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Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Director · b. 1957 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee received numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Peabody Awards as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award. Lee studied filmmaking at both Morehouse College and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he directed his student film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), which won a Student Academy Award. He later founded the production company  40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, where he has produced more than 35 films. He made his directorial debut with the comedy She's Gotta Have It (1986). He received widespread critical acclaim for the drama Do the Right Thing (1989), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He directed the historical epic Malcolm X (1992), earning the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. With the biographical crime dramedy BlacKkKlansman (2018), he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Award. He has also written and directed films such as School Daze (1988), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Bamboozled (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), Da 5 Bloods (2020), and Highest 2 Lowest (2025). Lee has also acted in eleven of his feature films. He is also known for directing numerous documentary projects, including 4 Little Girls (1997), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He directed the HBO series When the Levees Broke (2006), which won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program and Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. He also directed the HBO documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) and the David Byrne concert film American Utopia (2020). Lee has received several honours, including the Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003, the Academy Honorary Award in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. Five of his films have been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". He has received a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. His films have featured breakthrough performances from actors such as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Delroy Lindo, John Turturro, and John David Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Series24

  • TV6.1
  • TV5.8
  • TV5.1
  • TV6.4
  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV6.4

    The Daily Show

    1996 · 660 votes

  • TV6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 527 votes

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  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

  • TV4.7

    Tamron Hall

    2019 · 20 votes

  • TV6.0

    Real Time with Bill Maher

    2003 · 248 votes

  • TV5.6

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

  • TV6.1

    Great Performances

    1971 · 25 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

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  • TV6.2

    The Early Show

    1999 · 10 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV5.1

    Desus & Mero

    2019 · 12 votes

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    In Living Color

    1990 · 140 votes

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    The Chris Rock Show

    1997 · 12 votes

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    Ghostwriter

    1992 · 18 votes

  • TV7.5

    Yo! MTV Raps

    1988 · 2 votes

Movies23

  • Movie7.0

    Sidney

    2022 · 48 votes

  • Movie7.8

    Do the Right Thing

    1989 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Malcolm X

    1992 · 2K votes

  • Movie6.4

    Jungle Fever

    1991 · 330 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Clockers

    1995 · 371 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Summer of Sam

    1999 · 549 votes

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  • Movie6.5

    Mo' Better Blues

    1990 · 267 votes

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    School Daze

    1988 · 116 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Girl 6

    1996 · 126 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Red Hook Summer

    2012 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Crooklyn

    1994 · 167 votes

  • Movie6.6

    She's Gotta Have It

    1986 · 369 votes

  • Movie7.0
  • Movie7.0

    Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

    Denzel Washington: A Model American

    2022 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.9

    A Man's Story

    2011 · 8 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Bad 25

    2012 · 76 votes

  • Movie7.6

    When We Were Kings

    1996 · 261 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Lumière et Compagnie

    Lumière & Company

    1995 · 73 votes

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  • Movie1.5