Foxx hopes Oscar nod will inspire African-Americans
29/01/2005 - 17:47:04Hollywood star Jamie Foxx hopes his two Academy Award nominations will inspire other African-Americans to pursue their dreams.
Foxx is up for two Oscars - Best Actor for Ray and Best Supporting Actor for Collateral - and wants the honour of being nominated to encourage others to aim for movie stardom.
He says: "We have been so flooded with so many negative things in our community. For something positive like this to happen it makes those kids and everybody just say: 'Man, maybe I can do it like Jamie Foxx did.'"
