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Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Director · Born 1957-03-20 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Biography

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 …

Directed

  1. BlacKkKlansman (2018) — Director
  2. Inside Man (2006) — Director
  3. 25th Hour (2002) — Director
  4. Oldboy (2013) — Director
  5. Do the Right Thing (1989) — Director
  6. Malcolm X (1992) — Director
  7. Da 5 Bloods (2020) — Director
  8. He Got Game (1998) — Director
  9. Summer of Sam (1999) — Director
  10. Highest 2 Lowest (2025) — Director
  11. Miracle at St. Anna (2008) — Director
  12. She's Gotta Have It (1986) — Director
  13. Clockers (1995) — Director
  14. Jungle Fever (1991) — Director
  15. Mo' Better Blues (1990) — Director
  16. Chi-Raq (2015) — Director
  17. Crooklyn (1994) — Director
  18. Bamboozled (2000) — Director
  19. She Hate Me (2004) — Director
  20. Girl 6 (1996) — Director
  21. HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997) — Director
  22. School Daze (1988) — Director
  23. Shark (2006) — Director
  24. David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) — Director
  25. Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) — Director
  26. Get on the Bus (1996) — Director
  27. All the Invisible Children (2006) — Director
  28. Bad 25 (2012) — Director
  29. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
  30. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015) — Director
  31. The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) — Director
  32. Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013) — Director
  33. She's Gotta Have It (2017) — Director
  34. 4 Little Girls (1997) — Director
  35. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) — Director
  36. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) — Director
  37. Red Hook Summer (2012) — Director
  38. Sucker Free City (2004) — Director
  39. John Leguizamo: Freak (1998) — Director
  40. Kobe Doin' Work (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Do the Right Thing (1989) — Mookie
  2. Malcolm X (1992) — Shorty
  3. The Daily Show (1996) — Self - Guest
  4. Summer of Sam (1999) — John Jeffries
  5. Saturday Night Live (1975) — Mars Blackmon
  6. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) — Self
  7. She's Gotta Have It (1986) — Mars Blackmon
  8. Clockers (1995) — Chucky
  9. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) — Self - Guest
  10. Hoop Dreams (1994) — Self
  11. Jungle Fever (1991) — Cyrus
  12. Mo' Better Blues (1990) — Giant
  13. When We Were Kings (1996) — Self
  14. Real Time with Bill Maher (2003) — Self
  15. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) — Self - Guest
  16. The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) — Self
  17. Late Show with David Letterman (1993) — Self - Guest
  18. Crooklyn (1994) — Snuffy
  19. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) — Self - Guest
  20. In Living Color (1990)
  21. Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) — Self - Guest
  22. Girl 6 (1996) — Jimmy
  23. School Daze (1988) — Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
  24. The View (1997) — Self
  25. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  26. Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) — Self
  27. Pretend It's a City (2021) — Self
  28. Bad 25 (2012) — Self
  29. Lumière & Company (1995) — Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
  30. Inside the Actors Studio (1994) — Self
  31. She's Gotta Have It (2017) — Drum Major
  32. 4 Little Girls (1997) — Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
  33. Sidney (2022) — Self
  34. Champs (2015) — Self
  35. Michael Jordan to the Max (2000) — Self
  36. 3 A.M. (2001) — Filmmaker
  37. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (2010) — Self
  38. Street Fight (2005) — Self
  39. Red Hook Summer (2012) — Mr. Mookie
  40. Who Do You Think You Are? (2010) — Self