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Spike Lee

Data di nascita: 20 marzo 1957

Luogo di nascita: 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. He has also written and directed films such as School Daze (1988), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Bamboozled (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), Da 5 Bloods (2020), and Highest 2 Lowest (2025). Lee has also acted in eleven of his feature films. He is also known for directing numerous documentary projects, including 4 Little Girls (1997), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He directed the HBO series When the Levees Broke (2006), which won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program and Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. He also directed the HBO documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) and the David Byrne concert film American Utopia (2020). Lee has received several honours, including the Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003, the Academy Honorary Award in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. Five of his films have been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". He has received a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. His films have featured breakthrough performances from actors such as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Delroy Lindo, John Turturro, and John David Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmografia

Film e serie TV in cui Spike Lee ha recitato o preso parte

Film

The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2026

Highest 2 Lowest
5.5

Film · Thriller · 2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
7.8

Film · Musica · 2025

Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
9.0

Film · Documentario · 2023

The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2023

Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain
7.2

Film · Documentario · 2022

Gold Blooded
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2022

Sidney Poitier
7.4

Film · Documentario · 2022

Hommage d’une fille à son père
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2022

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
6.9

Film · Documentario · 2021

Chadwick Boseman - Ritratto di un artista
8.0

Film · Documentario · 2021

David Byrne's American Utopia
7.6

Film · Musica · 2020

Da 5 Bloods - Come fratelli
6.5

Film · Guerra · 2020

3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
N/D

Film · Dramma · 2020

New York New York
7.8

Film · Documentario · 2020

Land of the Free
N/D

Film · 2019

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
7.1

Film · Documentario · 2018

BlacKkKlansman
7.5

Film · Crime · 2018

Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
6.8

Film · Documentario · 2018

Pass Over
5.8

Film · Dramma · 2018

Продавцы планктона
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2017

Rodney King
5.1

Film · Dramma · 2017

Be Truly Free
N/D

Film · 2017

Birth of a Movement
6.4

Film · Documentario · 2017

2 Fists Up
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2016

Michael Jackson: Viaggio dalla Motown a Off the Wall
7.0

Film · Musica · 2016

Chi-Raq
5.7

Film · Dramma · 2015

NBA 2K16’s Livin’ Da Dream: A Spike Lee Joint
N/D

Film · Animazione · 2015

The Greatest Catch Ever
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2015

French Cinema Mon Amour
5.2

Film · Documentario · 2015

Champs
6.5

Film · Documentario · 2015

Il sangue di Cristo
4.8

Film · Dramma · 2015

Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2015

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
6.4

Film · Commedia · 2014

Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2014

Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
6.3

Film · televisione film · 2014

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
1.5

Film · Documentario · 2014

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2014

Mike Tyson: tutta la verità
7.1

Film · Commedia · 2013

Oldboy
5.9

Film · Dramma · 2013

Bad 25
7.3

Film · Documentario · 2012

Red Hook Summer
5.4

Film · Dramma · 2012

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
5.0

Film · Documentario · 2012

Brooklyn Boheme
6.8

Film · Documentario · 2012

A Man's Story
6.9

Film · Documentario · 2011

Guest
6.0

Film · Documentario · 2011

On the Shoulders of Giants
6.3

Film · Documentario · 2011

Four Days in October
6.6

Film · Documentario · 2010

Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
7.7

Film · Documentario · 2010

Passing Strange
4.9

Film · Musica · 2009

PoliWood
6.5

Film · Documentario · 2009

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
7.0

Film · Documentario · 2009

Kobe Doin' Work
6.5

Film · Documentario · 2009

Miracolo a Sant'Anna
6.1

Film · Dramma · 2008

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2008

Pixote In Memoriam
7.5

Film · Documentario · 2007

Lights, Action, Music
7.0

Film · Documentario · 2007

Inside Man
7.4

Film · Crime · 2006

All the Invisible Children
7.0

Film · Dramma · 2006

Jesus Children of America
8.0

Film · Dramma · 2005

Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
N/D

Film · Musica · 2005

Street Fight
6.9

Film · Documentario · 2005

How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
7.2

Film · Documentario · 2005

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
6.0

Film · Documentario · 2005

Through the Fire
7.1

Film · Documentario · 2005

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
5.8

Film · Documentario · 2004

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
5.8

Film · Documentario · 2004

Sucker Free City
5.9

Film · Dramma · 2004

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
10.0

Film · Documentario · 2004

Lei mi odia
5.1

Film · Commedia · 2004

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
7.3

Film · Documentario · 2003

La 25ª ora
7.3

Film · Crime · 2002

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
6.8

Film · Dramma · 2002

Jim Brown: All-American
5.0

Film · Documentario · 2002

It's Black Entertainment
8.7

Film · Documentario · 2002

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
9.0

Film · Documentario · 2002

The Concert for New York City
5.1

Film · Musica · 2001

Come Rain or Come Shine
N/D

Film · Documentario · 2001

3 A.M. - Omicidi nella notte
5.8

Film · Crime · 2001

A Huey P. Newton Story
5.4

Film · Documentario · 2001

The Making of 'Bamboozled'
5.5

Film · Documentario · 2001

Bamboozled
6.3

Film · Commedia · 2000

The Original Kings of Comedy
6.4

Film · Commedia · 2000

Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte
3.0

Film · Commedia · 2000

Lisa Picard Is Famous
4.6

Film · Commedia · 2000

Michael Jordan to the Max
7.5

Film · Documentario · 2000

Un matin partout dans le monde
4.7

Film · Documentario · 2000

S.O.S. Summer of Sam - Panico a New York
6.5

Film · Crime · 1999

Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo
8.0

Film · Musica · 1999

John Leguizamo: Freak
5.9

Film · Commedia · 1998

Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
N/D

Film · Musica · 1998

He Got Game
6.8

Film · Dramma · 1998

4 Little Girls
7.2

Film · Documentario · 1997

HIStory on Film, Volume II
8.6

Film · Musica · 1997

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
5.5

Film · Documentario · 1996

Quando eravamo re
7.6

Film · Documentario · 1996

Bus in viaggio
6.4

Film · Storia · 1996

The Universal Story
8.0

Film · Documentario · 1996

Girl 6 - Sesso in linea
5.0

Film · Commedia · 1996

Lumière et Compagnie
6.3

Film · Dramma · 1995

Clockers
6.7

Film · Crime · 1995

Below the Rim
8.0

Film · Documentario · 1995

Drop Squad
3.5

Film · Dramma · 1994

Hoop Dreams
7.6

Film · Documentario · 1994

Crooklyn
6.8

Film · Commedia · 1994

A Century of Cinema
8.3

Film · Documentario · 1994

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
10.0

Film · Documentario · 1993

Adieu, Babylone!
N/D

Film · Dramma · 1993

The Last Party
5.2

Film · Documentario · 1993

Malcolm X
7.6

Film · Dramma · 1992

Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection
7.2

Film · Musica · 1992

Sous les marches du palais
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1991

Jungle Fever
6.4

Film · Dramma · 1991

MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
N/D

Film · Musica · 1991

Branford Marsalis: Steep
N/D

Film · Musica · 1991

Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson
N/D

Film · Documentario · 1990

Solo in America
4.4

Film · Commedia · 1990

Mo' Better Blues
6.5

Film · Dramma · 1990

Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
N/D

Film · Musica · 1990

Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
10.0

Film · Documentario · 1990

Decade
8.5

Film · Documentario · 1989

First Works
7.0

Film · Documentario · 1989

Fa' la cosa giusta
7.8

Film · Dramma · 1989

Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
N/D

Film · Musica · 1989

Aule turbolente
5.7

Film · Commedia · 1988

Horn of Plenty
1.0

Film · Dramma · 1986

Lola Darling
6.6

Film · Commedia · 1986

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
6.3

Film · Dramma · 1983

The Answer
5.5

Film · Dramma · 1980

Boner
N/D

Film · Musica

Serie TV

Mr. Scorsese
8.1

Serie · Documentario · 2025

Katrina: vent'anni dopo l'uragano a New Orleans
6.3

Serie · Documentario · 2025

Hollywood Black
9.0

Serie · Documentario · 2024

The Captain
7.8

Serie · Documentario · 2022

They Call Me Magic
7.2

Serie · Documentario · 2022

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
4.0

Serie · Documentario · 2021

This Is Pop
5.9

Serie · Documentario · 2021

Directors on Directors
N/D

Serie · Talk · 2021

Fran Lebowitz - Una vita a New York
7.4

Serie · Documentario · 2021

Dear...
5.0

Serie · Documentario · 2020

Tamron Hall
4.9

Serie · Talk · 2019

Desus & Mero
5.1

Serie · Talk · 2019

Basketball: A Love Story
7.3

Serie · Documentario · 2018

She's Gotta Have It
6.3

Serie · Commedia · 2017

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.1

Serie · Commedia · 2015

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
6.2

Serie · Talk · 2015

Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.2

Serie · Talk · 2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.9

Serie · Commedia · 2014

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
6.5

Serie · Documentario · 2010

Who Do You Think You Are?
6.8

Serie · Documentario · 2010

Shark
6.7

Serie · Dramma · 2006

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
7.5

Serie · Documentario · 2006

Miracle's Boys
7.0

Serie · Dramma · 2005

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.6

Serie · Commedia · 2003

Real Time with Bill Maher
6.1

Serie · Commedia · 2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.4

Serie · Talk · 2003

The Early Show
6.3

Serie · News · 1999

The View
4.4

Serie · Talk · 1997

The Chris Rock Show
4.6

Serie · Commedia · 1997

The Daily Show
6.4

Serie · News · 1996

Inside the Actors Studio
7.6

Serie · Talk · 1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.3

Serie · Commedia · 1993

Late Show with David Letterman
6.4

Serie · Talk · 1993

Ghostwriter
7.0

Serie · Mistero · 1992

In Living Color
7.6

Serie · Commedia · 1990

Yo! MTV Raps
7.5

Serie · Talk · 1988

Saturday Night Live
7.0

Serie · Commedia · 1975

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
6.3

Serie · Reality · 1973

Great Performances
6.0

Serie · Commedia · 1971

Oscars: La notte in diretta
7.0

Serie · 1953