2000Nominee
Best Performance
Shaft
Gordon Parks
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Fort Scott, Kansas, United States
November 30, 1912
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Parks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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1971Nominee
Best Director
Shaft
1972Nominee
Best Performance
Shaft's Big Score!
Career Highlights
2026Highlight
Best Performance
Martin
1964Highlight
Best Writing
Flavio
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Shaft
Shaft
Shaft's Big Score!