.

But The Breakthrough still holds a slight edge in total sales, accounting for 1.25 million copies to Unpredictable's 1.13 million.

Eminem and Carrie Underwood also were in a nail-biter. The Shady One's Curtain Call moved up to number three with 74,000, while the American Idol champ's Some Hearts fell to four with 73,000. It was the exact opposite of what happened the week previous, when Underwood took three and Eminem took four with just 1,000 separating them.

Rounding out the Top 5 was the greatest-hits disc The Legend of Johnny Cash, climbing five spots in the wake of Walk the Line's huge Golden Globe night, with sales of 55,000, up nearly 40 percent. This is Cash's best Billboard showing since 1969's Johnny Cash at San Quentin topped the chart.

While no debuts cracked the Top 10, James Blunt's Back to Bedlam climbed four spots to number nine in its 16th week. The disc sold 41,000 copies, bringing its total sales up to 425,000 discs.

In a week that didn't see a single album hit the 100,000 sales mark, it comes as no surprise that the top bow, Juanita Bynum's Piece of My Passion, appeared way down at number 55 with 16,000 copies. Too Short's Pimpin' Inc. was the only other chart newcomer, checking in at number 80.

Elsewhere, music legend Neil Diamond enjoyed the week's biggest gain. The Jazz Singer's 12 Songs leapt nearly a 100 spots, from number 119 to 22, selling another 27,000 copies. The Rick Rubin-produced disc benefited from Diamond's Martin Luther King Day visit to the The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Here's a rundown of last week's Top 10 albums:

1. Unpredictable, Jamie Foxx
2. The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige
3. Curtain Call, Eminem
4. Some Hearts, Carrie Underwood
5. The Legend of Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash
6. All the Right Reasons, Nickelback
7. Chris Brown, Chris Brown
8. Duets: The Final Chapter, Notorious B.I.G.
9. Back to Bedlam, James Blunt
10. The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey

Per the Chinese calendar, 2006 is the Year of the Dog, but it's shaping up to be the Year of the Foxx on the charts.

Jamie Foxx continues digging gold as his sophomore album, Unpredictable, spent its second straight week at number one. The album sold another 131,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The Ray star is the fourth Oscar-winning actor to top the pop charts, joining Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand. Foxx, who'll next be on screen as Detective Ricardo Tubbs in Michael Mann's big-screen adaptation of Miami Vice, could add his first Grammy to his trophy case next month. He's nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the track "Creepin' " off So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross.

Foxx released his debut, an R&B album called Peep This, in 1994 when he was best known for his In Living Color antics. The disc topped out at number 78 on the Billboard 200.

But his new album's continuing reign overshadowed the week's top debut, which belonged to former New York City buzz band the Strokes, whose First Impressions of Earth sold 88,000 copies to open at number four. The disc features the breakout single "Juicebox," the band's most successful radio track since "Last Nite."

The band's last album, Room on Fire, also opened at four in late 2003 but with a more robust 126,000 in sales. That disc debuted at number two on the U.K. album charts, while First Impressions is the band's first number one bow across the pond.

The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers from last year. Mary J. Blige remained at number two, selling 118,000 copies of The Breakthrough, followed by Eminem's Curtain Call at three with 109,000 copies. No other albums sold more than 100,000 copies.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts at five, Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi at six, the Notorious B.I.G.'s Duets: The Final Chapter at seven, Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway at eight, the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business at nine and Nickelback's All the Right Reasons at 10.

The Nickelback album officially passed the 2 million mark last week, when it moved a relatively paltry 58,000 copies.

That was still enough to keep recent Spin magazine cover subject Fall Out Boy stuck at number 11 with From Under the Cork for the second straight week. Cork sold just under 54,000 copies.

Thanks to a dearth of new releases and the typical post-holidays slump, several albums either returned to the charts or made their Billboard 200 debut. These include the Kirk Franklin-featured Gospel soundtrack at 82, Juanes' Mi Sangre at 152 and the David Crowder Band's A Collision at 182. Still, while sales were significantly down from the previous week, 2006's initial sales were up 7 percent compared to the first week of 2005, a promising sign for the beleaguered recording industry.

Here's a recap of the Top 10 albums:

1. Unpredictable, Jamie Foxx
2. The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige
3. Curtain Call, Eminem
4. First Impressions of Earth, The Strokes
5. Some Hearts, Carrie Underwood
6. The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey
7. Duets: The Final Chapter, Notorious B.I.G.
8. Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson
9. Monkey Business, Black Eyed Peas
10. All the Right Reasons, Nickelback

Album sales were slow for the week and down for the year, but the final lap proved to be a neck-and-neck thriller.

After spending nearly the entire year as the all-around top seller, 50 Cent's The Massacre fell short within spitting distance of the finish line. Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi barely edged past The Massacre during Christmas week, and with the year's final numbers released Wednesday, Carey officially short-changed Fiddy's bid.

The Emancipation of Mimi sold 4.97 million copies for 2005 compared to The Massacre's 4.85 million for second best, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (By comparison, 2004's runaway biggest seller, Usher's Confessions, moved just under 8 million copies.)

Carey's comeback disc performed like the Energizer Bunny, by going and going and going with moderate yet steady sales. In contrast, Fiddy boasted a spectacular opening week (1.14 million units to Mimi's 404,000) and a year-best five weeks at number one (ended by Mimi in April). Still, as of the year's final sales week, the perpetually Top 10 Mimi sold another 102,000 discs to The Massacre's 18,000.

Two discs that were originally released in 2004 remained hugely popular in 2005. Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway sold nearly 3.5 million copies to be the third-best-selling album last year; Green Day's American Idiot followed at four with 3.4 million. To date, the albums have tallied 4.5 and 5.2 million copies, respectively.

Back in June, Coldplay's X&Y kept the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business from topping the charts, yet the hip-hop foursome finished slightly ahead of the moody Brit rockers for the year. Monkey Business sold just over 3 million copies at five, while X&Y sold 2.6 million at six.

The remaining Top 10 albums for the year were Rascal Flatts' Feels Like Today at seven (2.511 million), Gwen Stefani's solo debut Love.Angel.Music.Baby. at eight (2.505 million), Kanye West's Late Registration at nine (2.4 million) and the list's lone rookie, the Game's The Documentary, at 10 (2.3 million).

Total album sales were down over 7 percent for the year, falling from 666.7 million to 618.9 million copies. However, total music sales (all formats, including digital tracks and music videos) jumped 23 percent to just over 1 billion units, the first time sales ever crossed the billion mark. Digital sales also skyrocketed, with digital albums jumping 66 percent on 16.2 million sold and digital tracks up 150 percent on 352.7 million. Internet album sales (i.e. CDs sold via online retailers like Amazon.com) were also up, from 22.2 million to 24.7 million, for an 11.3 percent gain.

Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" led digital song sales with 1.17 million sold, followed by Kanye West's "Gold Digger" at two with 1.09 million and Weezer's "Beverly Hills" at three with 962,000. Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" (960,000) and Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" (918,000) wrapped up the Top 5.

Speaking of digital tracks, a new sales record was set in the final week of '05 with 19.9 million purchased for the week, surpassing the previous record of 9.5 million. This also marks the first time that another format exceeded album sales, since only 16.8 million albums were sold last week.

For the year's final week, Jamie Foxx's Unpredictable leapt into the top spot, making the Ray star the fourth actor ever to claim both a number one album and an Academy Award. Foxx also followed in Ray Charles footsteps--the late great legend was the last artist to top album sales without having opened at number one. His posthumous Genius Loves Company accomplished the feat last February--the same month that Foxx won the Oscar for portraying Charles.

Unpredictable finished last week selling nearly 200,000 copies, while Mary J. Blige's The Breakthrough fell to number two on 193,000 copies. In what was a predictably slow post-holiday period, the highest debut belonged to the Ying Yang Twins' U.S.A. Still United, selling 35,000 copies at 45.

Other notable '05 sales tidbits:

Here's a recap of the Top 10 best-selling albums of 2005:

1. The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey, 4.97 million copies
2. The Massacre, 50 Cent, 4.85 million copies
3. Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson, 3.5 million copies
4. American Idiot, Green Day, 3.4 million copies
5. Monkey Business, Black Eyed Peas, 3 million copies
6. X&Y, Coldplay, 2.6 million copies
7. Feels Like Today, Rascal Flatts, 2.511 million copies
8. Love.Angel.Music.Baby., Gwen Stefani, 2.505 million copies
9. Late Registration, Kanye West, 2.4 million copies
10. The Documentary, The Game, 2.3 million copies

Looks as though Mary J. Blige made Santa's nice list.

The queen of hip-hop soul easily held off strong challenges from Jamie Foxx and Notorious B.I.G. to lead the Christmas album chart.

Blige's The Breakthrough stuffed 727,000 stockings for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Her third chart-topper features such hot producers as Dr. Dre and the Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am and guest vocals by the likes of Bono, Jay-Z and Raphael Saadiq. The Breakthrough also features a reworking of 50 Cent's "Hate It or Love It" called "MJB Da MVP" as well as the lead single "Be Without You."

The Oscar-winning Foxx entered at number two, selling nearly 598,000 copies of his J Records debut, Unpredictable. The disc features several old pals, such as Twista and Kanye West, as well as a title track appearance by Ludacris, with whom Foxx collaborated on the current Disturbing Tha Peace single, "Georgia."

Foxx, who attended college on a music scholarship, actually released his debut album, Peep This, in 1994. Following his Ray success, he decided to return to the microphone, with guest spots on Twista's "Slow Jamz" and West's "Gold Digger," for which Foxx channeled Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman." Foxx just earned his first solo Grammy nomination for Male R&B Vocal Performance for the track "Creepin' " off So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross.

Finally, the rapper Source magazine called the greatest emcee of all time, Notorious B.I.G., sold nearly 438,000 copies of Duets: The Final Chapter for the number three spot. When Biggie Smalls was gunned down in 1997, it was just two weeks before his second album's release, and unlike nemesis Tupac Shakur, Biggie didn't have much unreleased material in the archives. As a result, his posthumous releases have been minimal, and Duets is said to be the last.

The notorious one's swan song features an all-star guest list that includes Eminem, Diddy, Jay-Z, Snoop, Ludacris and Nelly. Biggie's disc also features a duet with fellow belt-busting rapper Big Pun.

Coincidentally, Biggie got his first break with a guest appearance on a remix of Blige's "Real Love." Blige repaid the favor by recording a track for Duets--she also appears on Foxx's Unpredictable, giving her the rare feat of appearing on the top three albums this week.

With the newcomers arriving 1-2-3, Eminem's Curtain Call fell to number four. But the rapper's best-of collection still sold 430,000 copies, up 106,000 copies from last week, and has a three-week tally of 1.2 million.

The ladies of American Idol are also continuing their strong runs. In its sixth week, Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts sold 400,000 copies at five, while Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway sold 230,000 in the 10 spot. Bo Bice's The Real Thing, however, tumbled in its second week, dropping 12 spots to 16.

With so much Idol hype, Underwood and Bice both raced back to the top of the singles sales chart with their dueling versions of "Inside Your Heaven." This time, Bice won out, selling nearly 3,000 to Underwood's 2,700 at number two. Still, with nearly 447,000 total copies sold, Underwood's version finished as the year's top-selling single.

Meanwhile, Mariah Carey's huge comeback continues as The Emancipation of Mimi overtook 50 Cent's The Massacre as the top-selling disc of 2005. Mimi finished the week at number six with 290,000 in sales, giving the disc 4.87 million since dropping in April; Fiddy's album has tallied 4.83 million.

The week's only other notable debut belonged to alt-country star Ryan Adams with 29, his third studio release of the year. The album sold 26,000 discs to open at 144.

Thanks to the three monster debuts leading the chart, sales were up 34 percent from the week previous and up 2 percent from the same period last year. But year-to-date sales of 602 million are still off about 10 percent from 2004, when 651 million CD albums were sold.

Here's a rundown of the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday:

1. The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige
2. Unpredictable, Jamie Foxx
3. Duets: The Final Chapter, Notorious B.I.G.
4. Curtain Call, Eminem
5. Some Hearts, Carrie Underwood
6. The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey
7. Now That's What I Call Music! 20, various
8. The Road and the Radio, Kenny Chesney
9. All the Right Reasons, Nickelback
10. Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson

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.