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Overview

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally by his stage name Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, songwriter, musician, producer, and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor , BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray. The same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. As of spring 2017, Foxx serves as host and executive producer of the new Fox game show Beat Shazam.

Other prominent acting roles include Staff Sergeant Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor, Jr. in Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of TV series Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), and gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver (2017). Foxx also starred in the 1990-94 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, Jr. Foxx also starred in the 2014 film Annie, in which he played Will Stacks.

Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums which have charted in the top ten of the US Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), which topped the chart, Intuition (2008), Best Night of My Life (2010), and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).

 

Early life

Eric Marlon Bishop was born in Terrell, Texas on December 13, 1967. He is the son of Darrell Bishop (renamed Shahid Abdula following his conversion to Islam), who sometimes worked as a stockbroker, and Louise Annette Talley Dixon. Shortly after his birth, Foxx was adopted and raised by his mother’s adoptive parents, Esther Marie (Nelson), a domestic worker and nursery operator, and Mark Talley, a yard worker. He has had little contact with his birth parents, who were not part of his upbringing. Foxx was raised in the black quarter of Terrell, which at the time was a racially segregated community. He has often acknowledged his grandmother’s influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success.

Foxx began playing the piano when he was five years old. He had a strict Baptist upbringing, and as a teenager he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell’s New Hope Baptist Church. His natural talent for telling jokes was already in evidence as a third grader, when his teacher would use him as a reward: if the class behaved, Foxx would tell them jokes. Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he received top grades and played basketball and football (as quarterback). His ambition was to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and he was the first player in the school’s history to pass for more than 1,000 yards. He also sang in a band called Leather and Lace. After completing high school, Foxx received a scholarship to United States International University, where he studied classical music and composition.

Career

1989-2003: Beginnings and acting debut

Foxx first told jokes at a comedy club’s open mic night in 1989, after accepting a girlfriend’s dare. When he found that female comedians were often called first to perform, he changed his name to Jamie Foxx, feeling that it was a name ambiguous enough to disallow any biases. He chose his surname as a tribute to the black comedian Redd Foxx. Foxx joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991, where his recurrent character Wanda also shared a name with Redd’s friend and co-worker, LaWanda Page. Following a recurring role in the comedy-drama sitcom Roc, Foxx went on to star in his own sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, from 1996 to 2001.

Foxx made his film debut in the 1992 comedy Toys. His first dramatic role came in Oliver Stone‘s 1999 film Any Given Sunday, where he was cast as a hard-partying American football player, partly because of his own football background. In 2001, Foxx starred opposite Will Smith in Michael Mann‘s biographical drama Ali. Three 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, which was not commercially successful. In 2003, Foxx made a cameo in Benzino‘s music video for “Would You”, which features LisaRaye McCoy and Mario Winans.

20032006: Ray, Unpredictable, and Dreamgirls

Foxx and Kanye West performing “Gold Digger

In 2003, Foxx featured on the rapper Twista‘s song, “Slow Jamz“, together with Kanye West, which reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #3 on the UK Singles chart. His second collaboration with Kanye West, “Gold Digger,” in which Foxx sang the Ray Charles-influenced “I Got a Woman” hook, then went straight to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining there for 10 weeks. In 2005, Foxx featured on the single “Georgia” by Atlanta rappers Ludacris and Field Mob, which sampled Ray Charles’ hit “Georgia on My Mind“.

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 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.

Foxx released his second studio album, Unpredictable, in December 2005. It debuted at #2, selling 598,000 copies in its first week, rising to #1 the following week and selling an additional 200,000 copies. To date, the album has sold 1.98 million copies in the United States, and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. The album also charted on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at #9. Foxx became the fourth artist to have both won an Academy Award for an acting role and to have achieved a #1 album in the U.S, joining Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Barbra Streisand. Foxx’s first single from the album, the title track “Unpredictable” (featuring Ludacris), peaked in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles and also made the UK Top 20 singles chart; the track samples “Wildflower” by New Birth. The second US single from the album was “DJ Play a Love Song,” which reunited Foxx with Twista. In the UK, the second single was “Extravaganza”, which saw Foxx once again collaborate with Kanye West, although Foxx did not feature in the song’s music video.

Foxx promoting Stealth in July 2005.

At the 2006 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, Foxx won Best Duet/Collaboration with Kanye West for “Gold Digger” and tied with Mary J. Blige‘s “Be Without You” for Video of the Year. On December 8, 2006, Foxx received four Grammy Award nominations, which included Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Love Changes featuring Mary J. Blige, Best R&B Album for Unpredictable, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for Georgia by Ludacris & Field Mob featuring Jamie Foxx, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for Unpredictable featuring Ludacris.

Following on from these successes, Foxx went on to appear in the box-office hits Jarhead, Miami Vice and Dreamgirls, which lifted his profile even higher as a bankable star in Hollywood.

20072009: Intuition

Foxx’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

2007 brought him the lead role in the action thriller film The Kingdom opposite Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner and Ashraf Barhom. In September 2007, Foxx was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: ” one of the most amazing days of my life,” said Foxx. In April 2009, Foxx played the lead role in the dramatic film The Soloist. A few months later in October 2009, he played a starring role alongside Gerard Butler in the thriller Law Abiding Citizen.

Foxx released his third album titled Intuition in 2008, featuring Kanye West, T.I., Ne-Yo, Lil’ Kim and T-Pain. The album’s first single, “Just Like Me” featuring T.I., was promoted by a video directed by Brett Ratner which featured an appearance by actress Taraji P. Henson. The second single “Blame It” featured T-Pain and became a top 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 and a number-one single on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The “Blame It” music video, directed by Hype Williams, features cameo appearances by Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Howard, Quincy Jones and his Jarhead co-star Jake Gyllenhaal, amongst others.

Foxx’s musical career has also included a number of collaborations. In 2007, he recorded the song “She Goes All the Way” with country superstars Rascal Flatts for their Still Feels Good album. Foxx performed backing vocals for artist/songwriter Tank. He featured alongside The-Dream on Plies‘ “Please Excuse My Hands.” He also appeared alongside Fabolous on the remix of Ne-Yo‘s “Miss Independent“. Foxx collaborated with rapper The Game on the track “Around the World”. Foxx also featured on T.I.’s single “Live in the Sky” from the album King.

On January 22, 2007, Foxx launched The Foxxhole, a channel on Sirius Satellite Radio featuring talk-radio programs, stand-up comedy albums and music primarily by African-American performers, as well as much of Foxx’s own material. Foxx’s own talk-radio variety program The Jamie Foxx Show airs Friday evenings on The Foxxhole with guests including musicians, actors and fellow comedians; co-hosts have included Johnny Mack, Speedy, Claudia Jordan, The Poetess, Lewis Dix, Yvette Wilson, T.D.P and Tyrin Turner. On the April 17, 2009 episode of The Jamie Foxx Show, Foxx and his co-hosts made several sexually suggestive and disparaging jokes regarding the teenage singer Miley Cyrus. Several days later Foxx issued a public apology on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in response to growing public outcry and televised criticism by Cyrus’s father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.

On April 6, 2009, Foxx, a longtime fan of country music, performed the George Strait song “You Look So Good in Love” at the George Strait Artist of the Decade All-Star Concert. Jamie Foxx hosted the 2009 BET Awards ceremony on June 28, 2009, which featured several tributes to pop star Michael Jackson, who had died three days prior to the show. As well as performing “Blame It” with T-Pain and “She Got Her Own” with Ne-Yo and Fabolous, Foxx opened the show with a rendition of Jackson’s “Beat It” dance routine and closed the show with a cover of The Jackson 5‘s “I’ll Be There” with Ne-Yo. “We want to celebrate this black man. He belongs to us and we shared him with everybody else.”, said Foxx during the ceremony.

20102012: Best Night of My Life and Django Unchained

In April 2011, Foxx voiced Nico, a canary in the movie Rio. During the summer of 2011, Foxx was involved as a producer in In the Flow with Affion Crockett on Fox.

Foxx released his fourth album, Best Night of My Life, on December 21, 2010, featuring the singles “Winner” (featuring Justin Timberlake and T.I.), “Living Better Now” (featuring rapper Rick Ross) and “Fall for Your Type” (featuring rapper Drake). On October 7, the RCA Music Group announced that it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records, meaning that all artists (including Foxx) previously signed to the three labels will release their future material on the RCA Records brand. In 2011, Jamie Foxx also featured on the rapper Pitbull’s album “Planet Pit“, in the song “Where Do We Go”.

In 2012, Foxx starred in the title role of the Quentin Tarantino written and directed Django Unchained. Foxx starred alongside his Ray co-star Kerry Washington, as well as Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson. In an interview about Django Unchained, Foxx told Vibe magazine: “As a black person it’s always racial. … when I get home my other homies are like how was your day? Well, I only had to be white for at least eight hours today, I only had to be white for four hours.” The filming was emotional as Foxx said, “Its tough shooting when youre in plantation row and thats where your ancestors were persecuted and killed.”

On November 25, 2012 at BETs Soul Train Awards, Foxx joked: “It’s like church in here. First of all, giving honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama.” The joke led to condemnation from some Christians, to which Foxx responded: “I’m a comic sometimes I think people get a little too tight.” While hosting Saturday Night Live on December 8, 2012 to promote Django Unchained, Foxx joked about being excited “to kill all the white people in the movie”. Appearing at the 2013 NAACP Image Awards, Foxx praised the achievements of black people, saying that “black people are the most talented people in the world”.

2013present: White House Down and Hollywood

In 2013, Foxx was cast as President James Sawyer in White House Down alongside Channing Tatum. The following year, Foxx appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as the villain Electro, and co-starred with Quvenzhan Wallis in Annie, Sony‘s Will Smith and Jay-Z produced update of the comic strip-turned-musical. Director Oliver Stone has also confirmed that Foxx will play Martin Luther King Jr. in his upcoming Steven Spielberg-produced biopic. His October 2014 Deja Vu duet with Dionne Warwick appears on the Feels So Good album released by Warwick.

Foxx released his fifth studio album, Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses, on May 18, 2015. It debuted atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. In 2015, Foxx’s voice was featured in the chorus on the Ariana Grande song, “Focus“. Beginning with its debut on May 25, 2017, Foxx is now the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam, which is described as a hip, 21st-century update of the popular mid- to late-20th century ubiquitous radio and TV game show Name That Tune. Three sets of two partners try to beat the computer “Shazam” in correctly identifying the titles of popular songs in the shortest amount of time in incrementally higher amounts of money, with one team eventually vying for a potential prize of $1 million.

Legal incident

In April 2003, Foxx was involved in an incident with two police officers who were attempting to escort him and his sister out of Harrah’s casino in New Orleans. Employees claimed the Foxx party had failed to show identification upon entry. Originally charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, battery on police officers and resisting arrest, Foxx pleaded no contest to disturbing the peace in exchange for the other charges being dropped, and was sentenced to a six-month suspended jail term with two years of probation and a $1,500 fine.

Personal life

Foxx in 2005

Foxx has two daughters: Corinne Bishop (born 1994) and Annalise (born August 2009). Corinne made her formal debut at the Bal des dbutantes in November 2014 and was named Miss Golden Globe 2016 on November 18, 2015.

In 2008, Foxx filmed a public service announcement for Do Something to promote food drives in local communities.

Foxx has been involved in feuds with co-stars LL Cool J and Colin Farrell.

On January 18, 2016, Foxx rescued a young man from a burning vehicle that crashed outside his home. The driver, Brett Kyle, was driving his truck “at a high rate of speed” when the truck left the road, traveled into a drainage ditch, and rolled over multiple times. Kyle was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Discography

Tours

Stand-up specials

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Toys Baker
1996 Truth About Cats & Dogs, TheThe Truth About Cats & Dogs Ed
Great White Hype, TheThe Great White Hype Hassan El Ruk’n
1997 Booty Call Bunz
1998 Players Club, TheThe Players Club Blue
1999 Held Up Michael
Any Given Sunday Willie Beamen Nominated Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
2000 Bait Alvin Sanders
2001 Ali Drew Bundini Brown
2003 Shade Larry Jennings
2004 Breakin’ All the Rules Quincy Watson
Collateral Max Black Reel Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Nominated Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Ray Ray Charles Academy Award for Best Actor
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Black Reel Award for Best Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
London Film Critics’ Circle Award for Actor of the Year
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
National Board of Review Award for Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
Satellite Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
Nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance
Nominated Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Nominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor Drama
2005 Stealth Lt. Henry Purcell
Jarhead Staff Sgt. Sykes
2006 Miami Vice Ricardo Tubbs
Dreamgirls Curtis Taylor, Jr.
2007 Kingdom, TheThe Kingdom Ronald Fleury
2009 Soloist, TheThe Soloist Nathaniel Ayers
Law Abiding Citizen Nick Rice
2010 Valentine’s Day Kelvin Moore
Due Date Darryl
I’m Still Here Himself
2011 Rio Nico Voice role
Horrible Bosses Dean “Motherfucker” Jones
2012 Django Unchained Django Freeman MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment (with Samuel L. Jackson)
Nominated Black Reel Award for Best Actor
Nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Performance
2013 White House Down President James Sawyer
2014 Rio 2 Nico Voice role
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Max Dillon / Electro Nominated Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain
Nominated Kids Choice Award for Favorite Movie Actor
Nominated Kids Choice Award for Favorite Villain
A Million Ways to Die in the West Django Freeman Cameo appearance
Horrible Bosses 2 Dean “Motherfucker” Jones
Annie William Stacks
2017 Sleepless Vincent Downs
Baby Driver Bats / Leon
2018 Robin Hood Little John Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1991-94 In Living Color Various Main cast; Seasons 35; 95 episodes
1992-93 Roc Crazy George Seasons 23; 7 episodes
1996 Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper Coach Armstrong “Rivals” (Season 4, Episode 17)
199697 3rd Rock from the Sun Damon 2 episodes
1996-2001 Jamie Foxx Show, TheThe Jamie Foxx Show Jamie King Main role; 100 episodes; Also creator, director and executive producer
2000, 2012 Saturday Night Live Himself/Host Episodes: “Jamie Foxx/Blink-182” and “Jamie Foxx/Ne-Yo
2001 2001 MTV Video Music Awards Himself/Host TV special
2004 Chappelle’s Show Black Tony Blair Season 2, Episode 13
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story Tookie Television film
2011 When I Was 17 Himself Season 3, Episode 50
2013 David Blaine: Real or Magic Himself TV special
2016 Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson (voice) Ken Burns documentary for PBS
2017-present Beat Shazam Host and executive producer Game show
2017-present White Famous  ? Comedy series

Awards and nominations

Television Awards
Award Notes
Image Awards
  • 1998, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (winner)
  • 1999, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
  • 2000, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
  • 2001, Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series: The Jamie Foxx Show (nominated)
Music Awards
Award Notes
American Music Awards
  • 2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist (winner)
  • 2006, Favorite R&B/Soul Album: Unpredictable (nominated)
  • 2009, Favorite R&B/Soul Male Artist (nominated)
BET Awards
  • 2006, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Collaboration (“Unpredictable”) with Ludacris (nominated)
  • 2009, Best Collaboration (“Blame It”) with T-Pain (winner)
  • 2009, Video of the Year: (“Blame It”) (nominated)
  • 2009, Best Male R&B Artist (nominated)
Grammy Awards
  • 2010, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group (“Blame It”) with T-Pain (winner)
  • 2010, Best Contemporary R&B Album (Intuition) (nominated)
  • 2010, Best R&B Song (“Blame It”) (nominated)
  • 2007, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Unpredictable”) with Ludacris (nominated)
  • 2007, Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (“Georgia”) with Ludacris & Field Mob (nominated)
  • 2007, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group (“Love Changes”) with Mary J. Blige (nominated)
  • 2007, Best R&B Album (Unpredictable) (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (“Slow Jamz”) with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (“Creepin”) (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Rap Solo Performance (“Gold Digger”) with Kanye West (winner)
Image Awards
  • 2009, Outstanding Male Artist (winner)
  • 2006, Outstanding Male Artist (winner)
MOBO Awards
  • 2006, Best R&B Act (nominated)
MTV Video Music Awards
  • 2006, Best Hip-Hop Video: “Gold Digger” with Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2006, Best Ringtone: “Gold Digger” with Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2006, Best R&B Video: “Unpredictable” featuring Ludacris (nominated)
  • 2004, MTV2 Award: “Slow Jamz” with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)
Soul Train Awards
  • 2009, Record of the Year: “Blame It” (winner)
  • 2009, Album of the Year: Intuition (nominated)
  • 2007, Best R&B/Soul Album, Male: Unpredictable (winner)
  • 2006, Best Music Video: “Gold Digger” with Kanye West (winner)
  • 2006, Best R&B/Soul Dance Cut: “Gold Digger” with Kanye West (nominated)
Vibe Awards
  • 2005, Best Collabo: “Gold Digger” with Kanye West (nominated)
  • 2004, Best Collabo: “Slow Jamz” with Twista & Kanye West (nominated)
Movie/TV Awards
Award Notes
Academy Awards
  • 2004, Nominated Best Supporting Actor Collateral
  • 2004, Won Best Actor Ray
BAFTA Awards
  • 2005, Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Ray
  • 2004, Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Collateral
BET Awards
  • 2006, Nominated Best Actor
  • 2005, Won Best Actor
Black Movie Awards
  • 2006, Nominated Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Jarhead
Black Reel Awards
  • 2007, Nominated Best Actor Dreamgirls
  • 2005, Won Best Actor, Drama Ray
  • 2004, Won Best Actor Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
  • 2004, Won Best Supporting Actor Collateral
  • 2004, Nominated Best Actor, Musical or Comedy Breakin’ All the Rules
  • 2002, Won Theatrical Best Supporting Actor Ali
  • 2000, Nominated Best Supporting Actor Any Given Sunday
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
  • 2000, Nominated Favorite Supporting Actor Drama Any Given Sunday
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
  • 2004, Won Best Actor Ray
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2005, Won Critics Choice Award Best Actor Ray
  • 2004, Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Supporting Actor Collateral
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
  • 2004, Won FFCC Award Best Actor Ray
Golden Globes
  • 2005, Won Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Ray
  • 2004, Nominated Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
  • 2004, Nominated Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Collateral
Hollywood Film Festival
  • 2004, Won Hollywood Breakthrough Award Breakthrough Actor
Image Awards
  • 2007, Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Dreamgirls
  • 2005, Won Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Ray
  • 2004, Won Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
  • 2004, Nominated Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Collateral
  • 2002, Won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Ali
  • 2001, Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series “The Jamie Foxx Show”
  • 2000, Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series “The Jamie Foxx Show”
  • 1999, Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series “The Jamie Foxx Show”
  • 1998, Nominated Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series “The Jamie Foxx Show”
Independent Spirit Awards
  • 2005, Nominated Best Male Lead Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
Kids’ Choice Awards
  • 2001, Nominated Favorite Television Actor “The Jamie Foxx Show”
  • 2000, Nominated Favorite Television Actor “The Jamie Foxx Show”
London Critics Circle Film Awards
  • 2005, Won ALFS Award Actor of the Year Ray
MTV Movie Awards
  • 2013, Won Generation Award
  • 2005, Nominated Best Male Performance Ray
  • 2000, Nominated Breakthrough Male Performance Any Given Sunday
National Board of Review
  • 2004, Won Best Actor Ray
National Society of Film Critics Awards
  • 2005, Won Best Actor Ray
Online Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2005, Nominated Best Actor Ray
  • 2004, Won Best Supporting Actor Collateral
People’s Choice Awards
  • 2008, Nominated Favorite Leading Man
  • 2006, Nominated Favorite Leading Man
Satellite Awards
  • 2005, Won Golden Satellite Award Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
  • 2004, Won Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical Ray
  • 2004, Nominated Golden Satellite Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama Collateral
Screen Actors Guild Awards
  • 2007, Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Dreamgirls
  • 2005, Won Actor Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Ray
  • 2004, Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Ray
  • 2004, Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Collateral
  • 2004, Nominated Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
TV Land Awards
  • 2007, Nominated Little Screen/Big Screen Star
  • 2006, Nominated Little Screen/Big Screen Star
Teen Choice Awards
  • 2014, Nominated Choice Movie Villain The Amazing Spider-Man 2
  • 2007, Nominated Choice Movie: Liplock Dreamgirls
  • 2005, Nominated Choice Movie Actor: Drama Ray
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
  • 2005, Won Best Actor Ray
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2004, Won Best Actor Ray
  • 2004, Won Best Supporting Actor Collateral
Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Award