Spike Lee
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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Fotos
Películas (190)
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Apart
2026 · Writer
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
2026 · Self
Talk Me
2026 · Executive Producer
Megadoc
2025 · Thanks
The Voice of Hind Rajab
2025 · Executive Producer
From Sidney, with Love
2025 · Executive Producer
Highest 2 Lowest
2025 · Director, Executive Producer
How I Learned to Die
2025 · Executive Producer
Nervous Energy
2025 · Executive Producer
In Between Storms
2025 · Executive Producer
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Self (archive footage)
13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses
2024
The Piano Lesson
2024 · Thanks
Brownies
2024 · Executive Producer
The Truck
2024 · Executive Producer
PUNTER
2024 · Executive Producer
F*ck That Guy
2024 · Executive Producer
In Freedom
2023 · Executive Producer
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
2023 · self
The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
2023 · Self
You Resemble Me
2022 · Executive Producer
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022 · Self
Gold Blooded
2022 · Self
Sidney
2022 · Self
Off-Time
2022 · Associate Producer
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
2022 · Self
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2021 · Self
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
2021 · Self
Son of the South
2021 · Executive Producer
Tales from the Hood 3
2020 · Executive Producer
David Byrne's American Utopia
2020 · Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Da 5 Bloods
2020 · Writer, Producer, Director
3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
2020 · Director
New York New York
2020 · Director
See You Yesterday
2019 · Producer
Land of the Free
2019 · Director
Amazing Grace
2018 · Producer
Cherish
2018 · Executive Producer
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018 · Self
BlacKkKlansman
2018 · Writer, Director, Producer
Tales from the Hood 2
2018 · Executive Producer
Time 2 Surrender
2018 · Executive Producer
Nigerian Prince
2018 · Executive Producer
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
2018 · Self
The Black 14
2018 · Executive Producer
Pass Over
2018 · Producer, Director
Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Rodney King
2017 · Director, Producer
Be Truly Free
2017 · Narrator (voice), Director
Birth of a Movement
2017 · Self
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: $15 Kicks
2016 · Executive Producer
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Redemption Song
2016 · Executive Producer
2 Fists Up
2016 · Director, Producer
Touched with Fire
2016 · Executive Producer
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016 · Self, Director
Chi-Raq
2015 · Director, Writer, Producer
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Of the Father and of the Son
2015 · Executive Producer
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
2015 · self, Director, Executive Producer
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015 · Self
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Ice Breaker
2015 · Executive Producer
Director Spike Lee's New York City
2015 · Self
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Italian Imports
2015 · Assistant Director, Executive Producer
Champs
2015 · Self
The Girl Is in Trouble
2015 · Executive Producer
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
2015 · Director
Cronies
2015 · Executive Producer
Stop
2015 · Thanks
Throw Like A Girl
2014 · Director
Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
2014 · Director
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
2014 · self, Director
Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
2014 · Director, Producer
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014 · Self
Amex Unstaged Pharrell Williams Live at the Apollo
2014 · Director
Dirty Hands
2014 · Executive Producer
Evolution of a Criminal
2014 · Executive Producer
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014 · Self
I Can't Breathe
2014 · Director, Writer
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
2013 · Director, Executive Producer
Oldboy
2013 · Director
Bad 25
2012 · Self, Director
Red Hook Summer
2012 · Mr. Mookie, Director, Screenplay, Producer
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
2012 · Executive Producer
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012 · Self
One Night
2012 · Presenter
Brooklyn Boheme
2012 · Self
Pariah
2011 · Executive Producer
A Man's Story
2011 · Self
Doubles with Slight Pepper
2011 · Executive Producer
Guest
2011 · Self
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Four Days in October
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
2010 · Self
Saint John of Las Vegas
2010 · Executive Producer
Passing Strange
2009 · Director
PoliWood
2009 · Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Self, Director
Kobe Doin' Work
2009 · Self, Director, Producer
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Director, Producer
Genesis | Come Rain or Shine
2008 · Camera Operator
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008 · Self
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Pixote In Memoriam
2007 · Self
Lights, Action, Music
2007 · Self
Inside Man
2006 · Director
All the Invisible Children
2006 · Director, Producer
Jesus Children of America
2005 · Director
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
2005 · Presenter
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
2005 · Self
Street Fight
2005 · Self
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 · Self
Through the Fire
2005
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004 · Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004 · Self
Sucker Free City
2004 · Director
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self
She Hate Me
2004 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Self
Good Fences
2003 · Executive Producer
25th Hour
2002 · Producer, Director
New York at the Movies
2002 · Self
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 · Director, Producer
Jim Brown: All-American
2002 · Director, Producer
It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Self
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002 · Self
The Concert for New York City
2001 · Director, Director of Photography
Home Invaders
2001 · Executive Producer
3 A.M.
2001 · Filmmaker, Producer, Co-Executive Producer
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001 · Director
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001 · Self, Director
Bamboozled
2000 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Original Kings of Comedy
2000 · Director, Producer
Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte
2000 · Director
Lisa Picard Is Famous
2000 · Spike Lee
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000 · Self
Love & Basketball
2000 · Producer
The Best Man
1999 · Producer
Summer of Sam
1999 · John Jeffries, Director, Writer, Producer
Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo
1999 · Director
John Leguizamo: Freak
1998 · Director
Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
1998 · Director
He Got Game
1998 · Screenplay, Producer, Director
4 Little Girls
1997 · Interviewer (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
HIStory on Film, Volume II
1997 · Director
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996 · Self
When We Were Kings
1996 · Self
Get on the Bus
1996 · Director, Executive Producer
The Universal Story
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Girl 6
1996 · Jimmy, Director, Producer
Lumière & Company
1995 · Self (segment "Sarah Moon"), Director
Clockers
1995 · Chucky, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Tales from the Hood
1995 · Executive Producer
New Jersey Drive
1995 · Executive Producer
Below the Rim
1995
Drop Squad
1994 · Himself, Executive Producer
Hoop Dreams
1994 · Self - Film Director
Crooklyn
1994 · Snuffy, Director, Screenplay, Producer
A Century of Cinema
1994 · Self
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Farewell, Babylon!
1993 · Self
The Last Party
1993 · Self
Malcolm X
1992 · Shorty, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection
1992 · Director
Our Hollywood Education
1992 · Self
Sous les marches du palais
1991 · Self
Jungle Fever
1991 · Cyrus, Producer, Director, Writer
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
1991 · Self
Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991 · Self
Suspect
1991 · Thanks
Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson
1990 · Self, Director
Lonely in America
1990 · Spike Lee (Newsstand Customer) (uncredited)
Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Giant, Director, Writer, Producer
Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
1990 · Director
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
1990 · Self
Decade
1989 · Self
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989 · Self
First Works
1989 · Self
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Mookie, Screenplay, Producer, Director
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
1989
School Daze
1988 · Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap, Director, Writer, Producer
Horn of Plenty
1986 · Director, Writer
She's Gotta Have It
1986 · Mars Blackmon, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
1983 · Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
Sarah
1981 · Director
The Answer
1980 · Director
Boner
· Director, Writer, Producer
Gordon Hemingway & the Realm of Cthulhu
· Producer
Liberty
· Producer
Series (45)
Mr. Scorsese
2025 · Self
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
2025 · Executive Producer, Director
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Captain
2022 · Executive Producer
They Call Me Magic
2022 · Self
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
2021 · Producer, Director
This Is Pop
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Directors on Directors
2021 · Self
Pretend It's a City
2021 · Self
Dear...
2020 · Self
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Desus & Mero
2019 · Self - Illustrious Guest
Basketball: A Love Story
2018 · Self (archive footage)
She's Gotta Have It
2017 · Drum Major, Creator, Director
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
The Men in Blazers Show
2014 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self, Self - Guest
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010 · Director, Producer, Creator
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010 · Self
Shark
2006 · Director
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 · Producer, Director, Creator
It's the Shoes
2005 · Self
Miracle's Boys
2005 · Director
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
2002 · Self
The Early Show
1999 · Self
The View
1997 · Self
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self - Guest
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Guest
Ghostwriter
1992 · Special Agent Pete (archive footage), Special Agent Pete
In Living Color
1990
Yo! MTV Raps
1988 · Self
The South Bank Show
1978
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Mars Blackmon, Self (uncredited)
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
Great Performances
1971 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self, Self - Audience Member