Spike Lee
Regissör, Producent, Författare, Skådespelare, Editor
20 mars 1957 (69 år)
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.
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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.
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| 2025 | Talk Me · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | The Voice of Hind Rajab · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Highest 2 Lowest · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Katrina: Come Hell and High Water · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Punter · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | The Captain · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | You Resemble Me · as Executive Producer |
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| 2020 | Son of the South · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Tales from the Hood 3 · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | David Byrne's American Utopia · as Executive Producer |
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| 2018 | Tales from the Hood 2 · as Executive Producer |
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| 2018 | Nigerian Prince · as Executive Producer |
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| 2017 | She's Gotta Have It · as Executive Producer |
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| 2015 | Touched with Fire · as Executive ProducerPå Plex |
| 2015 | Cronies · as Executive Producer |
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| 2015 | The Girl Is in Trouble · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Dirty Hands · as Executive Producer |
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| 2014 | Evolution of a Criminal · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth · as Executive Producer |
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| 2012 | You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Pariah · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Doubles with Slight Pepper · as Executive Producer |
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| 2010 | Dream Street · as Executive Producer |
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| 2009 | Saint John of Las Vegas · as Executive Producer |
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| 2004 | Sucker Free City · as Executive Producer |
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| 2003 | Good Fences · as Executive ProducerPå Plex |
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| 2001 | Home Invaders · as Executive Producer |
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| 1999 | Independent Lens · as Executive Producer |
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| 1996 | Get on the Bus · as Executive Producer |
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| 1995 | Tales from the Hood · as Executive Producer |
| 1995 | New Jersey Drive · as Executive Producer |
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| 1994 | Drop Squad · as Executive Producer |
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| 2014 | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus · as Screenplay |
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| 2012 | Red Hook Summer · as Screenplay |
| 2004 | She Hate Me · as Screenplay |
| 2000 | Bamboozled · as Screenplay |
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| 1998 | He Got Game · as Screenplay |
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| 1995 | Clockers · as Screenplay |
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| 1994 | Crooklyn · as Screenplay |
| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Screenplay |
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| 1989 | Do the Right Thing · as Screenplay |
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| 2025 | Red Sea Film Fest 2024 · as Cast |
| 2017 | She's Gotta Have It · as Drum Major |
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| 2012 | Red Hook Summer · as Mr. Mookie |
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| 2001 | 3 A.M. · as Filmmaker |
| 1999 | Summer of Sam · as John Jeffries |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls · as Interviewer (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Girl 6 · as Jimmy |
| 1995 | Clockers · as Chucky |
| 1994 | Crooklyn · as Snuffy |
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| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Shorty |
| 1991 | Ghostwriter (1992) · as Special Agent Pete |
| 1991 | Jungle Fever · as Cyrus |
| 1990 | Lonely in America · as Spike Lee (newsstand Customer) (uncredited) |
| 1990 | Hollywood Mavericks · as Mookie |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues · as Giant |
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| 1989 | Do the Right Thing · as Mookie |
| 1988 | School Daze · as Darrell 'half-Pint' Dunlap |
| 1986 | She's Gotta Have It · as Mars Blackmon |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live · as Mars Blackmon |
| 2017 | She's Gotta Have It · as Created By |
| 2001 | The Concert for New York City · as Director Of Photography |
| 1991 | Coca-Cola Pop Music Backstage Pass to Summer · as Segment Producer |