Jamie Foxx’s uncanny re-creation of Ray Charles in Ray earned him the Screen Actors Guild Award for best actor, while Hilary Swank won the best-actress prize for Million Dollar Baby, playing a spirited boxer whose life takes a tragic turn.

Jerry Orbach, star of the US TV series Law & Order, has died of prostate cancer aged 69.

LAW & Order actor Jerry Orbach has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his manager said.