Hilary Swank won Best Actress Oscar
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-28 12:22

Hilary Swank won the best actress Oscar on Sunday for playing a plucky pugilist in the tragic drama "Million Dollar Baby."

Actress Hilary Swank (L) arrives with her husband Chad Lowe at the 77th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood February 27, 2005. She won the best actress Oscar for playing a plucky pugilist in Eastwood's tragic drama "Million Dollor Baby."  [AP]

It was Swank's second Oscar in five years, putting the 30-year-old actress in the elite ranks of previous double leading actress winners Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda and Jodie Foster.

Swank won her first Oscar in 2000 for her performance in the transgender movie "Boys Don't Cry." 

Jamie Foxx Wins Best Actor Oscar

Jamie Foxx won the best-actor Academy Award on Sunday for the title role in "Ray," in which he delivered an uncanny emulation of beloved singer Ray Charles.

'Sit your asses down!' With those four words, comedian Chris Rock brought a new tone to the Oscars that network executives and sponsors of the Academy Awards hope will lure back a bigger, younger TV audience to Hollywood's biggest night. In this photo, Rock is shown during rehearsals at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on February 26, 2005. [AP]

Following Morgan Freeman's supporting-actor win for "Million Dollar Baby," Foxx's triumph made it only the second time in Oscar history that blacks won two of the four acting honors.

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