In addition to the well-documented box office success of many pop-musician biopics – not surefire moneymakers, but pretty consistent ones for over 20 years now – there’s another track record that likely keeps actors signing on: the Academy Awards. Jamie Foxx won a Best Actor Oscar for playing Ray Charles in the 2004 hit Ray; a year later, Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress for playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, opposite a nominated Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny. The dude from Mr. Robot will forever be Academy Award Winner Rami Malek thanks to Bohemian Rhapsody. And though they didn’t win, Austin Butler and Timothée Chalamet cemented their next-big-thing reps when they received Oscar nominations for Elvis and A Complete Unknown, respectively.
All of this points to some possible Oscar heat for Jaafar Jackson, nephew of the late Michael Jackson, who plays his uncle in the new biopic Michael. Jackson
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