Spike Lee
Spike Lee | |
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Born | Shelton Jackson Lee March 20, 1957 |
Education | Morehouse College (BA) New York University (MFA) |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1977–present |
Works | Filmography |
Board member of | 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Parent | Bill Lee |
Relatives |
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Awards | Full list |
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored
His production company,
His films have featured breakthrough performances from actors such as
Early life and education
Shelton Jackson Lee was born in
Lee enrolled in
Career
1980s
In 1983, Lee premiered his first independent short film titled,
In 1985, Lee began work on his first feature film,
In 1989, Lee made perhaps his most seminal film, Do the Right Thing, which focused on a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension on a hot summer day. The film's cast included Lee, Danny Aiello, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, John Turturro, Martin Lawrence and Samuel L. Jackson. The film gained critical acclaim as one of the best films of the year from film critics including both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert who ranked the film as the best of 1989, and later in their top 10 films of the decade (No. 6 for Siskel and No. 4 for Ebert).[13] Ebert later added the film to his list of The Great Movies.[14]
To many people's surprise, the film was not nominated for Best Picture or Best Director at the Academy Awards. The film only earned two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay, Spike Lee's first Oscar nomination, and for Best Supporting Actor for Danny Aiello. At the Academy ceremony Kim Basinger, who was a presenter that evening, stated that Do the Right Thing also deserved a Best Picture nomination stating, "We've got five great films here, and they are great for one reason, because they tell the truth, but there is one film missing from this list because ironically it might tell the biggest truth of all and that's Do the Right Thing".[15] The film that did win Best Picture was Driving Miss Daisy, a film that focused on race relations between an elderly Jewish woman (Jessica Tandy) and her driver (Morgan Freeman).[16] Lee said in an April 7, 2006, interview with New York magazine that the other film's success, which he thought was based on safe stereotypes, hurt him more than if his film had not been nominated for an award.[17]
1990s
After the 1990 release of
In 1992, Spike released his biographical epic film
External videos | |
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Presentation by Lee at the New York University's Black Genius series, October 18, 1996, C-SPAN |
His 1997 documentary
2000s
In 2002, Lee directed 25th Hour starring Edward Norton, and Philip Seymour Hoffman which opened to positive reviews, with several critics since having named it one of the best films of its decade. Film critic Roger Ebert added the film to his "Great Movies" list on December 16, 2009.[24] A. O. Scott,[25] Richard Roeper[26] and Roger Ebert all put it on their "best films of the decade" lists.[27] It was later named the 26th greatest film since 2000 in a BBC poll of 177 critics.[28] The film was also a financial success earning almost $24 million against a $5 million budget.[29]
In 2006, Lee directed
On May 2, 2007, the 50th
2010s
In 2015, Lee received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his contributions to film.[33] Friends and frequent collaborators Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson presented Lee with the award at the private Governors Awards ceremony.[34]
Lee directed, wrote, and produced the MyCareer story mode in the video game
Lee's 2018 film BlacKkKlansman, a true crime drama set in the 1970s centered around the true story of a black police officer, Ron Stallworth infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. The film premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix and opened the following August.[37] The film received near universal praise when it opened in North America receiving a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes with the critics consensus reading, "BlacKkKlansman uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events – and brings out some of Spike Lee's hardest-hitting work in decades along the way."[38] In 2019, during the awards season leading up to the Academy Awards, Lee was invited to join a Directors Roundtable conversation run by The Hollywood Reporter. The roundtable included Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite), Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), and Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born).[39] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director (Lee's first ever nomination in this category). Lee won his first competitive Academy Award in the category Best Adapted Screenplay.[40][41] When asked by journalists from the BBC if the Best Picture winner Green Book offended him, Lee replied, "Let me give you a British answer, it's not my cup of tea".[42] Many journalists in the industry noted how the 2019 Oscars with BlacKkKlansman competing against eventual winner Green Book mirrored the 1989 Oscars with Lee's film Do the Right Thing missing out on a Best Picture nomination over the eventual winner Driving Miss Daisy.[43][44][45]
2020s
Lee's Vietnam war film Da 5 Bloods was released on Netflix. The film starred Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser and Chadwick Boseman.[46] The film was released worldwide on June 12, 2020.[47][48] The film's plot follows a group of aging Vietnam War veterans who return to the country in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader, as well as the treasure they buried while serving there. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was scheduled to premiere out-of-competition at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, then play in theaters in May or June before streaming on Netflix.[49] The film received widespread critical acclaim; the website Rotten Tomatoes gave it an approval rating of 92% based on 252 reviews, with the critical consensus reading: "Fierce energy and ambition course through Da 5 Bloods, coming together to fuel one of Spike Lee's most urgent and impactful films."[50] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[51][52]
Lee's next project will be a movie musical about the origin story of
Academic career and teaching
In 1991, Lee taught a course at Harvard about filmmaking. In 1993, he began to teach at New York University's
Commercials
In mid-1990,
Artistic style and themes
Lee's films are typically referred to as "Spike Lee Joints". The closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary", "Ya Dig", and "Sho Nuff".[65] His 2013 film, Oldboy, used the traditional "A Spike Lee Film" credit after producers had it re-edited.[66]
Themes
Lee's films have examined
Influences
In 2018, during an interview with GQ, Lee cited some of his favorite films as Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and A Face in the Crowd (1957), as well as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973). Lee says that he befriended Scorsese after attending a screening of After Hours at NYU.[70]
Filmography
Year | Title | Distributor |
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1986 | She's Gotta Have It | Island Pictures
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1988 | School Daze | Columbia Pictures |
1989 | Do the Right Thing | Universal Pictures |
1990 | Mo' Better Blues | |
1991 | Jungle Fever | |
1992 | Malcolm X | Warner Bros. |
1994 | Crooklyn | Universal Pictures |
1995 | Clockers | |
1996 | Girl 6 | 20th Century Fox
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Get on the Bus | Columbia Pictures | |
1998 | He Got Game | Touchstone Pictures |
1999 | Summer of Sam | |
2000 | Bamboozled | New Line Cinema |
2002 | 25th Hour | Touchstone Pictures |
2004 | She Hate Me | Sony Pictures Classics |
2006 | Inside Man | Universal Pictures |
2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | Touchstone Pictures |
2012 | Red Hook Summer | Variance Films |
2013 | Oldboy | FilmDistrict |
2014 | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus | Gravitas Ventures |
2015 | Chi-Raq | Roadside Attractions |
2018 | Pass Over | Amazon Studios
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BlacKkKlansman | Focus Features | |
2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Netflix |
TBA | High and Low | A24 |
Awards and honors
In 1983, Lee won the
Lee was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing[75][76] and Best Documentary for 4 Little Girls, but did not win either award. In November 2015, he was given the Academy Honorary Award for his contributions to filmmaking.[77] In 2019, he received his first Best Picture and Best Director nominations.[78]
In 2015, at the age of 58, Lee became the youngest person ever to receive an
In 2019, Lee's film
Two of his films have competed for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, and of the two, BlacKkKlansman won the Grand Prix in 2018.[83]
Lee's films Do the Right Thing,[1] Malcolm X,[2] 4 Little Girls, She's Gotta Have It, and Bamboozled were each selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3]
On May 18, 2016, Lee delivered the Commencement address for The Johns Hopkins University Class of 2016.[84]
He has been named as the recipient of the Ebert Director Award at the TIFF Tribute Awards for the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.[85]
In March 2024, Lee will receive a Board of Governor's Award from the American Society of Cinematographers.[86]
Personal life
Marriage
Lee met his wife, attorney Tonya Lewis Lee, in 1992, and they were married a year later in New York.[87] They have two children.[88][89]
When asked by the
Sports
Spike Lee is a fan of the
Politics
In May 1999, the
In October 2005, Lee responded to a CNN anchor's question as to whether the government intentionally ignored the plight of black Americans during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina catastrophe by saying, "It's not too far-fetched. I don't put anything past the United States government. I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."[103] In later comments, Lee cited the government's past including the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.[104][105]
In May 2020, Lee published a three-minute short film, NEW YORK NEW YORK, on
Legal issues
In March 2012, after the
Controversies
At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Lee, who was then making Miracle at St. Anna, about an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy during World War II, criticized director Clint Eastwood for not depicting black Marines in his own World War II film, Flags of Our Fathers. Citing historical accuracy, Eastwood responded that his film was specifically about the Marines who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima, pointing out that while black Marines did fight at Iwo Jima, the U.S. military was racially segregated during World War II, and none of the men who raised the flag were black. He angrily said that Lee should "shut his face". Lee responded that Eastwood was acting like an "angry old man", and argued that despite making two Iwo Jima films back to back, Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers, "there was not one black soldier in both of those films".[116][117][118] He added that he and Eastwood were "not on a plantation".[119] Lee later claimed that the event was exaggerated by the media and that he and Eastwood had reconciled through mutual friend Steven Spielberg, culminating in his sending Eastwood a print of Miracle at St. Anna.[120]
Lee has been criticized for his representation of women. For example, bell hooks said that he wrote black women in the same objectifying way that white male filmmakers write the characters of white women.[121] Rosie Perez, who was in an acting role for the first time as Tina in Do the Right Thing, said later that she was very uncomfortable with doing the nude scene in the film, saying, "I had a big problem with it, mainly because I was afraid of what my family would think...It wasn't really about taking off my clothes. But I also didn't feel good about it because the atmosphere wasn't correct."[122] Subsequently, Perez stated that Lee had offered an apology, and the two maintained their friendship.[123]
Over the course of his career Spike Lee has defended Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Nate Parker, all of whom have been accused of sexual misconduct.[124][125][126][127][128]
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External links
- Spike Lee at IMDb
- Spike Lee on Twitter
- Spike Lee on Charlie Rose
- Spike Lee collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Spike Lee collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Ubben Lecture at DePauw University
- Criterion Collection Essay on Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
- Lee's Lens Exposes Inequalities, but he's no Revolutionary by Brendan Kelly, Canwest, April 11, 2009
- Interview with Politico Magazine February 7, 2019