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Budget. $40 million [1] Box office. $124 million [1] Ray is a 2004 American biographical musical drama film focusing on 30 years in the life of soul musician Ray Charles. [a] The independently produced film was co-produced and directed by Taylor Hackford; it was written by James L. White from a story by Hackford and White.
This is a list of awards and nominations received by the 2004 film Ray. Jamie Foxx was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for this film and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Collateral. He is the third actor to have been nominated in both categories in the same year, after Barry Fitzgerald and Al Pacino.
Signature. Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. [a] He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother Ray".
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. [4] It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC 's variety series Saturday Night Live. The script is set in and around Chicago ...
Swingin' Along is a 1961 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton. The film, which was released by 20th Century Fox, marked the final appearance of the comedy team of Tommy Noonan and Peter Marshall. The film focuses on Noonan as a courier who dreams of becoming a songwriter and Marshall as a con artist who wants to enter Noonan’s ...
Budget. $525,000 (estimated) Box office. $1.75 million (US) [1] Ruby Gentry is a 1952 film directed by King Vidor, and starring Jennifer Jones, Charlton Heston, and Karl Malden. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrospective dedicated to King Vidor's career.
Box office. $11,000,000 [2] plus $4.3 million (US rentals) [3] The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson 's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best ...
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers who were featured on Perry Como's records and television shows for 35 years and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s and 1960s ...