Spike Lee
Directing
Born March 20, 1957 in 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.
Filmography
Boner
The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
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Talk Me
Mr. Scorsese
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Megadoc
The Voice of Hind Rajab
From Sidney, with Love
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
Highest 2 Lowest
How I Learned to Die
Nervous Energy
In Between Storms
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
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The Piano Lesson
The Truck
PUNTER
Hollywood Black
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F*ck That Guy
In Freedom
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
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The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
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You Resemble Me
Denzel Washington: A Model American
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Gold Blooded
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Sidney
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The Captain
Off-Time
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
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They Call Me Magic
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NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
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Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
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This Is Pop
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Directors on Directors
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Son of the South
Pretend It's a City
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Tales from the Hood 3
David Byrne's American Utopia
Da 5 Bloods
Dear...
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3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
New York New York
Tamron Hall
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See You Yesterday
Desus & Mero
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Land of the Free
Amazing Grace
Cherish
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
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Basketball: A Love Story
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BlacKkKlansman
Tales from the Hood 2
Time 2 Surrender
Nigerian Prince
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
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The Black 14
Pass Over
She's Gotta Have It
Drum Major
Plankton Salesmen
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Rodney King
Be Truly Free
Narrator (voice)
Birth of a Movement
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Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: $15 Kicks
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Redemption Song
2 Fists Up
Touched with Fire
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
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Chi-Raq
NBA 2K16’s Livin’ Da Dream: A Spike Lee Joint
Reporter (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Of the Father and of the Son
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
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French Cinema Mon Amour
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Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Ice Breaker
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Italian Imports
Champs
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The Girl Is in Trouble
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
Stop
Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
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Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
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Dirty Hands
Evolution of a Criminal
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
Oldboy
Bad 25
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Red Hook Summer
Mr. Mookie
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
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One Night
Brooklyn Boheme
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Pariah
A Man's Story
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Doubles with Slight Pepper
Guest
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Four Days in October
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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
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Who Do You Think You Are?
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Saint John of Las Vegas
Passing Strange
PoliWood
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Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
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Kobe Doin' Work
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Miracle at St. Anna
Genesis | Come Rain or Shine
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
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Pixote In Memoriam
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Lights, Action, Music
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Shark
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Inside Man
All the Invisible Children
Jesus Children of America
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
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Street Fight
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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
Miracle's Boys
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
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Through the Fire
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
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No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
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Sucker Free City
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
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She Hate Me
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
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Real Time with Bill Maher
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Good Fences
25th Hour
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Jim Brown: All-American
It's Black Entertainment
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The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
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Come Rain or Come Shine
The Concert for New York City
Home Invaders
3 A.M.
Filmmaker
A Huey P. Newton Story
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
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Bamboozled
The Original Kings of Comedy
Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte
Lisa Picard Is Famous
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Michael Jordan to the Max
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Love & Basketball
One Morning All Over the World
The Early Show
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The Best Man
Summer of Sam
John Jeffries
Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo
John Leguizamo: Freak
Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
He Got Game
The View
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4 Little Girls
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
HIStory on Film, Volume II
The Chris Rock Show
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The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
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When We Were Kings
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Get on the Bus
The Daily Show
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The Universal Story
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Girl 6
Jimmy
Lumière & Company
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Clockers
Chucky
Tales from the Hood
New Jersey Drive
Below the Rim
Drop Squad
Himself
Hoop Dreams
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Inside the Actors Studio
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Crooklyn
Snuffy
A Century of Cinema
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Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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Late Show with David Letterman
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Farewell, Babylon!
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The Last Party
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Malcolm X
Shorty
Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection
Ghostwriter
Special Agent Pete (archive footage)
Sous les marches du palais
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Jungle Fever
Cyrus
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
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Branford Marsalis: Steep
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Suspect
Lonely in America
Spike Lee (Newsstand Customer) (uncredited)
Mo' Better Blues
Giant
Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
In Living Color
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
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Decade
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First Works
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Do the Right Thing
Mookie
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
Yo! MTV Raps
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School Daze
Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
Horn of Plenty
She's Gotta Have It
Mars Blackmon
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
The Answer
Saturday Night Live
Mars Blackmon
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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Great Performances
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The Oscars
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