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Spike Lee filmography. Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor, known for films that deal with controversial social and political issues. Each of Lee's films is typically referred to as "A Spike Lee Joint" and the closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary," "Ya Dig," and "Sho Nuff."
Spike Lee. Shelton Jackson " Spike " Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. 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.
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- Bill Lee
- 1977–present
- Who Is Spike Lee?
- Early Life
- Cinematic Successes: 'She's Gotta Have It' and 'Do The Right Thing'
- 'Malcolm X,' 'Mo Better Blues' and Commercials
- Later Projects: 'Miracle at St. Anna' to 'Chi-Raq'
- 'Blackkklansman'
Spike Lee was making amateur films by age 20 and won a Student Academy Award for his graduate thesis film. Lee drew attention with his first feature, She's Gotta Have It — one of the most profitable films made in 1986 — and continues to create films that explore provocative topics like race, politics and violence. He is also known for his documenta...
Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia, and soon moved to Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in a relatively well-off African-American family, Lee was making amateur films by age 20. His first student film, Last Hustle in Brooklyn, was completed when he was an undergraduate at Morehouse College. Lee went on to gra...
Lee became a director of promise with his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It, in 1986. The film was shot in two weeks and cost $175,000 to make, but grossed more than $7 million at the box office, making it one of the most profitable films created in 1986. No stranger to controversy for certain provocative elements in both his films and public...
Subsequent films, including Malcolm X, Mo' Better Blues, Summer of Sam and She Hate Me, continued to explore social and political issues. 4 Little Girls, a documentary about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1998. In 2006, Lee directed and produced a four-hour documentary for television, When the ...
Lee's 2008 feature Miracle at St. Anna, about four African American soldiers trapped in an Italian village during World War II, was praised for bringing the oft-overlooked experience of Black infantrymen — known as Buffalo Soldiers — to the big screen. Lee followed with a variety of projects, including documentaries of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jacks...
In 2018, Lee again dove into the topic of race relations with BlacKkKlansman, the story of an African American detective's success at infiltrating the KKK in the 1970s. Released one day before the one-year anniversary of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the film closes with footage from Charlottesville. "That was one of the...
Overview. Born. March 20, 1957 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Birth name. Shelton Jackson Lee. Height. 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) Mini Bio. 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.
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PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama. Spike Lee 's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973. Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris. Votes: 11,027 | Gross: $13.64M.
6.7 (41K) Rate. 67 Metascore. Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. Director Spike Lee Stars John Leguizamo Adrien Brody Mira Sorvino. 24.
His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature. He attended school in Morehouse College in Atlanta and developed his film making skills at Clark Atlanta University.
