Shaft (1971 film)
Shaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a a detective who fights the black mob, and then the white mob. It stars Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman.
The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black from the novel by Tidyman. It was directed by Gordon Parks.
It won an Academy Award for Best Music, Song for Isaac Hayes for Theme from Shaft. It was nominated for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score.
Shaft was followed by two movie sequels:
and a television series:
It was remade in 2000. The original film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.