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Samir Hussein/WireImageFollowing two previous Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, Will Smith hopes the third time is the charm as he was nominated Tuesday for his starring role in King Richard. The film received a total of six nominations, including Best Picture. "This is rarefied air for me," Smith tells Deadline. "I've been nominated two other times, but it's never been this kind of blanket love.it is artistic nirvana." Will was nominated for Ali in 2002, and The Pursuit of Happyness in 2007. The biopic tells the true story of how Richard Williams defied the odds to develop his daughters, Venus and Serena, into tennis superstars. The two-time Grammy winner loved learning how Williams used reverse psychology to motivate his daughters. "One of the first things we realized was what Venus called his 'Jedi mind trick'. He tricked them into pushing him to have them play tennis," Smith said. "At every turn, he would

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