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Birthday: August 20, 1942
A major figure in American soul music, Isaac Hayes also enjoyed a long and memorable career as an actor and film composer. His score for the motion picture Shaft made him the first African-American to win an Academy Award for music, and was one of the first examples of a pop-based film score that developed a life of its own in the marketplace. Isaac Hayes was born in ...more
- 1971
- Golden Globe
- Best Original Score
- Shaft
- win
- 1971
- Academy
- Best Song
- Shaft
- win
- 1971
- Golden Globe
- Best Original Song
- Shaft
- nom
- 1971
- Academy
- Best Drama Score
- Shaft
- nom
- 2008
- Soul Men
- Himself
- 2006
- Stargate SG-1: Season 10
- Tolok
- 2004
- Wilt Chamberlain: Larger Than Life
- Narrator
- 2004
- Hustle & Flow
- Arnel
- 2004
- South Park: Season 08
- "Chef" McElroy
- 2000
- Shaft
- Composer (Music Score)
- 1999
- Ninth Street
- Composer (Music Score)
- 1996
- Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
- Intertitle Writer
- 1974
- Three Tough Guys
- Composer (Music Score)
- 1974
- Truck Turner
- Composer (Music Score)
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