Ray (album)
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| Artist(s) | Craig Armstrong |
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| Label | Rhino / Wea |
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- 2005 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2005 MTV-Movie nominee
- 2005 Oscar-Picture nominee
- Score: 18.55
Jamie Foxx’s uncannily accurate performance isn’t the only good thing about Ray. Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz, Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004. Despite a few dramatic embellishments of actual incidents (such as the suggestion that the accidental drowning of Charles’s younger brother caused all the inner demons that Charles would battle into adulthood), the film does a remarkable job of summarizing Charles’s…
