Academy Award winner

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"September is way too early to declare an Academy Award winner," admits N.Y. Daily News critic-columnist Jack Matthews, "but the Oscar engraver would do well to remember the spelling of Taylor Hackford's star in the biographical drama Ray -- it's Jamie Foxx, with two Xs." Foxx, he says, was "the talk of the town over the first half of the [Toronto Film Festival]. He gives such a complete performance as the late Ray Charles that you almost immediately forget you're watching a performance by anyone other than Charles himself." And yet Mathews also said that one of his big festival faves has been DreamWorks' Shark Tale, and I haven't been hearing that at all from other Toronto troopers. I've been hearing flip, facile, so-what and Will Smith can go diddle himself with his own fish tail (or words to that effect).