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In March 2012, after the killing of Trayvon Martin, Spike Lee was one of many people who used Twitter to circulate a message that claimed to give the home address of the shooter George Zimmerman.
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Feb 13, 2023 · ‘W hen I was little,” says Spike Lee, “my father hated Hollywood films, but my mother was a cinephile.And since I was the eldest sibling, I was her movie date. She loved James Bond and took ...
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Mar 10, 2021 · Mar 10, 2021 9:37am PT. Spike Lee on the Stories Behind His Favorite Opening Credit Sequences, From ‘Do the Right Thing’ to ‘Jungle Fever’. By Jazz Tangcay. Quil Lemons for Variety. Filmmaker...
- 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...
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Oct 12, 2023 · S pike Lee is telling me the story of how he had to convince Frank Sinatra to let him use his music for Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever. Apparently, Ol’ Blue Eyes was upset about one of the film ...
