
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.

HIStory on Film, Volume II

Jesus Children of America

New York New York

ドゥ・ザ・ライト・シング

マルコムX

ブラック・クランズマン

アメリカン・ユートピア

Pavarotti & Friends for Guatemala and Kosovo

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

インサイド・マン

25時

Bad 25

4 Little Girls

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

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Les enfants invisibles

ラストゲーム

Crooklyn

10ミニッツ・オールダー 人生のメビウス

Clockers

Shark

シーズ・ガッタ・ハヴ・イット

Summer of Sam

Kobe Doin' Work

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

モ'・ベター・ブルース

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store

The Original Kings of Comedy

Get on the Bus

ザ・ファイブ・ブラッズ

Jungle Fever

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

She's Gotta Have It

Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife

Bamboozled

Lumière et Compagnie

Miracle's Boys

セントアンナの奇跡

オールド・ボーイ

Sucker Free City

Pass Over

John Leguizamo: Freak

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

School Daze

Chi-Raq

天国と地獄 Highest 2 Lowest

Red Hook Summer

Rodney King

She Hate Me

A Huey P. Newton Story

Jim Brown: All-American

Girl 6

Passing Strange

ザ・コンサート・フォー・ニューヨーク・シティ

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Un matin partout dans le monde

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½

Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte

The Answer

Horn of Plenty

The Making of 'Bamboozled'

Be Truly Free

Boner

2 Fists Up

Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson

Land of the Free

Come Rain or Come Shine

Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia

Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth

3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd

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

Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience

Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers

Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?

Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist

Mr. スコセッシ

It's Black Entertainment

Below the Rim

A Century of Cinema

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

ドゥ・ザ・ライト・シング

The Universal Story

Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks

In Living Color

フープ・ドリームス

When We Were Kings

シドニー

マルコムX

Inside the Actors Studio

Yo! MTV Raps

Pretend It's a City

Michael Jordan to the Max

Basketball: A Love Story

Bad 25

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

マジックと呼ばれる男

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・コナン・オブライエン

4 Little Girls

Denzel Washington : Un modèle américain

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

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

Pixote In Memoriam

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Decade

Lights, Action, Music

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Ghostwriter

アカデミー賞

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

A Man's Story

Through the Fire

Crooklyn

Street Fight

Brooklyn Boheme

Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

Clockers

シーズ・ガッタ・ハヴ・イット

Who Do You Think You Are?

Champs

Summer of Sam

PoliWood

Kobe Doin' Work

Four Days in October

モ'・ベター・ブルース

ザ・デイリー・ショー

Birth of a Movement

Jungle Fever

Late Show with David Letterman

On the Shoulders of Giants

She's Gotta Have It

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

Lumière et Compagnie

The Early Show

ザ・レイト・ショー・ウィズ・スティーヴン・コルベア

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Real Time with Bill Maher

Guest

This Is Pop

ザ・トゥナイト・ショー・スターリング・ジミー・ファロン

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

Great Performances

ヴァニシング・チェイス

School Daze

エレンの部屋

Red Hook Summer

ジミー・キンメル・ライブ!

French Cinema Mon Amour

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

レイト・ナイト・ウィズ・セス・マイヤーズ

Desus & Mero

Girl 6

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

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’

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

親愛なる...

タムロン・ホール

The Last Party

Lisa Picard Is Famous

ザ・ビュー

The Chris Rock Show

Lonely in America

Drop Squad

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

The Making of 'Bamboozled'

Hommage d’une fille à son père

Be Truly Free

MTV's 10th Anniversary Special

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

Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience

Sous les marches du palais

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

Seven Songs for Malcolm X

First Works

Adieu, Babylone!

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

Branford Marsalis: Steep

Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth

Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!

Gold Blooded

Продавцы планктона

Directors on Directors