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Sep 28, 2022 · Best Known For: Producer, director, writer and actor Spike Lee creates provocative films that explore race relations, political issues and urban crime and violence.
Apr 23, 2024 · Spike Lee (left) and Adam Driver during the filming of BlacKkKlansman (2018). (more) In 2017 Lee rebooted his debut hit, She’s Gotta Have It , as a Netflix series.
Director: Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher.
2. The following is a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Spike Lee. Over the course of his distinguished film career, Lee has received various awards and nominations. He has received five competitive Academy Award nominations winning Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman (2018).
Career. The first movie Lee directed was She's Gotta Have It. Lee directed the two music videos for Michael Jackson 's single "They Don't Care About Us". In 2002 Lee won the Special Award at the BAFTAs.
Lee has won numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Peabody Awards. He has also been honored with an Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2015.
Jun 2, 2020 · It was Mars Blackmon, Lee’s alter ego from “She’s Gotta Have It,” who reinvented himself as Michael Jordan’s hypeman in a series of Nike commercials that were impossible to avoid in the ...
