Multiple outlets confirm that the Baby Driver and Django Unchained star will be presented with the award at the annual event for his starring role in Just Mercy. 

“In Just Mercy, Jamie Foxx gives a moving and truly remarkable performance as Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death for a murder, for which he was wrongly convicted,” festival chairman Harold Matzner said.

“This is an inspiring drama that brings an important story about how our justice system can fail to the big screen. It is a story that audiences should see. It is our honor to present the spotlight award to Jamie Foxx.”

Foxx joins past recipients of the award, including Timothée Chalamet, Bryan Cranston, Andrew Garfield, Sam Rockwell and J.K. Simmons. 

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The feature is helmed by director Destin Daniel Cretton for Warner Bros. Set to produce are Michael B. Jordan with Gil Netter and Arthur Spector.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the actor is in negotiations to star opposite Jordan in Just Mercy. The feature is adapted from the memoir of the same name by Bryan Stevenson. 

The story follows Stevenson’s work as a young lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a company dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly convicted, women and children. Foxx is set to play Walter McMillian, one of Stevenson’s earliest cases of a black man sentenced to die for a murder he insists he didn’t commit. Despite being surrounded by dozens of witnesses at the time of the murder, McMillian was convicted in a trial that lasted a day and a half and spent six years on death row. Stevenson successfully exonerated McMillian. 

Foxx will work on Just Mercy one before he suits up for the new Spawn movie.

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Multiple outlets confirm that the Baby Driver and Django Unchained star will be presented with the award at the annual event for his starring role in Just Mercy. 

“In Just Mercy, Jamie Foxx gives a moving and truly remarkable performance as Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death for a murder, for which he was wrongly convicted,” festival chairman Harold Matzner said.

“This is an inspiring drama that brings an important story about how our justice system can fail to the big screen. It is a story that audiences should see. It is our honor to present the spotlight award to Jamie Foxx.”

Foxx joins past recipients of the award, including Timothée Chalamet, Bryan Cranston, Andrew Garfield, Sam Rockwell and J.K. Simmons. 

The post Jamie Foxx to Receive Special Honor at Palm Springs Film Festival appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

The feature is helmed by director Destin Daniel Cretton for Warner Bros. Set to produce are Michael B. Jordan with Gil Netter and Arthur Spector.

The Hollywood Reporter confirms that the actor is in negotiations to star opposite Jordan in Just Mercy. The feature is adapted from the memoir of the same name by Bryan Stevenson. 

The story follows Stevenson’s work as a young lawyer who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a company dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly convicted, women and children. Foxx is set to play Walter McMillian, one of Stevenson’s earliest cases of a black man sentenced to die for a murder he insists he didn’t commit. Despite being surrounded by dozens of witnesses at the time of the murder, McMillian was convicted in a trial that lasted a day and a half and spent six years on death row. Stevenson successfully exonerated McMillian. 

Foxx will work on Just Mercy one before he suits up for the new Spawn movie.

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